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|image | |image = Oh No It Isn't audio cover.jpg | ||
|main character | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]] | ||
|release year = 1998 | |release year = 1998 | ||
|release year2 = present | |release year2 = present | ||
|release count = | |release count = 90 | ||
|story count = | |story count = 132 | ||
|first story = Oh No It Isn't! (audio story) | |first story = Oh No It Isn't! (audio story) | ||
|cover = Adrian Salmon | |cover = Adrian Salmon | ||
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|music = Matthew Cochrane | |music = Matthew Cochrane | ||
|first release = [[September (releases)|September]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]] | |first release = [[September (releases)|September]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]] | ||
|publisher | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|type | |type = Audio and prose series | ||
|series | |series = [[Bernice Summerfield]] series | ||
|prev | |prev = Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures | ||
|next | |next = The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series) | ||
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'''''Bernice Summerfield''''' was the first series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]], combining both audio and prose releases in an ongoing narrative, with the [[Bernice Summerfield|titular character]] portrayed by [[Lisa Bowerman]]. | '''''Bernice Summerfield''''' was the first series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]], combining both audio and prose releases in an ongoing narrative, with the [[Bernice Summerfield|titular character]] portrayed by [[Lisa Bowerman]]. | ||
The series began in [[1998 (releases)|1998]] with audio adaptations of six [[Virgin New Adventures]] novels. After | The series began in [[1998 (releases)|1998]] with audio adaptations of six [[Virgin New Adventures]] novels. After the first season's success, Big Finish began producing audio stories and prose stories simultaneously. | ||
Initially, the ongoing narrative was spread evenly between the two media - for instance, Benny became pregnant in the novel ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal]]'' and gave birth in the novel ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison]]'', with the audio stories making several minor references to her pregnancy. However, from the third series onward, the audio stories became the primary series, with novels and short story collections providing greater depth to the world and heavily expanding on the large cast of regular characters. Occasionally, however, prose stories would be integral to the overall narrative, such as the audio story ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]'' continuing on directly from the anthology ''[[Life During Wartime (anthology)|Life During Wartime]]'', and the regular characters [[Hass]] and [[Doggles]] being introduced in the anthologies ''[[A Life Worth Living (anthology)|A Life Worth Living]]'' and ''[[Something Changed (anthology)|Something Changed]]'' respectively. When [[Simon Guerrier]] took over as executive producer for Series 7, he made an effort to better combine the audio and prose stories, featuring hitherto prose-only characters in audio and incorporating prose-featured events, such as the death of semi-regular character [[Clarissa Jones|Ms Jones]] in the anthology ''[[Parallel Lives (anthology)|Parallel Lives]]'', into the overall story arc. | |||
The series concluded in [[2013 (releases)|2013]], but | Many characters created or established in the Virgin New Adventures, such as [[Jason Kane]] and [[Irving Braxiatel]], made major appearances in this series, and several others, such as [[Wolsey]], [[Isaac Summerfield]] and [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]], were featured in occasional stories. Additionally, links were made with Big Finish's ''Doctor Who'' content, such as the character of [[Bev Tarrant]] crossing over from the [[Main Range]] to become a regular character. | ||
Several authors who wrote for Benny at Virgin also contributed to the line. Writers like Matt Jones, Paul Cornell, Justin Richards, Lance Parkin, Dave Stone, Ben Aaronovitch, Daniel O'Mahony, Lawrence Miles, Mark Clapham and Gary Russell had at least one story produced. | |||
Most of the stories cover Bernice's life following her departure from travelling with the Doctor. However, several prose releases have featured stories that portrayed Bernice's life long before she met the Doctor. | |||
The series concluded in [[2013 (releases)|2013]], but Benny received a new series the [[2014 (releases)|next year]] as ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'', where she was briefly reunited with the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]], before teaming up with [[Unbound Doctor|an incarnation of the Doctor from an alternate universe]]. The release format continued to be annual boxsets, with occasional accompanying book releases under the ''Bernice Summerfield'' title. Following the passing of [[David Warner]] (who played the alternate Doctor) in 2022, the series returned in 2024 with Bernice on her own, in anthologies centred around [[the Eternity Club]], an exclusive group of interplanetary explorers. | |||
== Stories == | == Stories == | ||
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=== Series 1 === | === Series 1 === | ||
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|''[[Beyond the Sun (audio story)|Beyond the Sun]]'' | |''[[Beyond the Sun (audio story)|Beyond the Sun]]'' | ||
|[[Matt Jones]] | |[[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]] | ||
|[[Jason Kane]] | |[[Jason Kane]] | ||
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|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries (anthology)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries]]'' | ||
|Various | |Various | ||
|Short story anthology | |Short story anthology | ||
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|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript]]'' | ||
|[[Justin Richards]] | |[[Justin Richards]] | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Fifth Axis]] | ||
|[[November (releases)|November]] 2000 | |[[November (releases)|November]] 2000 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|2.1 | |2.1 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra]]'' | ||
|[[David Bailey]] | |[[David Bailey]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
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|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld]]'' | ||
|[[Stephen Cole]] | |[[Stephen Cole]] | ||
|rowspan=2|Novel | |rowspan=2|Novel | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] | ||
