Doctor Who The Savages

The final adventure for Sarah Jane, a brand-new adventure for Romana and more audio adventures.

10 January 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Romana goes on her own adventures, Sarah Jane and Doctor part ways, the First Doctor meets Savages and a bumper collection of Doctor Who monster adventures! Here’s a look at what’s available to buy on CD and download from BBC Audio in January and February.

AVAILABLE IN JANUARY:

Doctor Who BBC Audio January 2021 roundup

Pamela Salem reads this exciting novelisation of a classic Fourth Doctor TV adventure, featuring the departure of Sarah Jane Smith.

The TARDIS lands in England, and Sarah, the Doctor’s companion, looks forward to going home. A freak accident in a quarry leaves the unconscious Sarah clutching an enormous stone hand, the only surviving remnant of Eldrad — an alien super-being expelled from his planet, Kastria — which has the power to control the human mind. Using Sarah as its instrument, the hand goes in search of the atomic energy it needs to regenerate Eldrad’s body…

Pamela Salem, who made several appearances in the BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s novelisation of the TV serial by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, first published by Target Books in 1979.

The audio novelisation of Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear is available now from Amazon on CD and Audible on download

Five exciting novelisations of classic TV stories in which the Doctor and his companions encounter a colourful assortment of aliens.

In Carnival of Monsters the TARDIS appears to land in the Indian Ocean, but something is very wrong. Here lie Drashigs… The Sontaran Experiment sends the Doctor and friends to a future Earth, where a familiar opponent is subjugating humans. In Full Circle the occupants of a distant planet are fleeing from Mistfall, and the coming of the Marshmen. Frontios finds the TARDIS in the far future, with a planet undermined by the monstrous Tractators. And in The Curse of Fenric an ancient evil stirs in 1940s England.

Katy Manning, Jon Culshaw, Matthew Waterhouse, Christopher H Bidmead and Terry Molloy read these classic tales, originally published as Target Books paperbacks.

The collection Doctor Who: The Second Monsters Collection is available from Amazon or from Audible on download

COMING IN FEBRUARY 2021:

Steven Pacey reads a brand-new original adventure for the Doctor’s former companion, Romana.

Residing on the threshold of E-Space with the Tharil Laszlo, Romana is on the trail of a terrible enemy. Allies of the enslaved, the duo ride the Time Winds in search of the desperate Sluagh.

Meanwhile, on a bloody American Civil War battlefield, young soldier Joshua is haunted by spectres: pale, vicious-looking aliens who prey upon the dead to raise an army of living corpses. With the fabled Kairos Ring they can carve portals into other dimensions – and, by accident, Joshua is blown through one of them.

United with Romana and Laszlo against the dreadful Sluagh, Joshua finds himself catapulted into a strange new world of learning. But one secret is waiting to catch up with him…

Stephen Gallagher, who wrote Romana’s final Doctor Who TV story, Warriors’ Gate, now reveals her exciting adventures Beyond the Doctor!

The audio original adventure Doctor Who: The Kairos Ring is available from Amazon on CD and Audible on download

Peter Purves reads this gripping classic novelisation of a TV adventure featuring the First Doctor and his companions Steven and Dodo.

Landing on a distant planet, the Doctor confidently announces to his companions that the TARDIS has brought them to an age of great advancement, peace and prosperity. The Doctor’s calculations seem to be confirmed when the travellers are greeted by Jano and the Elders, who take them on a tour of their city – a haven of beauty, harmony and friendship, set in a wilderness inhabited by tribes of savages.

But the security of the city is founded on one deadly and appalling secret. Soon the Doctor and his friends discover that it is not only outside the city walls that savages dwell… Peter Purves, who played Steven in the BBC TV series, reads Ian Stuart Black’s novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986.

The audio novelisation of Doctor Who: The Savages is available from Amazon on CD and Audible on download

The Doctor is on trial, the Krotons face the Second Doctor, the Fourth Doctor’s penultimate journey, and more!

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BBC Audio Doctor Who roundup April and May 2020

Many thousands of years ago, strange crystalline creatures came down from the stars and settled on the planet of the Gonds.

Over the years they educated the Gonds through teaching machines in the great Hall of Learning. In return, the Gonds periodically selected their two most brilliant scholars to become the ‘companions’ of these mysterious beings.

But when the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on the planet, they soon discover the true evil purpose of the aliens and learn what it really means to be companions of the Krotons…

Frazer Hines, who played Jamie in the TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s novelisation of a 1968 television serial by Robert Holmes.

Doctor Who: The Krotons is available on Amazon.

The Doctor is on trial for his life! Four exciting novelisations are together in a collection

In The Mysterious Planet, the Doctor is brought before the court of his fellow Time Lords. If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. In Mindwarp, the second piece of evidence against the Doctor is presented to the court. One thing is certain: on the evidence of the Matrix, the Doctor is guilty as charged!

In Terror of the Vervoids, the Matrix relates how the Doctor and Mel arrive on a space liner just as a series of grisly murders begins. In The Ultimate Foe, the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix has been tampered with. In a dramatic intervention, the Valeyard’s true identity is revealed…

Lynda Bellingham, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and Michael Jayston read these four suspenseful adventures by Robert Holmes, Philip Martin and Pip and Jane Baker.

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord Collection is available on Amazon.

The Fourth Doctor explores Traken in an exciting novelisation of the classic TV adventure, featuring the Master.

For ages past, the Union of Traken has lived in peace and harmony thanks to the power of the Source, controlled by generations of Keepers. But the current Keeper, his powers waning, senses some all-pervading evil about to invade his world. He summons the Doctor to his aid. To save Traken the Doctor fights the terrifying Melkur – only to find that this new enemy conceals an older and even deadlier foe – one the Doctor has encountered before…

Geoffrey Beevers, who played the Master in the TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s novelisation of a 1981 TV serial by Johnny Byrne, the penultimate story of the Fourth Doctor’s era.

Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken is available on Amazon.

The Doctor and his companions sometimes land on weird and wonderful planets – here is a collection of five of those magical adventures!

In The Rescue, the First Doctor meets the sole survivors of a crashed spaceliner on Dido. In The Creature from the Pit, the ruthless Lady Adrasta is keeping an unusual visitor prisoner on the planet Chloris. In The Twin Dilemma, a newly regenerated Doctor tries to become a hermit on the planet Titan 3. In Paradise Towers, the Doctor and Mel meet the residents of a dystopian hell, and in The Happiness Patrol the TARDIS lands in trouble on the colony world Terra Alpha.

Maureen O’Brien, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and Rula Lenska are the readers for this quintet of stories based on classic BBC TV serials.

Doctor Who: The Third Alien Worlds Collection is available on Audible.

Coming in June 2020:

Doctor Who: The Savages, written by Ian Stuart Black, read by Peter Purves

Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear, written by Terrance Dicks, read by Pamela Salem