When it was announced that Russell T Davies was set to return as the showrunner in 2023, one interesting thing that came out of all the interviews he gave was how he believed that Doctor Who could match things like the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in terms of its multi-series/storytelling aspects. I have to agree: Doctor Who has so much rich mythology to be explored and so many great…

With sadness, we have to report that Stephen Critchlow has passed away at just 54. Stephen Critchlow had amassed quite a few roles in various theatre productions as well as performing in well over 200 roles with BBC Audio and had worked on dozens of Big Finish productions. Born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on the 16th November 1966, he trained as an actor at Mountview Drama School in London…

The first episode of Big Finish’s popular Gallifrey series is available to download – completely free, for one week only!

Gallifrey: Weapon of Choice is written by Alan Barnes and stars Lalla Ward, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, and Lynda Bellingham as President Romana, Leela, K9, and Inquisitor Darkel respectively.

In recent months, Big Finish has released a selection of giveaways,…

Shafts of orange sunlight from the dying day cut through the chamber to strike the fan vaulting at the top of the pillars. The pillars themselves plunged impossible distances to the assembly chamber beneath, so far below that it was night there already and the traditional candles had been lit.

The young Time Lord Registrar listened with keen interest as The Recorder, one of the most…

Richard Armitage is to join the Doctor Who universe, playing Rassilon, Lord President of the Time Lords, in the last Gallfrey: Time War set from Big Finish.

The Time Lords and the Daleks have opposed one another across millennia. But now, as their conflict tips into an all-out Time War, nowhere across the universe of space-time is safe.

You’ll recognise Armitage for appearing in a number of…

The Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey. High-collared curmudgeons who pledged to do nothing more than observe other, lower races, looking down upon them and mostly wagging their fingers. No one ever dared leave this domed cradle of civilisation until one day when this one troublesome sort had the audacity to do something that no onehad ever done. He and his granddaughter stole a TARDIS and ran…

A new range of high-quality Doctor Who bags materialises today with the TARDIS Laptop Bag, officially licensed by the BBC. In an eye-catching blue, emblazoned with the Doctor Who logo, the bag utilises Time Lord technology: all you need to do is expand it using the side-poppers, and your bag becomes bigger on the inside!

A soft shell and padded insides keep your valuables safe, while an…

Two Masters meet last this year – as Sir Derek Jacobi’s War Master battles it out against Mark Gatiss’ Unbound incarnation of the renegade Time Lord. Because sometimes, it takes a Master to defeat a Master…

Attention people of the universe! In the final chapter of Big Finish’s War Master saga, the Master (played by Derek Jacobi), unleashes his most audacious plot yet – as leader of the Daleks.

Big Finish has announced a warehouse clearance – giving fans one last opportunity to get some titles on CD. Stories included in the sale include adventures from the worlds of Blake’s 7, Pathfinder, Graceless, Sherlock Holmes, Dark Shadows, Dorian Gray – and more – all at bargain prices.

Beware: once the CDs are gone, they’re gone, and will only be available on download afterwards.

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Big Finish’s celebration of the women of Doctor Who is now available on general release, bringing together some of the strongest female characters from the Who universe including Madame Vastra, Leela, Kate Stewart, River Song, and Professor Bernice Summerfield. Here’s what the Doctor Who Companion thought of the special occasion.

By Lisa McMullin.

River Song (Alex Kingston)…

Big Finish’s successful Gallifrey spin-off returns in early 2020 – taking us back into the Timer War! The new boxset stars Lalla Ward and Seán Carlsen as Romana and Narvin across four stories set during the Daleks’ assault on the Doctor’s home planet.

Lalla Ward and Seán Carlsen return to the greatest fight in the cosmos in Volume Three of Gallifrey: Time War, coming out in February 2020.  

Big Finish celebrates 20 years of creating original Doctor Who audios in 2019 with The Legacy of Time – the biggest audio crossover event ever! Six hour-long stories see characters from the entire history of Doctor Who crossing paths, some for the very first time. Classic and New Series Doctor Who will collide!

Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) meets her predecessor, another time-travelling…

Of all the casting coups that Big Finish Productions have managed over the years, having the late Sir John Hurt reprise his role as the War Doctor is doubtless one of the most impressive.

Created as a one-off character for The Day of the Doctor, to represent an amalgam of Doctors past, there was no real fan expectation that the renowned actor would wish to revisit to the role and so his return…

As the enjoyable-for-the-most-part Fourth Doctor Adventures Series Six draws to an end we are left with one final tale. A tale of a backwater planet whose inhabitants hold one of the many lost secrets that Gallifrey keeps quiet. It is a tale of lies and deception. It is a tale that appears to be more than what it seems, but knowing Doctor Who and how it usually works it probably isn’t. Ladies and…

As with previous two-part finales, World Enough and Time holds much back – we only get the briefest glimpse of John Simm’s Master out of his ridiculous, if quite effective, costume nor do we get the sense of how his and Missy’s relationship will ultimately play out; there’s just one shot of the much-heralded return of the Mondasian Cybermen but considering it hosts what remains of Bill Potts that…

A lost Doctor Who story from one of the shows greatest writers is brought back to life next year with the publication of a long-lost Douglas Adams story, Doctor Who and The Krikkitmen – featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana. The novel, which is based on a recently discovered treatment and extensive notes found in the Douglas Adams archive in Cambridge and written by James Goss (City of Death),…

Hello old friend, and here we are; you and me, on the last page. This, sadly, is the final part of the A-Z of Matt Smith’s first Doctor Who Experience visit – a time capsule, if you will, that peers back through the vortex to October 2012. It’s been a trip through Cardiff in no less than five TARDISes. It also features the phrase, “I feel like Dexter.” For those who have followed us on this…