|[[February (releases)|February]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]] | |[[February (releases)|February]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]] | ||
|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal]]'' | ||
|[[Jacqueline Rayner]] | |[[Jacqueline Rayner]] | ||
|[[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Avril Fenman|Fenman]] | ||
|[[April (releases)|April]] 2001 | |[[April (releases)|April]] 2001 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|2.2 | |2.2 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament]]'' | ||
|[[Mike Tucker]] | |[[Mike Tucker]] | ||
|rowspan=2|Audio | |rowspan=2|Audio | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|2.3 | |2.3 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event]]'' | ||
|[[Lance Parkin]] | |[[Lance Parkin]] | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | ||
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| | | | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus]]'' | ||
|[[Dave Stone]] | |[[Dave Stone]] | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|2.4 | |2.4 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos]]'' | ||
|[[David Bailey]] | |[[David Bailey]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
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| | | | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (novel)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison]]'' | ||
|[[Jacqueline Rayner]] | |[[Jacqueline Rayner]] | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Isaac Summerfield II|Isaac]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Fifth Axis]], [[Avril Fenman|Fenman]], [[Chris Cwej]] | ||
|[[January (releases)|January]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] | |[[January (releases)|January]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|3.1 | |3.1 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy]]'' | ||
|[[Paul Ebbs]] | |[[Paul Ebbs]] | ||
|rowspan=3|Audio | |rowspan=3|Audio | ||
|[[Joseph ( | |[[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] | ||
|[[February (releases)|February]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] | |[[February (releases)|February]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
|3.2 | |3.2 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters]]'' | ||
|[[Dave Stone]] | |[[Dave Stone]] | ||
|[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] | |[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|3.3 | |3.3 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead]]''<ref>''The Dance of the Dead'' follows directly from ''The Plague Herds of Excelis''.</ref> | ||
|[[Stephen Cole]] | |[[Stephen Cole]] | ||
|[[Ice Warrior]]s | |[[Ice Warrior]]s | ||
|[[October (releases)|October]] 2002 | |[[October (releases)|October]] 2002 | ||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|3.4 | |3.4 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect]]'' | ||
|[[Stewart Sheargold]] | |[[Stewart Sheargold]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] | ||
|[[March (releases)|March]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]] | |[[March (releases)|March]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|4.1 | |4.1 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident]]'' | ||
|[[Mike Tucker]] | |[[Mike Tucker]] | ||
|rowspan=3|Audio | |rowspan=3|Audio | ||
|[[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Rutan]]s | ||
|[[April (releases)|April]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]] | |[[April (releases)|April]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
|4.2 | |4.2 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage]]'' | ||
|[[Trevor Baxendale]] | |[[Trevor Baxendale]] | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Draconian]]s | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Draconian]]s | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|4.3 | |4.3 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas]]'' | ||
|[[David Bailey]] | |[[David Bailey]] | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Sea Devil]]s | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Sea Devil]]s | ||
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|Short story anthology | |Short story anthology | ||
|Various | |Various | ||
|[[ | |[[13 October (releases)|13 October]] 2003 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|4.4 | |4.4 | ||
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|[[Paul Cornell]] | |[[Paul Cornell]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Isaac Summerfield II|Isaac]], [[Fifth Axis]], [[Dalek]]s | ||
|[[January (releases)|January]] [[2004 (releases)|2004]] | |[[January (releases)|January]] [[2004 (releases)|2004]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|5.1 | |5.1 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape]]'' | ||
|[[Jac Rayner]] | |[[Jac Rayner]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
|[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Grel|The Grel]] | ||
|[[July (releases)|July]] 2004 | |[[July (releases)|July]] 2004 | ||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|5.2 | |5.2 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bone of Contention (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bone of Contention]]'' | ||
|[[Simon A. Forward]] | |[[Simon A. Forward]] | ||
|rowspan=3|Audio | |rowspan=3|Audio | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|5.3 | |5.3 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau]]'' | ||
|[[Stephen Cole]] | |[[Stephen Cole]] | ||
|[[K1]] | |[[K1]] | ||
|[[November (releases)|November]] 2004 | |[[November (releases)|November]] 2004 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |SP | ||
|''[[Silver Lining (audio story)|Silver Lining]]'' | |''[[Silver Lining (audio story)|Silver Lining]]'' | ||
|[[Colin Brake]] | |[[Colin Brake]] | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|5.4 | |5.4 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death]]'' | ||
|[[Stewart Sheargold]] | |[[Stewart Sheargold]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
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=== Series 6 === | === Series 6 === | ||
{{Main|Series 6 (BFBS)}} | {{Main|Series 6 (BFBS)}} | ||
Starting in series 6, the anthology releases began to alternate between collections of short stories and groupings of three novellas. This continued until series 9. | |||
{| {{prettytable}} | {| {{prettytable}} | ||
!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- | |- | ||
|6.1 | |6.1 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Heart's Desire (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Heart's Desire]]'' | ||
|[[David Bailey]] and [[Neil Corry]] | |[[David Bailey]] and [[Neil Corry]] | ||
|Audio | |Audio | ||
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|[[Mark Michalowski]] | |[[Mark Michalowski]] | ||
|Novel | |Novel | ||
