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The Ninth Doctor vs the Cybermen!

The Ninth Doctor vs the Cybermen!

The Ninth Doctor vs the Cybermen!

Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor will encounter some old friends and foes in the forthcoming volumes of Big Finish’s Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures.

Following the exclusive premiere of the first trailer of the series (see below), today we can reveal that the Ninth Doctor will soon face off against one of his greatest enemies – the terrifying Cybermen, as voiced by Nicholas Briggs.

The final episode of volume three, due for release in November 2021, features one of the menacing Mondasian monsters on the set of Fritz Lang’s celebrated 1927 motion picture, Metropolis.

Writer John Dorney said: “I know everyone was very keen for the Ninth Doctor to have an encounter with the Cybermen, and as they were the only Doctor and monster I hadn’t written for at Big Finish, I was very keen to be the one to write it! It was a real honour getting to script their meeting… particularly as it gave me the chance to dive into my love for the movies and write a bit of a celebrity historical.”

Then, in volume four, due for release in February 2022, the Doctor is reunited with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, as played by Jon Culshaw, in an adventure that takes the Time Lord to the Firth of Forth.

Writer Roy Gill said: “The Brigadier is an iconic character from the Classic Series, whereas the Ninth Doctor arrives at the very forefront of the New Series. They may initially seem very different, but there’s an interesting connection: both forthright and deeply decent, they’ve been through conflict and are still fighting for what’s right… It was a privilege to write their first meeting for Big Finish.”

Producer David Richardson added: “It’s been so enjoyable creating a whole new era for the Ninth Doctor, and I think the scripts really succeed in defining that bold new start. We are talking the Ninth Doctor pre-Rose. These are the adventures some time after his regeneration, travelling alone, starting to discover himself after all that time being the War Doctor.”

Doctor Who fans worldwide can now pre-order all four volumes of The Ninth Doctor Adventures, which are available in three formats – collector’s edition CD, digital download or limited edition gatefold triple LP vinyl – HERE!

Big Finish listeners can save by pre-ordering a bundle of the entire series for just £88 (as a collector’s edition box set) or £78 (as a download).

Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures triple LP vinyls are strictly limited to a pressing of 1,000 per volume, and can be pre-ordered at £35.99 each, or £132 for the bundle of all four albums, HERE.

Please note: the vinyl editions do not include any behind-the-scenes extras. However, listeners purchasing vinyl LP editions will receive a download of the story automatically and be given access to the CD edits as a bonus download. Episodes will be edited specifically for the vinyl format, presented as 2 episodes, one on each side, each with opening and closing music.  In addition, all pre-orders of the vinyls will also receive the behind the extras as a bonus download.

Please note that Big Finish is currently operating a digital-first release schedule. The mail-out of collector’s edition CDs and limited edition vinyl LPs may be delayed due to factors beyond our control, but all purchases of this release unlock a digital copy that can be immediately downloaded or played on the Big Finish app from the release date. 

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 563

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 563

CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON – THE DWM INTERVIEW

 

Highlights of the new issue include:

  • An exclusive in-depth interview with Christopher Eccleston – his first with DWM in 16 years!
  • Former showrunner Steven Moffat on writing for the Ninth Doctor.
  • A preview of Ravagers, the new box set of audio adventures starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.
  • Jonathan Morris explores the gaps in our knowledge of the Ninth Doctor – where could new adventures take place in his timeline?
  • Collectivity celebrates the merchandise released in 2005 after Doctor Who’s revival.
  • DWM tracks down some of the real soldiers who formed part of UNIT in the 1960s and 70s.
  • Members of the Doctor Who Restoration Team reveal the secrets of making old episodes look better than ever for their release on Blu-ray.
  • Apocrypha remembers BBC Books’ 2005 novel The Monsters Inside.
  • The Fact of Fiction looks back at 2005’s Father’s Day.
  • Reviews of the Season 8 Blu-ray box set and the new Target novelisations.
  • Sufficient Data crunches Doctor Who’s numbers.
  • Previews and reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser and more.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 563 is on sale from store.panini.co.uk and WH Smith from Thursday 1 April priced £5.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £4.99.

