Galaxy 4, the mostly-missing serial starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, will be released as a fully-animated recreation in November. Only the third episode of the four-part adventure released in 1965, Air Lock, and clips from the first episode, Four Hundred Dawns, are known to exist. An animated recreation by Big Finish Creative is … >
BBC History celebrates 85 years of entertainment television by releasing some of its archive As part of its 100 Voices That Made The BBC archive project, BBC History has today launched its Entertaining the Nation Collection, offering a rare insight into broadcast entertainment across the years through newly released interviews from the BBC Oral History Collection, plus … >
Since the Doctor Who Series 13 trailer was released on 25 July, fans have noticed a subtle, mysterious note at the very end. Written in small, slightly lighter text at the bottom is “/mystery”. It didn’t take long to fans to discover that this is a tag on the official doctor who website: doctorwho.tv/mystery. On … >
The audio producer ties with itself for the Audio Drama prize in the 2021 awards. The Scribe awards celebrate excellence in tie-in novel and audio dramas based on television shows, movies and games. This year, the judges were unable to choose between Matt Fitton’s Doctor Who: Out of Time 1 and Tim Foley’s Torchwood: Tropical … >
Virtually filling another gap in missing Doctor Who episodes, the Season 4 story The Evil of the Daleks will be released in animated form on DVD, Blu-ray and as an exclusive Steelbook in September of 2021. In The Evil of the Daleks, starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, the Daleks lay a trap … >
Doctor Who: Stranded 2 continues on immediately from the previous boxset, but provides a substantial change in tone In our review of Stranded 1, we admired the bold experiment of forcing the Doctor (Paul McGann), Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan) to spend time in 2020 London. We were treated to a set … >
The Grey Man of the Mountain is the last solo outing for Sylvester McCoy’s seventh incarnation of the Doctor, before Big Finish winds up the monthly range with a final multi-Doctor story in March. Review to follow, of course. Back to matters at hand, we’ve a story for the Doctor and Ace (Sophie Aldred) set … >
Masterful celebrates the Doctor’s best enemy on the fiftieth anniversary of the character’s onscreen debut. An eight-disc collection, it contains the eponymous full-cast drama as well as two short trips and a longer narrated tale. The headline story also features the audio debut of John Simm’s “Harold Saxon” incarnation. Masterful A three-disc, full-cast epic, Masterful … >
Today (November 23) is Doctor Who day, and Big Finish has a gift for us — the first part of a Companion Chronicles adventure, Polly’s Story. To celebrate 57 years of Doctor Who, Big Finish is giving listeners the chance to get part one, Polly’s Story, performed by Anneke Wills, Nicholas Courtney and John Pickard, completely free for one week only. … >
Recent years had seen a shortage of Nicola Bryant stories as Big Finish took the opportunity to develop other companions for Colin Baker’s sixth Doctor. We had a burst of stories at the end of 2019, including the enjoyable Blood on Santa’s Claw and Other Stories, but there’s always room for more. What we hope … >