Monday, October 20, 2008

Doctor Who Audio Collection

If you live in 1 of the mayor English speaking countries chances are it will have been difficult for you to of not, at least, heard of the Sci-Fi legend DW! Now that Doctor Who is back on television since 05 after it's 15yr pause the show has gotten very popular again, so mush so in fact that even the Science fiction channel has taken an interest in the television show.

Thanks to the new show Dr. Who is now officially the longest running Science fiction serial ever with the 1st episode transmitted by the BBC on November the twenty third 1963, an episode in which the Doctor and his comrades voyaged back one hundred thousand years into Earth’s past to help some somewhat stupid cavemen so that they could discover fire. The 2nd longest running Sci-Fi series is Star Trek which began back in 1966, but does not currently have any new episodes being produced.

With the great success of Doctor Who, the BBC started making Doctor Who Audio back in the mid 70s for cassette and LP. When it all started the BBC only made soundtracks from the original serial & then had the Doctors of the time add some binding narration to unify the dialog for the listener. It wasn't long before the BBC decided to take the audio releases to the next level by releasing audio book episodes only for Audiobook release.

To add to this the BBC began producing radio episodes, again with past Drs who had played in the series, these episodes were also made available in Audio Book format. Also many of the lost shows have been re created by their original Doctors in the Audio format making them finally available to the general public once more. Currently the BBC's DW Audiobook collection has over 50 titles all available in quality Digital format at a reduced download price! There exist Audios from the very 1st serial all the way up to the most recent series with David Tennent and even Sarah Jane and Torchwood Audio.

One of the really good things about DW Audios is that they provide us the freedom to listen to our favorite shows anywhere we please with the use of the modern mp3 player. Audiobooks help us to obtain more out of our increasingly busier days, as we can easily listen to them while doing other things like working out, house work, driving, and other activities that permit multitasking. Also an important factor about audio titles is that they are often narrated by their original actors, which really adds to the whole experience.

The way things stand right now it looks like Dr. Who and its spin-off show torchwood and the Sarah Jane adventures are doing extremely well so things look good for us to be able to be entertained by them for a number of years to come.

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