What order should I listen to the audio dramas?

Firstly: you don’t have to listen to everything. But if you want to, you’re in luck! This guide contains an ordering for listening to everything. But, what is the order?

Well, we could try to put everything into in-universe chronological order, but that doesn’t really work when you’ve got time travel involved, and would be a terrible listening experience because the stories aren’t released in order – stories from the Monthly Adventures might feature the Sixth Doctor one month, then the Fifth Doctor the next.

How about date of release? Well, that’s relatively simple, but it means that you’re constantly switching between different series – Bernice Summerfield one day, Companion Chronicles the next, Eighth Doctor Adventures the day after that. To fix this, we’re going to bundle each series of adventures together into a “segment”, and then order the segments by day of release.

The ordering in this guide is based on half years. For each half year:

• There’s a segment for all the Monthly Adventures released in that half of the year.
• Then, segments for each series which had a concluding episode in that half of the year, ordered by release date.
• Then, a segment for all of the fan-made-but-still-officially-licensed releases from that period.
• Finally, a “Misc” segment for any special releases, audiobooks, or releases that couldn’t be fit into a previous segment.

Later in the guide, this pattern is shrunk to be based on quarter years instead of half years, but it’s otherwise the same. (The only exception to the pattern is right at the beginning, where the audio releases are too far apart to do things this way.)

If you’re on the version of the guide with my recommendations, then let me clarify a few things:

• The recommendations are just my opinions, not anyone elses.
• A “Maybe” rating does not mean that the drama is bad, it just means it’s a bit more difficult to recommend. It might have a more niche appeal, or maybe it’s just a little less exciting than the others.
• The recommendations are primarily compared to the series they are in, so if (say) Torchwood doesn’t appeal to you, then you can ignore any “Yes” or “Definitely” recommendations from that series.

Important Note

The Big Finish audio dramas are often darker than the TV show, and deal with more adult themes. I’ll put a special note on the stories that are especially dark.

The List

If there are any problems with this list, or you have any questions about the audio dramas, please let me know.

1976–1998 (before Big Finish)

The BBC has produced surprisingly few audio dramas related to Doctor Who – only five of them were made in the 20th century.

The first, Doctor Who and the Pescatons, existed primarily to try and make some money off the hugely popular Tom Baker. It’s the only audio drama in this list which I give a “Don’t listen” rating to, mostly because it often fails to even be grammatical, let alone a good story. The second, Exploration Earth, is an educational story for BBC Schools. The third, Slipback, was made during the hiatus between Season 22 and Season 23.

In the mid-90s, the BBC made The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space, featuring Jon Pertwee reprising his role as the Third Doctor.

If you’re just getting started with audio dramas, probably don’t start here. Start with the Big Finish Monthly Adventures. (Mostly because these are much harder to get).

Where to get them

The BBC has not made it particularly easy to get any of these, so I wouldn’t blame you for skipping this segment.

Doctor Who and the Pescatons is hard to find, but that’s ok because it’s not very good.

Each of the other dramas in this list was released on CD in the early 2000s, so you might be able to track one of those down. Exploration Earth and Slipback were given away for free with the The Daily Telegraph in 2010.

There’s a fan-animated version of Exploration Earth here.

Slipback, Paradise of Death, and The Ghosts of N-Space are available on audible.

Bill & Ben Video (BBV) was a company founded to create Doctor Who content for fans during the 16 years that Doctor Who was off the air. Unfortunately, they did not have the rights to Doctor Who itself. They started out creating a series called The Time Travelers, featuring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred as “the Professor” and “Ace”. Alas, since these characters are technically not Doctor Who characters, these dramas aren’t included in this guide.

However, certain characters and creatures featured in Doctor Who actually don’t belong to the BBC, but to the writer who introduced them. For many of their audio dramas, BBV focused on making spin-off stories about the characters they could get the license to use. These Spin-offs are featured in this guide.

Adventures in a Pocket Universe is a two-part sequel to the TV episode Warrior’s Gate, wherein Romana (here referred to as “The Mistress”) and K9 stayed behind in E-space.

1999–2000

The Monthly Adventures is a series of standalone Doctor Who stories. Each story consists of four half-hour parts, and features one of the classic doctors. In general, you can choose any story and just listen to it – only a few of them are designed to lead into each other.

The Monthly Adventures form the backbone of this guide. Typically, each segment will only have 6 months worth of audio adventures. This segment is longer than usual, because Big Finish had only just begun, so there weren’t many audio dramas being made yet.

Note: The letter (A) in the title of this segment isn’t an official thing, it’s a little indicator I’ve made so you can more easily keep track of where you are up to.

The Marian Conspiracy introduces a new-to-audio companion, Evelyn.

Bernice Summerfield is a professor of archaeology from the 27th century. She travelled with the Seventh Doctor in the Virgin New Adventures series of novels, and then went on to have her own series of novels.

When Big Finish were just getting started, they needed something to convince the BBC that they could do Doctor Who audio dramas. And so they chose to adapt six of the Virgin novels to audio. And here they are!

The first 11 seasons of Bernice Summerfield are only available on CD, which means they’re more expensive than your average audio drama. So if you’re unsure about whether Benny is for you, you could try out these (cheaper) options first:

Other starting points

Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far (2018)

A two-volume series that dips into every era of Benny’s life so far.

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (2014–)

The latest era of Benny’s adventures, with the Seventh Doctor in the first two volumes, and an Alternate Universe Doctor in the last three volumes.

Bernice Summerfield: Epoch (2011–2013)

A set of volumes, starting with Epoch. This is the first era of Benny’s life that you can get as a download (instead of only on CD).

Or you, could just start here, right at the beginning!

All the stories in this segment are adaptions of previously published novels, except for the Buried Treasures (Making Myths and Closure) which were the first stories to be written specifically for audio.

Where to get them

Series 1 is only available on CD. You can order it as a bundle from the Big Finish website.

Buried Treasures (Making Myths and Closure) are harder to get. Making Myths was released for free at some point, but that release has now disappeared. Closure is available as a bonus on the Bernice Summerfield series 4 story Death and the Daleks.

General warning for this segment: sexual references.

Here are the BBV dramas for 2000.

First is a story involving icecream and a terrible conspiracy. It’s narrated and performed by Lisa Bowerman, who also plays Bernice Summerfield.

Next, is a series of audio dramas about Sontarans.

Finally, The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind, a standalone story featuring The Rani and the Tetraps.

The final three Monthly Adventures for 2000 features a couple of “side-steps” – The Shadow of the Scourge steps sideways into the Virgin New Adventures’ canon; and The Holy Terror steps sideways into the comic books.

2001

The first half of 2001 features the first appearance of the Eighth Doctor in audio dramas, accompanied by new companion Charlotte Pollard (Charley for short). It also features the first appearance of The Master, in Dust Breeding.

A BBV story featuring the Wirrn from the TV story The Ark in Space.

Next, a series featuring the Zygons:

These three audio dramas were followed up by a home video release, When Being You Just Isn’t Enough, which was released in 2008.

(The MaximumSpidercide guide put The Killing Stone here as well, but I can barely find any information about it, let alone find the audio drama itself.)

