Doctor Who Magazine 629 contains special in-depth coverage of the two returned episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan including reactions from Doctor Who celebrities and creatives. The Daleks’ Master Plan coverage includes: • Peter Purves – alias First Doctor companion and space pilot Steven Taylor – shares his delight on seeing episodes he recorded over … >
Two Doctor Who episodes from 1965, thought to be lost forever, were found by a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers and vintage television enthusiasts. The recovered episodes represent the first missing Doctor Who material to be announced since 2013. Film is Fabulous! approached BBC Archives after finding the episodes in a private … >
Big Finish debut a new range of shorter narrated tales, with stories for the First and Third Doctors. In addition to their full-cast audio dramas, audio producers Big Finish launched their narrated Doctor Who Audio Novels back in 2021. We reviewed the first of these, Scourge of the Cybermen, as well as last year’s The … >
First Doctor adventure The Rescue will be available in a collectable vinyl audio adaptation for Record Store Day 2026. The narrated TV soundtrack of the 1965 serial is presented for the first time on 140g red translucent vinyl in an illustrated outer sleeve depicting the mysterious Koquillion, plus an illustrated inner sleeve which includes full … >
On 3 October 2025, the film preservation initiative known as Film is Fabulous! announced that they are registered as a charitable trust. Among FiF’s comments on the post was encouraging news that they are aware of several episodes of Doctor Who that are missing from the archive existing in private collections and that there might … >
Two new Doctor Who original BBC audio stories featuring the First and Second Doctors are set to be released in 2026. Doctor Who: The Mind Trap by John Peel An adventure featuring the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe set to be released on 1 January 2026. Doctor Who: Star Flight by Paul … >
British-born award-winning actress and writer Jean Marsh OBE, died Sunday 13 May at her home in London. She was 90. Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh Jean was born on 1 July 1934 in Stoke Newington, London, England. Marsh co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975) the notable British drama series about class in … >
A animated version of a First Doctor adventure and the farewell outing for companion Steven Taylor, The Savages, gets a home release in March 2025. The First Doctor story, a four-part adventure originally broadcast between May and June 1966, will be available on DVD and Blu-ray and as a limited edition Blu-ray steelbook. The Doctor … >
The First Doctor’s final adventure gets an exclusive audio vinyl release on Record Store Day, April 2025. The Tenth Planet, the Doctor Who story which introduced the iconic Cybermen, will be available for the first time on double vinyl from Demon Records. This narrated BBC soundtrack adventure, first broadcast in 1966, includes the show’s first … >
A 1966 lost Doctor Who adventure The Savages will be released as an animation on DVD, Blu-ray and limited-edition steelbook in spring 2025. The four-part First Doctor story was originally broadcast between May and June 1966. As the original master recordings are lost, due to the BBC’s historic policy of wiping content after transmission, BBC … >