Big Finish Podcast Notes and Misc News Roundup Thread

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I still see it as an improvement personally as if they’re only selling copies to order during the preorder window, scalpers will get nothing by trying to sell them for stupid prices later. Anyone who wanted the CD will have already bought it during pre-order.

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That’s assuming that everyone who wants it on CD can fully commit to it. There’s a lot of people who won’t buy a release until it’s out and they read reviews, and they’ll be completely left out of the conversation for a physical option first hand. They can still get taken for a ride by scalpers. Additionally there’s a casual/general audience who might not know about a release during that preorder period for whom, by the time they’re aware it exists, their ability to get it as a CD will be long gone.

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I’m guessing with this process, they’ll still be bound to order in certain increments. So it’s not that there’ll be zero CD’s left after the preorder, but more like there’ll be closer to 20 than 200. Still not great for those who miss the window, but not impossible

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They may have an acceptable amount of surplus for each range they’re willing to store that minimizes tax liability and doesn’t affect the pricing model, but like you said it would probably be a small handful, likely less than 100.

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You can never do print to order as pure print to order. You need extras for the discs that print bad, the customers who need replacements, a bit of spare inventory for weird shipping/storage mishaps, etc. But who knows what happens to that surplus

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It’d probably be between 50 and 100. For all the reasons that @N_Squared very astutely notes, but also because BF do give contributors copies out to cast and crew when something’s released on physical.

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Podcast

Podcast Notes

  • Alex Macqueen’s Master will not be one of the remaining Dark Gallifrey trilogies, but Nick has worked on something recently that features the character.
  • Next week will be Nick’s final podcast for the year. He’s not taken a true vacation in 20 years, and a number of people suggested he take an extended holiday for a while. He’s taking a three-month sabbatical, and will be largely stepping away from his role as creative director for that time (though there are some projects he will still inevitably need to keep working on). As far as the podcast goes, he will be replaced by Jonathon Carley for the remainder of the year.

Random Tangents: [Elephant Noises]

Production Interviews: Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit by Robert Valentine and Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits - Battleships by Alex Hewitt

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. There are currently technical issues with the Randomoid Selectotron, so it will be stuck on the last release from the 26 June podcast for the foreseeable future. This release is The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child.

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Shock and Awe is released on 8 September (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99)
    • Synopsis: The Doctor and Nyssa face alien menaces on Earth and on a far-off unnamed world.
      • Lair of the Voltaxa by Roland Moore (4 parts) The time travellers’ plans for a break in Devon are disrupted by a report of a car ‘coming to life’ and attacking someone. The Doctor suspects a link to the ‘Miri Cube’ - a sentient gadget soon to be launched nationwide. Technology that is decades ahead of its time. But the cubes contain a disturbing secret - an alien intellect is preparing its plans for conquest.
      • March of the Colossus by Alan Ronald (2 parts) On a beautiful, unspoiled world, the Doctor and Nyssa meet the Dianasa, a primitive tribe who await Arrival Day, when the giant deity that protects them will descend from the sky. An intriguing myth. Except the Colossus is real, as a ruthless off-worlder has discovered. And he will stop at nothing to exploit this discovery for his own ends.