Welcome to the first Misc segment! This is for all stories that don’t fit in anywhere else – special anniversary releases, bonus releases for subscribers to the Monthly Adventures, self-contained stories that aren’t part of anything else, and so on.

The Last of the Titans is a Big Finish special release, originally released on a free CD with Doctor Who Magazine #300.

Where to get them

The Last of the Titans can be downloaded for free from the Big Finish website.

Now back to the Monthly Adventures, to finish off the remaining stories for 2001.

Project: Twilight introduces a villain who returns in later audio dramas, and The Eye of the Scorpion introduces a new-to-audio companion Erimem.

Bernice Summerfield is back! Beginning with this series, Big Finish started creating its own original stories about her, and also published novels and short stories that tie in to the series.

In series 2, the novels were intrinsically linked into the overall storyline of the series, so much so that many listeners who had skipped the books were surprised to learn that Benny was pregnant in The Skymines of Karthos. If you want the full context of the series, reading the novels (or listening to the recently released audiobook versions of them) is a good idea, but if you don’t want to read them, then here’s what you need to know:

Spoilers for the novels

The Braxiatel Collection is a private collection of many artifacts from history, run by Irving Braxiatel (a Time Lord). Home to Professor Bernice Summerfield after her home planet Dellah was destroyed (off-screen between series 1 and series 2). Her ex-husband Jason is presumed to be dead.

During the events of The Squire’s Crystal, Benny is possessed and has sex with Adrian Wall, a Killoran (big dog-person) construction worker. The characters are still reacting to this situation in The Stone’s Lament.

Benny does not find out that she’s pregnant until The Infernal Nexus. Also in the Infernal Nexus: Jason is brought back.

When The Skymines of Karthos starts, Benny is 5 months pregnant.

In The Glass Prison, Benny gives birth to a son, and names him Peter.

Luckily, Big Finish decided to stop making the novels so essential to the storyline in the subsequent series, due to complaints from listeners.

Where to get them

The series 2 audio dramas are only available on CD. You can order it as a bundle from the Big Finish website.

The prose is in a more interesting position: over the course of 2019 and 2020, each of the novels was re-released as an audiobook read by Lisa Bowerman. Here’s a table that shows their availability according by format:

Release	Paperback	eBook	Audiobook
The Dead Men Diaries
The Doomsday Manuscript	✓		✓
The Gods of the Underworld	✓		✓
The Squire’s Crystal		✓	October 2019
The Infernal Nexus			January 2020
The Glass Prison		✓	March 2020

At the moment, the novel The Infernal Nexus and the short story anthology The Dead Men Diaries are the only prose releases from this series that are completely unavailable.

The Dalek Empire series asks the question “What if the Daleks invaded, and the Doctor wasn’t there to stop them?”.

The Dalek Empire stories were set up in a thread through 4 Monthly Adventures (The Genocide Machine, The Apocalypse Element, The Mutant Phase, and The Time of the Daleks), but the series itself can be listened to without that prior context.

Where to get them

Dalek Empire I is available for streaming on Google Play and Spotify. It is also available for download on the Big Finish website.

Warning: These stories feature a lot of death. Also, since they form a continuous story (unlike most other releases, which are standalone) you need to listen to them in order.

The “Featuring” section of this table has been removed, to avoid spoilers.

2002

The first half of 2002’s Monthly Adventures focused on the Eighth Doctor. These stories form a kind of “season”, with a story arc, so (unlike other Monthly Adventures segments) I highly recommend that you listen to these in order.

First, two audio dramas featuring Krynoids (from the TV story Seeds of Doom)

Then two standalone stories. One features the Rutans (the mortal enemies of the Sontarans), and the other one features Guy de Carnac, a love interest of Benny’s from the Virgin New Adventures novel Sanctuary.

At the start of this segment is the special release The Ratings War, which features the villain Beep the Meep (from the Doctor Who Magazine comics).

A “Short Trip” is a half-hour enhanced audiobook – there’s one narrator (like an audiobook), but it also features sound effects and a soundtrack. Originally, they were released as bonuses for people who subscribed to the Monthly Adventures. These subscriber bonuses were later re-released as “Short Trip: Rarities” in 2016–2018. The Switching is the first of these.

Next, the Excelis Saga, a miniseries centred around a mysterious relic, and set in the city of Excelis. Each of the episodes in the saga is set hundreds of years after the previous, and features a different Doctor. The episodes should be listened to in order. The epilogue of this story, featuring Bernice Summerfield, tangentially links in to Bernice Summerfield Series 3.

And finally, Death Comes to Time, which was originally an animated webcast. It’s considered to be an alternate universe story, because it tries to be a series finale for Doctor Who altogether.

The alternate universe shown in Death Comes to Time continues in a Spin-off series called The Minister of Chance, but since that’s far removed from any actual Doctor Who, it’s not in this guide.

And now the final half of the Monthly Adventures for 2002.

Spare Parts is one of Big Finish’s most popular releases.

The Sandman introduces the Galyari to the Doctor Who Universe.

And now a new spin-off series starring Sarah Jane Smith, set in the modern day of 2002-ish, years after she was left on Earth by the Doctor.

Warning: This is a horror/crime series. It is very dark in tone and contains adult material that may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Sarah Jane is back to working as an investigative journalist, uncovering corruption and crime wherever she can.

This segment contains a Bonus Release: The Maltese Penguin, as well as the audio version of a BBC animation, Real Time. Despite being animated, the script and audio production were specifically designed so that the story could be followed and understood perfectly as a purely audio production.

2003

The first half of 2003’s Monthly Adventures.

Jubilee is a story that was later adapted into the TV episode Dalek.

Project:Lazarus follows on from a previous monthly adventure, Project: Twilight.

A third series of Benny’s adventures! Now that Jason has been discovered again, he shows up in a few of these dramas.

Middway through this series is when The Plague Herds of Excelis (the Excelis episode that features Benny) occurs. Originally the Benny adventures were in the same segment as Excelis, but that was too confusing (not to mention completely unneccesary, as they don’t really impact on each other much.)

The Dalek Empire series continues. Dalek War directly follows on from the ending of Dalek Empire.

This segment contains No Place Like Home, a special release, and The Little Drummer Boy, a Short Trip Rarity.

We (almost*) finish off 2003’s Monthly Adventures. This includes the 50th release in the Monthly Adventures, Zagreus, which follows directly on from 2002’s Neverland, and directly leads into Scherzo, which can be found in the next Monthly Adventures segment.

*Scherzo was released in December 2003, but since it forms a story arc with the early 2004 releases, it’s been moved there.

Doctor Who Unbound is a series focused around alternate universes and “What ifs”. Each story is built around a different alternate scenario, and features a different actor playing the Doctor.

All these stories were released in 2003, but both Auld Mortality and Sympathy for the Devil were popular enough that two sequel stories were made in 2005 and 2008.

We now have 2 more stories: the Big Finish audio play version of Shada (a Fourth Doctor story that was never finished due to a strike), which features the Eighth Doctor; and the Special Release Living Legend.

2004

The Monthly Adventures for 2004 start off with the Divergent Universe arc (featuring the Eighth Doctor, Charley, and C’rizz). The first story of this arc is Scherzo, which is actually the December 2003 release, moved here so you can listen to the arc all at once.

