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:
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:
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.
If you’re planning on listening to most of the audio dramas, there’s a few techniques you can use to save money long term.
To get a subscription or bundle, go to the page for one of the episodes of the series you want to get. Then, underneath the price buttons, there will be a “Bundles” option, which you can select. (The monthly adventures will also have a “Subscription” option next to the “Bundles” option. For the Monthly Adventures, a subscription is better value.)
If there are any problems with this list, or you have any questions about the audio dramas, please let me know.
previous years • next years
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 0 audio dramas and 0 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Doctor Who and the Pescatons | 4th | Sarah Jane | No very poorly written |
Exploration Earth | 4th | Sarah Jane | Maybe a short educational story – entertaining, but not much plot |
Slipback | 6th | Peri | Maybe a pastiche of Hitchiker's Guide. Fun, but doesn't feel like Doctor Who |
The Paradise of Death | 3rd | Sarah Jane, Brigadier | Yes content warning: suicide, sexual assault |
The Ghosts of N-Space | 3rd | Sarah Jane, Brigadier | Maybe |
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.
Where to get them
Due to the no-longer-existing nature of BBV, listening to a BBV audio drama requires either finding someone with a disc, or finding copies being shared around online.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Choice | K9, “The Mistress” | Maybe |
The Search | K9, “The Mistress” | Maybe |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 7 audio dramas and 0 audio books.
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.
Where to get them
The early Main Range titles are available for purchase from the Big Finish site for a small amount individually, or you can get an Early Years subscription. The Big Finish subscription system allows you to get 12 Main Range releases, starting from a release of your choosing. The first 100 releases are available as part of an Early Years Discount, which is less expensive than the later releases.
Alternatively, the first 50 of the Main Range releases are available on Spotify for free, or are available as part of a Google Play Music subscription.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Sirens of Time | 5th, 6th, 7th | Time Lords | Maybe |
Phantasmagoria | 5th | Turlough | Yes |
Whispers of Terror | 6th | Peri | Yes |
The Land of the Dead | 5th | Nyssa | Maybe |
The Fearmonger | 7th | Ace | Definitely |
The Marian Conspiracy | 6th | Evelyn | Definitely |
The Genoicde Machine | 7th | Ace, Bev, Daleks | Maybe |
Red Dawn | 5th | Peri, Ice Warriors | Definitely |
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor | 6th | Evelyn, Brigadier | Yes content warning: gore |
Winter for the Adept | 5th | Nyssa | Yes |
The Apocalypse Element | 6th | Evelyn, Romana II, Time Lords, Daleks | Yes |
The Fires of Vulcan | 7th | Mel | Yes |
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
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Oh No It Isn’t! | Wolsey, Grel | Maybe very farcical, with a slow first half |
Beyond the Sun | Jason Kane | Yes |
Walking to Babylon | Jason Kane, John Lafayette | Yes |
Birthright | Jason Kane, John Lafayette | Yes |
Just War | Jason Kane | Yes content warning: torture, nazis |
Making Myths | Keri | |
Closure | ||
Dragon’s Wrath | Maybe a good story, marred by poor sound quality |
Here are the BBV dramas for 2000.
Where to get them
Due to the no-longer-existing nature of BBV, listening to a BBV audio drama requires either finding someone with a disc, or finding copies being shared around online.
First is a story involving icecream and a terrible conspiracy. It’s narrated and performed by Lisa Bowerman, who also plays Bernice Summerfield.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
I Scream | Yes content warning: sexual references |
Next, is a series of audio dramas about Sontarans.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Silent Warrior | Sontarans | Yes |
Old Soldiers | Sontarans | Definitely |
Conduct Unbecoming | Sontarans | Yes |
Finally, The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind, a standalone story featuring The Rani and the Tetraps.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind | The Rani, Tetraps | Maybe content warning: sexual references, sexual assault, torture |
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.
Where to get them
The early Main Range titles are available for purchase from the Big Finish site for a small amount individually, or you can get an Early Years subscription. The Big Finish subscription system allows you to get 12 Main Range releases, starting from a release of your choosing. The first 100 releases are available as part of an Early Years Discount, which is less expensive than the later releases.
Alternatively, the first 50 of the Main Range releases are available on Spotify for free, or are available as part of a Google Play Music subscription.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Shadow of the Scourge | 7th | Ace, Bernice | Maybe content warning: gore |
The Holy Terror | 6th | Frobisher | Definitely |
The Mutant Phase | 5th | Nyssa, Thals, Daleks | Definitely |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 35 audio dramas and 0 audio books.
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.
Where to get them
The early Main Range titles are available for purchase from the Big Finish site for a small amount individually, or you can get an Early Years subscription. The Big Finish subscription system allows you to get 12 Main Range releases, starting from a release of your choosing. The first 100 releases are available as part of an Early Years Discount, which is less expensive than the later releases.
Alternatively, the first 50 of the Main Range releases are available on Spotify for free, or are available as part of a Google Play Music subscription.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Storm Warning | 8th | Charley | Yes |
Sword of Orion | 8th | Charley, Cybermen | Definitely content warning: body horror |
The Stones of Venice | 8th | Charley | Yes |
Minuet in Hell | 8th | Charley, Brigadier | Maybe content warning: religious references, sex trafficking, mistreatment of medical patients |
Loups-Garoux | 5th | Turlough | Yes |
Dust Breeding | 7th | Ace, Bev, The Master | Definitely |
A BBV story featuring the Wirrn from the TV story The Ark in Space.
Where to get them
Due to the no-longer-existing nature of BBV, listening to a BBV audio drama requires either finding someone with a disc, or finding copies being shared around online.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Wirrn: Race Memory | The Wirrn | Yes |
Next, a series featuring the Zygons:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Homeland | Zygons | Maybe content warning: gore |
Absolution | Zygons | Maybe content warning: heavy religious references |
The Barnacled Baby | Zygons | Maybe content warning: breastfeeding, child death |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Last of the Titans | 7th | Yes |
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.
Where to get them
The early Main Range titles are available for purchase from the Big Finish site for a small amount individually, or you can get an Early Years subscription. The Big Finish subscription system allows you to get 12 Main Range releases, starting from a release of your choosing. The first 100 releases are available as part of an Early Years Discount, which is less expensive than the later releases.
Alternatively, the first 50 of the Main Range releases are available on Spotify for free, or are available as part of a Google Play Music subscription.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Bloodtide | 6th | Evelyn, Silurians | Maybe |
Project: Twilight | 6th | Evelyn, Nimrod, the Forge | Maybe content warning: gore, torture |
The Eye of the Scorpion | 5th | Peri, Erimem | Definitely content warning: torture |
Colditz | 7th | Ace, Klein | Definitely content warning: nazis, sexual assault |
Primeval | 5th | Nyssa, Trakenites | Yes |
The One Doctor | 6th | Mel | Maybe a fun farce |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Short Stories: The Dead Men Diaries | Various | Out of Print |
Novel: The Doomsday Manuscript | Brax, Joseph, Adrian, Fifth Axis | Maybe |
The Secret of Cassandra | Yes | |
Novel: The Gods of the Underworld | Brax, Joseph | Maybe content warning: gore, sexism, racism |
Novel: The Squire’s Crystal | Adrian, Joseph, Brax, Fenman | |
The Stone’s Lament | Adrian | Yes content warning: sexual references and creepiness |
The Extinction Event | Brax | Maybe |
Novel: The Infernal Nexus | Jason | Out of Print |
The Skymines of Karthos | Brax | Yes |
Novel: The Glass Prison | Brax, Joseph, Jason, Adrian, Isaac, Peter, Fifth Axis, Fenman, Chris Cwej |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Invasion of the Daleks | Definitely | |
The Human Factor | Yes | |
“Death to the Daleks!” | Yes | |
Project Infinity | Yes |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 61 audio dramas and 5 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Invaders From Mars | 8th | Charley | Yes content warning: a character uses the f-slur |
The Chimes of Midnight | 8th | Charley | Definitely content warning: suicide |
Seasons of Fear | 8th | Charley | Definitely |
Embrace the Darkness | 8th | Charley | Definitely content warning: body horror |
The Time of the Daleks | 8th | Charley, Daleks | Definitely |
Neverland | 8th | Charley, Time Lords | Yes or definitely, if you've listened to the rest of this segment |
First, two audio dramas featuring Krynoids (from the TV story Seeds of Doom)
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Root of All Evil | Krynoids | |
The Green Man | Krynoids |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
In 2 Minds | Rutans | |
The Quality of Mercy | Guy de Carnac |
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).
