Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures
| The Fifth Doctor Adventures | |
|---|---|
| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Featuring | |
| Executive producer(s) | |
| Release date |
|
The Fifth Doctor Adventures is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the television series Doctor Who. It sees the return of Peter Davison reprising his role as the Fifth Doctor.
History
[edit]In 1999, beginning with the story "The Sirens of Time", Big Finish Productions began producing a series of audio adventures featuring the Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor and Seventh Doctor. For 22 years these stories continued collectively known as Big Finish's "Main Range".[1][2] In May 2020, Big Finish announced the main range would conclude in March 2021 and subsequently replaced with regular releases of each Doctor's adventures continuing in their own respective ranges.[3][4] Several previously released special titles were retroactively reallocated into these new ranges by Big Finish.
Cast and characters
[edit]List indicator
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season.
- A green cell indicates the actor is a main cast member.
- A red cell indicates the actor is a recurring cast member.
- A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest or special guest cast member.
| Actor | Character | Appearances | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp. | Fifth Doctor Boxset | Wicked Sisters | Lost Resort | Forty | Conflicts of Interest | In The Night | The Dream Team | The Great Beyond | 2025A | 2025B | |||
| Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | ||||||||||||
| Peter Davison | The Doctor | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Matthew Waterhouse | Adric | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | TBA | |||||||
| Sarah Sutton | Nyssa | ✓ | ✓ | TBA | |||||||||
| Janet Fielding | Tegan | ✓ | ✓ | TBA | |||||||||
| Louise Jameson | Leela | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Ciara Janson | Abby | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Laura Doddington | Zara | ✓ | |||||||||||
| George Watkins | Marc | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Mark Strickson | Vislor Turlough | ✓ | TBA | ||||||||||
| Jon Culshaw | The Brigadier | ✓ | |||||||||||
| The Master | |||||||||||||
| Kamelion | |||||||||||||
| Nicholas Briggs | Daleks | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Cybermen | ✓ | ||||||||||||
| Ice Warriors | ✓ | ||||||||||||
Notable Guests
[edit]- Caroline Morris as Erimem
- Mark Donovan as Shayde
Episodes
[edit]Specials
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "No Place Like Home"[5] | Gary Russell | Iain McLaughlin | Fifth Doctor, Erimem, Shayde | January 2003 |
| 2 | "Cuddlesome"[6] | Barnaby Edwards | Nigel Fairs | Fifth Doctor | March 2008 |
| 3 | "Return to the Web Planet"[7] | Barnaby Edwards | Daniel O'Mahony | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Zarbi, Menoptera | December 2008 |
The Fifth Doctor Box Set (2014)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Psychodrome"[8] | Ken Bentley | Jonathan Morris | Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | August 2014 |
| 2 | "Iterations of I"[8] | John Dorney | |||
Wicked Sisters (2020)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Garden of Storms"[9] | Lisa Bowerman | Simon Guerrier | Fifth Doctor, Leela, Abby, Zara | November 2020 |
| 2 | "The Moonrakers"[9] | ||||
| 3 | "The People Made of Smoke"[9] | ||||
The Lost Resort and Other Stories (2021)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Lost Resort"[10] | Scott Handcock | AK Benedict | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc, Adric | September 2021 |
| 2 | "The Perils of Nellie Bly"[10] | Scott Handcock | Sarah Ward | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc | |
| 3 | "Nightmare of the Daleks"[10] | Samuel Clemens | Martyn Waites | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc, Daleks | |
Forty (2022)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Secrets of Telos"[11] | Ken Bentley | Matt Fitton | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Cybermen | January 2022 | |||||||
| 2 | "God of War"[11] | Sarah Grochala | Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Ice Warriors | |||||||||
| – | "Interlude: I, Kamelion"[11] | Read by : Dan Starkey | Dominic Martin | Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Kamelion | January 2022 | |||||||
| Volume 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | "The Auton Infinity"[12] | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion, The Brigadier, Autons, The Master | September 2022 | |||||||
Conflicts of Interest (2023)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Friendly Fire"[13] | Ken Bentley | John Dorney | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan | April 2023 |