After those are done, we have three stories with the other Doctors. In The Harvest, new companion Hex is introduced.

Bernice Summerfield returns for another series of adventures! Each story in this series features a different creature from Doctor Who.

Tales of intrigue and political manoeuvring from Gallifrey, featuring Romana, Leela, and K9.

A series from BBV, focusing on Faction Paradox – a criminal syndicate of Time Lords, devoted to inducing paradoxes and chaos into the flow of time. Faction Paradox was first introduced in the BBC’s Eighth Doctor Adventures novels.

The Faction Paradox Protocols was followed by The True History of Faction Paradox.

This series is told as 3 chapters, with 2 dramas in each chapter.

Next, another Short Trip Rarity. This was released for free on the Big Finish Podcast on the 20th of June 2016.

The last few Monthly Adventures of 2004. This segment concludes the Divergent Universe arc which started with Scherzo.

After this point, the Eighth Doctor stories were no longer clumped together, and were instead evenly mixed in with the other Monthly Adventures.

A new chapter in the Dalek Empire series, set 2500 years after the Dalek War, with the galaxy preparing for the Daleks to invade once again…

Another Short Trip Rarity: Lant Land, a Bernice Summerfield bonus release featuring the cybermen, and a Doctor Who bonus release.

We also have our first BBC audiobooks of the guide! This is Tales from the TARDIS, a 2 volume collection of previously released audiobooks. As a general rule, audiobooks of novelisations of TV stories aren’t included in this guide, but this collection is an exception due to the fact that it also has a few Short Trips and original stories.

Volume 1:

Volume 2:

2005

The first half of 2005’s Monthly Adventures. Midway through this segment, Doctor Who returned to television. This was unfortunately a difficult time for Big Finish, as people abandoned the audio dramas in droves (out of a perception of illegitimacy).

The Juggernauts features the Mechanoids from the TV story The Chase.

Three’s a Crowd references many past events of Erimem’s life (in particular The Eye of the Scorpion and The Roof of the World), so you should listen to the previous Erimem stories for the full context.

This series of Bernice Summerfield brings back a few old enemies: the Grel (first introduced in the very first episode of Bernice Summerfield Oh No It Isn’t!), the Galyari (first introduced in the Monthly Adventures story The Sandman), and the K1 robot (from the TV story Robot).

UNIT is a self-contained mini series, which sees a retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart advising a new UNIT team.

For more UNIT tales, you can check out the Unit Dominion boxset, released in 2012 and featuring the Seventh Doctor, and the UNIT series, released from 2015 onwards and featuring Kate Stewart and Osgood.

The last story features Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood, played by David Tennant and introduced in the Unbound story Sympathy for the Devil. As the Unbound stories are set in an alternate universe, you don’t need to listen to Sympathy for the Devil first, but there are a few references that you might enjoy if you do.

The last Monthly Adventures releases of 2005:

More stories from Gallifrey.

Iris Wildthyme, the transtemporal adventuress who travels the multiverse in a double decker bus, gets her own series. She first appeared in a short story called Old Flames, and her first audio appearance was in the Excelis saga.

A Short Trip Rarity and a Bonus Release:

Since the show was revived in 2005, BBC Books also released a number of books, each of which had an audiobook version. I’ve hidden these away so they don’t take up too much space.

Audiobooks (2005)

This set of audiobooks features the Ninth Doctor:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Clockwise Man	Rose	Nicholas Briggs	19 May 2005
The Monsters Inside	Rose, Slitheen	Camille Coduri	19 May 2005
Winner Takes All	Rose	Camille Coduri	19 May 2005
The Deviant Strain	Rose, Jack	Stuart Milligan	8 September 2005
Only Human	Rose, Jack	Anthony Head	8 September 2005
The Stealers of Dreams	Rose, Jack	Camille Coduri	8 September 2005

2006

The first half of 2006’s Monthly Adventures. Every audio drama in this segment features original-to-audio companions.

A series about… Cybermen!

This series is set during the Orion War, which was first introduced in the 8th Doctor drama Sword of Orion.

The second series of Sarah Jane Smith. The final episode of this series was released only a few weeks before Elizabeth Sladen returned to TV, and the subsequent creation of the spin off TV series The Sarah Jane Adventures meant that the audio dramas had to be cancelled. Unfortunately, this means that the series ends with a cliffhanger.

Bernice Summerfield returns for another season. Note that audio stories 3 and 4 were actually published out of order, for some reason. That’s corrected in this table.

In this series, the prose releases began to alternate between collections of short stories and groupings of three novellas.

A Special Release, featuring four companions on two conflicting missions…

The final half of 2006’s Monthly Adventures. Of special note is The Gathering – at the time, Janet Fielding was not interested in returning to the role of Tegan, but she did agree to have one special episode. The Gathering was written with the assumption that it would be the only appearance of Tegan in the audio dramas (and for several years, it was).

More stories from Gallifrey, featuring Romana, Leela, and K9.

Bernice Summerfield returns once again!

This series was released very shortly after the previous one.

These dramas chart the rise to supremacy of the infamous Davros.

This segment has a Bonus Release, then a Short Trip Rarity. Both of them are linked to the Dalek Empire series.

Audiobooks (2006)

And six audiobooks from the BBC New Series Adventures, featuring the Tenth Doctor:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Stone Rose	10th	Rose, Mickey, Jackie	David Tennant	13 April 2006
The Feast of the Drowned	10th	Rose, Mickey, Jackie	David Tennant	13 April 2006
The Resurrection Casket	10th	Rose	David Tennant	13 April 2006
The Nightmare of Black Island	10th	Rose	Anthony Head	21 September 2006
The Art of Destruction	10th	Rose	Don Warrington	21 September 2006
The Price of Paradise	10th	Rose	Shaun Dingwall	21 September 2006

2007

This segment sees a number of format experiments with the Monthly Adventures.

Firstly, Circular Time is an anthology of 4 short stories, rather than one long story. Due to it’s popular success, this format was repeated yearly.

Secondly, I.D. (a three episode story) was paired with Urgent Calls (a one episode story). This pattern would appear a few more times in the next few years, but ultimately did not catch on long term.

The Companion Chronicles delves into the past to tell stories of the Doctor as seen through the eyes of their companions. These stories are partial-cast audio dramas – they generally feature a companion and one other actor, performing all the roles of the story.

The first series was released as an anthology, but the episodes are all available individually.

This segment includes 100, another anthology of 4 stories (and also the 100th release in the Monthly Adventures).

The Eighth Doctor’s stories with Charley and C’rizz wrap up in this segment. The Eighth Doctor goes on to have his own series, The Eighth Doctor Adventures.

At last – a series just for the Eighth Doctor! With a brand new companion Lucie Miller, this series forms an excellent jumping on point for new listeners.

Both Blood of the Daleks and Human Resources are 2-part stories.

