BBC Studios today revealed a first look of the Fourteenth Doctor’s sonic screwdriver. Doctor Who returns in November 2023 with three special episodes with David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor to coincide with the 60th anniversary.
GENESIS OF THE DALEKS is the original 1979 album version of the legendary TV serial, whilst DOCTOR WHO AND THE PESCATONS is the made-for-vinyl audio drama first released in 1976. EXPLORATION EARTH: THE TIME MACHINE is an adventure specially produced by BBC Schools Radio in 1976, and STATE OF DECAY is a unique audiobook reading from 1982. The collection is completed by a selection of BBC radio interviews with Tom Baker made in the 1970s and 1980s. Presented inside an eye-catching Fourth Doctor O-ring sleeve, this…
Highlights of the new issue include: David Tennant and Catherine Tate – the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna – talk exclusively to Emily Cook on the set of the forthcoming 60th Anniversary Specials. Snakes Alive! – Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and writer/director Pete McTighe on The Passenger, the new mini-episode of Doctor Who, which sees the return of Tegan and Nyssa. Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies reveals what happened when he made a suggestion for a special piece of set dressing… The…
Legends of classic Doctor Who gathered to pay tribute to Patrick Troughton as a plaque was unveiled in his honour at his former school. The Doctor Who Appreciation Society, the show’s longest-running fan club, collaborated with Mill Hill School in London to place the plaque at the school’s Patrick Troughton Theatre. Sylvester McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred, who played Ace, and Frazer Hines, who played Jamie McCrimmon, were among those pictured in attendance to celebrate the actor, best known as the Second Doctor. Carole…
July sees the release of a range of brand-new audio adventures from Big Finish. Here’s a roundup of what’s available to buy on CD and download this month… The Second Doctor and Jamie reunite James Robert McCrimmon faced horrors while travelling with the Doctor, but when the Time Lords returned the Highlander to his rightful place in history, almost all those memories were lost to him. Now the Doctor is back and needs his friend by his side for more…
As Doctor Who starts its celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary, Candy Jar Books is proud to announce the first book it will be publishing to mark the upcoming festivities. So, get ready to be taken back to one of the most colourful highlights the series experienced in the 1960s when the Daleks took to the big screen, and now we share the memories of someone who was not only there, but also directly involved – Actress Jill Curzon, who played…
The three latest Doctor Who adventures featuring the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble will become novels. BBC Books is delighted to announce that it will be expanding the Doctor Who Target range with three new titles in January 2024. The collection are novelisations of the 2023 Doctor Who Specials, which will feature David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. Each book will have specially commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. Launched in 1973, Target Books published novelisations of…
The 20th anniversary season of Doctor Who, with Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray with Season 20. This set is the most jam-packed release yet, with hours and hours of new and exclusive material across nine discs. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the programme, these stories feature the return of old friends, enemies and even past Doctors! Over seven exciting stories, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) face off against the Black Guardian, Omega, the Mara, the Master, Cybermen and the…
COUNTER MEASURES RETURN Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce details of the second of its Counter Measures! Birds of Prey is the second book in a two-novel event, following up book one Birds of Passage. Counter Measures, featuring characters Group Captain Gilmore, Professor Rachel Jensen and Dr Allison Williams, was created by Ben Aaronovitch for Doctor Who back in 1988. The characters were expanded on in Aaronovitch’s later novelisation of their debut story, Remembrance of the Daleks, and made…
For the very first time, the veteran director shares his personal journals from 1963. The following is a compilation of Waris’s diaries originally published in Radio Times and presented here for the first time complete. Much has been written about Doctor Who across the past six decades, but surely little could be more striking and fascinating than the diary kept by Waris Hussein way back in 1963 – his contemporaneous account of those crucial months 60 years ago when the sci-fi series…