This summer, the Seventh Doctor and Ace find an old friend returning to the TARDIS. Melanie Bush is back in action in the next Doctor Who Main Range trilogy!

Reunited for the first-time since 1987’s Dragonfire, Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford and Sophie Aldred return to the Vortex in a new trilogy of Doctor Who Main Range adventures, beginning in July 2016.

‘I’ve loved teaming the Seventh Doctor up with both Mel and Ace,’ says script editor Alan Barnes. ‘I thought they were a companion combination with a huge amount of untapped potential – earnest, perky Mel makes for a fantastic contrast with untamed, sarky Ace. And with the conclusion of our Hex saga, it seemed an opportune moment to look in on Mel, and find out what she’s been up to since leaving the TARDIS. Quite a lot, as it turns out!’

‘Mel is this supposed calm voice of reason and Ace is the adventurer but actually that flips quite often and they give each other support in their weaker areas at different times when they need it most,’ says Bonnie. ‘There doesn’t seem to be any rivalry – it’s a team effort. They both have the same purpose in mind which is to support the Doctor and make sure that good triumphs over evil.’

‘And there’s a real fondness there,’ adds Sophie. ‘Ace is still calling Mel “doughnut”, for example!’

The trilogy’s first instalment is Doctor Who: A Life of Crime by Matt Fitton, released in July.

‘It finds an on-the-run Mel pitching up on the paradise planet Ricosta – a sort of space Costa del Crime for lowlifes seeking to retire with the proceeds of their illegal activities,’ says Alan. ‘But when she runs into the Doctor and Ace, will they even recognise her as the Mel they once knew…?’

August’s Doctor Who: Fiesta of the Damned is written by Guy Adams, making his debut on the Doctor Who Monthly Range.

‘It’s a horror-adventure story in which the TARDIS lands in 1938, slap-bang in the middle of the Spanish Civil War,’ explains Alan.

‘There’s always a tragic element to historical war stories,’ says Guy, ‘that crushing awareness we the audience have, knowing where events will lead. We’re all time travellers when experiencing historical stories, we know the future.

‘Not that Fiesta of the Damned is a straight historical of course. There were countless horrors in the Spanish Civil War but they didn’t include alien machinery and legendary chimera wandering the streets of a remote Spanish village.’

Matthew J Elliot provides September’s Doctor Who: Maker of Demons, after helping to set up the trilogy in Dead to the World, part of Doctor Who: You Are the Doctor and Other Stories.

‘It takes the three of them to another conflict,’ says Alan, ‘this time on the tempestuous planet Prosper – where the Doctor and Mel are forced to face up to the consequences of one of their former adventures.’

Each of these new double-disc titles are available to pre-order for just £14.99 on CD or £12.99 to download. For extra savings, you can subscribe to the Main Range in either six or twelve month subscriptions.

Subscribers can enjoy a range of bonuses, including exclusive extras from behind-the-scenes, special Short Trip releases and much more! Click here for more details.

The Master is on the loose in Victorian London – can Jago, Litefoot and the Sixth Doctor save the city? The next release in our classic Doctor Who spin-off series is available now!

Henry Gordon Jago (Christopher Benjamin) and Professor George Litefoot (Trevor Baxter) are Victorian London’s resident Infernal Investigators. Since meeting each other in Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, they’ve defended the British Empire from the paranormal and the alien, with the help of loyal barmaid Ellie Higson (Lisa Bowerman) and the dashing Inspector Quick (Conrad Asquith).

After the curious events of Jago & Litefoot: Series 10, a cloaked killer is stalking the streets; one who will do anything to survive! The Master (Geoffrey Beevers) is on the loose, and it will take all of our heroes’ expertise to thwart his insidious plans. Can the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) offer his assistance?

11.1. Jago and Son by Nigel Fairs

With missing persons, dead bodies and a Satanist cult to deal with, both Litefoot and Jago need help. Professor Litefoot finds himself working with Jean Bazemore, an old archaeologist friend. Jago, however, finds he is assisted by someone he never even knew existed – his own son. Or is he? Can Jago be sure of anything?

But there is more to events than the detectives know. An alien menace is stirring underground. Once again, Jago and Litefoot find themselves fighting for their lives…

11.2. Maurice by Matthew Sweet

As he tightens his grip on Inspector Quick, the Master becomes interested in the young composer Maurice Ravel. For his part, Ravel befriends Professor Litefoot. But is anyone truly who they seem or able to control their own destiny and actions?