A bonus release:

Audiobooks (2007)

Next, some audiobooks featuring the 10th Doctor and Martha:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Sting of the Zygons	10th	Martha, Zygons	Reggie Yates	19 April 2007
The Last Dodo	10th	Martha	Freema Agyeman	19 April 2007
Wooden Heart	10th	Martha	Adjoa Andoh	19 April 2007
Forever Autumn	10th	Martha	Will Thorp	6 September 2007
Sick Building	10th	Martha	Will Thorp	6 September 2007
Wetworld	10th	Martha	Freema Agyeman	6 September 2007
Wishing Well	10th	Martha	Debbie Chazen	26 December 2007
The Pirate Loop	10th	Martha	Freema Agyeman	26 December 2007
Peacemaker	10th	Martha	Will Thorp	26 December 2007

And two made-for-audio audio books from the Sarah Jane Adventures:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Glittering Storm		Elisabeth Sladen	5 November 2007
The Thirteenth Stone		Elisabeth Sladen	5 November 2007

2008

Another Monthly Adventures segment:

Yet another season of Bernice!

The final series of Dalek Empire, set at the same time as the first two series, but from a different perspective.

If you haven’t, you might want to listen to the 2006 special releases Return of the Daleks and Museum Peace, both of which are linked to the Dalek Empire series.

Unlike the first Companion Chronicles series, these stories were released episodically.

Then, a Special Release:

Then a few more Monthly Adventures:

The Eighth Doctor’s second series of adventures with Lucie.

Summerfield returns for another Series (10 years after her first!)

This series starts to see the prose releases tapering off.

The Stageplays was a one-off audio series from Big Finish, based on theatrical plays from the 60s and 80s.

Due to the popularity of both Geoffrey Bayldon and David Warner’s portrayals of the Doctor in previous Unbound stories (Auld Mortlity and Sympathy for the Devil), two sequel stories were released.

(David Warner’s popularity even extends beyond this series, and he returns in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield Volume 3).

The BBC produced a number of Radio plays for Torchwood, the first of which celebrated the switching on of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. As of 2019, this is the only audio performance of Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones.

A whole bunch of Short Trip Rarities:

A bonus release:

Audiobooks (2008)

Some New Series Adventures audiobooks:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Martha in the Mirror	10th	Martha	Freema Agyeman	10 April 2008
Snowglobe 7	10th	Martha	Georgia Moffet	10 April 2008
The Many Hands	10th	Martha	David Troughton	10 April 2008
The Ghosts of India	10th	Donna	David Troughton	4 September 2008
The Doctor Trap	10th	Donna	Russell Tovey	4 September 2008
Shining Darkness	10th	Donna	Debbie Chazen	4 September 2008
The Story of Martha	10th	Martha, the Master	Freema Agyeman	26 December 2008
Beautiful Chaos	10th	Donna, Wilf, Sylvia	Bernard Cribbins	26 December 2008
The Eyeless	10th		Russel Tovey	26 December 2008

Then, some Original to Audio audibooks:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Pest Control	10th	Donna	David Tennant	8 May 2008
The Forever Trap	10th	Donna	Cathrine Tate	9 October 2008

Some Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Time Capsule		Elisabeth Sladen	13 November 2008
The Ghost House		Elisabeth Sladen	13 November 2008

And some Torchwood audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Hidden		Naoko Mori	4 February 2008
Everyone Says Hello		Burn Gorman	4 February 2008

2009

The first half of the Monthly Adventures in 2009. The first 3 of these form a trilogy of adventures, called The Key 2 Time (and hence being a sequel to Season 16 of Doctor Who, The Key to Time). The new characters introduced in these stories, Amy and Zara, would go on to have stories of their own.

Starting with The Key 2 Time Trilogy, the Monthly Adventures shifted format – instead of each release being completely unrelated to the previous, the adventures are now released in trilogies, with one specific TARDIS team. These trilogies don’t neccessarily need to be listened to in order, but it is somewhat better to do so.

Iris Wildthyme returns!

The Companion Chronicles got many more stories in this series, and for the first time included stories from Doctors after the Fourth.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio, these stories are set just before Series 3 of the TV show.

The second half of Monthly Adventures in 2009 featured an Eighth Doctor anthology release, The Company of Friends; then a trilogy focused on the Sixth Doctor attempting to discover Charley’s origins; and finally a trilogy featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.

The Eighth Doctor’s third series of adventures with Lucie.

This is the first of two series in this list from Magic Bullet Productions, another fan-made spin-off producer of audio dramas.

These stories continue on after The Faction Paradox Protocols, and features a deeper exploration into Sutekh and the Osirians from the TV story The Pyramids of Mars.

The first series of audio dramas produced by the BBC for Doctor Who in a very long time, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor for the first time in audio since 1976.

This is part of a 3 series production titled The Nest Cottage Chronicles.

The first story of Series 4 of the Eighth Doctor Adventures was released as a Christmas Special – the rest of the series didn’t start for another 7 months.

I highly recommend that you also listen to An Earthly Child (see segment 79), because (despite not actually being part of the Eighth Doctor Adventures) parts of it become relevant later on.

The second (and final) series in the Big Finish Cyberman spin-off, released as a box set.

This segment includes a story where the Eighth Doctor meets up with Susan (the Doctor’s grandaughter), which is essential listening for people going through the Eighth Doctor Adventures, as well as an Iris Wildthyme Christmas Episode

Audiobooks (2009)

Then, some New Series Adventures audiobooks:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Judgement of the Judoon	10th	Judoon	Nicholas Briggs	16 April 2009
The Slitheen Excursion	10th	Slitheen	Debbie Chazen	16 April 2009
Prisoner of the Daleks	10th	Daleks	Nicholas Briggs	16 April 2009
The Taking of Chealsea 426	10th	Sontarans, Rutan Host	Christopher Ryan	3 September 2009
Autonomy	10th	Nestene, Autons	Georgia Moffet	3 September 2009
The Krillitane Storm	10th	Krillitane	Will Thorpe	3 September 2009

Some original-to-audio audiobooks:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Nemonite Invasion	10th	Donna	Cathrine Tate	12 February 2009
The Rising Night	10th		Michelle Ryan	2 July 2009
The Day of the Troll	10th		David Tennant	8 October 2009

Some Sarah Jane Smith audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Shadow People		Elisabeth Sladen	8 October 2009
The White Wolf		Elisabeth Sladen	8 October 2009

And some Torchwood audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
In the Shadows		Eve Myles	7 May 2009
The Sin Eaters		Gareth David-Lloyd	4 June 2009

2010

Some more Monthly Adventures! The first 3 feature the return of Klein, the villain of the 25th Monthly Adventure Colditz. The other 3 feature the Sixth Doctor meeting up with Jamie again.

A collection of three special releases from the Companion Chronicles range. The collection was released in 2011, however since the stories themselves were released in 2009 and 2010, it’s here.

Jago & Litefoot is a series by Big Finish, focusing on the titular characters (introduced in The Talons of Weng-Chiang) solving mysteries in 1890s London. Each Jago & Litefoot series was released as a single box set.

Another Big Finish series. It took scripts that had been officially proposed to the BBC during the Classic era, converted them to audio dramas, and recorded them. It lasted for 4 seasons (until they had run out of unmade scripts to convert).

The “Season” column indicates what Season it was meant to be broadcast in originally.

