Doctor Who: Return of the Cybermen

Three Doctors unite, the Eighth Doctor’s trapped on Baker Street!

4 March 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

March 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.

One, two, three times a Doctor

Big Finish Productions releases March 2021

The Universe is in a state of crisis, and the Doctor is involved in three incarnations – each caught up in a deadly adventure across time and space. The Doctors must join together to confront their pursuer – but will doing so unleash a greater threat?

Get The End of the Beginning here

Baker Street’s still the place to be

After living in Baker Street for months, the Doctor, Liv and Helen find their new friends becoming curious about who they really are. But is it wise to tell them, when their future – and their past – are filled with danger?

Get Stranded 2 here

I am the Master, and… I will obey you?

Abandoned in the Vortex, the Master’s lost incarnation is thrown a lifeline: genius Lila Kreeg makes a deal with the devil to see her dreams fulfilled. As the Master returns, there are those who wish to hunt him, and those upon whom he wishes vengeance…

Get Master! here

Lost in cyber space with the Fourth Doctor

The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan return to Space Station Nerva in search of the TARDIS. Instead, they find peril, disease and… Cybermen!

Get Return of the Cybermen here

The Fourth Doctor takes the stand

The Doctor, Romana and K9 find themselves at the centre of a most unusual trial. An intergalactic corporation wants to bulldoze the planet for a development project, and the Doctor has been summoned as an expert witness. Can his testimony save the world?

Get The Doomsday Contract here

All stories are initially available exclusively from the Big Finish website in March.

Sadie Miller voices Sarah Jane Smith

20 April 2020 admin Comments 0 Comment

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As revealed in Doctor Who Magazine #550, Elisabeth Sladen’s daughter Sadie Miller has been cast in Doctor Who: Return of the Cybermen as Sarah Jane Smith.

Doctor Who: Return of the Cybermen is an unmade 1974 script from the pen of Gerry Davis, which eventually became the story Revenge of the Cybermen. The original script has been taken by Big Finish Productions, and realized in its original form as an audio drama.

Tom Baker reprises his role as the Fourth Doctor, joined by his companions from the televised Doctor Who season 12, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan, originally played on screen by Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter, now portrayed on audio by Sadie Miller and Christopher Naylor respectively.

Actor Sadie Miller said:

“When Big Finish asked me to play Sarah Jane for this story, I was very nervous. I didn’t want to create a performance from someone else’s.

“So I tried to approach it as I would with any other role. I’ve tried to find my own piece of Sarah – the part of my mum that’s in me. But I have had a quick look on YouTube for Sarah Jane Smith screams, because I wasn’t quite sure how she would want me to do those. Other than that I just tried to keep it as separate in my mind as possible from the original.

“The fans of Doctor Who have always been so kind and generous to me and to my family. It was always a part of my life growing up, I was never not aware of it. People have always been very kind in letting us come along for the ride really, through conventions and now things like Big Finish and, after mum passed away, the outpouring of love for her has been lovely.”

Senior Producer, David Richardson added:

“How do you recast Sarah Jane Smith? Would you even want to? Those were the questions that bothered us – we love the character. We loved Lis Sladen. We worried it might be too soon and too difficult to go there. But then we realised that part of Lis lives on in Sadie, and Sadie has beautifully brought that to the role of Sarah – we all approached this carefully, and respectfully, and with love and I couldn’t be happier with Sadie’s performance. She’s done her mum proud.”

You can pre-order Doctor Who: Return of the Cybermen here from Big Finish. Plus, you can read more of Sadie Miller talking a bit more about her mother, and the reaction of the Doctor Who fandom to her return here.