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Doctor Who: Hooklight – Big Finish announce an epic Fifth Doctor tale (updated)

Told across two box sets, Hooklight stars the Season 19 TARDIS crew.  Updated 12/02/25: Hooklight first trailer! Ahead of its April launch, Big Finish have revealed our first glimpse of Hooklight, in an auditory sense that is. Launching in April 2025, writer Tim Foley’s twelve-part tale promises a great quest for the Fifth Doctor and his … >

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Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour - Wendy Padbury, Patrick Troughton & Frazer Hines

The CultBox Podcast Roundup – January 2025

Here’s our January 2025 Podcast Roundup – our favourites from the worlds of CultBox.  In no particular order, this month’s picks are… Something Who Episode 108: The War Games in Colour Editor Benjamin Cook and Lead Colourisation Artist Rich Tipple return to discuss ‘The War Games in Colour’. Talking to host Richard Smith, the pair … >

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Cyberman from Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (1966)

Genesis of the Cybermen – Big Finish announce Doctor Who Lost Story

The audio drama draws on the ideas of the Cybermen co-creator Gerry Davis.  The Fifth Doctor met the Cybermen on television in the fateful ‘Earthshock.’ However, before that storyline became a fixed point in Doctor Who history, an alternative idea explored the origins of the metal men from Mondas. While the Cybermen were first introduced in … >

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Doctor Who Magazine celebrates fifty years of the Fourth Doctor

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. … >

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Doctor Who Season 15: The Collection Blu-ray range

Doctor Who – The Collection – Season 15, featuring Tom Baker’s fourth season as the Fourth Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray in March 2024. The announcement is accompanied by a specially-shot trailer featuring Leela vs the Time War, written by series contributor Pete McTighe (Kerblam! and Praxeus) and featuring Louise Jameson’s … >

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Doctor Who novel Watchers by Matthew Waterhouse is released

The actor has penned a tale featuring Adric and the Fourth Doctor vs the Daleks.  Written and narrated by Matthew Waterhouse, Doctor Who: Watchers is the second ‘audio novel’ from Big Finish. These enhanced audio books aim to recreate the feel of the beloved Target novelisations of the 1970s and 80s. After the success of … >

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Doctor Who: Big Finish celebrate Forty years of the Fifth Doctor

It’s been four decades since Peter Davison visited Castrovalva. Never ones to miss a good anniversary, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish have released the first of two celebratory volumes to mark Peter Davison’s 40th anniversary as the Doctor. The actor, best known at the time for playing Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and … >

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The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Lost Resort and Other Stories review

The Lost Resort and Other Stories sees Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor reunited with his companions Nyssa, Tegan and Marc. Suffering a crisis of conscience, in the wake of Marc’s partial cyber-conversion, he temporarily abandoned them on a supposedly safe planet – eventually choosing to return after a series of solo adventures. This boxset, containing three … >

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The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 9 Volume 2 audio review

The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 9 Volume 2 continues Big Finish’s sojourn within the “E-Space Trilogy”. Set during Tom Baker’s final television season, two four-part stories feature companions Romana, Adric and K9. Returning to their own universe involves travelling through a CVE, a Charged Vacuum Emboitement, and the search for such a spatial anomaly is … >

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The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 9 Volume 1 audio review

The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 9 Volume 1 returns us to Tom Baker’s final season on-screen. Set during the “E-Space trilogy”, it reunites the Doctor with Romana II, Adric and K9 for the first time on audio. Notwithstanding some interesting stories, and our favourite version of Tom’s outfit, we find this era of Doctor Who hard work. … >

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