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The Last Reviewed 27/10/04
Source:
The Last Big Finish have released October's Doctor Who story which is the second in the current 'season' of Eighth Doctor plays. Written by Gary Hopkins, the TCR review of The Last is now online.

Beware of spoilers!



Daphne Ashbrook in the UK DVD 27/10/04
Source: 10th Planet (With thanks to Paul Taylor)
Grace or Perfection?

Daphne Ashbrook in the UK
Coming to DVD in November from 10th Planet and Covert Productions is Daphne Ashbrook In The UK, following the star of the 1996 Doctor Who Television Movie and upcoming Big Finish Doctor Who adventure The Next Life as she toured this country.

Of particular interest is a behind-the-scenes feature on the upcoming The Next Life which reunites Ashbrook with her TVM co-star, the Eighth Doctor himself, Paul McGann, in the last story of the fourth 'season' of Eighth Doctor audio plays.

From the back cover:

When DOCTOR WHO returned in 1996 for a big budget TV Movie, actress DAPHNE ASHBROOK faced the challenge of reinterpreting the classic companion figure for a modern audience. As the quirky Grace Holloway, Daphne brought life to a memorable character and a controversial love interest for PAUL McGANN as the eighth Doctor.

In Summer 2004, Daphne crossed the Atlantic to make her first ever DOCTOR WHO personal appearances in the United Kingdom. This special documentary follows Daphne's entire visit, looking back at the world of DOCTOR WHO, and sharing her unique perspective on the show, past and present.

As well as following her public appearances, in a newly shot interview, Daphne offers an in-depth discussion of the making of the TV Movie, the character of Grace and that infamous kiss. Plus we go behind the scenes of Daphne's return to DOCTOR WHO in the Big Finish audio adventure THE NEXT LIFE. Along with insights from writers ALAN BARNES and GARY RUSSELL, the Doctor himself, PAUL McGANN, joins Daphne for an exclusive on-camera reunion.


Daphne Ashbrook In The UK will be released on November 14th 2004. Click the thumbnail to the left for a larger version of the cover to this DVD.



10th Planet Caerdroia Cover 16/10/04
Source: 10th Planet (With thanks to Paul Taylor)
Caerdroia Big Finish Productions and 10th Planet have teamed up to produce a special edition of November's Doctor Who CD Caerdroia to mark November's Dimensions convention.

The special edition CD features a unique alternative cover image and is produced in strictly limited numbers. It will be available to purchase for the first time at the convention and via mail order from 10th Planet while stocks last.

Caerdroia, written by Lloyd Rose, is released in November and stars Paul McGann as the Doctor. Click the thumbnail to the left for a larger image of the cover.



More Dalek covers... 16/10/04
Source: Big Finish
The Juggernauts Big Finish have released covers for the forthcoming Doctor Who adventure The Juggernauts featuring the Sixth Doctor, Mel, Davros, the Daleks and the Mechanoids (from 1964's The Chase) and also for The Future - the final part of Dalek Empire III.

The Juggernauts is designed by Lee Binding while The Future is designed by Clayton Hickman.
The Future



UNIT: The Series 01/10/04
Source: Big Finish
UNIT Big Finish have released further details on the forthcoming UNIT series. The four stories, to be released December to March, are:

1. Time Heals by Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett
2. Snake Head by Jonathan Clements
3. The Longest Night by Joseph Lidster
4. The Wasting by Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett

In addition to these, a prelude will be released free with a future issue of the Doctor Who Magazine, entitled The Coup and written by Simon Guerrier.



Her Final Flight... 26/09/04
Source: Big Finish
Her Final Flight Big Finish have announced that December will see the release of a free-to-subscribers play called Her Final Flight written by Julian Shortman. Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri, the blurb is:

When the Doctor lands on Refiloe, he's not impressed. In fact, he doesn't intend to stay for more than just a few minutes. But someone has decided that the TARDIS has made her final flight. Someone whose future depends on the Doctor's death.



See You In The Next Life... 29/08/04
Source: Big Finish
The Next Life Big Finish have released cast and story details for the final Eighth Doctor story of 2004, The Next Life by Alan Barnes and Gary Russell which is anticipated to resolve the divergent universe storyline. Joining Paul McGann, India Fisher and Conrad Westmaas will be Daphne Ashbrook (who stared with McGann in the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie), Paul Darrow of Blake's 7 fame and Don Warrington who will be reprising his role as Rassilon again.