The essential Terrance Dicks stories, as chosen by fans

The essential Terrance Dicks stories, as chosen by fans

Doctor Who Terrance Dicks the Collection
The Essential Terrance Dicks Volumes One and Two

Coming this August is a two-volume celebration of this much-loved storyteller, collecting ten of Terrance Dicks’ best Doctor Who novels, as chosen by fans.

Terrance Dicks was at the heart(s) of Doctor Who for over 50 years – from joining production of The Invasion in 1968 as a Script Editor to his final short story in 2019. Terrance wrote 64 Target novels from his first commission in 1973 to his last, published in 1990, helping introduce a generation of children to the pleasures of reading and writing, with fans including Neil Gaiman, Sarah Waters, Mark Gatiss, Alastair Reynolds, Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Frank-Cottrell Boyce, and Robert Webb, among many others.

This special two-volume collection, published on the anniversary of Terrance’s death, features the very best of his Doctor Who Target novels as chosen by fans – from his first book, The Auton Invasion, to his masterwork, the 20th anniversary celebration story The Five Doctors, voted all-time favourite.

With forewords by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Robert Webb, The Essential Terrance Dicks is a masterclass in contemporary fiction, by a writer of unlimited imagination.

Doctor Who Terrance Dicks the Collection
The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume One

Volume One contains, complete and unabridged:

  • Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth
  • Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
  • Doctor Who and the Wheel in Space
  • Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
  • Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks

 


 

Doctor Who Terrance Dicks the Collection
The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume Two

Volume Two contains, complete and unabridged:

  • Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
  • Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars
  • Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
  • Doctor Who and the Horror of Fangn Rock
  • Doctor Who and the Five Doctors

 


 

Robert Webb said in his foreword to Volume Two:

“All readers are travellers in time and space. A story takes our imagination on a journey through strange lands, meeting strange people and doing things we would never do in our ordinary lives. For as long as we are holding that book, reading makes Time Lords of us all…”

You can pre-order The Essential Terrance Dicks Volumes One and Two now ahead of its release on the 26th August 2021.

The Collection range will be re-issued in standard packaging

The Collection range will be re-issued in standard packaging

The Collection range of Doctor Who will be re-issued in standard packaging! The first titles to join this range will be Season 12 and Season 19, which are available to pre-order now.

Doctor Who - The Collection in standard packaging

Doctor Who: The Collection offers fans the opportunity to build their own home archive of classic content, and has proved hugely popular with collectors and fans of the TV series. The new standard packaging range is being introduced in response to this success, offering fans a second opportunity to fill gaps in their collection, and enjoy the classic era of Doctor Who.

New releases within the Collection range will be marketed as Doctor Who: The Collection Limited Edition Packaging, with the standard edition range marketed as Doctor Who: The Collection.

Releases within the Doctor Who: The Collection Limited Edition Packaging range will continue to offer fans bespoke, premium packaging featuring a beautifully presented box containing the discs and a full-length, premium-printed booklet which includes illustrations and in-depth, behind the scenes insight.

Releases within the new, standard packaging Doctor Who: The Collection range will feature a standard, plastic Blu-ray case inside a slipcase, with a condensed, standard-printed 12-page booklet featuring disc-breakdowns and selected illustrations. The new range will include all of the watchable content and special features included in the Limited Edition Packaging release.

Doctor Who - The Collection in standard packaging

Season 12 sees Tom Baker’s first outing as the Fourth Doctor, and features five stories over 20 episodes, including The Ark in Space and Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor is accompanied by Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and was first broadcast on the BBC between December 1974 and May 1975.


Doctor Who - The Collection in standard packaging

Season 19 introduces fans to Peter Davison’s first series as the Fifth Doctor, and sees the Doctor and his companions Tegan (Janet Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) face off against The Master, the terrifying Mara, the Terileptils, the Plasmatons, Monarch and the revamped Cybermen, in seven stories across 26 episodes.

