Michael Troughton, son of Patrick, has spoken about how it feels playing the titular Time Lord for Big Finish’s The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games, an audio tale set in the so-called “Season 6B”, i.e. after The War Games but before Spearhead from Space. It’s always a nerve-wracking experience, stepping into someone else’s shoes, but there must be extra pressure when the person you’re…

Following the huge success of the first boxset of The War Doctor Begins, Big Finish has revealed details of its follow-up, Warbringer, to be released in December 2021. The set features Jonathon Carley as the “hidden” incarnation of the Time Lord, who battled through the Time War. Warbringer tells the next chapter of the story, with the Doctor finding a new friend in street smart cyborg Case…

Discover the early days of the War Doctor with a brand-new audio boxset from Big Finish, which is out now. Released today, The War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire tells the tales of the first adventures of the Doctor’s disavowed alter ego, played by Big Finish newcomer Jonathon Carley. These three, brand new, full-cast audio dramas pick up immediately after the events of 2013’s The Night of the…

An epic beginning to an epic nine-episode serial, with David Tennant reprising the role of his iconic incarnation, Dalek Universe 1 is a Big Finish boxset like no other in the Tenth Doctor range: heavily arc-driven with plenty of tributes to the Classic era. Perfectly timed for the 15th anniversary of Series 2 premiering on BBC One. Oh yes! While the titular pepperpots barely make an appearance,…

The vibrant colours and absurd plots you would find the Fourth Doctor encountering in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly are the kind of tone that Big Finish’s The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook takes from and commits to at full pelt. It all starts with a biff in the time vortex between the TARDIS and another time machine, and leads to the Fourth Doctor and Leela landing in Normandy in the days before…

I think out of all the releases from Big Finish to come out last year, The Robots: Volume 1 was the most surprising. I will admit to being of those who looked at the announcement with a little incredulity. The Robots of Death is rightly one of those perfect Doctor Who stories; why mess with what it did?

But I was very pleased to find that The Robots Volume 1didn’t focus on the robots…

Big Finish has announced further details about next month’s The Robots: Volume 2, the spin-off sequel to the much-loved Fourth Doctor classic, The Robots of Death. The range finds Eighth Doctor companion, Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and her sister, Tula (Claire Rushbrook) adapting to life on Kaldor, a world in which artificial intelligence is advancing at an unprecedented rate.

Joining the…

The second volume of the full-cast audio drama sequel to Timeslip is now available – and co-stars Sarah Sutton (best known as Fifth Doctor companion, Nyssa)!

Timeslip, which saw a pair of youngsters venture through a time barrier into new and exciting adventures, debuted on ITV 50 years ago. This year, the series has returned, both in a repeat run of the original series via on demand TV…

At 10pm (BST) tonight, the first episode of the brand new Timeslip series from Big Finish will premiere as a livestream on YouTube, giving fans an exclusive chance to listen for free.

Throughout the YouTube premiere, listeners are invited to post their reactions on Twitter using the hashtag #Timeslip, where actor Spencer Banks (Simon), director Helen Goldwyn (@HelenGoldwyn), and writer Andrew…

Russell T. Davies, the former Doctor Who showrunner – and one of the most pivotal men in the series’ history – appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday. Naturally, he talked about Who, describing it as being his ‘whole life for five years’ and an institution that ‘earns a place in the national hearth.’ Russell even selected as one of his discs a series anthem: Neil Hannon singingM…

Regular Doctor Who Companion readers won’t be fooled by the title: it’s not my judgment of Doctor Who Season 18; nor is it a description of shaky sets, props, or K9. Nor is it about the relationship of characters on- or off-screen (though all these feature). ‘It All Falls Apart’ denotes the theme of Season 18: order tends towards chaos, the second law of thermodynamics; Entropy.

Indeed, cake…

The Daleks are back in the latest audio adventure from Big Finish – but do the Sixth Doctor and Peri dare stand up to their force after a successful invasion? And why are the Daleks using someone else as an emissary?

Here’s the synopsis for Emissary of the Daleks: 

On the planet Omnia, a young man leads the Doctor and Peri through the battle-scarred ruins of a city. Among the rubble he…

The cover, and brief plot details, have been unveiled for Adric’s first trip back in the TARDIS with the Fourth Doctor since Logopolis in 1981.

In case you haven’t heard, Matthew Waterhouse is returning once more to the role of Adric – but this time, alongside Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana II. And of course, they’ll be joined by John Leeson as K9!

The stories, which…

The Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, gets a new companion for the eighth series of his Big Finish adventures: WPC Ann Kelso, played by Jane Slavin!

The Syndicate Master Plan begins this month with The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 8: Volume 1, out now.

Baker and Slavin are joined by John Leeson as K9, Frank Skinner as DCI…

After hearing two disappointing releases in a row from the Sixth Doctor trilogy this year, any hope I had for Hour of the Cybermen was gone. I felt a bit let down. Not even the return of David Banks as the Cyber Leader made me think it would be good. I was sure it was going to disappoint, just like The Lure of the Nomad and Iron Bright (as sad as that is to admit).

Thankfully, however, I was…

Tom Baker will return as the Fourth Doctor in a host of new audio adventures from Big Finish.

In series nine of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, Tom Baker’s Doctor will be reunited with Time-Lady Romana II, played by Lalla Ward and joining them will be Adric, once again played by Matthew Waterhouse, in his adventure with Tom Baker since his regeneration in 1981.

Joining them will be John Leeson, who…