The latest blending of Doctor Who eras brings us the Krillitaine, the Lupari and the Monks. Big Finish’s Classic Doctors New Monsters range returns for its fifth outing, providing more occasions for earlier Doctors to encounter creatures from the post-2005 series. In Faithful Friends, the genetic ability acquiring Krillitaine of ‘School Reunion’ return in two … >
The Doctor deals with the Krillitane and the Monks, and the Lupari have their day in Classic Doctors New Monsters 5: Faithful Friends audio box set. Doctor Who history is rife with occasions where we meet a new monster, yet the Doctor knows then of old. The Classic Doctors New Monsters range from Big Finish … >
Actor Tom Baker has been honoured by King Charles with a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award for services to television. The 90-year-old actor was chosen along with other recipients as part of the New Year Honours. Baker is best known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor … >
The Doctor Who audio producers have also released the winner of 2024’s Paul Spragg Memorial Script Opportunity. We’re still in the Christmas season but the universe of Doctor Who never rests. Onscreen, we’ve enjoyed The War Games in colour, 2024’s Doctor Who Prom and the Christmas Special ‘Joy to the World’. From the world of … >
Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross conclude their adventures with Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor. UNIT’s medic Harry Sullivan continues his time-travels, in the company of Naomi Cross – a fellow UNIT operative. Dominant Species is their third box set of tales, made up of a 2-part story on a ship crossing the Atlantic in WWI, and … >
The latest release in The Fourth Doctor Adventures range from Big Finish is Dominant Species. Tom Baker’s thirteenth audio series draws to a close with the Dominant Species box set, out today. The beloved long scarf wearing incarnation of the Doctor has been travelling with his old friend Harry Sullivan (Christopher Naylor) and a new one, … >
‘The Curse of Time’ will fit into Tom Baker’s celebrated first season. The indomitable Tom Baker first burst onto our screens as the Fourth Doctor in 1974. Across seven years he redefined the role, bringing an otherworldly charm to the Time Lord and creating an indelible mark on the series. While The Fourth Doctor Adventures … >
Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross enjoy three more adventures with the Tom Baker’s Doctor. Flexing the format a little, the latest Fourth Doctor audio boxset contains three 2-part adventures. The first brings the Doctor face to face with the Toymaker, albeit in a new different form. The second is a fantastical affair – a celebrity … >
The actor first played Sutekh in the 1975 Tom Baker classic ‘Pyramids of Mars’. Now, Gabriel Woolf has returned to bring Sutekh’s “gift of death to all humanity” and the BBC put some questions to him… How does it feel reviving Sutekh after nearly 50 years? It felt sort of inevitable in a way. I’d … >
Doctor Who Magazine celebrates fifty years of the Fourth Doctor with an 84-page special edition packed with all-new features, interviews, infographics and fiction. June marks the 50th anniversary of the Fourth Doctor’s first appearance. “Tom Baker made such an extraordinary impact that, to some people, he will always be the Doctor,” says editor Marcus Hearn. … >