Trailers

Cover Reveals

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • The War Doctor Rises reaches its finale. The full-cast audio drama series The War Doctor Rises will come to its climax in its sixth and final box set-length adventure, Serpent’s Nest (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £29.99).
    • Synopsis: The War Doctor arrives on Kyloska – a doomed world, where civilisation is entering its death throes. But something dark lurks here. Something that knows the Doctor of old…
      • 6.1 Wheel of Corruption On the trail of a vanished Time Lord regiment, the War Doctor arrives on Kyloska – a doomed world, where civilisation is entering its death throes. But something dark lurks here, looking for escape. Something that knows the Doctor of old…
      • 6.2 Broken Mirrors The Doctor has found what he was searching for on Kyloska – only to discover that the Mara may have got there first…
      • 6.3 Domain of the Snake The Mara emerges triumphant, with Gallifrey in its sights. And in Time Lord minds, the Dark Places are bigger on the Inside…
  • Ace Goes Home. A new box set featuring three Ace stories (including Hex!) set across her life is coming in January. The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Homecoming (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99) will be the second 2026 release for the range, unfortunately being delayed until January.
    • Synopsis: When a time storm sends Dorothy Gale to the far future, she meets a mysterious traveller, the Doctor. And the rest, as they say, is history… Now, at last, it’s time for Ace to face her greatest fear of all. It’s time to go back to Perivale. It’s time to go home.
      • The Auton Invasion of Ace by Jonathan S Powell As sentient merchandise lays siege to 21st-century Thailand, a teenage tearaway from Perivale is having the time of her life. Armed with her new mentor the Doctor and a couple of cans of Nitro-9, Ace is ready to fight back. But the Nestene Consciousness has a trick up its plastic sleeve. A trick by the name of Audrey Gale…
      • The Leviathan by Rochana Patel When the Doctor takes Ace and Hex to the Overlook, a temporal Tortuga suspended in the time vortex, an impossible journey begins into uncharted waters. But just how far will the Doctor go to find the mythical Leviathan? What, or who, will he sacrifice? And are Ace and Hex willing to stay to find out?
      • There is No Place Like Home by Jonathan Morris Investigating an energy wave without informing her friends at UNIT, Ace finds herself back in Perivale beside her mother’s grave. The Doctor is there - her Doctor, older - and so is a creature from the time vortex, a creature that will force Ace to face her greatest terror. Her own past.
  • Peter Davison In Conversation with Nicholas Briggs. Recorded back in April, this 38-minute interview with Peter Davison sees him reflect on his life and career, including his time on a certain program back in the day. Oh how I love All Creatures Great and Small.
  • Big Finish has a new page on their website: Rediscovered Releases.
    • Description: Occasionally after all CDs have sold, we have cancelled orders. Our warehouse team regularly checks our stock and this collection has been created to highlight releases that have now been reactivated for sale with VERY limited stock. In some cases there may only be one copy found, so act quick if you want to grab something that was previously unavailable!

Out of Print This Week

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Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. September’s selection: The Withdrawal by Geoffrey Beevers for just £2.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. September’s selection is The Death and Life of River Song Series 04: War Widow: The Shape of Fear (Excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month’s code STORMCAGE.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: The Monthly Adventures: 208. The Waters of Amsterdam Part 1. Use discount code DUTCH at checkout to save 25% off the full release of The Monthly Adventures: 208. The Waters of Amsterdam (Ends 20 September).

Big Finish Release Schedule

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
4 The Death and Life of River Song Series 04: War Widow
The Shape of Fear 3.30/5 47 votes
Bad Timing 3.74/5 45 votes
Unchained Melodies 3.32/5 41 votes
The Reality Director 4.24/5 42 votes
15C The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 15: A New Occupation
Daughter of Destruction 3.48/5 32 votes
A New Occupation 3.55/5 28 votes
6.3 Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master Part 3 3.29/5 40 votes
10 The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Shock and Awe
Lair of the Voltaxa 3.56/5 17 votes
March of the Colossus 3.07/5 14 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: The Eleventh Doctor Adventures: Hidden in Plain Sight. Did not care at all for the Judoon two-parter, thought the third story was solid. I like Miles Taylor as the Doctor, but I can’t help being taken out in a few spots. He so gets there sometimes so when it pulls away it’s a bit harder. It’s kind of the opposite of Culshaw as 12 to me – I buy into Culshaw even though he doesn’t sound exactly like Peter, but at moments he gets so close it hits hard.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