The cover blurb is:

"All things must die."

Washed up on the sandy shores of a paradise island, a wild-eyed shipwreck survivor is rescued by the wife of Daqar Keep, the richest man in the galaxy.

Her name's Perfection. He's the Doctor. Together, they face a journey into the dark heart of this mysterious island, to discover the deepest secrets of this timeless cosmos. That's if the giant crabs, killer crocodiles and murderous natives don't get them first.

Meanwhile, fellow travellers Charley and C'rizz have their own ordeal to endure, in the grip of the Doctor's most dangerous rival. And in a universe that's facing extinction, even the best of friends may soon become enemies...

This life is almost over. And not everyone will make it to the next.

The Next Life will be released in December 2004.



Medicinal Purposes Reviewed 26/08/04
Source: Big Finish
Medicinal Purposes The Doctor Who release for August from Big Finish, Medicinal Purposes by Robert Ross has been released.

The tcr review for this adventure is now online - beware of potential spoilers!



New Stories Announced For 2005 26/08/04
Source: Doctor Who Magazine #347 & Big Finish
Doctor Who Magazine #347 Between them Big Finish and the Doctor Who Magazine have announced more details for 2005's Doctor Who audio schedule. While the update to the Big Finish site only listed titles, featured Doctor and month of release, the DWM update featured information on the writers for these stories but as there has been some title changes between the magazine and the website update, it cannot be taken for certain that all the following information, which is a synthesis of the two sources, is entirely correct:

BF list April's release as the Fifth Doctor story Three's A Crowd, which from the information in DWM may be written by Colin Brake, writer of BBC novels such as Escape Velocity and Colony Of Lies.

May's release according to Big Finish is Catch-1782, featuring the Sixth Doctor and may be written by Alison Lawson. DWM listed her as the writer of a Sixth Doctor story for this month called The Time Sprite.

June will see the release of the previously announced Dead Man's Hand by John Ostrander featuring the Seventh Doctor. This was originally scheduled for a September 2004 release until the fourth Eighth Doctor 'season' was brought forward.

Big Finish have also listed two new Eighth Doctor stories for release in July 2005, Terror Firma and Clockwerks, although as these titles were not listed in DWM there is no information on who is writing these at this time.

Scheduled for August 2005 is Fifth Doctor story The Council Of Nicea by Caroline Symcox who previously co-wrote 2002's Seasons Of Fear with new Doctor Who TV series writer Paul Cornell.



Caerdroia Cover 26/08/04
Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
Caerdroia Big Finish have released the cover to Lloyd Rose's forthcoming Eighth Doctor story Caerdroia, which is released in November 2004. It is once more designed by Steve Johnson.



Second Series For Gallifrey 25/07/04
Source: Doctor Who Magazine #346
Big Finish have announced through the July issue of the Doctor Who Magazine that there will be a second series of Gallifrey audio dramas released in the Spring of 2005. The five plays, which will all be directed again by Gary Russell, are:

1. Masques by Gary Russell (He Jests At Scars...)

2. Spirits by Stephen Cole (The Wormery)

3. Pandora by Justin Richards (The Time Of The Daleks)

4. Insurgency by Steve Lyons (The Fires Of Vulcan)

5. Imperiatrix by Stewart Sheargold (The Mirror Effect)

The belated TCR review of the final story of the first Gallifrey series, A Blind Eye, is now online - beware spoilers...



More On Latest McGann Season 18/07/04
Source: Big Finish
Faith Stealer

The Last

Big Finish continue to release more information on the forthcoming Eighth Doctor season of audios which will run from September to December this year. As well as Steve Johnson's new covers for the first two titles, teaser blurbs have been released for both Faith Stealer by Graham Duff and Caerdroia by Lloyd Rose.

Faith Stealer:

When the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz find their journey through the Interzone interrupted by a nightmarish vision, they are surprised to find the Kro'ka offering the perfect solution.