|[[Joseph ( | |[[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] | ||
|[[3 June (releases)|3 June]] 2005 | |[[3 June (releases)|3 June]] 2005 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|6.2 | |6.2 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind]]'' | ||
|[[Jac Rayner]] | |[[Jac Rayner]] | ||
|rowspan=2|Audio | |rowspan=2|Audio | ||
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|[[July (releases)|July]] 2005 | |[[July (releases)|July]] 2005 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|6. | |6.3 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum]]'' | ||
|[[ | |[[Simon Guerrier]] | ||
|[[ | |[[Jason Kane|Jason]] | ||
|[[ | |[[December (releases)|December]] 2005 | ||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
| | | | ||
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|[[3 January (releases)|3 January]] 2006 | |[[3 January (releases)|3 January]] 2006 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|6. | |6.4 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary]]''<ref>The events Benny recounts in this story take place before ''The Lost Museum''. However the framing narrative takes place sometime after ''The Crystal of Cantus''. Despite being published before it, the anthology ''Parallel Lives'' follows from Benny's trip to Etheria recounted in ''The Goddess Quandary''.</ref> | ||
|[[ | |[[Andy Russell]] | ||
|rowspan=2|Audio | |rowspan=2|Audio | ||
|[[ | |[[Keri]] | ||
|[[ | |[[February (releases)|February]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
|6.5 | |6.5 | ||
|''[[ | |''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus]]''<ref>The main events of this story take place immediately after ''The Lost Museum''. However the framing narrative takes place after the framing narratives for both ''Death and the Daleks'' and ''The Goddess Quandary''.</ref> | ||
|[[Joseph Lidster]] | |[[Joseph Lidster]] | ||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] | ||
|June 2006 | |June 2006 | ||
|} | |} | ||
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|[[Stewart Sheargold]] | |[[Stewart Sheargold]] | ||
|rowspan=2|Audio | |rowspan=2|Audio | ||
|[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] | ||
|[[July (releases)|July]] 2006 | |[[July (releases)|July]] 2006 | ||
|- | |- | ||
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|''[[Summer of Love (audio story)|Summer of Love]]'' | |''[[Summer of Love (audio story)|Summer of Love]]'' | ||
|[[Simon Guerrier]] | |[[Simon Guerrier]] | ||
|[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Doggles]], [[Joseph ( | |[[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Doggles]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Hass]] | ||
|[[October (releases)|October]] 2006 | |[[October (releases)|October]] 2006 | ||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
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!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- | |- | ||
|8.1 | |8.1 | ||
|''[[The Tub Full of Cats (audio story)|The Tub Full of Cats]]'' | |||
|[[Daniel O'Mahony]] | |||
|rowspan=3|Audio | |||
|[[Maggie Matsumoto|Maggie]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | |||
|[[February (releases)|February]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
|8.2 | |||
|''[[The Judas Gift (audio story)|The Judas Gift]]'' | |||
|[[Nick Wallace]] | |||
|[[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], Brax, [[Doggles]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Hass]], the [[Mim]], [[Draconian]]s | |||
|[[April (releases)|April]] 2007 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|8.3 | |8.3 | ||
|''[[Freedom of Information (audio story)|Freedom of Information]]'' | |||
|[[Eddie Robson]] | |||
|Adrian, Brax, Doggles, Joseph, Hass, [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], the Mim, Draconians | |||
|[[June (releases)|June]] 2007 | |||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[Nobody's Children (anthology)|Nobody's Children]]'' | |||
|Various | |||
|Novella anthology | |||
|Various | |||
|[[3 August (releases)|3 August]] 2007 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 8.4 | |8.4 | ||
|''[[The End of the World (audio story)|The End of the World]]'' | |||
|[[Dave Stone]] | |||
|Audio | |||
|Jason, Brax, Adrian, [[Mira (Ship of Fools)|Mira]] | |||
|[[September (releases)|September]] 2007 | |||
|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[The Two Jasons (novel)|The Two Jasons]]''<ref>This story tales place contemporaneously with ''The End of the World'' and ''The Final Amendment''.</ref> | |||
|[[Dave Stone]] | |||
|Novel | |||
|Jason, Mira | |||
|[[May (releases)|May]] 2007 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|| 8.5 | || 8.5 | ||
|''[[The Final Amendment (audio story)|The Final Amendment]]'' | |||
|[[Joseph Lidster]] | |||
|Audio | |||
|[[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart|Kadiatu]], Jason | |||
|[[October (releases)|October]] 2007 | |||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[Missing Adventures (anthology)|Missing Adventures]]'' | |||
|Various | |||
|Short story anthology | |||
|Various | |||
|[[19 November (releases)|19 November]] 2007 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|8.6 | |8.6 | ||
|''[[The Wake (audio story)|The Wake]]'' | |||
|[[Simon Guerrier]] | |||
|Audio | |||
|Peter, Brax, Adrian, Bev, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | |||
|[[January (releases)|January]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
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!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- | |- | ||
|9.1 | |9.1 | ||
|''[[Beyond the Sea (audio story)|Beyond the Sea]]'' | |||
|[[Eddie Robson]] | |||
|rowspan=3|Audio | |||
|rowspan=2|[[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] | |||
|[[June (releases)|June]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
|9.2 | |||
|''[[The Adolescence of Time (audio story)|The Adolescence of Time]]'' | |||
|[[Lawrence Miles]] | |||
|[[July (releases)|July]] 2008 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|9.3 | |||
|''[[The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel]]'' | |||
|[[Jim Smith]] | |||
|[[Mycroft Holmes|Mycroft]], [[Straxus (The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel)|Straxus]], [[Cwejen]] | |||
|[[September (releases)|September]] 2008 | |||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[The Vampire Curse (anthology)|The Vampire Curse]]''<ref>Though this anthology was published between ''The Diet of Worms'' and ''Glory Days'', there is no gap between those two stories.</ref> | |||
|Various | |||
|Novella anthology | |||
|Various | |||
|[[2 December (releases)|2 December]] 2008 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|9.4 | |||
|''[[The Diet of Worms (audio story)|The Diet of Worms]]'' | |||
|[[Matthew Sweet]] | |||
|Audio | |||
|Peter | |||