And now the final Monthly Adventures for 2010. The first three feature the Fifth Doctor with Nyssa, Tegan, and Turlough – a TARDIS team which had never appeared in audio before. The next three stories feature the Seventh Doctor with Ace and Hex, as well as the Forge and the Sixth Doctor’s companion Evelyn. Finally, December’s release was an anthology story.

Short Trips Volumes contain 8 short stories, featuring each of the 8 Doctors. These are, essentially, enhanced audiobooks.

Graceless is a spin-off sequel to The Key 2 Time, featuring Abby and Zara.

The last series-style release of Bernice Summerfield – the subsequent releases were as named box sets.

The second Nest Cottage Chronicles series featuring the Fourth Doctor.

Bonus Release The Four Doctors:

Audiobooks (2010)

First, the last few original-to-audio books featuring the 10th Doctor:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Last Voyage	10th		David Tennant	7 January 2010
Dead Air	10th		David Tennant	4 March 2010

Then, two Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Deadly Download		Elisabeth Sladen	15 February 2010
Wraith World		Elisabeth Sladen	15 February 2010

Then, a number of New Series Adventures audiobooks featuring the Eleventh Doctor:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Apollo 23	11th	Amy	James Albrecht	22 April 2010
Night of the Humans	11th	Amy	Arthur Darvill	22 April 2010
The Forgotten Army	11th	Amy	Olivia Colman	22 April 2010
Nuclear Time	11th	Amy, Rory	Nicholas Briggs	8 July 2010
The King’s Dragon	11th	Amy, Rory	Nicholas Briggs	8 July 2010
The Glamour Chase	11th	Amy, Rory	Arthur Darvill	8 July 2010
The Coming of the Terraphiles	11th	Amy	Clive Mantle	14 October 2010

And finally, two Original-to-Audio books:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read by	release date
The Ring of Steel	11th	Amy	Arthur Darvill	5 august 2010
The Runaway Train	11th	Amy	Matt Smith	6 october 2010

2011

The first quarter of 2011’s Monthly Adventures features the re-introduction of Thomas Brewster (albeit this time with the Sixth Doctor), and the introduction of Flip. The second quarter features more adventures with Nyssa, Tegan, and Turlough.

Jago & Litefoot return for a second series.

The second Short Trips anthology.

The Gallifrey series returns, after a long break. It features Romana II, Leela, K9 II, and more, and is now in boxset format!

The final series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, introducing new companion Tamsin Drew. This series also features the return of the Monk, from the TV story The Time Meddler.

Note that this segment is missing story 1 of Series 4, since that was released as a Christmas episode.

Before listening to the rest of these stories, make sure you’ve listened to Death in Blackpool, the Christmas episode, and An Earthly Child

After these stories, the Eighth Doctor Adventures continue in Dark Eyes, and Lucie Miller’s adventures continue in The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller (coming in July 2019).

The third Short Trips anthology.

Jago & Litefoot return for a third series! This series features Leela returning to Victorian London and joining the pair.

The second half of 2011’s Monthly Adventures, which includes an anthology story, three stories where the Seventh Doctor is travelling alone (although he does meet two future companions), and three of the Eighth Doctor’s adventures with Mary Shelley.

More of the Lost stories. This Series features First and Second Doctor stories, which (due to missing actors) are halfway between a Companion Chronicle and a full cast drama.

The Destroyers was intended to be part of a spin-off series by Dalek creator Terry Nation, that was unfortunately cancelled at the last minute.

The second set of Torchwood audio dramas. The first two take place before Series 3 of the TV show, and the last one takes place afterwards.

The fourth Short Trips anthology.

The first box set release of Bernice Summerfield. These stories are set in Atlantis.

The third BBC series featuring the Fourth Doctor, and the final one in the Nest Cottage Chronicles.

Abby and Zara return for a second series.

A Bonus Release:

And then the audiobooks for 2011:

Audiobooks (2011)

First, some Torchwood audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Department X		Kai Owen	7 March 2011
Ghost Train		Kai Owen	7 March 2011

Next, some New Series Adventures audiobooks:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Dead of Winter	11th	Amy, Rory	Clare Corbett	28 April 2011
The Way Through the Woods	11th	Amy, Rory	Clare Corbett	28 April 2011
Hunter’s Moon	11th	Amy, Rory	Arthur Darvill	28 April 2011
Touched by an Angel	11th	Amy, Rory, Weeping Angels	Clare Corbett	23 June 2011
Paradox Lost	11th	Amy, Rory	Nicholas Briggs	23 June 2011
Borrowed Time	11th	Amy, Rory	Meera Syal	23 June 2011
The Silent Stars Go By	11th	Amy, Rory, Ice Warriors	Michael Maloney	29 September 2011

Then, some original-to-audio audiobooks:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read by	Release date
The Jade Pyramid	11th	Amy	Matt Smith	10 february 2011
The Gemini Contagion	11th	Amy	Meera Syal	14 march 2011
The Hounds of Artemis	11th	Amy	Matt Smith, Clare Corbett	5 may 2011
The Eye of the Jungle	11th	Amy, Rory	David Troughton	7 july 2011
Blackout	11th	Amy, Rory	Stuart Milligan	9 september 2011

And then the last two Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Children of Steel		Daniel Anthony	10 November 2011
Judgement Day		Anjli Mohindra	10 November 2011

2012

Starting with 2012, our Monthly Adventures segments are now going to be in Quarters Of A Year, instead of Halves Of A Year. This is because the number of other releases has increased drastically.

This quarter features the Sixth Doctor, with new-ish companion Flip.

And now a special release, finishing off the I, Davros series:

A special box set release of Lost stories, featuring the 4th Doctor!

Road Trip begins a pattern of three audio stories and one tie in novel per box set. In this set, Bernice is searching for her lost son, Peter.

More tales of mystery.

A few more Monthly Adventures releases, featuring the 5th Doctor.

At last – Big Finish creates a series with Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

A special release from the Companion Chronicles series

A few more Monthly Adventures releases, this time with the Seventh Doctor travelling with Ace and Hex, and introducing new companions Sally and Lysandra.

This series involves several characters from the Remembrance of the Daleks (Group Captain Ian Gilmore, Professor Rachel Jenson, and Allison Williams), solving mysteries relating to the paranormal or alien in Britain in 1964, as part of the Intrusion Countermeasures Group.

Another series from Magic Bullet Productions, focusing around Kaldor City (the city from the TV serial The Robots of Death and the novel Corpse Marker). The writer of the original stories was heavily involved in the production. The stories involve a character called Carnell, who was originally in a Blake’s 7 episode, which makes this series technically a cross over.

The series is 6 parts long, but there are 2 special releases (The Prisoner and Metafiction).

This concludes the Magic Bullet productions that relate to Doctor Who. The rest of this guide has only BBC or Big Finish releases.

Iris Wildthyme returns again, after a three year absence, and now in a box set format.

More of the Lost stories.

Finishing off 2012’s Monthly Adventures, we have 3 stories set in the galaxy-spanning Drashani Empire, and then an anthology release 1001 Nights.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bernice Summerfield’s introduction, Big Finish started a new range: Novel Adaptions, adapting various stories from the Virgin New Adventures and Virgin Missing Adventures to audio. The first release in this range is Love and War, an adaption of the novel that introduced Benny.

