The Zygons are coming for the Earth with a 100 year plan. While only appearing in one Tom Baker story, the fantastically designed Zygons made a lasting impact on Doctor Who. So much that they returned for the show’s 50th Anniversary special – apparently because they are David Tennant’s favourite monster! While the shape changers … >
The Doctor, Lady Audacity Montague and Charley Pollard continue their travels in three new adventures. Matthew Jacobs was the writer tasked with reviving Doctor Who back in mid-90s. While the TV Movie he penned failed to launch a new series, it did give us Paul McGann who has become a stalwart of the Doctor’s audio … >
The Doctor and Jo Jones face the original Cybermen from the doomed planet of Mondas. Pitting the Third Doctor against the Cybermen is always something special, as we didn’t see them during Pertwee era. While it’s happened before on audio, ‘The Quintessence’ offers an intriguing new spin; rather than the robotic sounding creatures who evolved … >
The writer of the Doctor Who TV movie contributes a script to the upcoming audio box set Deadly Strangers. Matthew Jacobs’ connection to Doctor Who goes back to his childhood. His father Anthony Jacobs appeared opposite William Hartnell in ‘The Gunfighters’ and he has memories of a set visit. Fast-forwarding to 1996, with script credits … >
Doctor Who‘s shapeshifters are coming with a hundred-year plan to claim the Earth from humanity. Audio producers Big Finish have been doing a fine job of celebrating the golden anniversaries of the Whoniverse over the past few years. While the series itself turned fifty back in 2013, other elements of the show are naturally reaching … >
The next volume of Big Finish’s The Third Doctor Adventures will pit the Doctor and Jo Jones against the men from Mondas in ‘The Quintessence’. Famously, Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor didn’t encounter the Cybermen during his original television run. While that fact has been remedied a few times, in ‘The Five Doctors’ and on audio, … >
In his tenth box set on audio, Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor relishes his adventures as he endeavours to Travel in Hope. This trio of tales involves a haunted teleport relay, a spaceship depot murder mystery and the first steps of an old friend’s galactic career. Below There This story takes inspiration from Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signal-Man’, … >
Christopher Eccleston’s next box set of audio adventures promises an encounter with Alpha Centauri. Updated 03/08/23: The audio adventures of the Ninth Doctor continue today with three more stories, released under the title Travel in Hope. To celebrate its arrival, producers Big Finish have released another of their special video trailers. This one leans towards … >
Two Rivers and a Firewall sees Alex Kingston’s impressible time-travelling adventuress Professor River Song notch up her tenth solo boxset. Free of Doctorly encounters, she instead meets an impossible version of herself, wins an auction, accepts a shopping invitation and spends some time in her digital afterlife. The Two Rivers The set begins with River … >