Charles Dickens’ classic tale of charity, forgiveness and redemption celebrates 180 years. Last year, one of our highlights was catching Colin Baker on stage as Sherlock Holmes. In the company of fellow Doctor Who thespian Terry Molloy, he starred as the Great Detective in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Now, we’re pleased to see that … >
The second season of Doctor Who starring William Hartnell is available for pre-order on Blu-ray. The release date for Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 2 Blu-ray, which consists of 37 episodes and many special features has not yet been announced. Billed as the biggest release yet, Season 2 is a limited edition nine-disc box … >
Galaxy 4, the mostly-missing serial starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, will be released as a fully-animated recreation in November. Only the third episode of the four-part adventure released in 1965, Air Lock, and clips from the first episode, Four Hundred Dawns, are known to exist. An animated recreation by Big Finish Creative is … >
The Secrets of Det-Sen brings the TARDIS to the Himalayas for a story with the First Doctor, Stephen and Dodo. Set some three hundred years earlier, it serves as a prologue to the Troughton-era story The Abominable Snowmen. The release makes for a Yeti-ful summer with The Web of Fear appearing on Blu-ray, its missing … >
A wide variety of actors from Doctor Who and its spin-off Class, along with Doctor voice impressionists, narrated Time and Doctors, a short unofficial, non-canonical Doctor Who ‘storybook’ audio story – about time, chaos and all those who go by the title of doctor. Recorded during lockdown, the confirmed contributors are: Colin Baker, David Bradley, … >
The mid-point of the tenth season of Doctor Who: Short Trips brought the first Doctor to 1850s Mesopotamia. Peter Purves narrates the action in Out of the Deep as Steven Taylor and the Doctor deal with ancient alien forces. Their cause is not helped by the arrival of an explorer and his daughter. Welcome to Eridu … >
A one-day Doctor Who entertainment event will take place in London to raise funds for victims of the Australian wildfires. The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London – one of London’s most iconic LGBT+ venues – will host G’Day of the Doctor on Saturday, May 9, 1:00-6:00 p.m. Guests (subject to work commitments) include: Katy Manning, Nicola … >
‘Peace in Our Time’, the latest Big Finish Short Trip, features futuristic space pilot Steven Taylor and the First Doctor. We find the pair on the trail of stolen government papers in the early twentieth century. However, events are related through the eyes of a household maid. Ruby Watkins, an astute observer, has soon noticed … >
Daughter of the Gods is the second Doctor Who Early Adventures story Big Finish released in November 2019, along with The Home Guard. It’s packed with interest; we have the first and second Doctors meeting when they shouldn’t along with companions Zoe (Wendy Padbury), Jamie (Frazer Hines also voicing the second Doctor), Steven (Peter Purves also … >
The third volume in Big Finish’s Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles: The First Doctor brings four new, CD-length stories from the earlier era of the show. It’s been two years since the previous set for the first Doctor in this range and fifteen months since the second Doctor. There’s a theme running through the set: … >