The Multihaven ­ a vast array of religions and faiths housed in one harmonious community ­ appears to offer the perfect sanctuary in which to convalesce. But under the guidance of the charismatic Laan Carder, one religion seems to be gathering disciples at an alarming rate.

With the Doctor and Charley catching glimpses of an old friend and C'rizz on the receiving end of some unorthodox religious practices, their belief, hope and faith are about to be tested to the limit.

It¹s time to see the light.


Caerdroia:

Self-exiled to a new universe, separated from his TARDIS, opposed and manipulated by the Divergence and their agent the Kro'ka, the Doctor has been struggling to work out the nature of the cosmic game in which he's an unwilling pawn. Now, at last, he has a chance to find the answer ­ and regain the TARDIS!

Threatened and desperate, the Kro'ka abandons his behind-the-scenes machinations to confront the Doctor directly. But will both of them lose their way in the maze of the strange world in which they find themselves? A world in which a clock may have a cuckoo but no hands, a labyrinth imprisoning a paradox, and a Garden of Curiosities reveals something the Doctor has never seen before.

As the Doctor faces these challenges, Charley and C'rizz provide valuable help. But with the TARDIS itself at stake, the Doctor reaches deep inside himself to find some surprising new allies...



Dalek Empire III Interview @ bbc.co.uk 13/07/04
Source: bbc.co.uk
Dalek Empire III The BBC Cult Doctor Who site has recently added an interview with Dalek Empire III maestro Nicholas Briggs in which he talks in detail about the inspiration behind the story, the process behind it and his thoughts on many aspects of the whole Dalek Empire range.

The interview can be found here.



Geoffrey Bayldon Is The Doctor ... Again! 05/07/04
Source: Big Finish
Geoffrey Bayldon Big Finish have announced that the special, double-disc Doctor Who Unbound release for November will be A Storm Of Angels by Marc Platt. Starring Geoffrey Bayldon as the Doctor with Carole Ann Ford again reprising her role as Susan, A Storm Of Angels is a sequel to the first Doctor Who Unbound story, Auld Mortality, which was also written by Platt.

The blurb for the story is:

What if... the Doctor really had changed History, even just the tiniest bit?

1480: Leonardo da Vinci visits the stars.
1508: Vasco da Gama sets foot on Mars.
1585: Francis Drake begins charting the Asteroid Belt.
1588: Earth is destroyed by a storm of angels.

The Doctor was really enjoying his freedom. But now there’s a Temporal Agent on his tail. Gloriana and the President of Gallifrey are not amused. And Susan’s none too well either.

Possibilities, like the Doctor, have a habit of running away with themselves. But who cares, when the jewels are so dazzling...



Faith Stealer; The Last Details 05/07/04
Source: Big Finish
Paul McGann Details of the first two releases in the next Eighth Doctor season have also been released. While no story details were released, cast details for August's story Faith Stealer by Grahahm Duff are now available while cast and story details of September's The Last by Gary Hopkins have been listed by Big Finish.

The blurb for The Last is:

Trapped on a dying world, the Doctor and Charley come face-to-face with those responsible for the war to end wars, while C'rizz tries to understand what has happened and learns the terrible truth.

Powerful forces are at work on Bortresoye that not even a nuclear holocaust can tame; natural forces that have excited the interest of Excelsior, the self-proclaimed saviour of her people.

With Charley immobilised and C'rizz left to battle against the elements with some of the victims of war, one final, desperate hope of escape presents itself to the travellers.

But who will be the last to leave the planet? Who will have to stay behind? And will the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz live long enough to find out?



Shada Returns To bbc.co.uk 09/06/04
Source: bbc.co.uk
Shada returns The online presentation of Big Finish's adaptation of Douglas Adams' unfilmed script Shada has been restored to the Cult pages of the bbc.co.uk's Doctor Who website. This version combines the soundtrack, featuring Paul McGann and an all star cast, with animation to create the webcast experience.

bbc.co.uk are putting each episode of the six back individually every Tuesday - the first of which can be accessed by visiting the site now.



Arrangements For War Reviewed 23/05/04
Source: Big Finish
Arrangements For War The second Doctor Who review of May is the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn story Arrangements For War by newcomer Paul Sutton.

The TCR Review is online and is likely to contain spoilers...