| 2 | "The Edge of the War"[14] | Jonathan Barnes | |||
| – | "Interlude: Gobbledegook" | Read by : Dan Starkey | Frazer Lee | Fifth Doctor | April 2023 |
In the Night (2023)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pursuit of the Nightjar" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan | September 2023 |
| 2 | "Resistor" | Sarah Grochala | |||
The Dream Team (2024)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Merfolk Murders" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Adric | April 2024 |
| 2 | "Dream Team" | Lizzie Hopley | |||
| – | "Interlude: Meanwhile, Turlough" | Read by : Dan Starkey | Jonathan Blum | Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough | April 2024 |
The Great Beyond (2024)
[edit]A second boxset is scheduled for release in September 2024.[15] Big Finish's Creative Director Nicholas Briggs described them as "...really imaginative, celebratory adventures that feel like Classic Doctor Who turned right up to eleven, in the very best of ways".[16]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Part 1" | Ken Bentley | James Kettle | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Adric | September 2024 |
| 2 | "Part 2" | ||||
| 3 | "Part 3" | ||||
| 4 | "Part 4" | ||||
| 5 | "Part 5" | ||||
| 6 | "Part 6" | ||||
Hooklight
[edit]On 23 May 2024, Big Finish announced their slate of boxsets for 2025. Senior Producer John Ainsworth said "...in 2025, Peter Davison stars in a 12-part Fifth Doctor story for the first time ever. It's an epic featuring new worlds, new creatures and a searing light that could burn everything to dust."[17] The two boxsets are scheduled for release in April[18] and May 2025,[19] respectively.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part One | ||||||||||||
| 1 | TBA | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa, Adric | April 2025 | |||||||
| 2 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 3 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 4 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 5 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 6 | TBA | |||||||||||
| Part Two | ||||||||||||
| 1 | TBA | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor | May 2025 | |||||||
| 2 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 3 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 4 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 5 | TBA | |||||||||||
| 6 | TBA | |||||||||||
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Work(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scribe Awards | 2015 | Best Audio | Iterations of I | Won | [20] |
| 2022 | The Lost Resort | Nominated | |||
| 2024 | Pursuit of the Nightjar | Nominated |
References
[edit]- ^ Jeffrey, Morgan (23 June 2017). "Celebrating Big Finish: How a gang of fans reinvented Doctor Who for a new audience". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ Ford, Joe (19 January 2010). "The Sirens of Time written and directed by Nick Briggs". Doc Oho Reviews. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "Revamped Doctor Who audio ranges from Big Finish". Big Finish Productions. Archived from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ "Big Finish to end monthly Doctor Who audio range in 2022 revamp". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ "Doctor Who: No Place Like Home". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "Doctor Who: Cuddlesome". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "Doctor Who: Return to the Web Planet". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures Volume 01". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ a b c "Doctor Who: Wicked Sisters". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Many happy returns, Peter Davison! - News - Big Finish".
- ^ a b c "The Fifth Doctor turns Forty! - News - Big Finish".
- ^ "The Fifth Doctor Faces The Auton Infinity - News - Big Finish".
- ^ "Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ "The Fifth Doctor's at The Edge of War". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ "Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures: 2024B Title TBA - Doctor Who - The Fifth Doctor Adventures - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ "Early-Bird Offer for Classic Doctor Pre-Orders - News - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ "Save with Classic Doctor Multi-buy Pre-Orders for 2025 - News - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ "Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures: 2025A (Title TBA) - Doctor Who - The Fifth Doctor Adventures - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ "Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures: 2025B (Title TBA) - Doctor Who - The Fifth Doctor Adventures - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ "Previous Scribe Award Winners". International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. 24 June 2023.