Every now and again you find hidden gems whilst trawling the darker reaches of the internet. This week it was Doctor Who: Dark Journey, a Canadian fan made audio adventure produced by AM Audio Media, featuring Doctor Who (of course) and Sherlock Holmes.
Here's the blurb, courtesy of AM Audio Media's website:
Doctor Who: Dark Journey is an original full cast audio
adventure which takes The Doctor on a darker journey than ever.
Emotionally shattered after a tragedy The Doctor arrives in London and
becomes companion to Sherlock Holmes in an effort to stop Jack the
Ripper’s murderous trail of terror. But is there an even greater evil at
work in Victorian England?
Cast:
The Doctor - Andrew Chalmers
Sherlock Holmes - Roy Miranda
Emily Hudson - Kate Elyse Forrest
Cassandra - Larissa Benfey
Inspector Gull - Rikki Wright
Sergeant Pike - Ben Clifford
Pub Thug - Atweh Atweh
Holmes lady friend - Adrienne Fish
Reporter 1 - Anthony Anderson
Production Team:
Director - MA Tamburro
Writer - Andrew Chalmers
Sound Design - Clayton Turner
Music - Traffic Experiment
Original Doctor Who theme - Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire
Logo Design - Midnight Media RD Shaw
Album Cover Art - Vortex Visuals Dave Ladkin
Producer - AM Audio Media
June 2014
Dark Journey is a multi-episode
series written, performed and produced in Toronto with a Canadian and
international cast and crew featuring the music of Doctor Who fan
favourite Traffic Experiment.
With Doctor Who - Dark
Journey, AM Audio Media has twisted the ‘Whoniverse’ of Doctor Who in a
subtle way, making it a little darker, but without losing the essence
of what makes the show as brilliant as it is. Dark Journey tells the
story of a new Doctor, on his last life, haunted after a mysterious
tragedy but still very much ‘The Doctor’ that fans around the world have
enjoyed through his adventures on television, books and audio.
AM
Audio Media has emphasized intriguing elements of the show’s mythology
and run with them. It’s a version that you would probably never see on
TV but can exist, quite happily, as a standalone, alternate version.
Dark
Journey has found an audience who like their ‘Who’ a little darker.
With this extremely positive fan response AM Audio Media is currently in
production of further adventures of The Dark Journey Doctor.
Doctor Who Copyright © BBC. No infringement of that or
any other copyright is intended. Doctor Who: Dark Journey is a
non-profit, unofficial, fan production.
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| Ray Miranda (Sherlock Holmes) and Andrew Chalmers (Doctor Who) |
Don't be put off by the term 'fan made'. These adventures have a high production value about them (one that matches that of Big Finish), the acting is very good and the storyline flows along very nicely.
I'm not normally a lover of crossover stories but this one had me from the very start. So much so that I can't wait to hear the next series (which is currently in post-production).
Doctor Who: Dark Journey is a five part adventure (running a shade under an hour in total) which you can listen to for free here.
I'm not normally a lover of crossover stories but this one had me from the very start. So much so that I can't wait to hear the next series (which is currently in post-production).
Doctor Who: Dark Journey is a five part adventure (running a shade under an hour in total) which you can listen to for free here.
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