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Ratings War | 6th | Beep the Meep | Maybe |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Switching | 3rd Doctor, The Master | Yes |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Excelis Dawns | 5th | Iris Wildthyme | Maybe |
Excelis Rising | 6th | Yes (but listen to Excelis in order) | |
Excelis Decays | 7th | Yes (but listen to Excelis in order) | |
The Plague Herds of Excelis | Bernice Summerfield, Iris Wildthyme | Maybe a good epilogue, but wouldn't hold up on its own |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Death Comes to Time | 7th | Ace, Antimony |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Spare Parts | 5th | Nyssa, Cybermen | Definitely content warning: body horror |
…ish | 6th | Peri | Yes content warning: suicide, linguistic elitism |
The Rapture | 7th | Ace | Maybe content warning: heavy religious references |
The Sandman | 6th | Evelyn, the Galyari | Definitely content warning: use of the g-slur |
The Church and the Crown | 5th | Peri, Erimem | Yes content warning: torture, religious references |
Bang-Bang-a-Boom! | 7th | Mel | Maybe content warning: sexual references |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Comeback | Josh, Natalie | Yes content warning: racism |
The Tao Connection | Josh, Natalie | Maybe content warning: racism, sexual assault, homophobia, abusive relationship(s) |
Test of Nerve | Josh, Natalie | |
Ghost Town | Josh | |
Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre | Josh, Natalie |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Maltese Penguin | 6th | Frobisher | |
Real Time | 6th | Evelyn, Cybermen |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 91 audio dramas and 5 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Jubilee | 6th | Evelyn, Daleks | |
Nekromanteia | 5th | Peri, Erimem | |
The Dark Flame | 7th | Ace, Bernice, Joseph | |
Doctor Who and the Pirates | 6th | Evelyn | |
Creatures of Beauty | 5th | Nyssa | |
Project: Lazarus | 6th, 7th | Evelyn, Nimrod, the Forge |
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.)
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy | Joseph | |
The Green-Eyed Monsters | Jason, Adrian, Peter | |
The Dance of the Dead | Ice Warriors | |
Short Stories: A Life of Surprises | Various | Out of Print |
The Mirror Effect | Brax, Jason, Adrian, Joseph |
The Dalek Empire series continues. Dalek War directly follows on from the ending of Dalek Empire.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Dalek War: Chapter One | ||
Dalek War: Chapter Two | ||
Dalek War: Chapter Three | ||
Dalek War: Chapter Four |
This segment contains No Place Like Home, a special release, and The Little Drummer Boy, a Short Trip Rarity.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
No Place Like Home | 5th | Erimem, Shayde | |
The Little Drummer Boy | 1st | Steven Taylor, Sara Kingdom |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Flip-Flop | 7th | Mel | |
Omega | 5th | Omega | |
Davros | 6th | Davros | |
Master | 7th | The Master | |
Zagreus | 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th | Charley, Romana II, Leela, K9, Rassilon, Brax | |
The Wormery | 6th | Iris Wildthyme |
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.
Story | What If… | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Auld Mortality | What if… the Doctor and Susan had never left Gallifrey? | |
Sympathy for the Devil | What if… the Doctor had not been UNIT’s scientific advisor? | |
Full Fathom Five | (hidden due to spoilers) | |
He Jests at Scars… | What if… the Valeyard had won? | |
Deadline | (An alternate version of the history of the TV show) | |
Exile | What if… the Doctor had escaped the justice of the Time Lords? |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Living Legend | 8th | Charley | |
Shada (Audio play) | 8th | Romana II, K9 Mark II |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 121 audio dramas and 5 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Scherzo | 8th | Charley | |
The Creed of the Kromon | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Kro’ka | |
The Natural History of Fear | 8th | Charley, C’rizz | |
The Twilight Kingdom | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Kro’ka | |
The Axis of Insanity | 5th | Peri, Erimem | |
Arrangements for War | 6th | Evelyn, Rossiter | |
The Harvest | 7th | Ace, Hex |
Bernice Summerfield returns for another series of adventures! Each story in this series features a different creature from Doctor Who.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Bellotron Incident | Bev, Brax, Joseph, Rutans | |
The Draconian Rage | Brax, Draconians | |
The Poison Seas | Brax, Sea Devils | |
Short Stories: Life During Wartime | Various | |
Death and the Daleks | Brax, Jason, Adrian, Joseph, Bev, Isaac, Fifth Axis, Daleks |
Tales of intrigue and political manoeuvring from Gallifrey, featuring Romana, Leela, and K9.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Weapon of Choice | ||
Square One | ||
The Inquiry | ||
A Blind Eye |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Eleven-Day Empire | Justine, Eliza, Sontarans | |
The Shadow Play | Justine, Eliza, Sontarans | |
Sabbath Dei | Justine, Eliza, Sabbath | |
In the Year of the Cat | Justine, Eliza, Sabbath | |
Movers | Justine | |
A Labyrinth of Histories | Justine |
Next, another Short Trip Rarity. This was released for free on the Big Finish Podcast on the 20th of June 2016.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
One Small Step… | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Roof of the World | 5th | Peri, Erimem | |
Medicinal Purposes | 6th | Evelyn, Knox | |
Faith Stealer | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Kro’ka | |
The Last | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Kro’ka | |
Caerdroia | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Kro’ka | |
The Next Life | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Kro’ka |
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…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Exterminators | ||
The Healers | ||
The Survivors | ||
The Demons | ||
The Warriors | ||
The Future |
Another Short Trip Rarity: Lant Land, a Bernice Summerfield bonus release featuring the cybermen, and a Doctor Who bonus release.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Lant Land | 5th Doctor, Tegan, Turlough | |
Silver Lining | Bernice Summerfield, Cybermen | |
Her Final Flight | 6th Doctor, Peri |
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:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Curse of Peladon | 3rd Doctor, 5th Doctor, 6th Doctor, Jo, Adric, Tegan, Nyssa, Peri, Cybermen | |
Kinda | ||
Attack of the Cybermen | ||
Out of the Darkness | ||
(Some Short Trips) |
Volume 2:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Planet of the Daleks | 3rd Doctor, 5th Doctor, 6th Doctor, 8th Doctor, Jo, Tegan, Turloough, Peri, Samantha | |
Warriors of the Deep | ||
Vengeance on Varos | ||
The TV Movie | ||
Earth and Beyond |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 158 audio dramas and 7 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Juggernauts | 6th | Mel, Daleks, Davros, Mechanoids | |
The Game | 5th | Nyssa | |
Dreamtime | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Catch-1782 | 6th | Mel | |
Three’s a Crowd | 5th | Peri, Erimem | |
Unregenerate! | 7th | Mel |
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).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Novel: The Big Hunt | Out of Print | |
The Grel Escape | Jason, Peter, Joseph, The Grel | |
Short Stories: A Life Worth Living | Various | Out of Print |
The Bone of Contention | The Galyari | |
The Relics of Jegg-Sau | K1 | |
Short Stories: A Life in Pieces | Various | Out of Print |
The Masquerade of Death | Adrian |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Coup | Brigadier, Chaudhry | |
Time Heals | Brigadier, Chaudhry | |
Snake Head | Chaudhry, Dalton | |
The Longest Night | Chaudhry, Dalton, Hoffman | |
The Wasting | Chaudhry, Brigadier, Brimmicombe-Wood |
The last Monthly Adventures releases of 2005:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Council of Nicaea | 5th | Peri, Erimem | |
Terror Firma | 8th | Charley, C’rizz, Daleks, Davros | |
Thicker Than Water | 6th | Mel, Evelyn, Rossiter | |
LIVE 34 | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Scardy Cat | 8th | Charley, C’rizz | |
Singularity | 5th | Turlough | |
Other Lives | 8th | Charley, C’rizz |
More stories from Gallifrey.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Lies | ||
Spirit | ||
Pandora | ||
Insurgency | ||
Imperiatrix |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Wildthyme at Large | Tom, Panda | |
The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme | Tom, Panda |
A Short Trip Rarity and a Bonus Release:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Neptune | 3rd | Sarah Jane Smith | |
Cryptobiosis | 6th | Peri |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 189 audio dramas and 13 audio books.
