Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures
The Fourth Doctor Adventures | |
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audio drama | |
Series | Doctor Who |
Featuring | |
Written by | various |
Directed by | |
Music | Howard Carter |
Release date | January 2012 |
In 2012, Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring Doctor Who's fourth Doctor, as portrayed by Tom Baker.[1] Baker had previously declined to feature in any Big Finish releases, but after recording a trilogy of full cast audio boxsets for BBC Audiobooks, he decided to participate.[2] This was also part of a spin off series of the Monthly range.
Cast and characters
Cast
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 guest cast member.
- A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest cast member.
Actor | Character | Appearances | |||||||||||||||
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S1 | Sp. | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | Sp. | S10 | Sp. | S11 | S12 | S13 | ||
Tom Baker | The Doctor | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
Louise Jameson | Leela | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Mary Tamm | Romana I
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✓ | |||||||||||||||
Lalla Ward | Romana II
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✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||
Jane Slavin | Ann Kelso/Anya Kingdom | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||
The Laan | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
Matthew Waterhouse | Adric | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
Nerys Hughes | Margaret | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
John Leeson | K-9
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✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||
Christopher Naylor[3] | Harry Sullivan | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
Eleanor Crooks[3] | Naomi Cross | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
Nicholas Briggs | Daleks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||
Zygons | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
Cybermen
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✓ | ||||||||||||||||
Ice Warriors | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
Sea Devils
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✓ | ||||||||||||||||
Geoffrey Beevers | The Master | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||
James Dreyfus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
Christopher Benjamin | Henry Gordon Jago
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✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||
Trevor Baxter | Professor George Litefoot
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✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||
Dan Starkey | Sontarans | ✓ | ✓ |
Notable Guests
- David Warner as Cuthbert
- David Sibley as The Eminence
- Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
- David Troughton as The Black Guardian
- Gabriel Woolf as Sutekh
- Joe Sims as Mark Seven
- Siân Phillips as The Director
- John Heffernan as The Nine
- Annette Badland as The Toymaker
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
This series of adventures is set between seasons
.No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "Destination: Nerva" | Nicholas Briggs | the Master | May 2012 | |
6 | "The Oseidon Adventure (Part 2)" | Ken Bentley | Alan Barnes | Fourth Doctor, Leela, the Master, Kraals | June 2012 |
Special (2012)
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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– | "Night of the Stormcrow" | Nicholas Briggs | Marc Platt | Fourth Doctor, Leela | December 2012 |
Season 2 (2013)
This series of adventures is set between seasons
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | " Litefoot | March 2013 | |||
5 | "Phantoms of the Deep" | Ken Bentley | Jonathan Morris | Fourth Doctor, Romana I, K9 | May 2013 |
6 | "The Dalek Contract (Part 1)" | Nicholas Briggs | Nicholas Briggs | Fourth Doctor, Romana I, K9, Daleks, Cuthbert | June 2013 |
7 | "The Final Phase (Part 2)" | Nicholas Briggs | Nicholas Briggs | Fourth Doctor, Romana I, K9, Daleks, Cuthbert | July 2013 |
Season 3 (2014)
This series of adventures, like Season 1, is set between seasons
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "The King of Sontar" | Nicholas Briggs | John Dorney | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Zygons | August 2014 |
Season 4 (2015)
A fourth series of adventures featuring Leela was released, this time also starring John Leeson as K9 and set during season
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "The Exxilons" | Nicholas Briggs | Nicholas Briggs | Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9, Cybermen, Jamie McCrimmon | August 2015 |
Season 5 (2016)