News

  • Doctor Who is officially out to tender. You can download the full document to read (as a Word document), but here are some key points:
    • The contract will be to produce Doctor Who for a multi-episodic series (including specials) for transmission in 28/29 with an option to extend the contract at BBC’s discretion to produce a second series.
    • The contract is offered on a work-for-hire basis, and all IP remains with the BBC. The BBC prefers a Wales qualification.
    • Relevant Production Experience:
      • Produced a returning scripted drama series (of at least 6 episodes/parts) for UK Network Television or SVOD that have returned on a regular schedule for at least three series.
      • High quality production and editing, including studio and location shooting as well as visual special effects.
      • Experience with relevant policy considerations for making programming suitable for broad family audience.
      • Understanding of challenges with working with a global brand and collaboration.
    • A “deep knowledge of Doctor Who” is a requirement for the short proposal.
    • The BBC want the new series to appeal to a broad family audience but deliver “back of the sofa scares, jeopardy and tension”.
    • They want pitches to emphasize new monsters and villains, though established villains are welcome to be used.
    • Quote: “Doctor Who embraces themes that celebrate curiosity, courage, intelligence, and compassion, themes that interrogate the human condition and most of all, it should and will always be distinctively British storytelling.”
    • They are flexible on whether the series is episodic or serialized, as well as the number of episodes in the series.
    • They are “not necessarily looking to work to a strict showrunner model and would expect once in production that the series will also use episodic writers”. They do not require writers to be formally attached for the pitch.
    • They want the show to feel cinematic and distinctive, capable of competing for audience attention, and encourage “innovative approaches to production, world-building, visual effects, and storytelling that maximize the scale and emotional impact of the Doctor Who universe”.
    • Schedule:
      • 17 September - Tender issued
      • 2 October - Deadline for submission of eligibility
      • 23 October - Deadline for short creative proposal
      • 6 November - Shortlist is created and tenderers are notified
      • December 2026 - Deadline for full tender submissions
      • January 2027 - Distribution conversations and interviews with tenderers
      • March 2027 - Award given and contract signed
    • Evaluation Team
      • Lindsay Salt - Commissioning Director, Drama
      • Nick Lambon - Commissioning Editor, Drama
      • Geraldine Atlee - Head of Business, Scripted Content
      • James Dundas - Commercial Rights & Business Affairs Manager (also serves as Tender Manager)

The Rumor Mill

  • Some good official news this week, so we won’t delve into anything here.

Media/Merchandise

Circuit Breaker Event Guide

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I may start listening to the podcast again.

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Podcast

Podcast Notes

  • In case you missed it last week, this will be Nick’s final podcast for the year as he takes off for a three-month holiday. For the remainder of 2026 Benji will be taking over for Nick on the podcast, and Jonathon Carley will be taking over from Benji.
  • Nick isn’t opposed to going back to older popular releases and doing limited CD runs using their new system, but he won’t be figuring that out until he’s back from holiday.
  • As far as Nick knows there’s no rights reasons the Torchwood range hasn’t revisited anything from Children of Earth, but they’ll ask around.

Random Tangents: Potato cows, here we come.

Production Interviews and Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery by Karissa Hamilton-Bannis

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. There are currently technical issues with the Randomoid Selectotron, so it will be stuck on the last release from the 26 June podcast for the foreseeable future. This release is The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child.

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit is released on 22 September (DTO: £13.99 | DTO + CD: £21.99)
    • Synopsis: Strange alien artifacts begin appearing inside UNIT’s Black Archive. Each object is unmistakably linked to a different regeneration of the Doctor, but they’ve been tampered with. A corrupted energy signature of unknown origin pulses through them, and their sudden arrival has torn tiny ruptures across time and space. To solve the mystery, UNIT calls upon a little-known incarnation of the Time Lord: the Fugitive Doctor. But how does UNIT know about her? And is she the Doctor they expect? The Doctor, Osgood and Andrew are joined by Kate Lethbridge Stewart. A final mysterious object is manifesting, this one at the pinnacle of UNIT Tower itself. A Time Bomb! Which threatens a dark future for all of the Doctor’s incarnations. Only this Doctor can save herself - and her other selves - from this intricately woven scheme.
  • Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits is released on 24 September (DTO: £11.99)
    • Synopsis: Wherever the Doctor has gone, and whatever challenges have lain ahead of her, she has always made new friends and enemies along the way. And as the final pieces of a complex scheme fall into place, this has never been truer. But all of those friends and enemies have stories have their own…
      • 1. Battleships by Alex Hewitt Meet the Conductor. It’s rare for a Sontaran to be unique, but this Sontaran is certainly that. Regarded as an aberration by the short-lived scientists who oversaw his clone batch, this cadaverous specimen is also a peerless tactical genius. But life is hard for a Sontaran who stands out from his fellows, and this formidable mastermind must outwit certain rivals of his own kind before setting his sights on the true enemy of the Sontaran empire.
      • 2. Get Rich or Die Trying by Alex Hewitt, from a story by Natasha Siegel Meet Andrew - a young man with a good job, a mysterious benefactor and a painful past he wouldn’t wish on anybody. Following a coded message to the Jurassic Coast, where a team of palaeontologists are digging up a dinosaur skeleton, Andrew encounters a stranger who gives him a so-called time-travel device. Before he knows what’s happened, Andrew is plunged back through history, all the way to the Jurassic period itself. Why has he been sent here? Who is his anonymous benefactor? And is he the victim of a sinister experiment? Only time will tell…

