Celebrating Forty years of the Fifth Doctor, Doctor Who star Janet Fielding answers our questions. 2022 marks forty years of the Fifth Doctor era and audio producers Big Finish are celebrating with two boxsets. Forty was released in January and Forty 2 comes out today. Across three stories, featuring classic villains, Peter Davison’s Doctor spends … >
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 … >
This first volume of new original audio adventures focusing on the character of rebel leader Avalon signals a new chapter in Big Finish’s association with the universe of Blake’s 7. The sad death of Paul Darrow (Avon), following the passing of both Gareth Thomas (Blake) and Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan), meant it was no longer credible … >
This article contains spoilers for ‘The Lie of the Land’, and like ‘The Lie of the Land’ it contains a number of potentially good ideas, many of which will remain unexplored.
In another busy month from the Doctor Who audio producers, the main range brought the Seventh Doctor back to face the consequences of a previous adventure, while the third ‘Early Adventures’ season kicked off with a space-faring epic for the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara. The second volume of ‘Philip Hinchcliffe Presents’ tales saw … >
2001 was an exciting year for fans of Big Finish and their ongoing series of Doctor Who audio adventures, thanks to the surprising but welcome return of Paul McGann to the role of the Eighth Doctor, last seen in 1996’s TV Movie. McGann’s return to the role on audio was monumental in keeping the series … >
To accompany the current season, BBC Books have provided another trio of adventures for the Twelfth Doctor. Loosely themed ‘The Glamour Chronicles’, each of the adventures deals involves an encounter with the Glamour, a mysterious and bewitching element which can take many forms. > Buy ‘Royal Blood’ on Amazon. > Buy ‘Deep Time’ on Amazon. … >
Each of the Doctors each received an outing with 2013’s 50th Anniversary collection of Doctor Who reprints, so this year it is the turn of his foes. Casting the net wider than before, this collection holds examples from both the Virgin Publishing’s ‘New Adventures’ and ‘Missing Adventures’ ranges from the early 1990s, as well as … >
From director Cameron K McEwan (aka Blogtor Who), Who’s Changing is a crowd-funded documentary which endeavours to look at how Doctor Who’s fanbase has changed over the years.
To celebrate Capital City Entertainment’s release of Who’s Changing: An Adventure In Time With Fans – a new documentary about Doctor Who fandom – on Monday 27 January, we’ve got copies of the book to give away to 3 of our Twitter followers!