You can pre-order the standard packaging editions of Season 12 and Season 19 now ahead of their release on 31st May.

100, ERM, 10 OBJECTS OF DOCTOR WHO!

100, ERM, 10 OBJECTS OF DOCTOR WHO!

Click here for your special PDF download of 10 Objects of Dr Who.

To coincide with the upcoming  release of 100 Objects of Dr Who”, our good friends at Candy Jar Books are pleased to announce a free PDF book, for our readers to enjoy, “10 Objects of Dr Who“. Written by Philip Bates, this forty-three page freebie is an introduction to his original take on the Doctor Who universe.

The eclectic lists of objects covered in the free PDF are: St John’s ambulance sign, asteroid 3325, Cyberman head, fossils, the shadow, Time Lord court, robot cleaner, chalice, a Spoonhead, and a matchbox.

Author Philip Bates was thrilled to be asked to select ten objects from the hundred featured in the book. Philip says:

“Like my piece in Candy Jar’s Brigadier: Declassified book, the reader is taken around a museum on the SS Shawcraft. Along the way I introduce them to objects of interest from Doctor Who’s history. It was very difficult to choose ten to sum up the book, but hopefully the reader will not be disappointed.”

100 Objects of Doctor is not a straight chronology of the series, but more a temporal guide, jam-packed with fascinating information for the distinguished Doctor Who fan. Philip continues:

“Both 10 and 100 Objects feature the behind-the-scenes trivia you would expect. I also go off the beaten track, jumping backwards and forwards in Who history. This is a book about Doctor Who. But probably not the one you’re expecting.”

Head of publishing at Candy Jar, Shaun Russell, says:

“100 Objects is fascinating adventure through Doctor Who history and, in some ways, intriguingly reads like a ‘make your own adventure’ book. It is also a fantastic cover and wonderful internal illustrations by Martin Baines. In my opinion the book is wildly original, and I’m sure all Doctor Who fans will absolutely love it.”

100 Objects of Doctor Who is currently only available to order from the Candy Jar website, for £9.99 (+ p&p). To order click here. It will be released on April 2nd.

The Dalek Invasion Of Weston Super-Mare

The Dalek Invasion Of Weston Super-Mare

A Dr Who super fan has built his very own Dalek.

Ian McTeague, from Weston-super-Mare, spent around 18-months making Draco.

Powered by an electric wheelchair, Draco is used to raise funds for Help for Heroes and Macmillan Cancer Support at conventions up and down the south west.

Video journalist: Jonathan Holmes

The Doctors are landing soon on the Funko Pop! Blitz mobile game

The Doctors are landing soon on the Funko Pop! Blitz mobile game

The Thirteenth Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Tenth Doctor and Ninth Doctor are landing in the mobile game Funko Pop! Blitz. The TARDIS is scattered across Funko Pop! Blitz’s game boards, and the Doctors need your help to collect it so they can get back to exploring the universe…

Doctor Who is on Funko Pop Blitz

Funko Pop! Blitz is a match-3 puzzle game featuring the Funko Pop! versions of lovable characters across multiple iconic franchises. Each week, Funko Pop! Blitz celebrates pop culture with a new collection of digital Funko Pops! These characters all come with their own unique Super move to blast the board and power up, earning rewards. Super moves typically celebrate an iconic moment from the media the character hails from.

With Doctors past and present, you can expect to see Supers involving the ubiquitous sonic screwdriver, nanogene healing, and yes – a mop!

The five Doctors available in the Funko Pop! Blitz Doctor Who event collection are:

  • Thirteenth Doctor
  • Twelfth Doctor
  • Eleventh Doctor With Mop
  • Tenth Doctor With Hand
  • Ninth Doctor

The ever-reliable TARDIS will also be making appearances on every game board. The aim of each Funko Pop! Blitz game during the week of March 18 midnight UTC to March 24 midnight UTC will be to drop as many TARDIS tiles as you can to the bottom of the board, so as to help the Doctors explore the universe again. Each TARDIS collected will inch you further along to completion of the Doctor Who event collection, which is important, because you’ll only be able to procure the Eleventh Doctor With Fez & Mop by doing so!

