Bernice Summerfield (series)
The Bernice Summerfield audio stories were the first audio dramas that Big Finish Productions produced. Beginning in 1998 with Oh No It Isn't! it was the first of 6 Virgin New Adventures and Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novels that were adapted for audio. The adaptions removed characters such as the Doctor, Ace and any other Doctor Who character that Big Finish did not have the licence for. Others were adapted for the audio medium.
Bernice Summerfield (also known as "Benny") was performed by Lisa Bowerman who had previously played Kara in the Doctor Who TV story Survival.
After this first season's success Big Finish began producing audio stories and prose-based stories, these were released alternately so that both the audio and the prose (novel and short story) made up the Bernice Summerfield series, with some of the wider arc story only being featured and explained in detail in one medium. Bernice's pregnancy was one such occurrence which began in the novel The Gods of the Underworld and she gave birth in the novel The Glass Prison with minor references to the actual pregnancy in audio stories released around the same time.
Many characters that had been created or established in the Virgin New Adventures or the Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures appeared in this series, character such as Bernice's ex-husband Jason Kane and Irving Braxiatel both featured in the series. Kane was voiced by Stephen Fewell and Braxiatel by Miles Richardson.
Most of the stories cover Bernice's life following her departure from travelling with the Doctor, but several prose-based stories have featured stories that portrayed Bernice's life long before she met the Doctor.
Audio stories
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
- The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
- The Green-Eyed Monsters
- The Plague Herds of Excelis
- The Dance of the Dead
- The Mirror Effect
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
- The Heart's Desire
- The Kingdom of the Blind
- The Lost Museum
- The Goddess Quandary
- The Crystal of Cantus
Season 7
- The Tartarus Gate
- Timeless Passages
- The Worst Thing in the World
- Summer of Love
- The Oracle of Delphi
- The Empire State
Season 8
- The Tub Full of Cats
- The Judas Gift
- Freedom of Information
- The End of the World (features Jason Kane rather than Benny)
- The Final Amendment
- The Wake
Season 9
- Beyond the Sea (audio story)
- The Adolescence of Time
- The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
- The Diet of Worms
Season 10
Season 11
Epoch
Road Trip
Legion
New Frontiers
Missing Persons
5 CD box set scheduled to be released September 2013.
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Special Releases
- Silver Lining (on free giveaway disc released with Doctor Who Magazine issue 351)
- Buried Treasures (limited edition released with Season 1; now can be downloaded from the Big Finish podcasts for free)
- The Plague Herds of Excelis (Part of the Excelis Saga)
- Dead and Buried (an animated webcast special available on Big Finish's official YouTube channel; later released on DVD as a bonus with the Epoch box set)
- Love and War (Part of the Special Releases from October 2012)
- Many Happy Returns (Download only 20th anniversary story with proceeds going to Invest in ME charity)
Prose works
Anthologies
- The Dead Men Diaries
- A Life of Surprises
- Life During Wartime
- A Life Worth Living
- A Life in Pieces
- Parallel Lives
- Something Changed
- Collected Works
- Old Friends
- Nobody's Children
- Missing Adventures
- The Vampire Curse
- Secret Histories
- Present Danger
Novels
- The Doomsday Manuscript
- The Gods of the Underworld
- The Squire's Crystal
- The Infernal Nexus
- The Glass Prison
- The Big Hunt
- The Tree of Life
- Genius Loci
- The Two Jasons
- The Weather on Versimmon
- The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis
- Filthy Lucre
External links
- Official Bernice Summerfield page at bigfinish.com
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