Trailers

Cover Reveals

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

Out of Print This Week: (NOTE: With the new Rediscovered Releases page, there are several releases that are constantly coming into and out of stock each day, and it’s impossible for me to keep up with. This section will remain for stories that are currently in print and are going out.)

  • The Second Doctor Adventures: The Conspiracy of Raven
  • Dark Gallifrey: Morbius Part 3
  • The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Creeping Death

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club (LAST CHANCE!): Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. September’s selection: The Withdrawal by Geoffrey Beevers for just £2.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt (LAST CHANCE!): Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. September’s selection is The Death and Life of River Song Series 04: War Widow: The Shape of Fear (Excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month’s code STORMCAGE.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: Torchwood: Red Base (Excerpt). Use discount code ANDY at checkout to save 25% off the full release of Torchwood: Red Base (Ends 27 September).

Big Finish Release Schedule

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
15C The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 15: A New Occupation
Daughter of Destruction 3.54/5 37 votes
A New Occupation 3.60/5 34 votes
6.3 Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master Part 3 3.23/5 47 votes
10 The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Shock and Awe
Lair of the Voltaxa 3.42/5 31 votes
March of the Colossus 3.02/5 27 votes
- Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit 4.14/5 37 votes
Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits
Battleships 3.22/5 18 votes
Get Rich or Die Trying 3.03/5 15 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: The Second Doctor Adventures: The Crystal Ship.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

News

The Rumor Mill

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Media/Merchandise

Circuit Breaker Event Guide

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Podcast

Podcast Notes

  • As a reminder, Nick is on holiday for the remainder of the year. Jonathon Carley steps in for Benji starting this week, and Benji steps in for Nick.
  • Big Finish got special permission to release the 10th and 20th anniversary Radio Times specials this year, but that’s not to say they couldn’t do more books or similar releases in the future.
  • They’d like to say they planned the Decayed Master trilogy on Dark Gallifrey for the 50th anniversary of The Deadly Assassin, but it was a happy coincidence.

Random Tangents: Engie Benjy

Production Interviews: The Confessions of Dorian Gray: A Night at the Theatre by Scott Handcock

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: Halloween: Doctor, Doctor, Doctor and Other Stories - The Song of the Reed Man by Katherine White

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. There are currently technical issues with the Randomoid Selectotron, so it will be stuck on the last release from the 26 June podcast for the foreseeable future. This release is The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child.

