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Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in mp3 format) based, primarily, on cult〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Cult TV )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Win Doctor Who Experience tickets )〕 British science fiction properties. They are best known for their ''Doctor Who'' line; other properties include the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from ''2000 AD'', ''Dark Shadows'', ''Sapphire & Steel'', ''Stargate'', ''Blake's 7'' and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character. ==History and organisation== Many of those initially involved in Big Finish had worked on the Audio Visuals fan series of unlicensed ''Doctor Who'' audio plays. Big Finish began in 1996 with a series of audio plays adapted from New Adventures. These were a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive license to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story ''The Sirens of Time''. ''Doctor Who'' and spin-offs have remained the main part of the company's output ever since, although they have since diversified. The company's first foray into books also came through Benny and a series of paperbacks. This range was later abandoned, but the company then obtained a non-exclusive license to produce hardback ''Doctor Who'' short story collections. This license ended and the collections went out of print. They subsequently returned to Benny books and other ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs, but have kept with the hardback format. Until July 2006, Gary Russell served as producer of the ''Doctor Who'' audios. When Russell left the company, Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs took joint responsibility as Executive Producers. Briggs now bears creative responsibility for Big Finish's ''Doctor Who'' range, along with script editor Alan Barnes. In late 2007 David Richardson took over from Sharon Gosling and now holds the title of Producer, organising the schedules across the company's output, as well as having creative responsibility for The Companion Chronicles, Lost Stories and spin off Jago and Litefoot. On 11 June 2011 Tenth Planet Events hosted the first Big Finish Day in Barking with guests including Colin Baker, Sophie Aldred and Sarah Sutton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Big Finish Day: The Convention )〕 On 11 February 2012 a second one was held with guests including Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Katy Manning, Anneke Wills, Terry Molloy and Paul Darrow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Big Finish Day 2 Approaches )〕 As of September 2015 there have been seven Big Finish Days, with an eighth soon to come.〔http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/big-finish-day-72〕 The Managing Director of the company is Jason Haigh-Ellery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Finish Productions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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