Doctor Who missing adventure ‘The Faceless Ones’ to be animated in 2020

The Faceless Ones, the mostly-missing eighth serial from Season Four of Doctor Who, is the next story to have the missing episodes animated. With surviving audio and clips, animators have recreated the run which starred Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor, and portraying the companions, Michael Craze as Ben Jackson, Anneke Wills as Polly Wright … >

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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks vinyl soundtrack

The Evil of the Daleks, a classic seven-part ‘lost’ Doctor Who adventure starring Patrick Troughton will be released by Demon Music Group on July 12, 2019. In The Evil of the Daleks, starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, the Daleks lay a trap in Victorian England for their oldest enemy, the Doctor. In … >

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Doctor Who: The Year Of The Drex Olympics review

The April 2019 Doctor Who: Short Trips story from Big Finish is The Year Of The Drex Olympics by Paul Ebbs (who wrote some Bernice Summerfield stories for Big Finish back at the start of the century). The title is more than a nod to the classic Nigel Kneale play The Year Of The Sex … >

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Doctor Who lost episode The Macra Terror: animation coming soon

Four 25-minute missing episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Macra Terror, which were originally part of the mostly-lost fourth season, have been animated for the first time and will be released on DVD, blu-ray, special edition steelbook and digital download March 18, 2019. The original broadcast, starring Patrick Troughton, Anneke Wills, Michael Craze and Frazer Hines, … >

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Doctor Who The Companion Chronicles – The Second Doctor Volume 2 review

Now in the second year of its box-set format, The Companion Chronicles – partially narrated stories related by the Doctor’s fellow travellers – returns with four stories set in the Troughton era, and heralded by a rather wonderful video trailer. After the sad passing of Debbie Watling last year, the line-up of available companion actors … >

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Doctor Who Early Adventures: The Outliers review

The latest Doctor Who Early Adventures story from Big Finish is The Outliers, a second Doctor story with Frazer Hines voicing both the Doctor and Jamie, with Anneke Wills as Polly and Elliot Chapman as Ben Jackson. This set of actors is now well established as a group and it’s yet another polished performance, directed … >

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Why can’t modern ‘Doctor Who’ get male companions right?

When Doctor Who made its triumphant re-materialisation onto our television screens in 2005 it did so with a confident swagger, an accent on more rounded characters and a whole litany of strong female characters. While the classic series was forced to bat away regular cries of sexism, the likes of Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna … >

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Big Finish’s ‘Vienna’ Series 1 audio boxset review

Vienna Salvatori is the new girl on the Big Finish block. Spun out of an appearance in the Doctor Who main range, and after a successful solo release in February 2013’s ‘The Memory Box’, Vienna’s brand of high concept, sassy sci-fi adventure has earned her a three-part series. Chase Masterson, better known to CultBox readers … >

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