The first half of 2006’s Monthly Adventures. Every audio drama in this segment features original-to-audio companions.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Pier Pressure | 6th | Evelyn | |
Night Thoughts | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Time Works | 8th | Charley, C’rizz | |
The Kingmaker | 5th | Peri, Erimem, 4th Doctor | |
The Setting | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Something Inside | 8th | Charley, C’rizz |
A series about… Cybermen!
This series is set during the Orion War, which was first introduced in the 8th Doctor drama Sword of Orion.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Scorpius | Karen, Liam, Cybermen | |
Fear | Karen, Liam, Cybermen | |
Conversion | Karen, Liam, Cybermen | |
Telos | Karen, Liam, Cybermen |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Buried Secrets | Josh, Natalie, Will | |
Snow Blind | Josh, Will | |
Fatal Consequences | Josh, Will | |
Dreamland | Josh, Natalie |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Heart’s Desire | ||
Novel: The Tree of Life | Joseph | Out of Print |
The Kingdom of the Blind | Jason, Monoids | |
The Goddess Quandary | Keri | |
Novellas: Parallel Lives | Various | Out of Print |
Short Stories: Something Changed | Various | Out of Print |
The Lost Museum | Jason | |
The Crystal of Cantus | Brax, Jason, Cybermen, Peter |
A Special Release, featuring four companions on two conflicting missions…
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Veiled Leopard | Peri, Erimem, Ace, Hex |
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).
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Nowhere Place | 6th | Evelyn | |
Red | 7th | Mel | |
The Reaping | 6th | Peri, Cybermen | |
The Gathering | 5th | Tegan, Cybermen | |
Memory Lane | 8th | Charley, C’rizz | |
No Man’s Land | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Year of the Pig | 6th | Peri |
More stories from Gallifrey, featuring Romana, Leela, and K9.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Fractures | ||
Warfare | ||
Appropriation | ||
Mindbomb | ||
Panacea |
Bernice Summerfield returns once again!
This series was released very shortly after the previous one.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Novel: Genius Loci | Out of Print | |
The Tartarus Gate | Jason, Joseph | |
Timeless Passages | ||
The Worst Thing in the World | Jason | |
Summer of Love | Jason, Bev, Adrian, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | |
Short Stories: Collected Works | Various | |
Novellas: Old Friends | Various | |
The Oracle of Delphi | Jason | |
The Empire State | Jason, Maggie, Brax |
These dramas chart the rise to supremacy of the infamous Davros.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Innocence | Davros, Thals, Kaleds, Daleks | |
Purity | Davros, Thals, Kaleds, Daleks | |
Corruption | Davros, Thals, Kaleds, Daleks | |
Guilt | Davros, Thals, Kaleds, Daleks |
This segment has a Bonus Release, then a Short Trip Rarity. Both of them are linked to the Dalek Empire series.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Return of the Daleks | 7th | Susan Mendes, Kalendorf, Daleks | |
Museum Peace | 8th | Kalendorf, Daleks |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 229 audio dramas and 19 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Circular Time (anthology) | 5th | Nyssa, Kamelion | |
Nocturne | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Renaissance of the Daleks | 5th | Nyssa, Daleks | |
I.D.; Urgent Calls | 6th | ||
Exotron; Urban Myths | 5th | Peri | |
Valhalla | 7th |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Frostfire | 1st | Vicki, Steven | |
Fear of the Daleks | 2nd | Zoe, Jamie, Daleks | |
The Blue Tooth | 3rd | Liz, Brigadier, Yates, Benton, Cybermen | |
The Beautiful People | 4th | Romana II, K9 |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Wishing Beast; The Vanity Box | 6th | Mel | |
Frozen Time | 7th | ||
Son of the Dragon | 5th | Peri, Erimem | |
100 (anthology) | 6th | Evelyn | |
Absolution | 8th | Charley, C’rizz | |
The Mind’s Eye; Mission of the Viyrans | 5th | Peri, Erimem, Viryans | |
The Girl Who Never Was | 8th | Charley, Cybermen |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Blood of the Daleks | Lucie, Daleks | |
Horror of Glam Rock | Lucie, Pat | |
Immortal Beloved | Lucie | |
Phobos | Lucie | |
No More Lies | Lucie | |
Human Resources | Lucie, Cybermen, the Headhunter, Karen, Straxus |
A bonus release:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Return to the Web Planet | 5th | Nyssa, Zarbi, Menoptra |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 253 audio dramas and 30 audio books.
Another Monthly Adventures segment:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Bride of Peladon | 5th | Peri, Erimem, Peladonians, Ice Warriors | |
The Condemned | 6th | Charley, DI Menzies | |
The Dark Husband | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster | 5th | Nyssa, Brewster | |
Assassin in the Limelight | 6th | Evelyn, Knox | |
The Death Collectors; Spider’s Shadow | 7th | Dar Traders |
Yet another season of Bernice!
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Tub Full of Cats | Maggie, Brax, the Mim | |
The Judas Gift | Bev, the Mim, Draconians | |
Freedom of Information | Hass, the Mim, Draconians | |
Novellas: Nobody’s Children | Various | |
The End of the World | Jason, Brax, Adrian | |
Novel: The Two Jasons | Jason | |
The Final Amendment | Kadiatu | |
Short Stories: Missing Adventures | Various | |
The Wake | Peter, Brax, Adrian, Bev, Doggles, Joseph, Hass |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Fearless: Part 1 | ||
The Fearless: Part 2 | ||
The Fearless: Part 3 | ||
The Fearless: Part 4 |
Unlike the first Companion Chronicles series, these stories were released episodically.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Mother Russia | 1st | Steven, Dodo | |
Helicon Prime | 2nd | Jamie | |
Old Soldiers | 3rd | Brigadier | |
The Catalyst | 4th | Leela |
Then, a Special Release:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Cuddlesome | 5th |
Then a few more Monthly Adventures:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Boy that Time Forgot | 5th | Nyssa | |
The Doomwood Curse | 6th | Charley | |
Kingdom of Silver; Keepsake | 7th | Cybermen | |
Time Reef; A Perfect World | 5th | Nyssa, Brewster | |
Brotherhood of the Daleks | 6th | Charley, Thals, Daleks | |
Forty-Five (anthology) | 7th | Ace, Hex, the Forge, Nobody No-One | |
The Raincloud Man | 6th | Charley, DI Menzies |
The Eighth Doctor’s second series of adventures with Lucie.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Dead London | Lucie | |
Max Warp | Lucie | |
Brave New Town | Lucie | |
The Skull of Sobek | Lucie | |
Grand Theft Cosmos | Lucie, the Headhunter, Karen | |
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth | Lucie, Pat, Zygons | |
Sisters of the Flame | Lucie, Morbius, Sisterhood of Karn, Straxus | |
The Vengence of Morbius | Lucie, Morbius, Sisterhood of Karn, Straxus |
Summerfield returns for another Series (10 years after her first!)
This series starts to see the prose releases tapering off.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Beyond the Sea | Peter | |
The Adolescence of Time | Peter | |
The Adventure of Diogenes Damsel | Mycroft, Straxus, Cwejen | |
Novellas: The Vampire Curse | Various | |
The Diet of Worms | Peter |
The Stageplays was a one-off audio series from Big Finish, based on theatrical plays from the 60s and 80s.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Ultimate Adventure | 6th Doctor, Daleks, Cybermen | |
Seven Keys to Doomsday | a non-canon Doctor, Daleks | |
The Curse of the Daleks | Daleks |
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).
Story | What If… | Listen? |
---|---|---|
A Storm of Angels | What if… the Doctor really had changed history, even just the tiniest bit? | |
Masters of War | A sequel to Sympathy for the Devil |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Lost Souls | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Martha Jones |
A whole bunch of Short Trip Rarities:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Lepidoptery for Beginners | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
Twilight’s End | 7th | Nimrod | |
Breadcrumbs | 4th | Romana II | |
Only Connect | 4th | ||
Methuselah | 5th | Peri | |
Tweaker | 5th | Nyssa |
A bonus release:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Return of the Krotons | 6th | Charley, Krotons |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 309 audio dramas and 45 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Key 2 Time — The Judgement of Isskar | 5th | Amy, Zara, Ice Warriors | |
The Key 2 Time — The Destroyer of Lights | 5th | Amy, the Guardians of Time | |
The Key 2 Time — The Chaos Pool | 5th | Amy, Zara, Romana II, the Guardians of Time | |
The Magic Moustrap | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Enemy of the Daleks | 7th | Ace, Hex, Daleks | |
The Angel of Scutari | 7th | Ace, Hex |
Iris Wildthyme returns!