The Eighth Doctor resumes his adventures, except instead of in a series format they’re in a box set format.

The Doctor and new companion Molly find themselves thrust into a series of dangerous and terrifying adventures, with the Daleks never far behind them…

Jago & Litefoot travel with the Doctor on 2 adventures.

2 special releases: One for Bernice Summerfield, one for UNIT.

And then the audiobooks for 2012:

Audiobooks (2012)

The final few Torchwood audiobooks:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Army of One		Kai Owen	8 March 2012
Fallout		Tom Price	5 April 2012
Red Skies		John Telfer	3 May 2012
Mr Invincible		Tom Price	7 June 2012

One New Series Adventures audiobook:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Dark Horizons	11th		Neve McIntosh	5 July 2012

Several Original-to-Audio books:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read by	Release date
The Art of Death	11th	Amy, Rory	Raquel Cassidy	5 january 2012
Darkstar Academy	11th	Amy, Rory	Alexander Armstrong	8 march 2012
Day of the Cockroach	11th	Amy, Rory	Arthur Darvill	3 may 2012
The Nu-Humans	11th	Amy, Rory	Raquel Cassidy	5 july 2012
The Empty House	11th	Amy, Rory	Raquel Cassidy	6 september 2012
Sleepers in the Dust	11th	Amy, Rory	Arthur Darvill	1 november 2012
Snake Bite	11th	Amy, Rory	Frances Barber	6 december 2012

Two New Series tie-in novels:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery	River Song	Alex Kingston	4 October 2012
Devil in the Smoke	Paternoster Gang	Dan Starkey	18 December 2012

And finally, an audiobook from the “Past Doctors New Novels” series:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Wheel of Ice	2nd Doctor, Jamie, Zoe	David Troughton	16 August 2012

2013

The first few Monthly Adventures of 2013, featuring the Sixth Doctor and Mel.

The Gallifrey series returns. It features Romana II, Leela, Narvin, and more.

More tales of mystery, but this time set in the wrong century…

The second quarter of 2013 featured the 5th Doctor.

Tensions heat up for Benny’s family…

Abby and Zara return for a third series.

The continuing adventures of the ICMG.

This segment features the 7th Doctor and Klein.

The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, this time with Romana I.

Iris Wildthyme returns for her final numbered series.

This segment includes 1963, a 3 part celebration for the 50th anniversary of doctor who.

More tales of mystery, with Jago and Litefoot now back in Victorian London.

The Gallifrey series returns. It features Romana II, Leela, Narvin, and more.

First, the Big Finish 50th anniversary release, featuring the Fourth through to Eighth Doctors (as well as minor parts for the first three doctors), all caught in a trap layed out by the Master…

Next, The Destiny of the Doctor – A collaboration between AudioGO and Big Finish productions. It was released each month between January and November 2013, to celebrate the 50th anniversary. It’s similar to the Companion Chronicles, in that there are generally only one or two voice actors.

The release of The Destiny of the Doctors was somewhat disrupted by AudioGO going into administration in October 2013, but the last story was released by Big Finish.

The final series of Lost Stories.

The odds are stacked against Benny, and this seems undoubtedly like the end for Benny…

(It isn’t The End, Benny returns in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield).

Two bonus releases: A Fourth Doctor adventure Night of the Stormcrow, then Trial of the Valeyard (which is a sequel to the TV story Trial of a Time Lord).

And then the audiobooks for 2013:

Audiobooks (2013)

The last few Eleventh Doctor Novels:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Plague of the Cybermen	11th	Cybermen	David Warner	8 April 2013
The Dalek Generation	11th	Daleks	Nicholas Briggs	8 April 2013
Shroud of Sorrow	11th	Clara	Frances Barber	8 April 2013

A tie-in:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Summer Falls	11th Doctor	Clare Corbett	4 April 2013

A Past Doctors New Novels story:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Harvest of Time	3rd Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier	Geoffrey Beevers	4 June 2013

2014

The first quarter of 2014 focused on the Sixth Doctor and Flip.

The Dark Eyes storyline, featuring the 8th Doctor, continues…

Three more Monthly Adventures.

More stories featuring the investigators of infernal incidents.

Charlotte Pollard’s adventures with the Doctor are over, but now, in service of the Viyrans, she feels stifled, and will take any chance to escape…

A new box set of adventures, featuring Benny and her friends the Doctor and Ace!

The final series under the Companion Chronicles name – but the series would live on in The First Doctor and The Second Doctor.

An anthology featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri, and then three stories with the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Hex.

The continuing adventures of the ICMG.

The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Leela again.

This is the first part of a series of audio dramas written by Hinchcliffe (the producer of the show for the first 3 seasons of Tom Baker’s tenure), starring the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

This isn’t actually part of the Fourth Doctor Adventures range, but I’ve connected them together with the prev/next in range links, to make it a little more discoverable.

First is the Fifth Doctor Box Set, a full cast audio anthology featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric (played by Matthew Waterhouse for the first time since 1984).

And then the Worlds of Doctor Who, a special release to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Sirens of Time, the first Doctor Who release from Big Finish. It features the crossover of a number of the Big Finish spin off ranges: Jago & Litefoot, Counter-Measures, Gallifrey, and UNIT.

The last stories of 2014 featured the 6th Doctor and Peri.

More tales of mystery.

The Dark Eyes storyline, featuring the Eighth Doctor, continues…

And now, a Novel Adaption:

The Early Adventures continued telling stories from the first two doctors, like The Companion Chronicles did, but the format was pushed to make it as close to a full cast drama as possible.

The first series features stories from the First Doctor.

Some Subscriber Short Trips:

And the audiobooks for 2014:

Audiobooks (2014)

An anthology of short stories:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Tales of Trenzalore	11th Doctor	David Troughton	27 February 2014

A tie-in:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Engines of War	War Doctor, Daleks, Time Lords	Nicholas Briggs	31 July 2014

Some New Series Adventures, featuring the Twelfth Doctor:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Blood Cell	12th	Clara	Colin Mcfarlane	11 September 2014
Silhouette	12th	Clara, Paternoster Gang	Dan Starkey	11 September 2014
The Crawling Terror	12th	Clara	Neve McIntosh	11 September 2014

2015

The first releases of 2015 focused on the Fifth Doctor revisiting E-Space.

Two Novel Adaptions:

The Gallifrey series returns for a single story.

The conclusion of the Eighth Doctor storyline Dark Eyes.

A small collection of Monthly Adventures:

More tales of mystery.

The continuation of the Companion Chronicles after the end of the monthly releases, focusing on the first doctor.

This series sees the return of Sutekh from The Pyramids of Mars.

And now The Worlds of Big Finish, which is a crossover between many Big Finish releases, some of them in the Doctor Who Universe:

And also a Subscriber Short Trip:

The final series of Counter-Measures (before it was replaced with The New Counter-Measures)

Iris Wildthyme returns for eight half-hour episodes!

As of writing, this is the last Iris Wildthyme release.

The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Leela.

The Third Doctor Adventures stars the Third Doctor, played by Tim Treloar, and Jo Grant, played by Katy Manning.

A very special release: The Last Adventure, the stories that reveal the events leading up to the Sixth Doctor’s regeneration.