Vortex #211

  • Halloween: Doctor, Doctor, Doctor and Other Stories
    • Doctor, Doctor, Doctor by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle
      • Stewart Pringle was originally going to write this story alone, an uncommon occurrence for the couple, but Lauren became available.
      • Stewart got to pick from a handful of Doctors to write a story for, and the brief was very open as long as it was “properly scary”.
    • The Song of the Reed Man by Katherine White
      • John Dorney told Katherine to write something that would give him nightmares, and she immediately knew she wanted to write a story featuring witch hunting in Essex.
      • Katherine wanted the hunters to be hunted, and though the Krynoids were right for the story.
      • Says Katherine: “The Song of the Reed Man is set on the night of the Samhain when the spirits of the dead are close at hand and an ancient hunger wakes from the deep. It looks at the warped and twisted hearts of men and the cost of doing anything to survive in a world where even the shadows can’t be trusted…I tried to make my own skin crawl as I wrote it; I wanted to make sure the horror gets into the bones of the audience.”
    • Office Space by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey
      • Another couple pairing on this box set, this marks the first time Georgia and Fio have written together at Big Finish.
      • Not much detail is thrown out for this story outside of the synopsis.
    • Overworked by Hannah Kennedy
      • Hannah worked on the last Halloween set, and revisited some ideas she pitched last year. She’s been dying to tell this story since she first pitched it.
      • Says Hannah: “This year, I tapped into one of my other greatest loves and fears, body horror, which was a treat to dig into with characters such as the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.”
  • The Eighth Doctor Adventures: New Pathways
    • Overall Box Set
      • David Richardson specifically wanted to avoid a big all-out celebration of 30 years of the Eighth Doctor, bringing back every companion and facing off against the Daleks, and opted for something that recognizes the anniversary but moves forward.
      • Helen did travel with new companion Alfie for a time after Liv left (implying there may have been a Helen-only gap after Liv stopped traveling).
      • It’s been stated before but this set is being described as a whole new era of the Eighth Doctor’s life.
      • Sam Stafford and Natalie Gumede had their roles as Alfie and Chase written for them, as David Richardson wanted to give them regular roles. Chase used to work in television and film as a gaffer, but the industry left her behind and now she works in a call center. Alfie is described as ‘A Really Nice Bloke’.
      • The music in this set is centered around Chase. They made her theme basic and easily arranged with any instruments and style so that future sets can create variations of her theme that suit the story.
    • Chase by Alan Ronald
      • Alan describes Chase as “hands-on, clever, and funny”, and “appreciates the adventure she has been granted, whatever the danger.”
      • Alfie is described by Alan as “the Laurel to the Eighth’s Hardy.”
      • The brief was to create a story with two new companions set around Earth with a family element.
    • Magic of the Sycorax by Katharine Armitage
      • Described as a base under siege story written with Warriors of the Deep in mind (from a perspective of its potential on page, she notes), she wanted the story to feel claustrophobic and to strip the Doctor and co. of all their resources and tools.
      • Katharine had fun adding to the lore and complexity of the Sycorax, as well as thinking up new “spells” for them to cast.
    • Blast from the Past by Robert Valentine
      • The Doctor “accidentally” brings Chase and Alfie to Earth in this story. Robert Valentine was tasked with including “one particular point that will take us into the new set of adventures.”
      • Set in 2096, the UK has become an “authoritarian dictatorship drunk on nostalgia and the appropriation of British cultural iconography – think of Cool Britannia in jackboots.”
  • The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Armageddon Dawn by Matt Fitton
    • They think of this story as being the climax of Act 3 in this series, and wanted it to be a big one.
    • Matt Fitton creates a new Dalek in this story: the Dalek Negotiator. The Doctor describes it as “a chicken-farming fox”.
    • Fitton wanted to give Jodie a more traditional Dalek story, as he considers all their TV appearances in the Thirteenth Doctor’s era to be “inventive and new”.
  • The Fugitive Doctor: Running Wild
    • Tholos by Alex Hewitt
      • The Doctor is taking her battle to the enemy, and is set on finding “the Man in the Grey Suit.”
      • Cosmogon has undergone a forced regeneration at the hands of Division in hopes of making her more compliant and responsive to pressure to find the Doctor.
    • Scripture by Katharine Armitage
      • The Doctor visits an archive that backs up reality in hopes of finding the answers she needs.
      • Katharine Armitage invents a new word here (“futristory”) and creates a world where tenses aren’t set, which made writing difficult, but she believes it all came together.
    • Genesis of the Doctor by Rochana Patel
      • Rochana Patel says she always throws out ideas that push boundaries and she expects will be rejected. This is one of those stories.
      • Rochana notes that audiences got the idea quickly in this series that they would keep everything about the Fugitive Doctor vague and the series would never do anything of consequence. Her goal with this story is to correct that misconception and show how much they can do.
      • Rochana doesn’t find battles with Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, etc. to be exciting for this Doctor, so she wrote against that. The Fugitive Doctor will be in “titanic battles at the dawn of time against unimaginable foes, with Division knee deep in the terror and chaos.”
  • The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Homecoming
    • The Auton Invasion of Ace by Jonathan S Powell
      • Jonathan got the idea for this story when he was kayaking in Thailand and found a crop of dead jellyfish, and realized that it was pollution from tourism and commercialism that had killed them.
    • The Leviathan by Rochana Patel
      • The brief was to revisit they heydays of the Doctor, Ace, and Hex before everything fell apart.
      • Rochana wanted to write a Doctor that was proactive, as she likes to do with later Classic Doctors, and find adventures this Doctor might want to go on outside of the classic tropes.
      • The Seventh Doctor is at the height of his powers, and has full control over his TARDIS. He chooses in this story to plunge into the unknown “on a voyage based purely on his scientific curiosity.”
    • There’s No Place Like Home by Jonathan Morris
      • It was Jonathan’s idea to finally answer why Ace fell out with her mother so badly.
      • An older Ace tracks a strange signal to her mother’s grave, and is thrown back through time to re-experience her past from both her and her mother’s perspective. It’s very much a character-centered piece, and is light on “plot” in the traditional Doctor Who sense.
  • Vortex Mail
    • A listener writes in asking if the Thirteenth Doctor will get a new companion or meet Missy or River. Nick says “I think I have to revert to my usual, mysterious reply of, ‘Just imagine…’ on these questions.”
    • Nick doubles down that they will be releasing The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast, Be Kind on CD, though he doesn’t give a release window.
    • No plans for Benny and Seventh Doctor stories currently.
    • No plans for Class to return.