The Axis Of Insanity Reviewed 08/05/04
Source: Big Finish
The Axis Of Insanity Big Finish's latest release is the Fifth Doctor story The Axis Of Insanity by Simon Furman.

The TCR Review is online and is likely to contain spoilers...



Next McGann Season Announced 01/05/04
Source: DWM #343 and Big Finish
The Eighth Doctor returns earlier than expected... Big Finish have announced plans to bring forward the next season of Eighth Doctor plays featuring Paul McGann, due to the imminent arrival of the new television series starring Christopher Eccleston. This fourth season will be the last, concluding the divergent universe storyline, and with future 8th Doctor stories joining the other past Doctors in individual releases throughout the year.

The new season will now begin in September 2004, starting with Faith Stealers by Graham Duff who has written for Dr. Terrible's House Of Horrors and also featured in the sixth Doctor Who Unbound story Exile as Mr. Baggitt.

October will see the release of The Last, by Gary Hopkins, who has previously written for the series Dramarama, Erasmus Microman and ITV's Sherlock Holmes series.

Lloyd Rose, acclaimed writer of three BBC Doctor Who novels and episodes of Homicide: Life On The Street and Kingpin, will write the third release of the season Caerdroia, to be released in November.

The last story in the run will be released in December and is entitled The Next Life by Alan Barnes. DWM #343 gave the provisional title for this as Rassilon and confirmed this would a triple-cd release.

More information on these titles, including comments from producer Gary Russell, can be found on the BF site at: www.doctorwho.co.uk/news/news_040501_finalmcgannseason



Dalek Empire III Details 01/05/04
Source: Big Finish
The Exterminators Cast and story details have been released by Big Finish for the third series of Nicholas Briggs' epic Dalek Empire. To be released between May and October, the six titles are:

  • Dalek Empire III: Chapter 1 - The Exterminators

  • Dalek Empire III: Chapter 2 - The Healers

  • Dalek Empire III: Chapter 3 - The Survivors

  • Dalek Empire III: Chapter 4 - The Demons

  • Dalek Empire III: Chapter 5 - The Warriors

  • Dalek Empire III: Chapter 6 - The Future


  • The series will star David Tennant as Galanar, William Gaunt as Selestru with Ishia Bennison" as Frey Saxton.



    New Stories - Game Time, The Juggernauts 01/05/04
    Source: DWM #343 and Big Finish
    Davros returns! Big Finish have also announced the first titles for 2005. January will see the release of the Fifth Doctor story Game Time by Darin Henry, who has written for Seinfeld and Futurama. This will be also be a three-cd release.

    February 2005 will see the return of Davros, the Daleks and the Mechanoids (from the 1965 William Hartnell story The Chase) in a story entitled The Juggernauts by Scott Alan Woodard. The blurb for this release is:

    Within a small mining colony on the dark and distant planet of Lethe, events are occurring the results of which could dramatically affect things on a universal scale. For within the dingy corridors of the artificial biosphere, the lone survivor of a devastating crash has expertly wormed his way into the lives of the colony¹s personnel.

    A scientist known as Davros.

    Separated from one another across space and time, the Doctor and Mel find themselves in very different predicaments: Mel has been employed on Lethe, while the Doctor has been imprisoned aboard an alien spacecraft. Both situations are inexorably linked, however,and at the apex of the two sits Davros and the terrifying possibility of a new threat even more powerful than the Daleks!

    Rescuing Mel and stopping Davros should be the Doctor's primary goals, but could it be that this time, Mel does not wish to be rescued? And might Davros actually be working on something for the benefit of the civilised galaxies?


    March 2005 will see the release of the previously announced Dead Man's Hand featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex by John Ostrander. This was originally scheduled for September 2004, but was bumped back by by the decision to bring the next McGann season forward.



    The Harvest 09/04/04
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    The Harvest Details of the upcoming story The Harvest have been released by Big Finish. Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace, this first script from Dan Abnett introduces new companion Hex, played by former Brookside actor Philip Olivier.

    The story's blurb is:

    On the morning of October 12th, 2021 Hex woke up. He was expecting to go to work at St Gart's in London as normal and, that evening, have a great time in the bar of the White Rabbit, celebrating his 23rd birthday.