If you find yourself needing to generate more TARDIS tiles, simply equip any of the Doctor Who Funko Pops! to increase the number of times it appears on your board.

For more information on the game, visit funkopopblitz.com and get ready for the arrival of the Doctors!

Funko Pop! Blitz is available now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android devices.

New TARDIS range and new figurines from Hero Collector

New TARDIS range and new figurines from Hero Collector

A brand new range of faithfully reconstructed TARDIS figurines, plus figurine versions of some Doctor Who characters will be coming soon from Hero Collector. Read on to find out which figurines you’ll be adding to your collection next!

“It’s a Police Box…”

Time And Relative Dimension In Space – Instantly recognizable and beautifully blue, the TARDIS is the iconic time machine from Doctor Who. The Doctor’s TARDIS has changed its design many times over 50 plus years of adventures – all in the iconic shape of a blue British police box. Now in retail-and-collector-friendly packaging, this series depicts the iconic time machine in highly detailed 1:21 scale.

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021 reveals

Coming first is the Eleventh Doctor’s TARDIS! This model features the design used by the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), as it appeared in his debut 2010 episode, The Eleventh Hour, and was created with the schematics used to build the actual TARDIS prop in the BBC TV series.


The Dalek invasion of Satellite Five!

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021 reveals

The Parting of the Ways was the last appearance of Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor, as the Daleks returned to menace the galaxy.

In the distant future, Dalek survivors of the Time War invaded the station Satellite Five to replenish their numbers with the biological material of dead humans. The only thing that could stop these new Daleks was the mysterious ‘Bad Wolf’…


Beware what lurks in the Cloisters of Gallifrey…

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021 reveals

In the Cloister, a vast crypt below the capital city of Gallifrey, the Cloister Wraiths lurked. Apparitions of dead Time Lords whose minds had been digitally uploaded, the Cloister Wraiths guarded the Matrix of Gallifrey – a repository of all Time Lord knowledge and science.


A Twin Dilemma!

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021 reveals

Mestor was the cruel, gluttonous leader of the Gastropods, a species of slug-like aliens. The Gastropod eggs lay dormant on the planet Jaconda for centuries, forming part of its mythology, before they somehow hatched and the Gastropods returned, using their telepathic abilities to dominate the native Jacondans.


You will be able to order all of these Doctor Who figurines soon from Hero Collector.

The Fugitive Doctor and the Lone Cyberman in figurine form, and much more

The Fugitive Doctor and the Lone Cyberman in figurine form, and much more

Travel with the Fugitive Doctor, get your own miniturised Ashad, or bake your own TARDIS!

Every month Hero Collector release a whole array of Doctor Who figurines, collectibles, pins, t-shirts and more… enough to fill an entire TARDIS! Here’s a round-up of what’s coming this month.


Doctor Who Hero Collector round up march 2021

“Hello, I’m the Doctor”

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021

When the alien Judoon locked down Gloucester in search of an intergalactic criminal, the Doctor set out to investigate – and discovered Ruth Claydon, a woman living a false life. Shattering a hidden Chameleon Arch revealed Ruth’s true identity – a secret incarnation of the Doctor!

Get The Fugitive Doctor figurine here


Beware the Lone Cyberman!

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021

A partially cyber-converted human, Ashad was a true believer in the Cyber-Empire’s cause, and willingly offered himself up for conversion. He despised his lingering humanity, and came to be known as The Lone Cyberman in his quest to revive the lost Cyber-Empire.

Get the Ashad (The Lone Cyberman) figurine here


Smiling Snowmen for your shelves…

Doctor Who Hero Collector March 2021

The 2012 Christmas special introduced Clara Oswald as the Doctor’s newest companion – and also unleashed the terrifying Snowmen! Created from “slightly telepathic” snow by the Great Intelligence, these icy minions were sensitive to the thoughts of those they hunted…

Get The Snowman figurine here


The Doctor’s prison gang… as pin badges!

