Big Finish has treated Doctor Who fans to a feast of new releases this month. The Fourth Doctor Adventures 4.08: ‘Return to Telos’ Here we have the final release in this year’s Fourth Doctor Adventures. These star Tom Baker (of course) and also Louise Jameson as Leela. For most of the run they have … >
Doctor Who actor Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor, has given an update on the status of a possible sequel to The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. Written and directed by Davison, the half-hour spoof film debuted on the BBC Red Button service and iPlayer in November 2013 to celebrate Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary, starring Davison … >
Concluding this trilogy of post-Mindwarp adventures for Peri and the Sixth Doctor, we are on familiar ground again when poor Ms Brown finds her mind is not her own. Reeled in by the Rani, who tries to play on the Doctor’s vanity by organising for him to be awarded with an honorary degree, the TARDIS … >
With a wonderfully temporal twist at its heart, this is the second in a trilogy of post-Trial stories for Peri and the Sixth Doctor. Materialising in the Scottish Highlands of 2163, the time travellers discover they are on an Earth under the Dalek control – the very same regime which the First Doctor helped to … >
‘The Widow’s Assassin’ picks up on perhaps the most important story thread that television Doctor Who left dangling in the 1980s, namely the fate of Peri. While companions were rather more disposable than they are these days, her dramatic stunning exit at the end of ‘Mindwarp’ left the audience stunned. The victim of a brain … >
Doctor Who star Peter Davison has released some new cut scenes from last year’s 50th anniversary parody, ‘The Five(ish) Doctors’. Written and directed by Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), the half-hour film starred Davison alongside Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor) and Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor). A sequel is rumoured to be in … >
This month, the Doctor Who main range presents one of its occasional anthology releases, with four short stories starring Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant’s Peri. The first, ‘Breaking Bubbles’, finds the time travellers in a set of formal gardens much to the surprise of its sole resident. Safira Valtris is a deposed royal … >
Doctor Who actor Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor, has revealed the status of the sequel to last year’s The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot spoof. Written and directed by Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), the half-hour film debuted on the BBC Red Button service and iPlayer last November to celebrate Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary special, starring … >
Doctor Who‘s Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, performs the closing monologue from ‘The Day of the Doctor’ during his recent Q&A panel at Comicpalooza in Houston, TX…
Our favourite captions this week were: “The chances of Colin Baker or Paul McGann making a return to Doctor Who are said to be up in the air…” by Patrick McCafferty “Plans for Gravity 2 are shelved as Colin Baker fails to fit into Sandra Bullock’s costume.” by Annie Taylor “Its fun to be at … >