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery is released on 29 September (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £13.99)
    • Synopsis: The Doctor and Yaz are sent on a mission of mercy - but who or what are they supposed to be rescuing? On board a hijacked space train, the stakes get higher as the fate of the Maelin system hangs in the balance. As the Rebel factions and Sentinel guards join battle, time is running out. Will the Doctor discover the secret of the Maelin Anomaly?

Trailers

Cover Reveals

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • A Dalek encounter for the Thirteenth Doctor! As the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz face off against their new enemy the Aegis Protectorate, they discover they’re in collusion with an older foe: the Daleks. The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Armageddon Dawn (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £13.99) by Matt Fitton is due out in November.
    • Synopsis: The Doctor decides it’s time to deal with Aegis. Taking Yaz to confront the company at the height of its powers, she finds Athena Nikos entertaining some unexpected clients. Tech genius Esskapell wants control of Aegis for his own reasons - but, more worrying, so does the ‘Dalek Negotiator’…
  • A killer Krynoid encounter for the Third Doctor. Story details are out for next week’s Halloween: Doctor, Doctor, Doctor and Other Stories (DTO: £24.99 | DTO + CD: £35.99):
    • Doctor, Doctor, Doctor – a Seventh Doctor adventure by Stewart Pringle and Lauren Mooney In the 1980s, four physics students find themselves drawn to a strange mirror, seemingly haunted by a ghastly figure carrying a distinctive umbrella… As they experiment with the mirror, they begin to lose themselves in its mystery, as the entity within seeks to break into their world.
    • The Song of the Reed Man – a Third Doctor and Jo Jones adventure by Katherine White When the Doctor and Jo land in the marshes of Essex, in 1562, they find themselves at the dawn of England’s witch hunting mania. But lurking beneath the waterways, there lies an ancient evil, ready to hunt and feast. Can the Doctor help an isolated coven see reason, before it’s too late?
    • Office Space – a UNIT adventure by Georgia Cook and Fio Tretheway It’s Max’s first night shift at the UNIT liaison call centre in Chester, screening emergency calls from the public for signs of extraterrestrial threat. But tonight the calls hold something far deadlier, and soon Max and his colleagues find themselves fighting for their lives to survive against the night itself.
    • Overworked – a Fifth Doctor and Nyssa adventure by Hannah Kennedy When the TARDIS locks on to a signal calling out for a ‘doctor’, Nyssa and the Doctor are brought to a hospital on Earth in 1974. However, with the help of cleaners Harold and Sophie, they discover that something is very wrong with the patients here, something otherworldly.
  • Helen Lederer joins The Fugitive Doctor. A new box set for the Fugitive Doctor is due out month. The Fugitive Doctor: Running Wild (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £29.99) will feature a regenerated Cosmogon played by Helen Lederer, as well as the Daleks.
    • Tholos by Alex Hewitt To uncover the secrets hidden within her mind, the Doctor voyages to the Temple of Lucidity – a great tholos floating through space – where a multicoloured tiger will teach her the secrets of the mystical dream-language of Oneira. But are the Arkiris Tiger’s motives pure? How has the Doctor’s dogged pursuer, Cosmogon, managed to follow her here? And why does Cosmo have a new face?
    • Scripture by Katharine Armitage In the Scripture System, temporally unbound scribes chronicle the history of the universe: everything that has been, everything that is, and everything that will be. They’re the people with the answers and the Doctor has some very big questions for them. But so do the Daleks…and if the metal-plated conquerors from Skaro are ever going to dominate the universe, they’re going to have to do something about someone whose name begins with ‘D’.
    • Genesis of the Doctor by Rochana Patel All stories have a beginning, but some are shrouded in myth and legend, and lost to the mists of time… What you need is a living witness. And a mind probe. And the Doctor will soon have both… This time, one way or another, she will have her answers – but is she ready for them?