When Litefoot goes missing, it’s up to Jago to investigate. But the Professor finds himself in a nightmare landscape where reality and fiction seem to have merged. Will he ever manage to escape? And if the real Maurice Ravel is trapped with Litefoot, who exactly is walking the streets of London?

11.3. The Woman in White by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris

The great actor Henry Irving is not as great as he once was. In fact, he’s awful – a shadow of his former self. Worried that something may be terribly wrong, Irving’s assistant Bram Stoker enlists the help of an old friend – Henry Gordon Jago.

With Irving’s state deteriorating, Professor Litefoot also faces a challenge. He performs an autopsy on a man who has had all his bodily fluids drained from him. Can the detectives discover the connection between the great actor and the mysterious dehydrated corpse? And how does it relate to the Woman in White who supposedly haunts Irving’s theatre?

11.4. Masterpiece by Justin Richards

The Master’s plan is nearing completion – and he is sure that Jago and Litefoot will help him bring it to fruition. With Inspector Quick increasingly under the Master’s influence, the Infernal Investigators find themselves tired and fatigued, as if their very life force is being drained away…

With the help of Ellie together with stage hypnotist Madame Sosostris and her assistant Mr Nocturne, Jago and Litefoot finally track down the Master. But as they make their way towards his lair, the Time Lord’s true scheme is revealed.

Big Finish proudly presents Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Conrad Asquith, Geoffrey Beevers, James Joyce, Rowena Cooper, Andy McKeane, Jonathan Forbes, Edward de Souza, Robbie Stevens, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Rachel Atkins and Colin Baker in Jago & Litefoot: Series 11, a five-disc box-set available to download today, exclusively from the Big Finish website.

 

Please note that due to an unexpected delay in manufacturing, we anticipate that CD copies of Jago & Litefoot: Series 11 will not be dispatched from the Big Finish warehouse until next week. In the meantime, the digital files for this release are now available to download for everyone who has ordered the CD version. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Explore our entire collection of Jago & Litefoot audios today on our range page here. Ten previous box-sets are already available, with Series 12 now available to pre-order. Also featured are a number of special releases, including Jago & Litefoot & Strax; an investigative team-up with the Paternoster Gang’s loyal butler Strax the Sontaran (Dan Starkey). As with the majority of Big Finish releases, CD orders also contain a complimentary digital copy – so you don’t need to wait to enjoy your latest purchase!

Jago & Litefoot: Series 11 is available now from the Big Finish website. It will be released through other retailers on May 31st 2016.

The Two Masters Trilogy continues! The battle reaches a familiar location in this new release starring Colin Baker and Alex Macqueen!

The Doctor Who Main Range brings you a new full-cast adventure every month, starring one of the original actors to play the Doctor on television! Featuring fantastic new creations or the best-loved monsters from the past of the series, these stories are perfect for Doctor Who fans young and old.

Our 212th Main Range release continues this summer’s biggest blockbuster event! Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor and Alex Macqueen’s Master face off in Doctor Who: Vampire of the Mind, the second instalment of the Two Masters trilogy (which began last month with Doctor Who: And You Will Obey Me).

Somewhere off the South Coast of England, there’s a lonely island. On that island stands a solitary castle, long since abandoned – haunted, they say. But the truth is, that castle houses something far worse than mere ghosts.

The castle is what lies at the end of a trail followed by the Doctor in search of several missing scientists – all of them connected to the top secret Dominus Institute and its elusive CEO, Sir Andrew Gobernar…

But the Doctor will soon discover that he’s the one being haunted, by a ghost from his past… or perhaps, his future.

Written by Justin Richards and starring Colin Baker, Alex Macqueen, John Standing, Kate Kennedy, Neil Edmond, Catriona Knox and Elliot Levey, Doctor Who: Vampire of the Mind is available to buy on CD and download now.

You can subscribe to the Doctor Who Main Range today in either six or twelve month periods with both CD and download options available. CD orders also contain a complimentary digital download; allowing you to enjoy our new stories as soon as they’re released on the Big Finish website!

Next month: Time Lords join forces at the end of everything! New friends, old enemies, interstellar wars and an ancient conspiracy that will change history as we know it! Sylvester McCoy, Geoffrey Beevers and Alex Macqueen star in Doctor Who: The Two Masters.

With weather this hot, the TARDIS makes an emergency trip to the seaside! But it’s not just the ice cream that’s melting, as the Fourth Doctor Adventures continue…

After dealing with a temporal war on Aoris, the Fourth Doctor and Romana enjoy a much needed holiday today in Doctor Who: Gallery of Ghouls, starring Tom Baker and Lalla

When the TARDIS lands in Brighton the Doctor and Romana have the chance to spend some time at the seaside. But with it being too early for the opening of the Pavilion, they have to look elsewhere for their entertainment – perhaps Madame Tissot’s travelling waxworks, recently arrived in town?