|[[October (releases)|October]] 2008 | |||
|} | |} | ||
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!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 10.1 | |10.1 | ||
|''[[Glory Days (audio story)|Glory Days]]'' | |||
|[[Nick Wallace]] | |||
|rowspan=4|Audio | |||
|[[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | |||
|[[June (releases)|June]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
|- | |||
|10.2 | |||
|''[[Absence (audio story)|Absence]]'' | |||
|[[Daniel O'Mahony]] | |||
|Peter | |||
|[[July (releases)|July]] 2009 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|10.3 | |||
|''[[Venus Mantrap (audio story)|Venus Mantrap]]'' | |||
|[[Mark Clapham]], [[Lance Parkin]] | |||
|Adrian, Peter | |||
|[[August (releases)|August]] 2009 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|10.4 | |||
|''[[Secret Origins (audio story)|Secret Origins]]'' | |||
|[[Eddie Robson]] | |||
|Peter, [[Robyn (Secret Origins)|Robyn]], Brax | |||
|[[September (releases)|September]] 2009 | |||
|- class="row-red" | |||
| | |||
|''[[Secret Histories (anthology)|Secret Histories]]'' | |||
|Various | |||
|Short story anthology | |||
|Various | |||
|[[1 December (releases)|1 December]] 2009 | |||
|- | |- | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| | |SP | ||
|''[[Dead and Buried (webcast)|Dead and Buried]]'' | |||
|rowspan=2|[[Eddie Robson]] | |||
|Video | |||
|[[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | |||
|[[1 September (releases)|1 September]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 11.1 | |11.1 | ||
|''[[Resurrecting the Past (audio story)|Resurrecting the Past]]'' | |||
|Audio | |||
|[[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], Brax, [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Robyn (Secret Origins)|Robyn]], [[Doggles]], [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Hass]] | |||
|[[September (releases)|September]] 2010 | |||
|- class="row-red" | |- class="row-red" | ||
| | | | ||
|''[[Present Danger (anthology)|Present Danger]]'' | |||
|Various | |||
|Short story anthology | |||
|Various | |||
|[[20 September (releases)|20 September]] 2010 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 11.2 | |11.2 | ||
|''[[Escaping the Future (audio story)|Escaping the Future]]'' | |||
|[[Eddie Robson]] | |||
|rowspan=3|Audio | |||
|Peter, Brax, Bev, Adrian, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | |||
|[[October (releases)|October]] 2010 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|11.3 | |||
|''[[Year Zero (audio story)|Year Zero]]'' | |||
|[[Jonathan Clements]] | |||
| | |||
|[[November (releases)|November]] 2010 | |||
|- | |- | ||
|11.4 | |||
|''[[Dead Man's Switch (BFBS audio story)|Dead Man's Switch]]'' | |||
|[[John Dorney]], [[Richard Dinnick]] | |||
| | |||
|[[December (releases)|December]] 2010 | |||
|} | |} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| 1 | |1 | ||
|''[[The Kraken's Lament (audio story)|The Kraken's Lament]]'' | |||
|[[Mark Wright]] | |||
|rowspan=4|Audio | |||
|[[Ruth]], [[Acanthus]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] | |||
|rowspan=4|September [[2011 (releases)|2011]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
|2 | |||
|''[[The Temple of Questions (audio story)|The Temple of Questions]]'' | |||
|[[Jacqueline Rayner]] | |||
|Ruth, [[Leonidas]], Jack, [[Acanthus|Heskith]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
|3 | |||
|''[[Private Enemy No. 1 (audio story)|Private Enemy No. 1]]'' | |||
|[[Tony Lee]] | |||
|Ruth, Leonidas, Heskith, [[the Epoch]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
|4 | |||
|''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'' | |||
|[[Scott Handcock]] | |||
|Ruth, Jack, the Epoch, [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|1 | |||
|''[[Brand Management (audio story)|Brand Management]]'' | |||
|[[Christopher Cooper]] | |||
|rowspan=2|Audio | |||
|rowspan=3| [[Ruth]] | |||
|rowspan=4|February [[2012 (releases)|2012]] | |||
|- | |- | ||
|2 | |||
|''[[Bad Habits (audio story)|Bad Habits]]'' | |||
|[[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] | |||
|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| || ''[[The Weather on Versimmon (novel)|The Weather on Versimmon]]''<ref name="Tie-in">This tie-in novel is set between stories in the accompanying boxset.</ref> | | | ||
||''[[The Weather on Versimmon (novel)|The Weather on Versimmon]]''<ref name="Tie-in">This tie-in novel is set between stories in the accompanying boxset.</ref> | |||
|[[Matthew Griffiths]] | |||
|Novel | |||
|- | |- | ||
|3 | |||
|''[[Paradise Frost (audio story)|Paradise Frost]]'' | |||
|[[David Llewellyn]] | |||
|Audio | |||
|Ruth, [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|1 || ''[[Vesuvius Falling (audio story)|Vesuvius Falling]]'' || [[Tony Lee]] || Audio || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[ | |1 || ''[[Vesuvius Falling (audio story)|Vesuvius Falling]]'' || [[Tony Lee]] || Audio || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] || September 2012 | ||
|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| || ''[[The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis (novel)|The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis]]'' <ref name="Tie-in" />|| [[Xanna Eve Chown]] || Novel || [[ | | || ''[[The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis (novel)|The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis]]'' <ref name="Tie-in" />|| [[Xanna Eve Chown]] || Novel || [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] || [[28 September (releases)|28 September]] 2012 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|| 2 || ''[[Shades of Gray (audio story)|Shades of Gray]]'' || [[Scott Handcock]] || rowspan="2"|Audio || [[ | || 2 || ''[[Shades of Gray (audio story)|Shades of Gray]]'' || [[Scott Handcock]] || rowspan="2"|Audio || [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Dorian Gray|Dorian]] || rowspan="2"|September 2012 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|| 3 || ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'' || [[Miles Richardson]] || [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[ | || 3 || ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'' || [[Miles Richardson]] || [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
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!Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- | |- | ||
|''[[Many Happy Returns (audio story)|Many Happy Returns]]'' || Various || Audio || [[Joseph ( | |''[[Many Happy Returns (audio story)|Many Happy Returns]]'' || Various || Audio || [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], | ||
[[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[ | [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Leonidas]], [[Iris Wildthyme|Iris]], [[Panda]], [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] | ||
