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Bernice Summerfield — 1998–13

Key crew

Music:

Matthew Cochrane

Sound design:

Matthew Cochrane

Covers by:

Adrian Salmon

Series details

First release:

September 1998

Last release:

December 2013

Publisher:

Big Finish Productions

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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 titular character portrayed by Lisa Bowerman.

The series began in 1998 with audio adaptations of six Virgin New Adventures novels. After this first season's success, Big Finish began producing audio stories and prose stories simultaneously. These were initially released alternately so that both the audio and the prose made up one continuous series, with some of the wider arc stories only being featured and explained in detail in one medium. For example, Bernice's pregnancy began and ended in the novels The Gods of the Underworld and The Glass Prison, but the audio stories made several minor references to her pregnancy. However, this practice ceased after the third series.

Many characters created or established in the Virgin New Adventures, such as Jason Kane and Irving Braxiatel, made major appearances in this series. 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 it was relaunched the next year as The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield.

Stories

	008	Novel		004	Anthology

Series 1

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	September 1998
3	Walking to Babylon	Kate Orman and Jacqueline Rayner		Jason Kane John Lafayette	January 1999
4	Birthright	Nigel Robinson and Jacqueline Rayner		Jason Kane John Lafayette	February 1999
5	Just War	Lance Parkin and Jacqueline Rayner		Jason Kane	August 1999
Buried Treasures	Making Myths	Jacqueline Rayner		Keri
Buried Treasures	Closure	Paul Cornell
6	Dragons' Wrath	Justin Richards and Jacqueline Rayner			September 2000

Series 2

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.

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
	The Dead Men Diaries	Various	Short story anthology	Various	September 2000
	The Doomsday Manuscript	Justin Richards	Novel	Brax, Joseph, Adrian, Fifth Axis	November 2000
2.1	The Secret of Cassandra	David Bailey	Audio		December 2000
	The Gods of the Underworld	Stephen Cole	Novel	Brax, Joseph	February 2001
	The Squire's Crystal	Jacqueline Rayner	Novel	Adrian, Joseph, Brax, Fenman	April 2001
2.2	The Stone's Lament	Mike Tucker	Audio	Adrian	May 2001
2.3	The Extinction Event	Lance Parkin	Audio	Brax	July 2001
	The Infernal Nexus	Dave Stone	Novel	Jason	August 2001
2.4	The Skymines of Karthos	David Bailey	Audio	Brax	September 2001
	The Glass Prison	Jacqueline Rayner	Novel	Brax, Joseph, Jason, Adrian, Isaac, Peter, Fifth Axis, Fenman, Chris Cwej	January 2002

Series 3

Main article: Series 3 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
3.1	The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy	Paul Ebbs	Audio	Joseph	February 2002
3.2	The Green-Eyed Monsters	Dave Stone		Jason, Adrian, Peter	June 2002
3.3	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	The Mirror Effect	Stewart Sheargold	Audio	Brax, Jason, Adrian, Joseph	March 2003

Series 4

Main article: Series 4 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
4.1	The Bellotron Incident	Mike Tucker	Audio	Bev, Brax, Joseph, Rutans	April 2003
4.2	The Draconian Rage	Trevor Baxendale		Brax, Draconians	August 2003
4.3	The Poison Seas	David Bailey		Brax, Sea Devils	September 2003
	Life During Wartime	Various	Short story anthology	Various	3 September 2003
4.4	Death and the Daleks	Paul Cornell	Audio	Brax, Jason, Adrian, Joseph, Bev, Isaac, Fifth Axis, Daleks	January 2004

Series 5

Main article: Series 5 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
	The Big Hunt	Lance Parkin	Novel		May 2004
5.1	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	The Bone of Contention	Simon A. Forward	Audio	The Galyari	August 2004
5.3	The Relics of Jegg-Sau	Stephen Cole		K1	November 2004
	Silver Lining	Colin Brake		Cybermen	9 December 2004
	A Life in Pieces	Various	Short story anthology	Various	December 2004
5.4	The Masquerade of Death	Stewart Sheargold	Audio	Adrian	March 2005

Series 6

Main article: Series 6 (BFBS)

Staring 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	The Heart's Desire^[2]	David Bailey and Neil Corry	Audio	Eternals	June 2005
	The Tree of Life	Mark Michalowski	Novel	Joseph	3 June 2005
6.2	The Kingdom of the Blind	Jac Rayner	Audio	Jason, Monoids	July 2005
6.4	The Goddess Quandary^[3]	Andy Russell	Audio	Keri	February 2006
	Parallel Lives	Various	Novella anthology	Various	2 January 2006
	Something Changed	Various	Short story anthology	Various	3 January 2006
6.3	The Lost Museum^[4]	Simon Guerrier	Audio	Jason	September 2005
6.5	The Crystal of Cantus	Joseph Lidster	Audio	Brax, Jason, Joseph, Peter	June 2006

Series 7

Main article: Series 7 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
	Genius Loci^[5]	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	Audio		August 2006
7.3	The Worst Thing in the World	Dave Stone	Audio	Jason	September 2006
7.4	Summer of Love	Simon Guerrier	Audio	Jason, Bev, Adrian, Doggles, Joseph, Hass	October 2006
	Collected Works^[6]	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	Audio	Jason, Maggie, Brax	November 2006