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Sound of Fear | Panda | |
The Land of Wonder | Panda | |
The Two Irises | Panda | |
The Panda Invasion | Panda |
The Companion Chronicles got many more stories in this series, and for the first time included stories from Doctors after the Fourth.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Here There Be Monsters | 1st | Susan, Ian, Barbara | |
The Great Space Elevator | 2nd | Victoria, Jamie | |
The Doll of Death | 3rd | Jo, Brigadier, Mike Yates, Benton | |
Empathy Games | 4th | Leela | |
Home Truths | 1st | Sara, Steven, Robert | |
The Darkening Eye | 5th | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan, Dar Traders | |
The Transit of Venus | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Susan | |
The Prisoner’s Dilemma | 7th | Ace, Zara | |
Resistance | 2nd | Polly, Ben, Jamie | |
The Magician’s Oath | 3rd | Mike Yates, Jo, Brigadier, Benton | |
The Mahogany Murderers | Jago & Litefoot, Dr Tulp | ||
The Stealers from Saiph | 4th | Romana I |
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio, these stories are set just before Series 3 of the TV show.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Asylum | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto | |
Golden Age | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto | |
The Dead Line | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto |
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Glory Days | Peter, Bev, Adrian, Brax | |
Absence | Peter | |
Venus Mantrap | Adrian, Peter | |
Secret Origins | Peter, Robyn, Brax | |
Short Stories: Secret Histories |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Company of Friends | 8th | Bernice, Fitz, Izzy, Mary Shelley | |
Patient Zero | 6th | Charley, Daleks, Viyrans | |
Paper Cuts | 6th | Mila, Draconians | |
Blue Forgotten Planet | 6th | Mila, Charley, Viyrans | |
Castle of Fear | 5th | Nyssa | |
The Eternal Summer | 5th | Nyssa, Maxwell Edison | |
Plague of the Daleks | 5th | Nyssa, Daleks |
The Eighth Doctor’s third series of adventures with Lucie.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Orbis | Lucie | |
Hothouse | Lucie, Krynoids | |
The Beast of Orlok | Lucie | |
Wirrn Dawn | Lucie, Wirrn | |
The Scapegoat | Lucie | |
The Cannibalists | Lucie | |
The Eight Truths | Lucie, Karen, Eight Legs | |
Worldwide Web | Lucie, Karen, Eight Legs |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Coming to Dust | Justine, Eliza | |
The Ship of a Billion Years | Justine, Eliza, Sutekh | |
Body Politic | Justine, Eliza, Sutekh, the War King, Horus | |
Words from Nine Divinities | Justine, Eliza, Sutekh, the War King, Horus | |
Ozymandius | Justine, Horus, Sutekh | |
The Judgement of Sutekh | Justine, Horus, Sutekh |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Stuff of Nightmares | Mike Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, Hornets | |
The Dead Shoes | Mike Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, Hornets | |
The Circus of Doom | Mike Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, Hornets | |
A Sting in the Tale | Mike Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, Hornets | |
Hive of Horror | Mike Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, Hornets |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Death in Blackpool | Lucie, Pat, Zygons |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Outsiders | Samantha, Liam, Paul, Cybermen | |
Terror | ||
Machines | ||
Extinction |
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
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
An Earthly Child | 8th | Susan | |
Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 371 audio dramas and 58 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
A Thousand Tiny Wings | 7th | Klein | |
Survival of the Fittest/Klein’s Story | 7th, 8th | Klein | |
The Architects of History | 7th | Klein, Selachians | |
City of Spires | 6th | Jamie | |
The Wreck of the Titan | 6th | Jamie | |
Legend of the Cybermen | 6th | Jamie, Zoe, Cybermen |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Mists of Time | 3rd | Jo, Time Lords | |
The Three Companions | Polly, the Brigadier, Brewster | ||
Freakshow | 5th | Turlough |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Drowned World | 1st | Sara, Steven, Robert | |
The Glorious Revolution | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
The Prisoner of Peladon | 3rd | King Peladon, Alpha Centuri, Ice Warriors | |
The Pyralis Effect | 4th | Romana II | |
Ringpullworld | 5th | Turlough, Tegan, Huxley | |
Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code | 7th | Bernice | |
The Suffering | 1st | Vicki, Steven | |
The Emperor of Eternity | 2nd | Jamie, Victoria | |
Shadow of the Past | 3rd | Liz, Brigadier, Mike Yates | |
The Time Vampire | 4th | Leela, K9 | |
Night’s Black Agents | 6th | Jamie | |
Solitaire | 8th | Charley, Celestial Toymaker |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Bloodless Soldier | Sergeant Quick, Ellie | |
The Bellova Devil | ||
The Spirit Trap | ||
The Similarity Engine |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | “Season” | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Nightmare Fair | 6th | Peri, Celestial Toymaker | 23 | |
Mission to Magnus | 6th | Peri, Sil, Ice Warriors | 23 | |
Leviathan | 6th | Peri | 22 | |
The Hollows of Time | 6th | Peri, Tractators | 23 | |
Paradise 5 | 6th | Peri | 23 | |
Point of Entry | 6th | Peri | 23 | |
The Song of Megaptera | 6th | Peri | 22 | |
The Macros | 6th | Peri | 22 |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Cobwebs | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
The Whispering Forest | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
The Cradle of the Snake | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Mara | |
Project: Destiny | 7th | Ace, Hex, Nimrod, the Forge | |
A Death in the Family | 7th | Ace, Hex, Evelyn, Nobody No-One, the Forge | |
Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories | 5th | Nyssa |
Short Trips Volumes contain 8 short stories, featuring each of the 8 Doctors. These are, essentially, enhanced audiobooks.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Rise and Fall | 1st | Susan, Barbara, Ian | |
A Stain of Red in the Sand | 2nd | Zoe | |
A True Gentleman | 3rd | ||
Death-Dealer | 4th | Leela | |
The Deep | 5th | Nyssa | |
The Wings of a Butterfly | 6th | ||
Police and Shreeves | 7th | Ace | |
Running Out of Time | 8th |
Graceless is a spin-off sequel to The Key 2 Time, featuring Abby and Zara.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Sphere | Abby, Zara | |
The Fog | ||
The End |
The last series-style release of Bernice Summerfield – the subsequent releases were as named box sets.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Dead and Buried (video) | Brax | |
Resurrecting the Past | Peter, Brax, Bev, Adrian, Robyn, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | |
Short Stories: Present Danger | Various | |
Escaping the Future | Peter, Brax, Bev, Adrian, Doggles, Joseph, Hass | |
Year Zero | ||
Dead Man’s Switch |
The second Nest Cottage Chronicles series featuring the Fourth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Relics of Time | Mrs Wibbsey, the Demon | |
The Demon of Paris | Mrs Wibbsey, the Demon | |
A Shard of Ice | Mrs Wibbsey, Mike Yates, the Demon | |
Starfall | Mrs Wibbsey, Mike Yates, the Demon | |
Sepulchre | Mrs Wibbsey, Mike Yates, the Demon |
Bonus Release The Four Doctors:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Four Doctors | 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th | Daleks |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 432 audio dramas and 72 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster | 6th | Evelyn, Brewster, Flip, DI Menzies | |
The Feast of Axos | 6th | Evelyn, Brewster, Axons | |
Industrial Evolution | 6th | Evelyn, Brewster | |
Heroes of Sontar | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Sontarans | |
Kiss of Death | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
Rat Trap | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough |
Jago & Litefoot return for a second series.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Litefoot and Sanders | Sanders, Dr Sacker | |
The Necropolis Express | ||
The Theatre of Dreams | ||
The Ruthven Inheritance |
The second Short Trips anthology.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
1963 | 1st | Barbara, Ian, Vicki | |
The Way Forwards | 2nd | Victoria | |
Walls of Confinement | 3rd | Liz | |
Chain Reaction | 4th | Sarah Jane Smith | |
Sock Pig | 5th | ||
The Doctor’s Coat | 6th | ||
Critical Mass | 7th | Ace | |
Letting Go | 8th | Charley |
The Gallifrey series returns, after a long break. It features Romana II, Leela, K9 II, and more, and is now in boxset format!