Doctor Who Hero Collector March roundup

With the Doctor locked away in a high-security alien prison, her friends were left stranded on Earth. Yet even as the Doctor reunited with her old friend Captain Jack Harkness to launch her prison break, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham found themselves on the trail of a disturbing plan by a corrupt businessman – Dalek drones rolling off a government assembly line!

The high-quality metal pin badges are only available as a 7-badge set, and feature the Doctor and Captain Jack in their prison uniforms, along with the new Defence Drone Dalek, and four alien inmates of the asteroid prison!

Get the Chibi Pin Badges – Revolution of the Daleks set here


Bake a tasty TARDIS!

Doctor Who Hero Collector round up march 2021

Make a tasty TARDIS or bite into a delicious Dalek! If you enjoy cookies as much as we do, this TARDIS and Dalek Cookie Set is exactly what you need.

This cute and colourful tin contains all the tools you’ll need to make your own baked TARDIS and Dalek: two reusable cookie cutters, a high-quality adult-size Who-themed apron, and an easy to follow, step-by-step recipe and icing booklet. Plus, links to online videos for even more detailed instructions, creative suggestions, and visual aids.

Get the Doctor Who Baking Tins – Dalek and TARDIS Cookie Cutter Set here


You can get all of these figurines, badges and baking kits from Hero Collector’s Doctor Who shop here.

The Twelfth Doctor’s first series is to be released as a Blu-ray steelbook

The Twelfth Doctor’s first series is to be released as a Blu-ray steelbook

Meet the Time Lord with the attack eyebrows, with series 8 the next series to be given the steelbook treatment! The Blu-ray steelbook of series 8 will be released 19th April 2021, featuring new and exclusive artwork.

Series 8 is the first full series of adventures with Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and Jenna Coleman returning as Clara Oswald. This series also featured Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink and Michelle Gomez as Missy, a very different incarnation of the Master.

Doctor Who - Series 8 Steelbook

There’s a brand new face at the controls of the TARDIS as Peter Capaldi becomes the Twelfth Doctor steering the blue box. In a feature-length opener we see the Doctor crash land in Victorian London.

As Clara struggles to recognise the man she thought she knew so well, killers are stalking the capital. A slaughterhouse restaurant and a buried space ship lead the Doctor into a confrontation with a long forgotten foe … but how far will this new man go to protect his friends?

The Doctor and Clara encounter wonders and horrors. They meet a fleet of Daleks while attempting to rescue a stranded ship of human survivors, face ranks of Cybermen stalking the Earth, and go back in time to join Robin Hood in a fight with killer robots. As Clara falls for handsome fellow teacher Danny, can she keep her two extraordinary lives going?

Series 8 had the return of the Paternoster Gang, played by Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey, and Catrin Stewart as well as Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Osgood, plus a whole host of guest stars, including Zawe Ashton, Tom Riley, Ben Miller, Jonathan Bailey, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Keeley Hawes, Chris Addison, Hermione Norris, Frank Skinner, John Sessions and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

This limited edition steelbook features bespoke artwork created by illustrator Sophie Cowdrey. Bous features include:

  • 4 audio commentaries
  • The Ultimate Time Lord
  • The Ultimate Companion
  • Inside the New TARDIS
  • Foxes’ Don’t Stop Me Now music video
  • 4 Doctor Who Exclusives
  • 12 Behind the Scenes featrues
  • Deep Breath Q and A
  • Doctor Who: Earth Conquest The World Tour
  • and 4 trailers

The 12 stories included in Series 8 are:

  • Deep Breath
  • Into the Dalek
  • Robot of Sherwood
  • Listen
  • Time Heist
  • The Caretaker
  • Kill the Moon
  • Mummy on the Orient Express
  • Flatline
  • In the Forest of the Night
  • Dark Water
  • Death in Heaven

Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series on Steelbook Blu-Ray is available to pre-order now on AmazonHMV and Zavvi ahead of its release on 19th April 2021.