Some Monthly Adventures, featuring the Sixth Doctor, and another featuring the Seventh.

Doom Coalition is another series of adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and companions Liv and Helen.

More tales of mystery.

The new UNIT series focuses on the exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood.

In Extinction, UNIT confront an invasion by the Nestene Consciousness.

In 2015, the Short Trips series changed to be monthly individual downloads. Here are all the Short Trips from 2015:

The War Doctor series depicts the events of the Time War and the War Doctor’s role in them.

The Diary of River Song involves River Song teaming up with Classic era doctors. Series 1 features the Eighth Doctor.

First, three Subscriber Short Trips:

Then a special release featuring Jago & Litefoot alongside Strax from the new series.

And finally, the audiobooks for 2015:

Audiobooks (2015)

An anthology:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Time Lord Fairy Tales	various	various	1 October 2015

A Past Doctors audiobook:

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Drosten’s Curse	4th Doctor	Clare Corbett	16 July 2015

Some New Series Adventures:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Royal Blood	12th	Clara	David Warner	10 September 2015
Big Bang Generation	12th	Benny, Peter, Ruth, Jack	Lisa Bowerman	10 September 2015
Deep Time	12th	Clara	Dan Starkey	10 September 2015

2016

These releases feature the 5th Doctor.

The second series of Early Adventures features the Second Doctor.

A New Who spin-off series, starring the version of Winston Churchill established in the TV show.

This is the first segment in what I’m calling the “The New Series non-series releases” – it’s a category of releases that are firmly set in the 2005-onwards era of the show, but aren’t really part of long-term series – so this category includes The Churchill Years, and Classic Doctors, New Monsters; but it doesn’t include UNIT, River Song, or The Tenth Doctor releases.

They’re all bundled together so you can just use the previous in range/next in range buttons to navigate betwen them, without having to know about their names ahead of time.

The first series to use Big Finish’s expanded license for new era content, Torchwood returns. Series 1 focuses on the Committee.

The War Doctor’s tale continues…

Doom Coalition, featuring the Eighth Doctor, Liv, and Helen, continues…

A Subscriber Short Trip:

A few Monthly Adventures, featuring the Master:

And now a novel adaption:

More tales of mystery.

David Tennant returns to the role of the Tenth doctor in this series of audio dramas.

The Gallifrey series returns for another story.

The continuation of the Companion Chronicles after the end of the monthly releases, focusing on the second doctor.

The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue.

A Subscriber Short Trip:

Some more Monthly Adventures:

Who Killed Toby Kinsella? is a special feature-length release, forging a new era for Counter-Measures.

An audio series, featuring (unsurprisingly) Doctors from the classic series, alongside aliens from the revived era.

Torchwood returns for a second series, continuing the Committee arc.

The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Romana II.

For this box set, Bernice joins a version of the doctor from a parallel universe (the one from Sympathy for the Devil in Unbound).

The second story from Philip Hinchcliffe, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

Doom Coalition, featuring the Eighth Doctor, Liv, and Helen, continues…

A Subscriber Short Trip:

The final few Monthly Adventures of 2016:

The War Doctor’s tale continues…

More tales of mystery.

Two more adventures of the Third Doctor and Jo.

Two Torchwood specials were released in 2016

The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue, this time featuring the Silents.

The third series of The Early Adventures features the First doctor again.

The last two novel adaptions from Big Finish:

After the special release Who Killed Toby Kinsella?, Big Finish created a series of stories for the New Counter-Measures.

Series 2 of River Song’s adventures with classic doctors, featuring the Seventh and Sixth Doctors.

And then, some Subscriber Short Trips:

And the audiobooks for 2016:

Audiobooks (2016)

A Past Doctors novel (strangely, featuring the 10th Doctor):

Story	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
In the Blood	10th Doctor, Donna, Wilf, Sylvia	tba	12 May 2016

Some Original-to-Audio books:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read by	Release date
The Gods of Winter	12th	Clara	Clare Higgins	20 August 2015
The House of Winter	12th	Clara	David Schofield	15 October 2015
The Sins of Winter	12th	Clara	Robin Soans	3 December 2015
The Memory of Winter	12th	Clara	Jemma Redgrave	7 April 2016

2017

Big Finish starts another Torchwood series, focusing on Torchwood One before the Battle of Canary Wharf (featured in the TV episode Doomsday).

Abby and Zara return for a fourth (and final, as of writing) series.

The final anthology centered around The War Doctor. It was released only a month after John Hurt’s passing.

Doom Coalition, featuring the Eighth Doctor, Liv, and Helen, concludes.

Charlotte Pollard’s adventures continue… (as of writing, this is the last series of Charlotte Pollard).

Each release in this quarter is two 2-part adventures.

The third and final story from Philip Hinchcliffe, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

The final series of Jago & Litefoot, before Trevor Baxter (the actor for Litefoot) passed away.

Big Finish produced an audio anthology, featuring Nicholas Briggs as both Narrator and as the voice of the Ninth Doctor.

The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue, featuring the Silurians.

Another spin off series from Big Finish, featuring Jack Harkness’ adventures outside of Torchwood. A second volume was released in 2019.

The First Doctor’s stories continue.

A Subscriber Short Trip:

For logistical reasons, I’ve moved the audiobook releases for 2017 to here (6 months early):

Audiobooks (2017)

Some New Series Adventures:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Shining Man	12th	Bill	tba	20 April 2017
Diamond Dogs	12th	Bill	tba	20 April 2017
Plague City	12th	Bill, Nardole	tba	20 April 2017

Some Original-to-Audio books:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read by	Release Date
The Lost Angel	12th	Alex, Brandon, Weeping Angel	Kerry Shale	4 January 2017
The Lost Planet	12th	Alex, Brandon	Nicol Bryant	2 March 2017
The Lost Magic	12th	Alex, Brandon	Dan Starkey	4 May 2017
The Lost Flame	12th	Alex, Brandon, Ohila	Clare Higgins	6 July 2017
Death Among the Stars	12th		Nicola Bryant	7 September 2017
Rhythm of Destruction	12th		Dan Starkey	2 November 2017

A few Monthly Adventures:

Two more adventures of the Third Doctor and Jo.

This next series of stories was never marketed as “Series 3” and instead is bundled as “stories 13–18”. They did this because shortly afterwards they would start writing a continuation of the TV show, and wanted to reduce confusion.

Unlike the previous series, which focused on the Committee, this series has no overall arc.

Important Note: This is not the same series as the previous segment – the Monthly releases are set randomly during the TV show’s continuity (much like the Monthly Adventures is for Doctor Who), whereas Aliens Among Us is set after the TV show.

Big Finish began releasing a series of Torchwood adventures in box sets, set after the events of the TV series and previous Big Finish audio stories set after the Miracle Day. It’s sometimes advertised as Series 5 of Torchwood.

Bernice’s Adventures in the Unbound Universe continue.

The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Romana II.

The final Monthly Adventures of 2017.

The second box set of Aliens Among Us.

A prequel to The War Doctor, this series features the Eighth Doctor and companion Bliss.

Three more stories featuring the Tenth Doctor, this time with Rose as his companion.