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Reborn | ||
Disassembled | ||
Annihilation | ||
Forever |
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).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Situation Vacant | Tamsin | |
Nevermore | Tamsin | |
The Book of Kells | Tamsin | |
Deimos | Tamsin, Ice Warriors | |
The Resurrection of Mars | Tamsin, Lucie, Ice Warriors, the Monk | |
Relative Dimensions | Susan, Alex | |
Prisoner of the Sun | ||
Lucie Miller | Daleks, Lucie, Susan, Alex, the Monk, Tamsin | |
To the Death | Daleks, Lucie, Susan, Alex, the Monk, Tamsin |
The third Short Trips anthology.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Seven to One | 1st | 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Doctors | |
The Five Dimensional Man | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
Pop-Up | 3rd | Jo | |
The Wondrous Box | 4th | Sarah Jane Smith | |
Wet Walls | 5th | Peri | |
The Murmurs of Earth | 6th | Peri | |
The Riparian Ripper | 7th | Ace | |
All the Fun of the Fair | 8th | Lucie |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Guardian of the Solar System | 1st | Sara, Steven, Bret, Mavic Chen, Robert | |
Echoes of Grey | 2nd | Zoe, Jamie | |
Find and Replace | 3rd | Jo, Iris Wildthyme, Huxley, Brigadier, Benton | |
The Invasion of E-Space | 4th | Romana II, Adric | |
A Town Called Fortune | 6th | Evelyn | |
Quinnis | 1st | Susan | |
Peri and the Piscon Paradox | 5th, 6th | Peri | |
The Perpetual Bond | 1st | Steven, Oliver | |
The Forbidden Time | 2nd | Polly, Ben, Jamie | |
The Sentinels of the New Dawn | 3rd | Liz | |
Fierril’s Folly | 4th | Romana I | |
The Cold Equations | 1st | Steven, Oliver |
Jago & Litefoot return for a third series! This series features Leela returning to Victorian London and joining the pair.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Dead Men’s Tales | Leela | |
The Man at the End of the Garden | ||
Swan Song | ||
Chronoclasm |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Robophobia | 7th | Liv, Kaldor robots | |
Recorded Time and Other Stories | 6th | Peri | |
The Doomsday Quatrain | 7th | ||
House of Blue Fire | 7th | Sally | |
The Silver Turk | 8th | Mary Shelley, Cybermen | |
The Witch from the Well | 8th | Mary Shelley | |
Army of Death | 8th | 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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | “Season” | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Farewell, Great Macedon | 1st | Susan, Ian, Barbara | 1 | |
The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance | 1st | Susan, Ian, Barbara | 1 | |
Prison in Space | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | 6 | |
The Destroyers | Sara, Daleks | Spin-off | ||
Thin Ice | 7th | Ace, Ice Warriors | 27 | |
Crime of the Century | 7th | Ace, Raine | 27 | |
Animal | 7th | Ace, Raine, Bambera, UNIT | 27 | |
Earth Aid | 7th | Ace, Raine | 27 |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Devil and Miss Carew | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto | |
Submission | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto | |
The House of the Dead | Captain Jack, Gwen, Ianto |
The fourth Short Trips anthology.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
A Star is Born | 1st | Barbara, Ian, Susan | |
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
Lost in the Wakefield Triangle | 3rd | Jo | |
The Old Rogue | 4th | Romana II, K9, 2nd Doctor, Jamie | |
The Lions of Trafalgar | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan | |
To Cut a Blade of Glass | 6th | Peri | |
The Shadow Trader | 7th | Ace | |
Quantum Heresy | 8th |
The first box set release of Bernice Summerfield. These stories are set in Atlantis.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Kraken’s Lament | Ruth, Leonidas, | |
The Temple of Questions | ||
Private Enemy No. 1 | ||
Judgement Day |
The third BBC series featuring the Fourth Doctor, and the final one in the Nest Cottage Chronicles.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Tsar Wars | Mrs Wibbsey | |
The Broken Crown | Mrs Wibbsey | |
Aladdin Time | Mrs Wibbsey, the Scarf | |
The Hexford Invasion | 2nd Doctor, Mrs Wibbsey, Mike Yates | |
Survivors in Space | 2nd Doctor, Mrs Wibbsey, Mike Yates |
Abby and Zara return for a second series.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Line | Abby, Zara | |
The Flood | ||
The Dark |
A Bonus Release:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Five Companions | 5th | Ian, Steven, Sara, Polly, Nyssa |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 526 audio dramas and 88 audio books.
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Curse of Davros | 6th | Flip, Davros, Daleks | |
The Fourth Wall | 6th | Flip | |
Wirrn Isle | 6th | Flip, Wirrn |
And now a special release, finishing off the I, Davros series:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Davros Mission | Davros, Daleks |
A special box set release of Lost stories, featuring the 4th Doctor!
Story | Doctor | Featuring | “Season” | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Foe from the Future | 4th | Leela | 14 | |
The Valley of Death | 4th | Leela | 15 |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Brand Management | Ruth | |
Bad Habits | ||
Novel: The Weather on Vesimmon | ||
Paradise Frost |
More tales of mystery.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Jago in Love | Leela, Ellie | |
Beautiful Things | ||
The Lonely Clock | ||
The Hourglass Killers |
A few more Monthly Adventures releases, featuring the 5th Doctor.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Emerald Tiger | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
The Jupiter Conjunction | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
The Butcher of Brisbane | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Magnus Greel |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Tales from the Vault | 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th | Matheson, Sato, Steven, Dodo, Zoe, Jamie, Jo, Romana I | |
The Rocket Men | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Rocket Men | |
The Memory Cheats | 2nd | Zoe, Jamie | |
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant | 3rd | Jo | |
The First Wave | 1st | Steven, Oliver, Vardans | |
Beyond the Ultimate Adventure | 6th | Crystal, Jason | |
The Anachronauts | 1st | Steven, Sara | |
The Selachian Gambit | 2nd | Jamie, Polly, Ben, Selachians | |
Binary | 3rd | Liz | |
The Wanderer | 1st | Ian, Susan, Barbara | |
The Jigsaw War | 2nd | Jamie | |
The Rings of Ikiria | 3rd | Yates, Brigadier, Benton |
At last – Big Finish creates a series with Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Destination: Nerva | Leela | |
The Renaissance Man | Leela | |
The Wrath of the Iceni | Leela | |
Energy of the Daleks | Leela, Daleks | |
Trail of the White Worm | Leela, the Master | |
The Oseidon Adventure | Leela, the Master, Kraals |
A special release from the Companion Chronicles series
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Revenants | 1st | Barbara, Ian | Yes |
A few more Monthly Adventures releases, this time with the Seventh Doctor travelling with Ace and Hex, and introducing new companions Sally and Lysandra.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Protect and Survive | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Black and White | 7th | Ace, Hex, Sally, Lysandra | |
Gods and Monsters | 7th | Ace, Hex, Sally, Lysandra, Fenric |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Threshold | ||
Artifical Intelligence | ||
The Pelage Project | ||
State of Emergency |
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).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Occam’s Razor | ||
Death’s Head | ||
Hidden Persuaders | ||
Taren Capel | ||
Checkmate | ||
Storm Mine | ||
The Prisoner | ||
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society | Panda | |
Iris Rides Out | ||
Midwinter Murders |
More of the Lost stories.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | “Season” | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Elite | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan | 20 | |
Hexagora | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan | 20 | |
The Children of Seth | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan | 20 | |
The Guardians of Prophecy | 6th | Peri, Melkur | 22 | |
Power Play | 6th | Peri, Victoria | 23 | |
The First Sontarans | 6th | Peri, Sontarans | 22 | |
The Masters of Luxor | 1st | Susan, Ian, Barbara | 1 | |
The Rosemariners | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | 6 |
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Vesuvius Falling | Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax, Dorian Gray | |
Novel: The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis | ||
Shades of Gray | ||
Everybody Loves Irving |
Finishing off 2012’s Monthly Adventures, we have 3 stories set in the galaxy-spanning Drashani Empire, and then an anthology release 1001 Nights.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Burning Prince | 5th | ||
The Acheron Pulse | 6th | ||
The Shadow Heart | 7th | Vienna | |
1001 Nights | 5th | Nyssa |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Love and War | 7th | Ace, Bernice |
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…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Great War | Molly, Daleks | |
Fugitives | ||
Tangled Web | ||
X and the Daleks |
Jago & Litefoot travel with the Doctor on 2 adventures.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Voyage to Venus | 6th Doctor | |
Voyage to the New World | 6th Doctor |
2 special releases: One for Bernice Summerfield, one for UNIT.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Many Happy Returns | Joseph, Brax, Adrian, Bev, Peter, Ruth, Jack, Leonidas, Iris Wildthyme, Panda, the Doctor | |
UNIT Dominion | 7th Doctor, Raine, Klein, the Master |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 603 audio dramas and 103 audio books.