A fifth series of adventures was released from January 2016, this time featuring Lalla Ward as the second incarnation of Romana and John Leeson as K9. The stories are set between seasons
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "Wave of Destruction" | Nicholas Briggs | Justin Richards | Fourth Doctor, the Black Guardian , Cuthbert, Laan | July 2016 |
8 | "Casualties of Time (Part 2)" | Nicholas Briggs | Nicholas Briggs | Fourth Doctor, Romana II, K9, the Black Guardian, Cuthbert, Laan | August 2016 |
Season 6 (2017)
A sixth series was released beginning in January 2017, also featuring Lalla Ward as the second incarnation of Romana and John Leeson as K9. The stories are set during season
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "The Beast of Kravenos" | Nicholas Briggs | Justin Richards | Fourth Doctor, Romana II, K9, Jago & Litefoot | January 2017 |
2 | "The Eternal Battle" | Nicholas Briggs | Movellans | July 2017 | |
8 | "The Skin of the Sleek (Part 1)" | Ken Bentley | Marc Platt | Fourth Doctor, Romana II, K9 | August 2017 |
9 | "The Thief Who Stole Time (Part 2)" | Ken Bentley | Marc Platt | Fourth Doctor, Romana II, K9 | September 2017 |
Season 7 (2018)
A seventh series was released from January 2018, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K9. The stories are set after Season 4, during season
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "The Sons of Kaldor" | Nicholas Briggs | Andrew Smith | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Voc Robots | January 2018 |
2 | "The Crowmarsh Experiment" | David Llewellyn | Fourth Doctor, Leela | ||
3 | "The Mind Runners (Part 1)" | John Dorney | Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9 | ||
4 | "The Demon Rises (Part 2)" | John Dorney | Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9 | ||
5 | "The Shadow of London" | Nicholas Briggs | Justin Richards | Fourth Doctor, Leela | May 2018 |
6 | "The Bad Penny" | Dan Starkey | Fourth Doctor, Leela, the Haodean | ||
7 | "Kill the Doctor! (Part 1)" | Guy Adams | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Sutekh | ||
8 | "The Age of Sutekh (Part 2)" | Guy Adams | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Sutekh | ||
Season 8 (2019)
An eighth series was released from January 2019, featuring John Leeson as K9 and a new companion WPC Ann Kelso played by Jane Slavin. The stories are set in between series
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "The Sinestran Kill" | Nicholas Briggs | Andrew Smith | Fourth Doctor, Ann, Sinestrans | January 2019 |
2 | "Planet of the Drashigs" | Phil Mulryne | Fourth Doctor, Ann, Mavic Chen | ||
5 | "Time's Assassin" | Nicholas Briggs | Guy Adams | Fourth Doctor, Ann, K9 | February 2019 |
6 | "Fever Island" | Jonathan Barnes | Fourth Doctor, Ann, K9, Jason Vane | ||
7 | "The Perfect Prisoners (Part 1)" | John Dorney | Fourth Doctor, Ann, K9 | ||
8 | "The Perfect Prisoners (Part 2)" | John Dorney | Fourth Doctor, Ann, K9 | ||
Season 9 (2020)
A ninth series was released from January 2020, featuring Lalla Ward as Romana II, John Leeson as K9 and Matthew Waterhouse as Adric. The stories are set in Season 18 during the E-Space Trilogy, specifically set between the stories State of Decay and Warriors' Gate. The format of the series changed from two box sets of four one hour stories, to two box sets of two two hour stories. A special, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K9 was released in May 2020, which is set between the stories Underworld and The Invasion of Time.
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "Purgatory 12" | Nicholas Briggs | Marc Platt | Fourth Doctor, Romana II, Adric, K9 | January 2020 |
2 | "Chase the Night" | Jonathan Morris | |||
3 | "The Planet of Witches" | Ken Bentley | Alan Barnes | Fourth Doctor, Romana II, Adric, K9 | February 2020 |
4 | "The Quest of the Engineer" | Nicholas Briggs | Andrew Smith | ||
Special (2020)
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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– | "Shadow of the Sun" | Nicholas Briggs | Robert Valentine | Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9 | May 2020 |
Season 10 (2021)
A tenth series was released from January 2021, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela. Like Series 1 and 3, the stories are set between seasons
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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1 | "The World Traders"[3] | Nicholas Briggs | Guy Adams | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Usurians | January 2021 |
2 | "The Day of the Comet"[3] | Jonathan Morris | Fourth Doctor, Leela | ||
3 | "The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook"[7] | Nicholas Briggs | Andrew Smith | Fourth Doctor, Leela | February 2021 |
4 | "The Primeval Design"[8] | Helen Goldwyn | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Mary Anning | ||
Dalek Universe: Prologue (2021)
A prologue to the Tenth Doctor event Dalek Universe.