    But after his ex-flatmate is wheeled into A&E following a bike accident, and the strange young woman from Human Resources tries to chat him up and an eight-foot tall guy in a Merc tries to run him down, Hex realises things are not going quite as he expected.

    Then in a Shoreditch car park he meets the enigmatic Doctor who explains that he's an extra-terrestrial investigator and something very strange is going on up on the thirty-first floor of St Garts.

    Therefore, aided and abetted by the Doctor and his other new friend 'Just McShane', Hex decides to investigate. Trouble is, everything that goes on at the hospital is being observed and noted by the occupants of the thirty-first floor. Occupants who are none too pleased that people are poking their noses into business that doesn't concern them. Occupants who will go extraordinary lengths to ensure that no one discovers the truth.



    Medicinal Purposes 09/04/04
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    Medicinal Purposes Cast and story details for Medicinal Purposes, the August 2004 release featuring the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn by Robert Ross, have been released by the Big Finish website. Dealing with the infamous bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, Medicinal Purposes features respected actor Leslie Phillips as Doctor Robert Knox.

    The story's blurb is:

    Edinburgh, 1827.

    The infamous body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are at large. The local prostitutes dull their fear with cheap whisky. The graveyard owls are hooting. Business is good.

    When accidental tourists the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe stumble upon one of Britain's most lurid, illuminating chapters in history, a simple case of interest in the work of dedicated man of science Doctor Robert Knox, quickly turns sour.

    Just what is that time bending Scots mist? What ever it is may put the very fabric of the universe under threat.

    As always.



    Weapon Of Choice Reviewed 09/04/04
    Source:
    Weapon Of Choice The initial release in the Gallifrey spin-off series, Weapon Of Choice by Alan Barnes, has been released by Big Finish and its TCR review is now online.

    Beware of potential spoilers contained within.



    Gallifrey - Cast & Covers 11/03/03
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    1. Weapon Of Choice















    2. Square One






    3. The Inquiry





    4. A Blind Eye

    Big Finish have announced full story and cast details for their forthcoming Gallifrey series. Starring Lalla Ward as Romana, Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K9, these adventures will explore the society of the Doctor's homeworld...

    1. Weapon Of Choice by Alan Barnes will be released in March, and the blurb is:

    The Time Lords of Gallifrey were the first to map the Web of Time. Now, under the reforming gaze of President Romanadvoratrelundar, the oldest civilisation is ready to shed its monopoly, sharing its secrets with a coalition of the Temporal Powers the Monan Host, the Nekkistani and the Warpsmiths of Phaidon among them.

    But the coalition is a fragile one, and despised in some quarters. When a team of Time Technology Assessors makes a horrific discovery on the barren moon of Kikrit, it seems their enemies are arming themselves to strike at the alliance. Has a terrorist group really acquired a temporal weapon so terrible the Time Lords forgot about its existence?

    In search of the truth, Romana sends the woman called Leela and the robot dog K9 to the enclave of Gryben, a reception centre for temporal refugees. But the truth is war's first casualty and the fallout could destroy them all...


    2. Square One by Stephen Cole will be released in April:

    In a climate of unease and mistrust, the great time-travelling powers of the universe are holding an historic temporal summit. The meeting will take place on a planetoid impervious to outside attack or internal subversion in any way.

    But while President Romana walks a knife-sharp political tightrope into dangerous territory, Leela and K9 find themselves attending the summit in unexpected roles. They are hunting for evidence of Free Time activity, but find instead terrors of a different kind time and time again.

    What impossibilty stalks the planetoid? Who is manipulating time? Can Leela and Romana discover the truth or will they find themselves sent back to square one for all eternity?


    3. The Inquiry by Justin Richards will also, apparently, be released in April:

    President Romana has publically been called to account for her actions. But the only evidence that she has responded to a real and present danger has disappeared. To clear her good name she is dependent on the testimony of the very people who want to see her publicly humiliated and her power removed.

    While Leela tries to discover truths of her own, Romana is forced into an uneasy truce with her rivals at the CIA. But at least she can be sure the inquiry will be handled in a fair and proper manner. Or can she? When the investigation itself triggers danger and time is quite literally running out for all of Gallifrey's power and knowledge, just who can Romana trust?