|November 2012 | |November 2012 | ||
|} | |} | ||
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!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 1 || ''[[A Handful of Dust (audio story)|A Handful of Dust]]'' || [[Xanna Eve Chown]] || Audio || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[ | | 1 || ''[[A Handful of Dust (audio story)|A Handful of Dust]]'' || [[Xanna Eve Chown]] || Audio || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] || [[30 April (releases)|30 April]] 2013 | ||
|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| || ''[[Filthy Lucre (novel)|Filthy Lucre]]'' || [[James Parsons]] and [[Andrew Stirling-Brown]] || Novel || [[ | | || ''[[Filthy Lucre (novel)|Filthy Lucre]]'' || [[James Parsons]] and [[Andrew Stirling-Brown]] || Novel || [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] || [[24 April (releases)|24 April]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]<ref>This novel leads into ''HMS Surprise''.</ref> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|| 2 || ''[[HMS Surprise (audio story)|HMS Surprise]]'' || [[Alexander Vlahos]] || rowspan="2"|Audio || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Jack | || 2 || ''[[HMS Surprise (audio story)|HMS Surprise]]'' || [[Alexander Vlahos]] || rowspan="2"|Audio || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] || rowspan="2"|[[30 April (releases)|30 April]] 2013 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|| 3 || ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'' || [[Gary Russell]] || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[ | || 3 || ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'' || [[Gary Russell]] || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[Avril Fenman|Fenman]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
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!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | !# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | ||
|- class="row-yellow" | |- class="row-yellow" | ||
| || ''[[Adorable Illusion (novel)|Adorable Illusion]]''<ref>This novel is set before ''Missing Persons'' despite being published later.</ref>|| [[Gary Russell]] || Novel || [[Jack | | || ''[[Adorable Illusion (novel)|Adorable Illusion]]''<ref>This novel is set before ''Missing Persons'' despite being published later.</ref>|| [[Gary Russell]] || Novel || [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Avril Fenman|Fenman]] || [[13 March (releases)|13 March]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 1 || ''[[Big Dig (audio story)|Big Dig]]'' || [[Hamish Steele]] || rowspan="5"|Audio || [[ | | 1 || ''[[Big Dig (audio story)|Big Dig]]'' || [[Hamish Steele]] || rowspan="5"|Audio || [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[The Epoch]] || rowspan="5"|[[24 December (releases)|24 December]] 2013 | ||
|- | |- | ||
|| 2 || ''[[The Revenant's Carnival (audio story)|The Revenant's Carnival]]'' || [[Martin Day]] || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] | || 2 || ''[[The Revenant's Carnival (audio story)|The Revenant's Carnival]]'' || [[Martin Day]] || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] | ||
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|| 4 || ''[[The Winning Side (audio story)|The Winning Side]]'' || [[James Goss]] || [[The Epoch]] | || 4 || ''[[The Winning Side (audio story)|The Winning Side]]'' || [[James Goss]] || [[The Epoch]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
|| 5 || ''[[In Living Memory (audio story)|In Living Memory]]'' || [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]] || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[ | || 5 || ''[[In Living Memory (audio story)|In Living Memory]]'' || [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]] || [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]], [[The Epoch]] | ||
|} | |||
=== ''The Story So Far'' === | |||
{{Main|The Story So Far}} | |||
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the ''Bernice Summerfield'' series in [[2018 (releases)|2018]], Big Finish released several boxsets in the ''Bernice Summerfield'' range, including ''[[Treasury (audio anthology)|Treasury]]'', a collection of narrated ''Bernice Summerfield'' short stories narrated by [[Lisa Bowerman]] and [[Andrew Cartmel]]; and ''[[The Story So Far: Volume One]]'' and '' [[The Story So Far: Volume Two|Volume Two]]'', a collection of six new audio stories set throughout Bernice's life. | |||
{| {{prettytable}} | |||
!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | |||
|- class="row-red" | |||
| || ''[[Treasury (audio anthology)|Treasury]]'' || Various || Narrated anthology || Various || [[7 August (releases)|7 August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|- | |||
| 1 || ''[[Ever After Happy (audio story)|Ever After Happy]]'' || [[James Goss]] || rowspan="6"|Audio || || rowspan="6"|[[25 September (releases)|25 September]] 2018 | |||
|- | |||
|| 2 || ''[[The Grel Invasion of Earth (audio story)|The Grel Invasion of Earth]]'' || [[Jacqueline Rayner]] || [[Jason Kane|Jason]] | |||
|- | |||
|| 3 || ''[[Braxiatel in Love (audio story)|Braxiatel in Love]]'' || [[Simon Guerrier]] || [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] | |||
|- | |||
|| 4 || ''[[Every Dark Thought (audio story)|Every Dark Thought]]'' || [[Eddie Robson]] || [[The Valeyard]] | |||
|- | |||
|| 5 || ''[[Empress of the Drahvins (audio story)|Empress of the Drahvins]]'' || [[David Llewellyn]] || [[Ruth]] | |||
|- | |||
|| 6 || ''[[The Angel of History (audio story)|The Angel of History]]'' || [[Una McCormack]] || [[The Doctor (Sympathy for the Devil)|The Doctor]] | |||
|- class="row-red" | |||
| || ''[[In Time (anthology)|In Time]]'' || Various || Short story anthology || Various || [[19 December (releases)|19 December]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|} | |} | ||
=== | === Further releases === | ||
{{ | {| {{prettytable}} | ||
!# || Title || Author || Medium || Featuring || Published | |||
|- class="row-yellow" | |||
| || ''[[Benny in Wonderland]]'' || Xanna Eve Chown || Colouring book || || [[3 October (releases)|3 October]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]] | |||
|- class="row-red" | |||
| || ''[[The Christmas Collection (audio anthology)|The Christmas Collection]]'' || Various || Narrated anthology || Various || [[2 December (releases)|2 December]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | |||
|} | |||
== | == Unproduced stories == | ||
{| {{prettytable}} | |||
! Title || Author || Medium || Featuring | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Bizarre Love Triangle (audio story)|Bizarre Love Triangle]]'' | |||
|[[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]] | |||
|rowspan=4|Audio | |||
|[[Emile Mars-Smith|Emile]], [[vampire]]s, [[the People]] | |||
|- | |||
