2022 Scribe Awards – Big Finish dominate with their Doctor Who audios (updated)

All six nominations in the Audio Drama category are for Doctor Who titles.  Updated 24/07/22: Lizzie Hopley’s The Curse of Lady MacBeth has come out on top. From the field of six Big Finish stories, the Scribe Awards 2002 have crowned a historical tale for Christopher Eccleston as Best Audio Drama. Congratulations to @lizziehopley for … >

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The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games audio review

Michael Troughton inherits his father’s role as Big Finish enliven a niche of Doctor Who continuity. A greying Second Doctor working for the Time Lords with an older Jamie in tow? While fans delighted at Patrick Troughton’s return for ‘The Two Doctors’, building on his appearance in the show’s 20th Anniversary Special, it was a … >

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Catherine Tate and David Tennant Doctor Who 60th

Doctor Who 60th Anniversary – Tennant and Tate are returning

Ahead of filming, the BBC have announced David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s participation in the Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebrations.  It’s only been a week since we learned that Ncuti Gatwa will be the next Doctor. Now, the BBC have followed the news with the announcement that two of the show’s former stars are returning; … >

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Classic Doctors New Monsters – Big Finish announce two more volumes

There’s a fresh line-up of familiar foes with unexpected Doctors!  Across their wide output of Doctor Who audios, every classic series Doctor now has their own range at Big Finish. Either with the original actor or judiciously recast, each incarnation appears in full-cast drama boxsets. While they often encounter period-appropriate threats, it’s also immense fun … >

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Mind of the Hodiac – Doctor Who The Lost Stories audio review

Thanks to a lucky lockdown discovery Mind of the Hodiac, Russell T Davies’ earliest script for Doctor Who, gains a new life on audio.  Unearthed while he was preparing for one of the Doctor Who: Lockdown! live tweetalongs, Mind of the Hodiac was a speculative script for mid-1980s Doctor Who. Featuring Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor … >

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The First Doctor Adventures – The Outlaws audio review

Stephen Noonan makes his Big Finish debut as the First Doctor.  To begin a new era for the character, Big Finish have made the bold decision to cast a new First Doctor. Enter Stephen Noonan, character actor and former member of the RSC, to give his take on the wily, witty and wilful original occupant … >

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Henry Lincoln – Doctor Who writer, film-maker & historian 1930 – 2022

With his writing partner Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln introduced the Brigadier and the Yeti to Doctor Who.  Over the weekend, the sad news reached us that Henry Lincoln has died, aged 91. In the 1960s, he helped create one of Doctor Who‘s enduring allies: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. However, the following decade took his career in a … >

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Doctor Who actor Stewart Beven dies at age 73

Stewart Bevan, who played Professor Clifford Jones in the Doctor Who Season 10 television story The Green Death, has died at the age of 73. Bevan’s character, Professor Clifford Jones, was the love interest of companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) and the two character’s engagement was the impetus for Jo to end her adventures with … >

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Doctor Who – Big Finish casts another new First Doctor

Stephen Noonan is taking on the role first created by William Hartnell.  While we wait for news of Jodie Whittaker’s successor to be announced, presumably sometime prior to filming on Series 14, Big Finish have installed another First Doctor in the TARDIS. Over the past few years the company, makers of officially licensed audio dramas … >

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