    4. A Blind Eye, also by Barnes will conclude the series in May:

    Earth, September 1939. With Europe sliding into war, a young Englishwoman, her loyalties torn, comes to a terrible decision. But what does the intergalactic secrets broker Mephistopheles Arkadian want with the fascist sympathiser Cecilia 'Sissy' Pollard on the last day of her life?

    Still searching for the facts about the Gryben debacle, President Romana makes a deal with the devil. So begins a chain of consequence that can only end in tragedy for the passengers aboard the Vienna to Calais Transcontinental Express, the woman called Leela included.

    By journey's end, the truth will out but at what cost to Romana and Leela? To Gallifrey's empire, even?





    Arrangements For War 11/03/03
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    Arrangements For War Cast and story details for May's release Arrangements For War by Paul Sutton have been released. Joining Colin Baker and Maggie Stables is Gabriel Woolf, who previously starred in Doctor Who in 1975's Pyramids Of Mars as Sutekh - a story that has recently been released on DVD. The blurb for the story is:

    Onboard the TARDIS, nerves are strained.

    After escaping the Forge and the murderous clutches of Nimrod, the Doctor and Evelyn have things to talk about. The Doctor's attitude towards death is a subject that these days is too close to Evelyn's heart, and eventually she demands to be set down somewhere where she can be free of him for a while.

    And so they come to Világ, where the Doctor's meddling lands him in the middle of a truly dangerous liaison and Evelyn meets a man who wants to change the course of her life forever.

    Love is everywhere. But then war is too.

    Is it time for Evelyn to leave the Doctor? Or is the choice about to be taken out of her hands?

    And who is to say what is the beginning and what is the end of love?



    More On "Gallifrey" 04/03/04
    Source: Doctor Who Magazine #341
    Gallifrey The new Doctor Who Magazine reveals some of the casting information for the forthcoming Gallifrey series, coming soon from Big Finish. Joining Lalla Ward as Romana, Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K9 will be Miles Richardson as Cardinal Braxiatel - a part he also plays in the Professor Bernice Summerfield series - with Sean Carlsen (The Natural History Of Fear) as Coordinator Narvin and Andy Coleman (The Church And The Crown) as Commander Torvald.

    Also appearing are Hugo Myatt (Omega) as "an intergalactic 'Harry Lime'", Eighth Doctor companion actress India Fisher as Sissy Pollard with Lynda Bellingham reprising her role as Inquisitor Darkel from the 1986 story The Trial Of A Time Lord.



    New Stories - Medicinal Purposes, Dead Man's Hand 04/03/04
    Source: Doctor Who Magazine #341
    New stories announced in new DWM The latest issue of DWM also confirms Big Finish's Doctor Who releases for August and September. The former is entitled Medicinal Purposes and will feature the Sixth Doctor in a story written by Robert Ross. Producer Gary Russell says "It's set in Edinburgh during the nineteenth century and deals with the famous case of Burke and Hare..."

    September's release will be written by John Ostrander and is entitled Dead Man's Hand. Featuring the Seventh Doctor, this is "set in the gambling, gun-totin' world of the American Wild West."

    DWM 341 also confirms that Big Finish writers Paul Cornell, Mark Gatiss and Robert Shearman will be joining Steven Moffat as Russell T. Davies' writing team for the new television series of Doctor Who.



    New Story - The Roof Of The World 01/02/04
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    The Roof Of The World Big Finish have announced that July 2004's Doctor Who release will be The Roof Of The World by Adrian Rigelsford, the writer of the abandoned 30th anniversary special The Dark Dimension. The second story for the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem of the year will see them visiting Tibet. Guest starring Edward de Souza and William Franklyn. The blurb for the story is:

    Tibet. 1917.

    It's a time of great exploration, with intrepid teams of adventurers heading blindly into uncharted territory, determined to beat inexplicable odds and overcome any challenge they encounter.

    But some things are not necessarily that easy to defeat.

    An ancient evil, perhaps older than time itself, is stirring deep within the heart of the Himalayas. It has always known it will return and finish off what it started so many centuries before.

    But the time has to be right.