Out of Print This Week

  • The Monthly Adventures: 269. Shadow of the Daleks 1
  • Bernice Summerfield: 2.1 The Secret of Cassandra

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. October’s selection: Callan Volume 01 for just £9.99 on DTO or CD + DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. October’s selection is The Audio Novels: The Missing Hour Part 1 (Excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month’s code MALTA.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories - Party Favours (Excerpt). Use discount code KELP at checkout to save 16% off the full release of Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories (Ends 4 October).

Big Finish Release Schedule

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
10 The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Shock and Awe
Lair of the Voltaxa 3.36/5 36 votes
March of the Colossus 2.98/5 32 votes
Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit 4.08/5 56 votes
Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits
Battleships 3.24/5 39 votes
Get Rich or Die Trying 2.92/5 37 votes
1.8 The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery 2.68/5 65 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: Finishing the Second Doctor Adventures and listening to all of War Widow. I also binged everything Circuit Breaker up to Kaleidoscope. Hoping I can find the time to read that and listen to Big Finish’s contributions.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

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that’s not true though, they’ve already written The Questing Beast together. Probably still the first audio drama instead of short trip they’ve done together though

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See, this is what happens when Nick isn’t on the podcast! They get the facts wrong!

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This is from Georgia’s mouth, but to be pedantic she did say their first script together so maybe that’s the distinction, as opposed to prose/audiobook

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Both of these make me sad. The Class audios were fairly solid releases.

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I think this is the first Free Day Friday that’s less than 25% off

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Yep, I was surprised when I saw that. It is a recent set, but they’ve done a 2025 6DA as well as SSS: Voord in London at 25% off. I’d guess this one just gets less since it’s a a four story box set.

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Podcast

Podcast Notes

  • Jonathon Carley was recording something for Big Finish the night before this podcast.
  • Someone asks if the buckles on Ash’s shirt in the Twelfth Doctor Adventures were intentionally designed to look like clasps on old books, given the reveal that Ash is from the Land of Fiction. Benji doesn’t know but they’ll investigate.
  • Benji used to put a lot of effort into the sound design of characters’ clothes, especially in Survivors, but he has since toned it down a bit.
  • Benji recently took a class at Dolby on their Dolby Atmos technology. I’m sure they won’t start mixing releases in Dolby Atmos as most people listen on headphones and surely it’s expensive, but interesting to note.
  • Some of the app issues currently are linked to the way the older app interacts with the newer version of iOS and Android, which makes fixing them a longer process. They kept the existing app and linked it to the new database to make things smooth for customers, but the app was really due for an overhaul as well as the website.

Random Tangents: Jonathon Carley has never drank tea or coffee.

Production Interviews: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: False Friends by Timothy X Atack

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: Star Cops: Conflict: Tick Tock by Roland Moore

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. There are currently technical issues with the Randomoid Selectotron, so it will be stuck on the last release from the 26 June podcast for the foreseeable future. This release is The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child.