|''[[The Children of Shreeva (audio story)|The Children of Shreeva]]'' | |||
|[[Andy Russell]] | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Figure of Eight (audio story)|Figure of Eight]]'' | |||
|[[Iain McLaughlin]] | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Last of the Drop Dead Divas (audio story)|Last of the Drop Dead Divas]]'' | |||
|[[Jim Mortimore]] | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|- class="row-yellow" | |||
|''[[Terra Incognita (novel)|Terra Incognita]]'' | |||
|[[Ben Aaronovitch]] | |||
|Novel | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
== Special releases == | |||
* ''[[Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story]]'': A reference book of Bernice Summerfield's life up to Series 8. | |||
== | === Crossovers === | ||
The ''Bernice Summerfield'' range occasionally crossed over with other ranges: | |||
* ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis]]'': was branded as the ''Bernice Summerfield'' range story 3.0 but published under the ''[[Excelis Saga]]'' range. | |||
* ''[[The Phantom Wreck (audio story)|The Phantom Wreck]]'': Story from the special anthology ''[[The Worlds of Big Finish (audio anthology)|The Worlds of Big Finish]]'', a [[2015 (releases)|2015]] boxset which also featured characters from [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Graceless (audio series)|Graceless]]'', ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'', ''[[Vienna (series)|Vienna]]'', ''[[Sherlock Holmes (audio series)|Sherlock Holmes]]'', and ''[[The Confessions of Dorian Gray|Dorian Gray]]'' ranges. | |||
* ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'': part of ''[[The Company of Friends (audio anthology)|The Company of Friends]]'' anthology from the ''[[Main Range]]'', but set during the events of this series. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
{{BFBS}} | {{BFBS}} | ||
{{Big Finish}} | |||
{{Spin-offs}} | |||
[[fr:Bernice Summerfield (Liste de livres publiés par Big Finish Productions)]] | [[fr:Bernice Summerfield (Liste de livres publiés par Big Finish Productions)]] | ||
[[pt:Big Finish Bernice Summerfield (série)]] | [[pt:Big Finish Bernice Summerfield (série)]] | ||
[[Category:BFBS audio series]] | [[Category:BFBS audio series]] | ||
[[Category:Prose fiction overviews]] | [[Category:Prose fiction overviews]] | ||
[[Category:Tie-in book series]] | [[Category:Tie-in book series]] | ||
[[Category:Audio overviews]] | [[Category:Audio overviews]] |
Latest revision as of 18:15, 3 November 2024
Bernice Summerfield was the first series produced by Big Finish Productions, combining both audio and prose releases in an ongoing narrative, with the titular character portrayed by Lisa Bowerman.
The series began in 1998 with audio adaptations of six Virgin New Adventures novels. After the first season's success, Big Finish began producing audio stories and prose stories simultaneously.
Initially, the ongoing narrative was spread evenly between the two media - for instance, Benny became pregnant in the novel Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal and gave birth in the novel Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison, with the audio stories making several minor references to her pregnancy. However, from the third series onward, the audio stories became the primary series, with novels and short story collections providing greater depth to the world and heavily expanding on the large cast of regular characters. Occasionally, however, prose stories would be integral to the overall narrative, such as the audio story Death and the Daleks continuing on directly from the anthology Life During Wartime, and the regular characters Hass and Doggles being introduced in the anthologies A Life Worth Living and Something Changed respectively. When Simon Guerrier took over as executive producer for Series 7, he made an effort to better combine the audio and prose stories, featuring hitherto prose-only characters in audio and incorporating prose-featured events, such as the death of semi-regular character Ms Jones in the anthology Parallel Lives, into the overall story arc.
Many characters created or established in the Virgin New Adventures, such as Jason Kane and Irving Braxiatel, made major appearances in this series, and several others, such as Wolsey, Isaac Summerfield and Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, were featured in occasional stories. Additionally, links were made with Big Finish's Doctor Who content, such as the character of Bev Tarrant crossing over from the Main Range to become a regular character.
Several authors who wrote for Benny at Virgin also contributed to the line. Writers like Matt Jones, Paul Cornell, Justin Richards, Lance Parkin, Dave Stone, Ben Aaronovitch, Daniel O'Mahony, Lawrence Miles, Mark Clapham and Gary Russell had at least one story produced.
Most of the stories cover Bernice's life following her departure from travelling with the Doctor. However, several prose releases have featured stories that portrayed Bernice's life long before she met the Doctor.
The series concluded in 2013, but Benny received a new series the next year as The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, where she was briefly reunited with the Seventh Doctor and Ace, before teaming up with an incarnation of the Doctor from an alternate universe. The release format continued to be annual boxsets, with occasional accompanying book releases under the Bernice Summerfield title. Following the passing of David Warner (who played the alternate Doctor) in 2022, the series returned in 2024 with Bernice on her own, in anthologies centred around the Eternity Club, an exclusive group of interplanetary explorers.
Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
Novel | Anthology |
Series 1[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 1 (BFBS)
Series 1 was a collection of audio adaptations of Virgin New Adventures novels.
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Released |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oh No It Isn't! | Paul Cornell and Jacqueline Rayner | Audio | Wolsey, Grel | September 1998 |
2 | Beyond the Sun | Matt Jones | Jason Kane | ||
3 | Walking to Babylon | Kate Orman and Jacqueline Rayner | Jason Kane
John Lafayette |
January 1999 | |
4 | Birthright | Nigel Robinson and Jacqueline Rayner | February 1999 | ||
5 | Just War | Lance Parkin and Jacqueline Rayner | Jason Kane | August 1999 | |
Buried Treasures | Making Myths | Jacqueline Rayner | Keri | ||
Closure | Paul Cornell | ||||
6 | Dragons' Wrath | Justin Richards and Jacqueline Rayner | September 2000 |
Series 2[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 2 (BFBS)
Beginning with series 2, Big Finish began to release original audio stories about Bernice Summerfield. They also began to publish short story anthologies that continued ongoing plotlines from the audios.