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The first few Monthly Adventures of 2013, featuring the Sixth Doctor and Mel.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Wrong Doctors | 6th | Mel | |
Spaceport Fear | 6th | Mel | |
The Seeds of War | 6th | Mel, the Eminence |
The Gallifrey series returns. It features Romana II, Leela, Narvin, and more.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Emancipation | ||
Evolution | ||
Arbitration |
More tales of mystery, but this time set in the wrong century…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Age of Revolution | Ellie | |
The Case of the Gluttonous Guru | ||
The Bloodchild Codex | ||
The Final Act |
The second quarter of 2013 featured the 5th Doctor.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Eldrad Must Die! | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Eldrad | |
The Lady of Mercia | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
Prisoners of Fate | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough |
Tensions heat up for Benny’s family…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
A Handful of Dust | Peter, Ruth, Jack, Brax, Fenman | |
Novel: Filthy Lucre | ||
HMS Surprise | ||
The Curse of Fenman |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Time Museum | 1st | Ian | |
The Uncertainty Principle | 2nd | Zoe, Jamie | |
Project: Nirvana | 7th | Lysandra, Sally | |
The Last Post | 3rd | Liz, Emily Shaw, Brigadier | |
Return of the Rocket Men | 1st | Steven, Dodo, Rocket Men | |
The Child | 4th | Leela | |
The Flames of Cadiz | 1st | Ian, Susan, Barbara | |
House of Cards | 2nd | Polly, Jamie, Ben | |
The Scorchies | 3rd | Jo, Brigadier, Scorchies | |
The Library of Alexandria | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Susan | |
The Apocalypse Mirror | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
Council of War | 3rd | Benton, Brigadier |
Abby and Zara return for a third series.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Edge | Abby, Zara | |
The Battle | ||
Consequences |
The continuing adventures of the ICMG.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Manhunt | ||
The Fifth Citadel | ||
Peshka | ||
Sins of the Fathers |
This segment features the 7th Doctor and Klein.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Persuasion | 7th | Klein, Will | |
Starlight Robbery | 7th | Klein, Will, Sontarans, Garundel | |
Daleks Among Us | 7th | Klein, Will, Davros, Daleks |
The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, this time with Romana I.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Auntie Matter | Romana I | |
The Sands of Life | Romana I, K9, Cuthbert, Laan | |
War Against the Lan | Romana I, Cuthbert, Laan | |
The Justice of Jalxar | Romana I, Jago, Litefoot | |
Phantoms of the Deep | Romana I, K9 | |
The Dalek Contract | Romana I, K9, Daleks, Cuthbert | |
The Final Phase | Romana I, K9, Daleks, Cuthbert |
Iris Wildthyme returns for her final numbered series.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme | Panda | |
Iris at the Oche | ||
A Lift in Time |
This segment includes 1963, a 3 part celebration for the 50th anniversary of doctor who.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
1963: Fanfare for the Common Men | 5th | Nyssa | |
1963: The Space Race | 6th | Peri | |
1963: The Assassination Games | 7th | Ace, Counter-Measures | |
Afterlife | 7th | Ace, Hex, Sally |
More tales of mystery, with Jago and Litefoot now back in Victorian London.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Skeleton Quay | The Colonel, Ellie, Quick, Agatha | |
Return of the Repressed | ||
Military Intelligence | ||
The Trial of George Litefoot |
The Gallifrey series returns. It features Romana II, Leela, Narvin, and more.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Extermination | ||
Renaissance | ||
Ascension |
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…
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Light at the End | 1st through to 8th | Charley, Leela, Nyssa, Peri, Ace, the Master | Definitely |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Hunters of Earth | 1st | Susan | |
Shadow of Death | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
Vengeance of the Stones | 3rd | Brigadier, Mike Yates | |
Babblesphere | 4th | Romana | |
Smoke and Mirrors | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | |
Trouble in Paradise | 6th | Peri | |
Shockwave | 7th | Ace | |
Enemy Aliens | 8th | Charley | |
Night of the Whisper | 9th | Rose, Jack | |
Death’s Deal | 10th | Donna | |
The Time Machine | 11th | Alice |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | “Season” | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Dark Planet | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Vicki | 2 | |
The Queen of Time | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | 6 | |
Lords of the Red Planet | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe, Ice Warriors | 6 | |
The Mega | 3rd | Jo, Brigadier, Yates, Benton | 9 |
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).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Novel: Adorable Illusion | Ruth, Jack, Adrian, Bev, Fenman, Brax, Peter | |
Big Dig | ||
The Revenant’s Carnival | ||
The Brimstone Kid | ||
The Winning Side | ||
In Living Memory |
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).
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Night of the Stormcrow | 4th | Leela | Definitely |
Trial of the Valeyard | 6th | The Valeyard | Definitely |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 685 audio dramas and 108 audio books.
The first quarter of 2014 focused on the Sixth Doctor and Flip.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Antidote to Oblivion | 6th | Flip, Sil | |
The Brood of Erys | 6th | Flip | |
Scavenger | 6th | Flip |
The Dark Eyes storyline, featuring the 8th Doctor, continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Traitor | Liv, Molly, Daleks, the Master | |
The White Room | ||
Time’s Horizon | ||
Eyes of the Master |
Three more Monthly Adventures.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Moonflesh | 5th | Nyssa, Hannah | |
Tomb Ship | 5th | Nyssa, Hannah | |
Masquerade | 5th | Nyssa, Hannah |
More stories featuring the investigators of infernal incidents.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Monstrous Menagerie | Ellie, Leela | |
The Night of 1000 Stars | ||
Murder at Moorsey Manor | ||
The Wax Princess |
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…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Lamentation Cipher | ||
The Shadow at the Edge of the World | ||
The Fall of the House of Pollard | ||
The Viyran Solution |
A new box set of adventures, featuring Benny and her friends the Doctor and Ace!