But they’re not the only ones interested in her Exposition. When an unusual thief commits an unusual theft, the time travellers are on the case.

What exactly is the sinister secret of Goole’s Gallery? Is Tissot’s heading for a meltdown? And what does it all have to do with the head of Marie Antoinette?

Written by Alan Barnes and starring Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Celia Imrie, Nickolas Graceand Stephen Critchlow, Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Gallery of Ghouls is available to buy and download today.

Don’t forget that as with the majority of Big Finish releases, CD orders for this title also give access to a complimentary digital copy of the release: so you don’t have to wait to enjoy the story!

You can subscribe to the whole of the Fourth Doctor Series Five today to enjoy additional savings, with 2017’s Series Six also available to pre-order.

Next month, the Doctor and Romana are recruited for the most daring raid history has ever seen; if history survives that is! Ray Brooks is Gallifrey’s most wanted cockney in Doctor Who: The Trouble With Drax!

This Autumn, the War Doctor faces Sontarans, an invasion of Earth and the Dalek Time Strategist! The Time War continues…

John Hurt returns as the War Doctor in September 2016, in three full cast audio plays from Big Finish productions. Doctor Who – The War Doctor 3: Agents of Chaos is the third volume in the ongoing saga, in which the War Doctor and Cardinal Ollistra (Jacqueline Pearce) are thrown deeper into the Time War.

The set opens with The Shadow Vortex by David Llewellyn, in which the Time Lords have detected that their quantum shield protecting Earth has been breached by the Daleks, and the War Doctor is sent to Berlin 1961, at the height of the Cold War, to investigate. There he finds that the Daleks have their own agent on the scene… That agent is played by Neve McIntosh, best known to Doctor Who fans as Madame Vastra of the Paternoster Gang, while the cast also includes Honeysuckle Weeks as Heleyna.

‘I was given a very open brief: Send the War Doctor to Earth,’ says David. ‘So then I started thinking, “Where on Earth (literally) can I picture the War Doctor?” and the first image that came to mind was Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in the early ’60s – checkpoints in place, the boundary between East and West. Time War meets Cold War. Then I pictured a Dalek saucer landing right in front of it. Then I pictured the skies above Berlin swarming with Daleks. Then I got really, really excited and I started to write.’

In The Eternity Cage by Andrew Smith, the Sontarans continue their campaign to join the Time War – while the Time Lords and the Daleks refuse to allow them to join in. This may change, however, when the Sontarans score a victory over both sides…

The story will be Andrew’s second set in Time War after the upcoming release of The Sontaran Ordeal in Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume 1.

Dan Starkey (also known for playing the Paternoster Gang’s butler Strax) is the Sontarans, while Josh Bolt (Last Tango in Halifax, Benidorm) plays Kalan.

‘I was asked to write a story taking for its inspiration Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare,’ says Andrew. ‘So we have an apparently impenetrable fortress on a mountaintop, and the Doctor leading an elite group on a rescue mission. But instead of the German army trying to stop them, it’s Sontarans! With the Daleks not far away either.’

The fate of Gallifrey hangs in the balance in Eye of Harmony by Ken Bentley, in which the Daleks gain the upper hand, while the Doctor and his allies fight to stay alive against all odds.

‘I grew up watching war films,’ says Ken. ‘They were a staple of weekend viewing when I was a boy, so it was great to have the opportunity to explore the genre in Doctor Who, where we generally avoid anything too dark. But even more exciting is the fact that I’ve written a play for John Hurt. JOHN HURT!! If you’d told me that might happen when I first started working for Big Finish I wouldn’t have believed you.’

The box-set also introduces a new player into the Time War – the Dalek Time Strategist, who is voiced, as with the Daleks, by Nicholas Briggs.

‘At the end of Dark Eyes, and the defeat of the Dalek Time Controller, it was hinted that a new ‘Time Strategist’ would be created in its wake…’ explains script editor Matt Fitton.

‘Daleks never go to war without a plan, and a Time War needs a special kind of planner, capable of viewing the field of conflict through four dimensions and beyond. This is the Dalek Time Strategist: a time-sensitive war-leader, utterly dedicated to achieving Dalek victory over the Time Lords by any means it can.’

You can pre-order Doctor Who – The War Doctor 3: Agents of Chaos today for just £20 from the Big Finish website. As with the majority of Big Finish titles, a complimentary digital copy is included with all CD orders – so you do need to wait to hear the next epic battle from the Time War!