Series 3[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 3 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3.1 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy | Paul Ebbs | Audio | Joseph | February 2002 |
3.2 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters | Dave Stone | Jason, Adrian, Peter | June 2002 | |
3.3 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead[1] | Stephen Cole | Ice Warriors | October 2002 | |
A Life of Surprises | Various | Short story anthology | Various | October 2002 | |
3.4 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect | Stewart Sheargold | Audio | Brax, Jason, Adrian, Joseph | March 2003 |
Series 4[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 4 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
4.1 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident | Mike Tucker | Audio | Bev, Brax, Joseph, Rutans | April 2003 |
4.2 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage | Trevor Baxendale | Brax, Draconians | August 2003 | |
4.3 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas | David Bailey | Brax, Sea Devils | September 2003 | |
Life During Wartime | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 13 October 2003 | |
4.4 | Death and the Daleks | Paul Cornell | Audio | Brax, Jason, Adrian, Joseph, Bev, Isaac, Fifth Axis, Daleks | January 2004 |
Series 5[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 5 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Big Hunt | Lance Parkin | Novel | May 2004 | ||
5.1 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape | Jac Rayner | Audio | Jason, Peter, Joseph, The Grel | July 2004 |
A Life Worth Living | Various | Short story anthology | Various | July 2004 | |
5.2 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bone of Contention | Simon A. Forward | Audio | The Galyari | August 2004 |
5.3 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau | Stephen Cole | K1 | November 2004 | |
SP | Silver Lining | Colin Brake | Cybermen | 9 December 2004 | |
A Life in Pieces | Various | Short story anthology | Various | December 2004 | |
5.4 | Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death | Stewart Sheargold | Audio | Adrian | March 2005 |
Series 6[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 6 (BFBS)
Starting in series 6, the anthology releases began to alternate between collections of short stories and groupings of three novellas. This continued until series 9.
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
6.1 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Heart's Desire | David Bailey and Neil Corry | Audio | Eternals | June 2005 |
The Tree of Life | Mark Michalowski | Novel | Joseph | 3 June 2005 | |
6.2 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind | Jac Rayner | Audio | Jason, Monoids | July 2005 |
6.3 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum | Simon Guerrier | Jason | December 2005 | |
Parallel Lives | Various | Novella anthology | Various | 2 January 2006 | |
Something Changed | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 3 January 2006 | |
6.4 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary[2] | Andy Russell | Audio | Keri | February 2006 |
6.5 | Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus[3] | Joseph Lidster | Brax, Jason, Joseph, Peter | June 2006 |
Series 7[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 7 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Genius Loci[4] | Ben Aaronovitch | Novel | 19 June 2006 | ||
7.1 | The Tartarus Gate | Stewart Sheargold | Audio | Jason, Joseph | July 2006 |
7.2 | Timeless Passages | Daniel O'Mahony | August 2006 | ||
7.3 | The Worst Thing in the World | Dave Stone | Audio | Jason | September 2006 |
7.4 | Summer of Love | Simon Guerrier | Jason, Bev, Adrian, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | October 2006 | |
Collected Works[5] | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 1 September 2006 | |
Old Friends | Various | Novella anthology | Various | 2 November 2006 | |
7.5 | The Oracle of Delphi | Scott Handcock | Audio | Jason | November 2006 |
7.6 | The Empire State | Eddie Robson | Jason, Maggie, Brax |
Series 8[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 8 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
8.1 | The Tub Full of Cats | Daniel O'Mahony | Audio | Maggie, Brax | February 2007 |
8.2 | The Judas Gift | Nick Wallace | Bev, Adrian, Brax, Doggles, Joseph, Hass, the Mim, Draconians | April 2007 | |
8.3 | Freedom of Information | Eddie Robson | Adrian, Brax, Doggles, Joseph, Hass, Jason, Peter, the Mim, Draconians | June 2007 | |
Nobody's Children | Various | Novella anthology | Various | 3 August 2007 | |
8.4 | The End of the World | Dave Stone | Audio | Jason, Brax, Adrian, Mira | September 2007 |
The Two Jasons[6] | Dave Stone | Novel | Jason, Mira | May 2007 | |
8.5 | The Final Amendment | Joseph Lidster | Audio | Kadiatu, Jason | October 2007 |
Missing Adventures | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 19 November 2007 | |
8.6 | The Wake | Simon Guerrier | Audio | Peter, Brax, Adrian, Bev, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | January 2008 |
Series 9[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 9 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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9.1 | Beyond the Sea | Eddie Robson | Audio | Peter | June 2008 |
9.2 | The Adolescence of Time | Lawrence Miles | July 2008 | ||
9.3 | The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel | Jim Smith | Mycroft, Straxus, Cwejen | September 2008 | |
The Vampire Curse[7] | Various | Novella anthology | Various | 2 December 2008 | |
9.4 | The Diet of Worms | Matthew Sweet | Audio | Peter | October 2008 |
Series 10[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 10 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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10.1 | Glory Days | Nick Wallace | Audio | Peter, Bev, Adrian, Brax | June 2009 |
10.2 | Absence | Daniel O'Mahony | Peter | July 2009 | |
10.3 | Venus Mantrap | Mark Clapham, Lance Parkin | Adrian, Peter | August 2009 | |
10.4 | Secret Origins | Eddie Robson | Peter, Robyn, Brax | September 2009 | |
Secret Histories | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 1 December 2009 |
Series 11[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Series 11 (BFBS)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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SP | Dead and Buried | Eddie Robson | Video | Brax | 1 September 2010 |
11.1 | Resurrecting the Past | Audio | Peter, Brax, Bev, Adrian, Robyn, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | September 2010 | |
Present Danger | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 20 September 2010 | |
11.2 | Escaping the Future | Eddie Robson | Audio | Peter, Brax, Bev, Adrian, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | October 2010 |
11.3 | Year Zero | Jonathan Clements | November 2010 | ||
11.4 | Dead Man's Switch | John Dorney, Richard Dinnick | December 2010 |
Epoch[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Epoch (audio anthology)
After series 11, Big Finish began to release new Bernice Summerfield audios in collected "boxsets" rather than spread out over months.
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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1 | The Kraken's Lament | Mark Wright | Audio | Ruth, Acanthus, Jack | September 2011 |
2 | The Temple of Questions | Jacqueline Rayner | Ruth, Leonidas, Jack, Heskith | ||
3 | Private Enemy No. 1 | Tony Lee | Ruth, Leonidas, Heskith, the Epoch | ||
4 | Judgement Day | Scott Handcock | Ruth, Jack, the Epoch, Brax |
Road Trip[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Road Trip (audio anthology)
Road Trip began the pattern that would last until the series' penultimate release, where the boxset would include three audio stories and be accompanied by a tie-in novel.