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • Doctor Who: Halloween: Doctor Doctor Doctor and Other Stories is released on 6 October (DTO: £24.99 | DTO + CD: £35.99)
    • Synopsis: Dare you venture into the dark once more? Across time and space, fear lurks in the hidden corners of the universe. Ancient horrors awaken, new monsters stalk the shadows, and the Doctor’s worst nightmares are ready to play once again.
      • 1. Doctor, Doctor, Doctor by Stewart Pringle and Lauren Mooney - a Seventh Doctor adventure In the 1980s, four physics students find themselves drawn to a strange mirror, seemingly haunted by a ghastly figure carrying a distinctive umbrella… As they experiment with the mirror, they begin to lose themselves in its mystery, as the entity within seeks to break into their world.
      • 2. The Song of the Reed Man by Katherine White - a Third Doctor and Jo Jones adventure When the Doctor and Jo land in the marshes of Essex, in 1562, they find themselves at the dawn of England’s witch hunting mania. But lurking beneath the waterways, there lies an ancient evil, ready to hunt and feast. Can the Doctor help an isolated coven see reason, before it’s too late?
      • 3. Office Space by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey - a UNIT adventure It’s Max’s first night shift at the UNIT liaison call centre in Chester, screening emergency calls from the public for signs of extraterrestrial threat. But tonight the calls hold something far deadlier, and soon Max and his colleagues find themselves fighting for their lives to survive against the night itself.
      • 4. Overworked by Hannah Kennedy - a Fifth Doctor and Nyssa adventure When the TARDIS locks on to a signal calling out for a ‘doctor’, Nyssa and the Doctor are brought to a hospital on Earth in 1974. However, with the help of cleaners Harold and Sophie, they discover that something is very wrong with the patients here, something otherworldly.
    • The Confessions of Dorian Gray: A Night at the Theatre is released on 8 October (DTO: £13.99)
      • London, 1925. On a wet October night, Dorian Gray spots a theatrical production of Oscar Wilde’s novel being staged at the Montague Theatre. Escaping the rain, he buys a ticket… but quickly becomes embroiled in a deadly mystery when one of the cast is killed after that evening’s curtain call. When all his suspects are already used to being someone they’re not, can Dorian see through their secrets? Or will the murder of Dorian Gray go unsolved…?

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News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • Behind the scenes of The Eighth Doctor Adventures. As an additional celebration of the anniversary, Big Finish Productions have produced The Eighth Doctor - A New Pathway, a bumper 110-minute behind-the-scenes audio documentary, which explores the Eighth Doctor’s life so far and the creation of this new era. This will be included on The Eighth Doctor Adventures: New Pathways (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99)
    • Part One: The Story so Far Paul McGann and Nicholas Briggs look back at the making of the TV Movie, and the Eighth Doctor’s journey to date at Big Finish.
    • Part Two: Creating the Companions Script editor Matt Fitton, producer David Richardson, writer Alan Ronald, director Ken Bentley and actors Natalie Gumede and Sam Stafford explore the creation and development of the new companions Chase Moyo and Alfie Steep.
    • Part Three: The Making of Chase The cast and creatives explore the making of the first episode. (Also on the standard CD extras.)
    • Part Four: The Making of Magic of the Sycorax The cast and creatives on episode two. (Also on the standard CD extras.)
    • Part Five: The Making of Blast from the Past The cast and creatives discuss episode three. (Also on the standard CD extras.)
    • Part Six: The Audio World of New Pathways Sound designer Benji Clifford takes us through the creation of the audio world of the box set.
    • Part Seven: The Music of New Pathways Musician Howard Carter discusses his score.
    • Part Eight: The Art of New Pathways Sean Longmore tells us about his striking cover art for the stories.

Out of Print This Week

  • The Monthly Adventures: The Serpent in the Silver Mask

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. October’s selection: Callan Volume 01 for just £9.99 on DTO or CD + DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. October’s selection is The Audio Novels: The Missing Hour Part 1 (Excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month’s code MALTA.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: Jeremiah Bourne in Time: Episode 1. Use discount code CLEMENTINA at checkout to save 25% off the full release of Jeremiah Bourne in Time (Ends 11 October).

Big Finish Release Schedule

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit 4.02/5 63 votes
Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits
Battleships 3.21/5 43 votes
Get Rich or Die Trying 2.88/5 41 votes
1.8 The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery 2.78/5 96 votes
2 Doctor Who: Halloween: Doctor Doctor Doctor and Other Stories
Doctor, Doctor, Doctor 3.76/5 44 votes
The Song of the Reed Man 3.52/5 27 votes
Office Space 4.35/5 24 votes
Overworked 3.97/5 19 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery. Definitely a low point for the series, I’m afraid to say.

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  • The Day of the Troll by Simon Messingham, a 10th Doctor BBC Audio adventure, will be released for Record Store Black Friday on 27 November.
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#fakebrit /j

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Neither? Ever?

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Mrs Delta doesn’t drink tea or coffee. You coming for her too?

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