Talk:List of Big Finish regular cast

Frazer Hines count & overall contradiction
The current number of stories for Frazer Hines's appearances as the Second Doctor is 28 as of 30th April 2022. However, I've considered both including ALL of his appearances (including Companion Chronicles and Short Trips) as well as focusing only on his "full-cast" roles (like with William Russell), and the number of stories is either higher or lower than the one given.

I'm aware some of Frazer's Companion Chronicles appearances are just for playing Jamie, so I've tried to exclude those from my estimated count.

Furthermore, I pose a question based on observations of the table and the footnotes: is the current count of 28 actually based on when he is credited as the Doctor? If so, then this seems to contradict other actors such as Nicholas Briggs and Jacob Dudman, who have Short Trips (usually narration only roles) included in their own number of stories.

I think a decision needs to made on a consistent count for each actor in the role of the Doctor, as it seems unfair to sometimes include Short Trips & Companion Chronicles, where an actor is usually credited as the narrator, in the overall count. Let me know what you all think, and many thanks for reading this silly analysis. BritShadow ☎  12:56, April 30, 2022 (UTC)


 * The tricky thing is that Big Finish themselves blur the lines — on multiple occasions they've started off an actor as simply "reading a character's lines in their voices" while being credited as Narrator, only for later stories, sometimes even in the exact same range, to feature the actor officially playing the character (with no meaningful difference in performance) once they know the impression is well-received. The most famous case being Tim Treloar, who in the first volume of Third Doctor Adventures was technically just the Narrator — is it especially helpful to claim that he only started playing the Third Doctor with Volume 2?


 * I think this definitely bears discussing further. I am just making the point, early on, that this is going to be a tricky thing because BF themselves knowingly blur the line between "narrator who reads out some character's lines" and "impressionist voicing that character". Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 13:02, 30 April 2022 (UTC)


 * The blurred lines is a fair point, though in the Third Doctor Adventures case that first volume is more of an Early Adventures approach (full-cast with narration included like you're listening to a missing episode soundtrack) so I'd say those stories counted towards Tim's number of stories.


 * If it helps get across my own logic, I would say that Frazer's most recent Companion Chronicles most definitely count, as those stories have little-to-no narration. The Curator's Egg is a rare example in the Companion Chronicles of Frazer playing the Doctor as an actual role, so that also counts. After that then it's probably credited roles. BritShadow ☎  13:16, April 30, 2022 (UTC)