The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue.

The War Master stars the Master, played by Derek Jacobi.

The fourth series of The Early Adventures features the Second Doctor again.

Big Finish productions created another series starring the first Doctor. Using the cast of An Adventure in Space and Time, they began producing full-cast adventures with the Doctor and the original set of companions. This series also introduces a new incarnation of the Master, played by James Dreyfus.

2018

The first few stories of 2018.

Series 3 of River Song’s adventures with classic doctors, featuring the Fifth Doctor.

The Gallifrey series returns for stories set during the Time War…

The second volume of stories centering around Churchill.

The final box set of Aliens Among Us.

This box set focused around New Earth (as shown in the TV episodes New Earth and Gridlock).

Two more adventures of the Third Doctor and Jo.

This segment goes one month further than usual - this is because the first and last stories are somewhat related, so we’ve extended this “quarter” to preserve the relation between them.

Another series of Eighth Doctor adventures, following on from the events of Doom Coalition.

One Torchwood special was released in 2018.

Featuring Jacob Dudman as both Narrator and as the voice of the Tenth Doctor.

The end of the Jago & Litefoot series. Litefoot’s lines were taken from archive recordings.

The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue. This series focuses on technology and cybermen.

The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Leela.

A series focusing on the exploits of Jenny after the events of the TV episode The Doctor’s Daughter.

The second volume of Second Doctor stories.

The tales of Torchwood One continue.

The continuation of the Eighth Doctor’s time in the Time War

The second volume of adventures using the cast of An Adventure in Space and Time.

As mentioned above, this is one month offset from the actual third quarter of 2018, because these stories are all related.

The tales of thief Lady Christina de Souza, the character introduced in the TV episode Planet of the Dead.

This was a series of audio stories centred around the TV show Class (a Doctor Who spin-off). The license for the show was acquired before its cancellation, so the audio dramas can’t develop the cliffhanger at the end of season 1 of the show, so instead they all take place during the show’s first (and only) season.

Featuring Jacob Dudman as both Narrator and as the voice of the Eleventh Doctor.

Series 4 of River Song’s adventures with classic doctors, featuring the Fourth Doctor.

The Eighth Doctor storyline Ravenous continues…

The first box set of God Among Us, which follows after the events of Aliens Among Us. (God Among Us is also known as Series 6 of Torchwood).

The last Monthly Adventures from 2018:

This series is a continuation of the New Adventures novels, featuring the companions Roz and Chris.

The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue.

First, the two volumes of The Story So Far, summarising the different eras of Bernice’s life:

And then, Treasury, an anthology of previously published short stories in the Bernice Summerfield series:

The fifth series of The Early Adventures features the First doctor again.

The War Master series continues…

A few Subscriber Short Trips. Two of these are from 2017, but moved here for logistical reasons.

And then the Audiobooks for 2018:

Audiobooks (2018)

First, some Narrated Stories:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Thing from the Sea	4th	Fenella Wibbsey	Susan Jameson	1 March 2018
Men of War	1st	Steven, Sara	Peter Purves	3 May 2018
Horrors of War	3rd	Jo	Katy Manning	5 July 2018
Fortunes of War	6th		Colin Baker	6 September 2018

Then, a novelisation:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen	4th	Romana II, K9 II	Dan Starkey	18 January 2018

And finally, some New Series Adventures novels featuring the Thirteenth Doctor:

Story	Doctor	Featuring	Read By	Release Date
The Good Doctor	13th	Ryan, Yaz, Graham	Clare Corbett	25 October 2018
Molten Heart	13th	Ryan, Yaz, Graham	Dan Starkey	8 November 2018
Combat Magicks	13th	Ryan, Yaz, Graham	Mandip Gill	22 November 2018

2019

The first quarter of Monthly Adventures from 2019 featured the reintroduction of Kamelion!

At the time of relesae, this appeared to be the final story for The New Counter-Measures, but fortunately the series continued!

The Legacy of Time features an episode with the Counter Measure’s team, so go check that out once you’re done with this.

Series 5 of The Diary of River Song features several incarnations of the Master.

A series of adventures starring Michelle Gomez as Missy.

The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 8 features a brand new companion, WPC Ann Kelso. This series brings in two changes for the Fourth Doctor Adventures: firstly, the whole series has an overarching storyline. Secondly, it was released as two boxsets, instead of as individual episodes.

Part 2 of God Among Us.

A Special release for International Women’s Day, the stories in this release are written and directed by women; and centered around the women in the Doctor Who Universe.

The story Inside Every Warrior features the Paternoster Gang, who got their own series a few months later.

A Fourth Doctor series adapted from the 70s and 80s. Much wackier than your typical Doctor Who.

The Gallifrey series returns for a second series of stories set during the Time War, focusing on the consequences of the resurrection of Rassilon

The Eighth Doctor’s plight with the Ravenous continues…

The second quarter of Monthly Adventures from 2019 brings back Mags, the werewolf from the psychic circus in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

The continued exploits of UNIT under Kate Stewart and Osgood. The last story in this boxset features River Song… as an antagonist!

The first story in the box set is a direct sequel to the December 2017 Monthly Adventure, Static.

This boxset sees the return of the Brigadier and Liz Shaw to the Third Doctor Adventures.

The Tenth Doctor and Donna return for three more adventures. And this time, they’re taking the family with them…

Victorian London harbours many secrets: alien visitors, strange phenomena and unearthly powers. But a trio of investigators stands ready to delve into such mysteries – the Great Detective, Madame Vastra, her resourceful spouse, Jenny Flint, and their loyal valet, Strax.

The Paternoster Gang were prominent characters in the TV stories The Snowmen, The Crimson Horror, and Deep Breath; and now they have their own spin off series!

The omnisexual Time Agent is back…

The final adventures in the God Among Us series…

With all of space and time in chaos, the Master plots his most audacious project yet. Only one other Time Lord has ever been able to stop him. But where is that Time Lord when the universe needs him?

This set of Monthly Adventures features the 6th Doctor and Peri, a TARDIS team we haven’t seen for a while.

The Doctor keeps to the fringes of the Time War, but his friends and enemies are drawing him ever close to his destiny…

The first four of these dramas feature Torchwood encountering monsters from Doctor Who.

This series is focused around River Song slipping in at the fringes of stories with the Doctor, and dealing with problems on the sidelines.

Rose Tyler’s World is ending, so she travels across dimensions in search of the Doctor…

(This set of adventures is set between Rose getting stuck in an alternate universe in Series 2 of Doctor Who, and when she manages to break through into our universe in Series 4 of Doctor Who.)

Bernice Summerfield is back in four new adventures with a Time Lord you could bring home to meet your universe.

An epic six-part adventure celebrating 20 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish!

The Flux

Everything after this point is in flux – I will be attempting to add every 2019 release as it comes out under here, and then once I know which segment to put them in, I’ll add them to the main list.

(The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller is included here because it makes more sense to be in the guide after Ravenous 4, despite its release date putting it between Ravenous 3 and Ravenous 4. I’ll be putting it just before the appropriate misc segment for that quarter of the year.)

Audiobooks and short trips are in their own table, since they only get added to the guide at the end of the year:

The End… for now