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Revolution | 7th Doctor, Ace, Daleks | |
Good Night, Sweet Ladies | ||
Random Ghosts | ||
The Lights of Skaro |
The final series under the Companion Chronicles name – but the series would live on in The First Doctor and The Second Doctor.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Mastermind | The Master, Matheson, Sato | ||
The Alchemists | 1st | Susan | |
Upstairs | 1st | Vicki, Steven | |
Ghost in the Machine | 3rd | Jo | |
The Beginning | 1st | Susan, Stoyn | |
The Dying Light | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe, Stoyn | |
Luna Romana | 4th | Romana I, Romana II, Romana III, Stoyn | |
The Sleeping City | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Vicki | |
Starborn | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Vicki | |
The War to End All Wars | 1st | Steven, Dodo, Sida | |
The Elixir of Doom | 3rd | Jo, Iris Wildthyme | |
Second Chances | 2nd | Zoe, Jamie |
An anthology featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri, and then three stories with the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Hex.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories | 6th | Peri | |
Revenge of the Swarm | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Mask of Tragedy | 7th | Ace, Hex | |
Signs and Wonders | 7th | Ace, Hex, Sally |
The continuing adventures of the ICMG.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Changing of the Guard | ||
The Concrete Cage | ||
The Forgotten Village | ||
Unto the Breach |
The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Leela again.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The King of Sontar | Leela, Sontarans | |
White Ghosts | Leela | |
The Crooked Man | Leela | |
The Evil One | Leela, the Master | |
Lost of the Colophon | Leela | |
Destroy the Infinite | Leela, the Eminence | |
The Abandoned | Leela | |
Zygon Hunt | Leela, Zygons |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Ghosts of Gralstead | ||
The Devil’s Armada |
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).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Psychodrome | ||
Iterations of I |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Mind Games | Jago, Litefoot | |
The Reesinger Process | Counter-Measures group | |
The Screaming Skull | Ruth, Sato, Yates, UNIT | |
Second Sight | Romana, Leela, 6th Doctor |
The last stories of 2014 featured the 6th Doctor and Peri.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Widow’s Assassin | 6th | Peri | |
Masters of Earth | 6th | Peri, Daleks | |
The Rani Elite | 6th | Peri, the Rani |
More tales of mystery.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Encore of the Scorchies | Ellie, Scorchies, Quick, Patsy | |
The Backwards Men | ||
Jago & Litefott & Patsy | ||
Higson & Quick |
The Dark Eyes storyline, featuring the Eighth Doctor, continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Death of Hope | Molly, Liv, the Master | |
The Reviled | ||
Masterplan | ||
Rule of the Eminence |
And now, a Novel Adaption:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Highest Science | 7th | Bernice, Chelonians |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Domain of the Voord | 1st | Susan, Barbara, Ian, Voords | |
The Doctor’s Tale | 1st | Vicki, Barbara, Ian | |
The Bounty of Ceres | 1st | Vicki, Steven | |
An Ordinary Life | 1st | Steven, Sara |
Some Subscriber Short Trips:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
A Room With No View | 5th | Peri | |
The Piltdown Men | 2nd | H.G. Wells | |
Late Night Shopping | 8th | Lucie | |
Waiting for Gadot | 4th | 3rd Doctor, Jo | |
The Doctor’s First XI | 4th | Romana I | |
Sound the Siren and I’ll Come to You Comrade | 4th | Leela | |
Intuition | 6th | Mel | |
A Home From Home | 3rd | Liz, Benton |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 767 audio dramas and 113 audio books.
The first releases of 2015 focused on the Fifth Doctor revisiting E-Space.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Mistfall | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Marshmen | |
Equillibrium | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough | |
The Entropy Plague | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough |
Two Novel Adaptions:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Romance of Crime | 4th | Romana II, K9, Ogrons | |
The English Way of Death | 4th | Romana II, K9 |
The Gallifrey series returns for a single story.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Intervention Earth |
The conclusion of the Eighth Doctor storyline Dark Eyes.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
A Life in the Day | Liv, Daleks, the Master | |
The Monster of Montmarte | ||
Master of the Daleks | ||
Eye of Darnkess |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Young Lions | 8th | Lucie | |
Crystal Ball | 7th | Ace | |
String Theory | 4th | Leela |
A small collection of Monthly Adventures:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Defectors | 7th | Jo, Yates | |
Last of the Cybermen | 6th | Jamie, Zoe, Cybermen | |
The Secret History | 5th | Steven, Vicki |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Well-Mannered War | 4th | Romana II, K9, Chelonians | |
Damaged Goods | 7th | Chris, Roz |
More tales of mystery.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Flying Frenchmen | ||
The Devil’s Dicemen | ||
Island of Death | ||
Return of the Nightmare |
The continuation of the Companion Chronicles after the end of the monthly releases, focusing on the first doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Sleeping Blood | 1st Doctor, Susan, Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Steven, Sida | |
The Unwinding World | ||
The Founding Fathers | ||
The Locked Room |
This series sees the return of Sutekh from The Pyramids of Mars.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Pyramid of Sutekh | 7th Doctor, Ace, Sutekh | |
The Vaults of Osiris | ||
The Eye of Horus | ||
The Tears of Isis |
And now The Worlds of Big Finish, which is a crossover between many Big Finish releases, some of them in the Doctor Who Universe:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Graceless: The Archive | Bernice, Sherlock, Zara, Abby, Iris Wildthyme, Vienna, Dorian Gray | |
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber | ||
The Confessions of Dorian Gray: The Feast of Magog | ||
Iris Wildthyme: Kronos Vad’s History of Earth (Vol. 36,379) | ||
Vienna: The Lady from Callisto Rhys | ||
Bernice Summerfield: The Phantom Wreck |
And also a Subscriber Short Trip:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Sphinx Lightning | 3rd | Jo |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
We are the Daleks | 7th | Mel, Daleks | |
The Warehouse | 7th | Mel | |
Terror of the Sontrarans | 7th | Mel, Sontarans |
The final series of Counter-Measures (before it was replaced with The New Counter-Measures)
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
New Horizons | ||
The Keep | ||
Rise and Shine | ||
Clean Sweep |
Iris Wildthyme returns for eight half-hour episodes!
As of writing, this is the last Iris Wildthyme release.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Comeback of the Scorchies | Edwin Turner | |
Dark Side | ||
Oracle of the Supermarket | ||
Murder at the Abbey | ||
The Slots of Giza | ||
High Spirits | ||
An Extraterrestial Werewolf in Belgium | ||
Looking for a Friend |
The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Leela.
Story | Companion | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Exxilons | Leela | K9, Exxilons | |
The Darkness of Glass | Leela | ||
Requiem for the Rocket Men | Leela | K9, Rocket Men, the Master | |
Death Match | Leela | K9, the Master | |
Suburban Hell | Leela | ||
The Cloisters of Terror | Leela | Emily Shaw | |
The Fate of Krelos | Leela | K9 | |
Return to Telos | Leela | K9, Jamie, Cybermen |
The Third Doctor Adventures stars the Third Doctor, played by Tim Treloar, and Jo Grant, played by Katy Manning.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Prisoners of the Lake | Mike, Brigadier | |
The Havoc of Empires |
A very special release: The Last Adventure, the stories that reveal the events leading up to the Sixth Doctor’s regeneration.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The End of the Line | Constance, Charley, Flip, Jago, Litefoot, Mel, the Valeyard | |
The Red House | ||
Stage Fright | ||
The Brink of Death |
Some Monthly Adventures, featuring the Sixth Doctor, and another featuring the Seventh.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Criss-Cross | 6th | Constance | |
Planet of the Rani | 6th | Constance, the Rani | |
Shield of the Jötunn | 6th | Constance | |
You are the Doctor and Other Stories | 7th | Ace |
Doom Coalition is another series of adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and companions Liv and Helen.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Eleven | Liv, Helen, the Eleven | |
The Red Lady | ||
The Galileo Trap | ||
The Satanic Mill |
More tales of mystery.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Case of the Missing Gasogene | Ellie, Quick | |
The Year of the Bat | ||
The Mourning After | ||
The Museum of Curiosities |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Vanguard | Kate, Osgood, Autons, Nestene Conciousness | |
Earthfall | ||
Bridgehead | ||
Armageddon |
In 2015, the Short Trips series changed to be monthly individual downloads. Here are all the Short Trips from 2015:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Flywheel Revolution | 1st | ||
Little Doctors | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
Time Tunnel | 3rd | Jo, Brigadier, Yates, Benton | |
The Ghost Trap | 4th | Leela | |
The King of the Dead | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan | |
The Shadows of Serenity | 6th | Peri | |
Dark Convoy | 7th | Ace | |
Foreshadowing | 8th | Charley, Yates | |
Etheria | 1st | Vicki, Steven | |
The Way of the Empty Hand | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
The Other Woman | 3rd | Jo, Brigadier | |
Black Dog | 4th | Leela |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Theatre of War | 7th | Ace, Benny, Brax | |
All-Consuming Fire | 7th | Ace, Benny, Holmes, Watson |
The War Doctor series depicts the events of the Time War and the War Doctor’s role in them.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Innocent | Ollistra, Daleks | |
The Thousand Worlds | ||
The Heart of the Battle |
The Diary of River Song involves River Song teaming up with Classic era doctors. Series 1 features the Eighth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Boundless Sea | ||
I Went to a Marvellous Party | ||
Signs | ||
The Rulers of the Universe |
First, three Subscriber Short Trips:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Warren Legacy | 4th | Romana I | |
The Toy | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Adric, the Master | |
The Caves of Erith | 8th | Lucie |
Then a special release featuring Jago & Litefoot alongside Strax from the new series.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Haunting (Jago & Litefoot & Strax) | Ellie, Quick |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 874 audio dramas and 118 audio books.