Series 8

Main article: Series 8 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
8.1	The Tub Full of Cats	Daniel O'Mahony	Audio	Maggie, Brax, The Mim	February 2007
8.2	The Judas Gift	Nick Wallace	Audio	Bev, Adrian, Brax, Doggles, Joseph, Hass, The Mim, Draconians	April 2007
8.3	Freedom of Information	Eddie Robson	Audio	Adrian, Brax, Doggles, Joseph, Hass, Jason, 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	September 2007
	The Two Jasons^[7]	Dave Stone	Novel	Jason	May 2007
8.5	The Final Amendment	Joseph Lidster	Audio	Kadiatu	October 2007
	Missing Adventures	Various	Short story anthology	Various	27 November 2007
8.6	The Wake	Simon Guerrier	Audio	Peter, Brax, Adrian, Bev, Doggles, Joseph, Hass	January 2008

Series 9

Main article: Series 9 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
9.1	Beyond the Sea	Eddie Robson	Audio	Peter	June 2008
9.2	The Adolescence of Time	Lawrence Miles		Peter	July 2008
9.3	The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel	Jim Smith		Mycroft, Straxus, Cwejen	August 2008
	The Vampire Curse^[8]	Various	Novella anthology	Various	2 December 2008
9.4	The Diet of Worms	Matthew Sweet	Audio	Peter	September 2008

Series 10

Main article: Series 10 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
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 and Lance Parkin		Adrian, Peter	August 2009
10.4	Secret Origins	Eddie Robson		Peter, Robyn, Brax	September 2009

Series 11

Main article: Series 11 (BFBS)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
	Dead and Buried	Eddie Robson	Video	Brax	1 September 2010
11.1	Resurrecting the Past	Eddie Robson	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 and Richard Dinnick			December 2010

Epoch

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
1	The Kraken's Lament	Mark Wright	Audio	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

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
1	Brand Management	Christopher Cooper	Audio	Ruth	February 2012
2	Bad Habits	Simon Barnard and Paul Morris	Audio	Ruth
	The Weather on Versimmon^[9]	Matthew Griffiths	Novel	Ruth
3	Paradise Frost	David Llewellyn	Audio	Ruth, Brax, Peter, Jack

Legion

Main article: Legion (audio anthology)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
1	Vesuvius Falling	Tony Lee	Audio	Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax	September 2012
	The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis ^[9]	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	Audio	Brax, Peter, Ruth, Jack	September 2012

Many Happy Returns

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
Many Happy Returns	Various	Audio	Joseph, Brax, Adrian, Bev, Peter, Ruth, Jack, Leonidas, Iris, Panda, The Doctor	November 2012

New Frontiers

Main article: New Frontiers (audio anthology)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
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^[10]
2	HMS Surprise	Alexander Vlahos	Audio	Peter, Jack	30 April 2013
3	The Curse of Fenman	Gary Russell	Audio	Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax, Fenman	30 April 2013

Missing Persons

Main article: Missing Persons (audio anthology)

#	Title	Author	Medium	Featuring	Published
	Adorable Illusion^[11]	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 New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

Main article: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

In 2014, the Bernice Summerfield audio series continued as The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, now with the Doctor Who license and featuring the Doctor. The release format continued to be annual boxsets, with occasional accompanying book releases under the Bernice Summerfield title.

Crossovers

The Bernice Summerfield range occasionally crossed over with other ranges. For instance, The Plague Herds of Excelis was branded as a Bernice Summerfield story but published not in the Bernice Summerfield range but in the Excelis Saga. Similarly, Bernice Summerfield starred in The Phantom Wreck from The Worlds of Big Finish, a boxset which also featured characters from Big Finish's Graceless, Iris Wildthyme, Vienna, Sherlock Holmes, and Dorian Gray ranges.

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Footnotes

↑ The Dance of the Dead follows directly from The Plague Herds of Excelis.
↑ Despite being released in series 6, The Heart's Desire is technically set before The Masquerade of Death from series 5.
↑ Despite being published before it, the anthology Parallel Lives follows from The Goddess Quandry.
↑ The Lost Museum follows from Something Changed.
↑ 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.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 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.

External links

Official Bernice Summerfield page at bigfinish.com

[1] The Dance of the Dead follows directly from The Plague Herds of Excelis.

[2] Despite being released in series 6, The Heart's Desire is technically set before The Masquerade of Death from series 5.

[3] Despite being published before it, the anthology Parallel Lives follows from The Goddess Quandry.

[4] The Lost Museum follows from Something Changed.

[5] Genius Loci is set not during series 6 or 7 but during Benny's earlier life.

[6] The short story Mother's Ruin is set a few weeks after Summer of Love.

[7] This story tales place contemporaneously with The End of the World and The Final Amendment.

[8] Though this anthology was published between The Diet of Worms and Glory Days, there is no gap between those two stories.

[Tie-in-9] 9.0 ^9.1 This tie-in novel is set between stories in the accompanying boxset.

[10] This novel leads into HMS Surprise.

[11] This novel is set before Missing Persons despite being published later.

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