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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1 | Brand Management | Christopher Cooper | Audio | Ruth | February 2012 |
2 | Bad Habits | Simon Barnard and Paul Morris | |||
The Weather on Versimmon[8] | Matthew Griffiths | Novel | |||
3 | Paradise Frost | David Llewellyn | Audio | Ruth, Brax, Peter, Jack |
Legion[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Legion (audio anthology)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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1 | Vesuvius Falling | Tony Lee | Audio | Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax | September 2012 |
The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis [8] | Xanna Eve Chown | Novel | Ruth, Jack | 28 September 2012 | |
2 | Shades of Gray | Scott Handcock | Audio | Ruth, Jack, Dorian | September 2012 |
3 | Everybody Loves Irving | Miles Richardson | Brax, Peter, Ruth, Jack |
Many Happy Returns[[edit] | [edit source]]
The audio story Many Happy Returns was released in November 2012 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Bernice Summerfield's introduction in Love and War. Its contributors included Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Paul Cornell, Stephen Fewell, Simon Guerrier, Scott Handcock, Rebecca Levene, Jacqueline Rayner, Justin Richards, Miles Richardson, Eddie Robson, and Dave Stone. A portion of the proceeds went to the myalgic encephalomyelitis charity "Invest in M.E."
Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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Many Happy Returns | Various | Audio | Joseph, Brax, Adrian, Bev, | November 2012 |
New Frontiers[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: New Frontiers (audio anthology)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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1 | A Handful of Dust | Xanna Eve Chown | Audio | Peter, Ruth, Jack | 30 April 2013 |
Filthy Lucre | James Parsons and Andrew Stirling-Brown | Novel | Ruth, Jack, Brax | 24 April 2013[9] | |
2 | HMS Surprise | Alexander Vlahos | Audio | Peter, Jack | 30 April 2013 |
3 | The Curse of Fenman | Gary Russell | Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax, Fenman |
Missing Persons[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Missing Persons (audio anthology)
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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Adorable Illusion[10] | Gary Russell | Novel | Jack, Adrian, Bev, Fenman | 13 March 2014 | |
1 | Big Dig | Hamish Steele | Audio | Ruth, Jack, The Epoch | 24 December 2013 |
2 | The Revenant's Carnival | Martin Day | Peter | ||
3 | The Brimstone Kid | David Llewellyn | Brax | ||
4 | The Winning Side | James Goss | The Epoch | ||
5 | In Living Memory | Gary Russell and Scott Handcock | Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax, The Epoch |
The Story So Far[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: The Story So Far
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Bernice Summerfield series in 2018, Big Finish released several boxsets in the Bernice Summerfield range, including Treasury, a collection of narrated Bernice Summerfield short stories narrated by Lisa Bowerman and Andrew Cartmel; and The Story So Far: Volume One and Volume Two, a collection of six new audio stories set throughout Bernice's life.
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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Treasury | Various | Narrated anthology | Various | 7 August 2018 | |
1 | Ever After Happy | James Goss | Audio | 25 September 2018 | |
2 | The Grel Invasion of Earth | Jacqueline Rayner | Jason | ||
3 | Braxiatel in Love | Simon Guerrier | Brax | ||
4 | Every Dark Thought | Eddie Robson | The Valeyard | ||
5 | Empress of the Drahvins | David Llewellyn | Ruth | ||
6 | The Angel of History | Una McCormack | The Doctor | ||
In Time | Various | Short story anthology | Various | 19 December 2018 |
Further releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
# | Title | Author | Medium | Featuring | Published |
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Benny in Wonderland | Xanna Eve Chown | Colouring book | 3 October 2019 | ||
The Christmas Collection | Various | Narrated anthology | Various | 2 December 2020 |
Unproduced stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
Title | Author | Medium | Featuring |
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Bizarre Love Triangle | Matt Jones | Audio | Emile, vampires, the People |
The Children of Shreeva | Andy Russell | ||
Figure of Eight | Iain McLaughlin | ||
Last of the Drop Dead Divas | Jim Mortimore | ||
Terra Incognita | Ben Aaronovitch | Novel |
Special releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story: A reference book of Bernice Summerfield's life up to Series 8.
Crossovers[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Bernice Summerfield range occasionally crossed over with other ranges:
- Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis: was branded as the Bernice Summerfield range story 3.0 but published under the Excelis Saga range.
- The Phantom Wreck: Story from the special anthology The Worlds of Big Finish, a 2015 boxset which also featured characters from Big Finish's Graceless, Iris Wildthyme, Vienna, Sherlock Holmes, and Dorian Gray ranges.
- Benny's Story: part of The Company of Friends anthology from the Main Range, but set during the events of this series.
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Bernice Summerfield page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ The Dance of the Dead follows directly from The Plague Herds of Excelis.
- ↑ The events Benny recounts in this story take place before The Lost Museum. However the framing narrative takes place sometime after The Crystal of Cantus. Despite being published before it, the anthology Parallel Lives follows from Benny's trip to Etheria recounted in The Goddess Quandary.
- ↑ The main events of this story take place immediately after The Lost Museum. However the framing narrative takes place after the framing narratives for both Death and the Daleks and The Goddess Quandary.
- ↑ Genius Loci is set not during series 6 or 7 but during Benny's earlier life.
- ↑ The short story Mother's Ruin is set a few weeks after Summer of Love.
- ↑ This story tales place contemporaneously with The End of the World and The Final Amendment.
- ↑ Though this anthology was published between The Diet of Worms and Glory Days, there is no gap between those two stories.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 This tie-in novel is set between stories in the accompanying boxset.
- ↑ This novel leads into HMS Surprise.
- ↑ This novel is set before Missing Persons despite being published later.
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