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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– | "The Dalek Protocol" | Nicholas Briggs | Nicholas Briggs | Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9, Anya Kingdom, Mark Seven, Daleks, Exxilons, Bellal | April 2021 |
Season 11 (2022)
An eleventh series was released from January 2022, featuring the first appearance of
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
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Volume 1: Solo | ||||||||||||
1 | "Blood of the Time Lords"[9] | Nicholas Briggs | Timothy X Atack | Fourth Doctor, The Master | March 2022 | |||||||
2 | "The Ravencliff Witch"[9] | David Llewellyn | Fourth Doctor, Margaret | |||||||||
Volume 2: The Nine | ||||||||||||
3 | "The Dreams of Avarice" | Nicholas Briggs | Guy Adams | Fourth Doctor, The Nine[10] | June 2022 | |||||||
4 | "Shellshock" | Nicholas Briggs | Simon Barnard & Paul Morris | Fourth Doctor | ||||||||
5 | "Peake Season" | Jamie Anderson | Lizbeth Myles | Fourth Doctor, Mervyn Peake | ||||||||
Season 12 (2023)
A twelfth series was released from January 2023, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela and the return of Nerys Hughes as Margaret.
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
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Volume 1: New Frontiers | ||||||||||||
1 | "Ice Heist!" | Nicholas Briggs | Guy Adams | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Margaret, The Ice Warriors | March 2023 | |||||||
2 | "Antillia the Lost" | Phil Mulryne | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Margaret | |||||||||
Volume 2: Angels and Demons | ||||||||||||
3 | "The Wizard of Time" | Nicholas Briggs | Roy Gill | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Margaret | June 2023 | |||||||
4 | "The Friendly Invasion" | Chris Chapman | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Margaret | |||||||||
5 | "Stone Cold" | Roland Moore | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Margaret, Weeping Angels | |||||||||
6 | "The Ghost of Margaret" | Tim Foley | Fourth Doctor, Leela, Margaret | |||||||||
Season 13 (2024)
A thirteenth series will be released from March 2024 in three volumes, featuring Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan and Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross. It will be connected with UNIT: Nemesis.[11]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
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Volume 1: Storm of the Sea Devils | ||||||||||||
1 | "The Storm of the Sea Devils" | Nicholas Briggs | David K Barnes | Fourth Doctor, Sea Devils | March 2024 | |||||||
2 | "Worlds Beyond" | Robert Khan & Tom Salinsky | Fourth Doctor, Harry, Naomi, Alan Turing | |||||||||
Volume 2: Metamorphosis | ||||||||||||
3 | "Matryoshka" | Helen Goldwyn | Aurora Fearnley | Fourth Doctor, Harry, Naomi, The Toymaker | June 2024 | |||||||
4 | "The Caged Assassin" | Nicholas Briggs | Matthew Sweet | Fourth Doctor, Harry, Naomi | ||||||||
5 | "Metamorphosis" | Jamie Anderson | Lisa McMullin | Fourth Doctor, Harry, Naomi, The Master | ||||||||
Volume 3 | ||||||||||||
6 | "The Face in the Storm"[11] | TBD | Sarah Grochala | Fourth Doctor, Harry, Naomi | September 2024 | |||||||
7 | "Dominant Species"[11] | John Dorney | ||||||||||
References
- ^ Hughes Media Internet Limited. "Doctor Who–The Fourth Doctor Adventures". Bigfinish.com. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "It's official: Tom Baker in Big Finish 'Doctor Who' audios". 16 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d "10A. Series 10 Volume 1". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ Hughes Media Internet Limited (12 September 2011). "1.01. Destination: Nevra–Behind the Scenes". Bigfinish.com. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ Hughes Media Internet Limited (15 December 2011). "Fourth Doctor Season Two News". Bigfinish.com. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ Hughes Media Internet Limited (31 May 2012). "The Fourth Doctor And Leela Will Return!". Bigfinish.com. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "10B. Series 10 Volume 2". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ "Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ a b "The Fourth Doctor will return for two more series with Leela–and a new companion!". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "The Time Lord with Nine Lives". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ a b c "The Enigma of Doctor Who! - News - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 31 March 2021.