Charles Dickens’ classic tale of charity, forgiveness and redemption celebrates 180 years. Last year, one of our highlights was catching Colin Baker on stage as Sherlock Holmes. In the company of fellow Doctor Who thespian Terry Molloy, he starred as the Great Detective in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Now, we’re pleased to see that … >
Doctor Who: Once and Future will feature the final performance of David Warner as the Doctor. Back in November, audio producers revealed their plans for Doctor Who‘s 60th Anniversary year; Once and Future promises an epic multi-Doctor, multi-part adventure to celebrate the show’s six decades. Revealing the story’s intriguing premise, their original announcement confirmed the … >
Welcome to the Podcast Roundup for November 2022 – our favourites in the worlds of CultBox. Our picks this month, in no particular order, are… Acting for Others Presents… Miriam Margolyes and Sir Derek Jacobi In a new podcast, fundraising for theatre workers in need, two theatrical legends meet. Highlights include Jacobi’s mortifying Boris Karloff … >
The eight-part adventure stars multiple Doctors in a special ‘degeneration’ story. After various hints, Big Finish have announced a celebratory series for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary in 2023. Their plans sound epic: Once and Future, is an eight-part series featuring all the television Doctors who work with them; the series promises to “… revisit the … >
Colin Baker plays Sherlock Holmes, with Terry Molloy as his trusty Dr Watson. With Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles celebrating its 120th year, there’s a new stage production on tour. This alone would have been enough to lure CultBox to the theatre; the casting of Colin Baker as Sherlock Holmes made … >
Colin Baker’s aberrant iteration of the War Doctor continues his battles in Doctor Who Unbound series. In the first Doctor of War boxset, the Fourth Doctor went through with the fateful decision to touch a certain pair of wires together in a Skaro bunker. From that point, his personal chronology spun out in a different … >
Welcome to Classic Doctors New Monsters 3: The Stuff of Nightmares. “There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things! Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!” So said the Second Doctor. While his monstrous foes often only make a single onscreen appearance, we often … >
Big Finish play with the War Doctor concept in their Unbound range… but have they the right? The multiverse is all the rage these days thanks to Marvel’s high-profile What If? concept. Of course, alternate dimensions and altered chronologies are nothing new for Doctor Who, from 1970’s ‘Inferno’ to the mixed up Earth of ‘The … >
The Tenth and Sixth Doctors collide for a high-concept, time twisting face-off with the Weeping Angels. ‘Wink’ is the latest in the Out of Time series of doctorly collisions. The range sees David Tennant’s version of the Time Lord meeting his former selves and facing a few famous foes. The title, of course, nods to … >
The actor is swapping his multi-coloured coat for a deerstalker in a radio-play-on-stage production. Colin Baker is touring the UK this autumn, playing Sherlock Holmes in a production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. He’s joined by Terry Molloy as Dr Watson which is a fascinating pairing for Doctor Who fans; Molloy is, of course, … >