    As the TARDIS materialises, with the Doctor determined to take full advantage of an invite to a cricket match, the catalyst that the dark forces need unwittingly arrives.



    More Story Details Revealed 01/02/04
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    The Twilight Kingdom
    The Axis Of Insanity
    Story details of the final story in the current Eighth Doctor season have been released by Big Finish. The blurb for Will Shindler's The Twilight Kingdom, which features Michael Keating as Koth, is:

    The blood of innocents has been spilt ­ a terrible sequence of events has been set in motion. The forces of darkness are on the move.

    Deep underground, an army of light prepares itself for the oncoming war.

    The Doctor's used to winning. Stumbling in, reading the face of the enemy, and then beating the odds but what if this time he's got it wrong? Charley and C'rizz think he has.

    Stripped of all that is familiar, just who is the Doctor? Major Koth thinks he knows.

    Lost among the dark caverns of an unknown world, has the Doctor finally met his match?


    The Twilight Kingdom is released in March.


    Big Finish have also revealed cast and story details for April's The Axis Of Insanity. Starring Peter Davison as the Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri and Caroline Morris as Erimem, it is written by Simon Furman and features guest stars Roy North, Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross.
    The blurb for the story is:

    What is... the Axis?

    For The Doctor and his travelling companions, Peri and Erimem, it's a twisted playground, where reality, morality and sanity no longer apply. Stranded within a dimensional nexus, beset by the molten fury of the Firedbreed, they must unwrap a terrifying mystery of damaged timelines and dark science... before the corruption of the Axis spreads and reality itself crumbles.

    Pitted against a warped and deadly mind, The Doctor faces his own past transgressions, and the very nature of what it is to be a Time Lord.





    The Natural History Of Fear 13/01/04
    Source: Big Finish (With thanks to John Ainsworth)
    The Natural History Of Fear Steve Johnson's cover to the forthcoming The Natural History Of Fear by Jim Mortimore has been released by Big Finish, as well as the intriguing blurb for the story:

    IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE TO COPY OR ATTEMPT TO COPY ANY PERSONALITY OR MEMORY-RELATED ARTICLE SHOWN OR DISPLAYED IN THIS PUBLIC THEATRE, INCLUDING THIS WARNING. PUNISHMENT OR CONVICTION IS AN UNLIMITED REDUCTION OF AUTHORISED OVERTIME HOURS AND TOTAL PERSONALITY REVISION. YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO BRING ANY JUKEBOX OR RECORDING EQUIPMENT INTO THIS PUBLIC THEATRE. THIS WILL BE TREATED AS AN ATTEMPT TO BREACH COPYRIGHT. ANY PERSON DOING SO CAN BE EJECTED AND THE EDITOR MAY CONFISCATE SUCH ARTICLES. WE ASK THE PUBLIC TO BE VIGILANT AGAINST ANY SUCH ACTIVITY AND REPORT ANY MATTERS AROUSING SUSPICION TO THEIR LOCAL CONSCIENCE. THANK YOU.

    Public Warning
    Faction Against Character Theft


    A second trailer for the story has been added to the Big Finish site and can be found at www.doctorwho.co.uk/drwho/bf054_naturalhistoryoffear



    New DWM - New Stories, New Companion 07/01/04
    Source: Doctor Who Magazine #339 & BBCi
    Doctor Who Magazine The latest issue of the Doctor Who Magazine has revealed three new Doctor Who audio plays for 2004 from Big Finish.

    April 2004 will see the return of the Fifth Doctor in Axis Of Insanity by Simon Furman, who has written many Transformers comic strips, as well as several for DWM during the late 80's. Producer Gary Russell says it is "set at the Nexus of all realities, where things may not be exactly as they seem..."

    May's story features the Sixth Doctor in Arrangements For War by Paul Sutton. It is described by Gary Russell as "something akin to a Mills and Boon story set on an alien planet..."

    In June 2004, Harvest by Dan Abnett will be released. This Seventh Doctor story will see the introduction of new companion Hex who is to be played by former Brookside actor Philip Olivier, who joins the TARDIS team after meeting 'Dorothy McShane' and following her home. For some more comments on the new line up of the Doctor, Ace and Hex, BBCi have posted a news story on this.

     
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