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Month: January 2015

Doctor Who star William Hartnell’s Desert Island Discs recording found by the BBC

Doctor Who star William Hartnell’s Desert Island Discs recording found by the BBC

The programme recorded by the first Time Lord reveals that the actor chose cigarettes as his luxury as the BBC announces it will be archiving new finds including the discovery of the choices by musician Louis Armstrong and actress Diana Rigg He was the first man to have the keys to the Tardis and now the BBC has managed to perform its own time-bending trick with the discovery of William Hartnell’s Desert Island Discs. The actor’s 1965 recording of the Radio 4…

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Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #7

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #7

INTERGALACTIC WAR BRINGS THE LONDON SKIES TO A SHUDDERING HALT! The day after tomorrow – and the Vrezian Confederacy and the J’arrodic Federation have brought their ‘honorable’ air-war to Earth. They’re not here to invade, and they’re being exceptionally considerate about collateral damage, all things considered. But human air travel is at a standstill, our culture is collapsing, the skies are clogged with toxic smog… And UNIT can’t do a thing, as the aliens vaporize the weapons stockpile of any…

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Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #4

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #4

FOUR-ARMED IS FOREWARNED! Past, present and future collide, as the Doctor, Clara and their Indian allies struggle to unravel a mystery that has been millennia in the planning! What secrets are hidden by the Scindia family, a dynasty whose powerful roots trace back over a thousand years? What strange genetic modifications fuel the death cult of the Thuggee? And how does a humble Mumbai pickpocket figure into these world-changing events? As each Thuggee sacrifice comes closer to waking the ancient…

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Doctor Who: Mistfall Podcast now available

Doctor Who: Mistfall Podcast now available

Our first Doctor Who – Main Range release this year was Doctor Who – Mistfall. A short podcast went up today taking you behind the scenes.. Anyone interested in how Big Finish’s latest Doctor Who main range story Doctor Who – Mistfall was made should check out today’s podcastLINK. This podcast is from the studio interviews which become both the on-disc extras and part of the longer and more detailedSubscriber exclusive downloadable extras. As well as the exclusive download, there are also four new Doctor Who –…

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Bernice Summerfield: The Triumph of Sutekh. Cover Online

Bernice Summerfield: The Triumph of Sutekh. Cover Online

The Tom Webster-designed cover of The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield – Volume 2: The Triumph of Sutekh is now online… As announced last week, June sees the next release of Bernice Summerfield’s adventures, with the highly awaited The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield – Volume 2: The Triumph of Sutekh. Today we’re delighted to put the new and approved cover, designed by Tom Webster, online. Bernice, The Doctor and Ace team up across four stories: 1) The Pyramid Of Sutekh…

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Gallifrey: Enemy Lines

Gallifrey: Enemy Lines

As exclusively announced as part of this weekend’s Big Finish Day convention, we’re very pleased to confirm plans for a new release in Big Finish’s popular Doctor Who spin-off drama – Gallifrey: Enemy Lines reuniting Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson as Romana and Leela! The producer of Gallifrey: Enemy Lines, Scott Handcock, tells us: ‘After concluding the storylines of the first six series, it looked like Gallifrey had concluded, so we’re very lucky to have been allowed to advance the story…

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Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Exxilons

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Exxilons

The first of the new series of Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures is released today as The Exxilons comes out on CD and Download! Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Exxilons is out today, kicking off a fresh run of eight stories starring Tom Baker, Louise Jameson and John Leeson: Planet E9874 supports a developing civilisation known as the Tarl. The peaceful, technologically advanced Locoyuns are helping the Tarl develop rudimentary technology. What could be more innocent…

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Doctor Who: Mistfall is released

Doctor Who: Mistfall is released

The first release in 2015 for our Doctor Who Main Range – Doctor Who – Mistfall – is out now! Doctor Who – Mistfall has been released today on Download, with CD purchases hurrying out of our warehouse as you read this. Join the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa on a brand new adventure written by Andrew Smith, and starring not only Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson and Sarah Sutton, but Jemma Redgrave from the recent Doctor Who series on TV!…

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6

When Gabby and the Doctor arrive by accident in No Man’s Land in July, 1916, they’re met by Corporal Jamie Colqhoun – a soldier who knows from bitter experience that there are worse things than the Jerries out in the rat-strewn trenches.   Things that drift through the smoke of a thousand cannon shells, and move only when you look away. Shadows that flit over artillery-blasted field hospitals and throw their terrifying wings over the living. Statues that steal your…

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Filming has begun in Cardiff for series 9 of Doctor Who

Filming has begun in Cardiff for series 9 of Doctor Who

Filming has begun in Cardiff for series 9 of Doctor Who and includes a star-studded guest cast. The new series will be back on BBC One in autumn 2015. The episodes currently being filmed are written by Toby Whithouse (The Game, Being Human), produced by Derek Ritchie and directed by Daniel O’Hara (Silent Witness 2015, The Game, Being Human). Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, says: “An amazing guest cast for a brilliantly creepy two-parter by Toby Whithouse. Peter…

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