These releases feature the 5th Doctor.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Waters of Amsterdam | 5th | Tegan, Nyssa | |
Aquitaine | 5th | Tegan, Nyssa | |
The Peterloo Massacre | 5th | Tegan, Nyssa |
The second series of Early Adventures features the Second Doctor.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Yes Men | 2nd | Ben, Polly, Jamie | |
The Foresaken | 2nd | Ben, Polly, Jamie | |
The Black Hole | 2nd | Jamie, Victoria | |
The Isos Network | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe, Cybermen |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Oncoming Storm | 9th, 10th, and 11th Doctors, Daleks | |
Hounded | ||
Living History | ||
The Chartwell Metamorphosis |
The first series to use Big Finish’s expanded license for new era content, Torchwood returns. Series 1 focuses on the Committee.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Conspiracy | Jack | |
Fall to Earth | Ianto | |
Forgotten Lives | Gwen, Rhys, Jack | |
One Rule | Yvonne Hartman | |
Uncanny Valley | Jack | |
More Than This | Gwen, Andy |
The War Doctor’s tale continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Legion of the Lost | Ollistra, Daleks | |
A Thing of Guile | ||
The Neverwhen |
Doom Coalition, featuring the Eighth Doctor, Liv, and Helen, continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Beachhead | Liv, Helen, River Song, the Eleven | |
Scenes From Her Life | ||
The Gift | ||
The Sonomancer |
A Subscriber Short Trip:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Horror at Bletchington Station | 1st | Dodo |
A few Monthly Adventures, featuring the Master:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
And You Will Obey Me | 5th | The Master | |
Vampire of the Mind | 6th | The Master | |
The Two Masters | 7th | The Old Master, the New Master |
And now a novel adaption:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Nightshade | 7th | Ace |
More tales of mystery.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Jago & Son | Ellie, Quick, the Master | |
Maurice | ||
The Woman in White | ||
Masterpiece |
David Tennant returns to the role of the Tenth doctor in this series of audio dramas.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Technophobia | Donna | |
Time Reaver | Donna | |
Death and the Queen | Donna |
The Gallifrey series returns for another story.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Enemy Lines |
The continuation of the Companion Chronicles after the end of the monthly releases, focusing on the second doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Mouthless Dead | 2nd Doctor, Jamie, Polly, Ben, Victoria, Zoe | |
The Story of Extinction | ||
The Integral | ||
The Edge |
The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Power Cell | Kate, Osgood | |
Death in Geneva | ||
The Battle of the Tower | ||
Ice Station Alpha |
A Subscriber Short Trip:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Monkey House | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough |
Some more Monthly Adventures:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
A Life of Crime | 7th | Ace, Mel | |
Fiesta of the Damned | 7th | Ace, Mel | |
Maker of Demons | 7th | Ace, Mel |
Who Killed Toby Kinsella? is a special feature-length release, forging a new era for Counter-Measures.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Who Killed Toby Kinsella | ||
The Dead Don’t Rise |
An audio series, featuring (unsurprisingly) Doctors from the classic series, alongside aliens from the revived era.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Fallen Angels | 5th | Weeping Angels | |
Judoon in Chains | 6th | Judoon | |
Harvest of the Sycorax | 7th | Sycorax | |
The Sontaran Ordeal | 8th | Sontarans |
Torchwood returns for a second series, continuing the Committee arc.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Victorian Age | Jack, Queen Victoria | |
Zone 10 | Sato | |
Ghost Mission | Andy, Norton Folgate | |
Moving Target | Suzie | |
Broken | Jack, Ianto | |
Made You Look | Gwen, Rhys |
The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Romana II.
Story | Companion | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Wave of Destruction | Romana II | K9 | |
The Labyrinth of Buda Castle | Romana II | ||
The Paradox Planet | Romana II | K9 | |
Legacy of Death | Romana II | K9 | |
Gallery of Ghouls | Romana II | ||
The Trouble with Drax | Romana II | K9, Drax | |
The Pursuit of History | Romana II | K9 | |
Casualties of Time | Romana II | K9 |
For this box set, Bernice joins a version of the doctor from a parallel universe (the one from Sympathy for the Devil in Unbound).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Library in the Body | The Unbound Doctor, the Unbound Master | |
Planet X | ||
The Very Dark Thing | ||
The Emporium At The End |
The second story from Philip Hinchcliffe, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Genesis Chamber |
Doom Coalition, featuring the Eighth Doctor, Liv, and Helen, continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Absent Friends | Liv, Helen, River Song | |
The Eighth Piece | ||
The Doomsday Chronometer | ||
The Crucible of Souls |
A Subscriber Short Trip:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Shrine of Sorrows | 7th | Ace |
The final few Monthly Adventures of 2016:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Memory Bank and Other Stories | 5th | Turlough | |
Order of the Daleks | 6th | Constance, Daleks | |
Absolute Power | 6th | Constance | |
Quicksilver | 6th | Constance, Flip |
The War Doctor’s tale continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Shadow Vortex | Ollistra, Daleks, Sontarans | |
The Eternity Cage | ||
Eye of Harmony |
More tales of mystery.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Picture This | Ellie, Quick | |
The Flickermen | ||
School of Blood | ||
Warm Blood |
Two more adventures of the Third Doctor and Jo.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Transcendence of Ephros | ||
The Hidden Realm |
Two Torchwood specials were released in 2016
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Torchwood Archive | :feat-tw-archive | |
Outbreak | Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Rhys, Andy |
The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue, this time featuring the Silents.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
House of Silents | Kate Osgood, Silents | |
Square One | ||
Silent Majority | ||
In Memory Alone |
The third series of The Early Adventures features the First doctor again.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Age of Endurance | 1st | Susan, Barbara, Ian | |
The Fifth Traveller | 1st | Vicki, Barbara, Ian | |
The Ravelli Conspiracy | 1st | Vicki, Steven | |
The Sontarans | 1st | Steven, Sara, Sontarans |
The last two novel adaptions from Big Finish:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Original Sin | 7th | Benny, Chris, Roz | |
Cold Fusion | 5th, 7th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Chris, Roz, Patience |
After the special release Who Killed Toby Kinsella?, Big Finish created a series of stories for the New Counter-Measures.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Nothing to See Here | ||
Troubled Waters | ||
The Phoenix Strain | ||
A Gamble With Time |
Series 2 of River Song’s adventures with classic doctors, featuring the Seventh and Sixth Doctors.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Unknown | 6th and 7th Doctors | |
Five Twenty-Nine | ||
World Enough and Time | ||
The Eye of the Storm |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Gardens of the Dead | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Black Guardian | |
Prime Winnder | 6th | Peri | |
Washington Burns | 7th | Ace | |
The Curse of the Fugue | 8th | Lucie | |
This Sporting Life | 1st | Steven, Dodo | |
Lost and Found | 2nd | Ben, Polly | |
The Blame Game | 3rd | Liz, the Monk | |
Damascus | 3rd | Jeremy Thorpe, Jo, UNIT | |
A Full Life | 4th | Adric, Romana II, K9 | |
Rulebook | 5th | Peri | |
The Man Who Wasn’t There | 8th | Charley | |
The Hesitation Deviation | 7th | Benny | |
Forever Fallen | 7th | Ace |
And then, some Subscriber Short Trips:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Christmas Dimension | 3rd | Liz | |
Collector’s Item | 4th | Sarah Jane |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 1001 audio dramas and 123 audio books.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Star Men | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | |
The Contingency Club | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | |
Zaltys | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan |
Big Finish starts another Torchwood series, focusing on Torchwood One before the Battle of Canary Wharf (featured in the TV episode Doomsday).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
New Girl | Yvonne, Ianto | |
Through the Ruins | ||
Uprising |
Abby and Zara return for a fourth (and final, as of writing) series.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Bomb | Abby, Zara | |
The Room | ||
The Ward | ||
The Dance |
The final anthology centered around The War Doctor. It was released only a month after John Hurt’s passing.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Pretty Lies | Ollistra, Leela, Daleks | |
The Lady of Obsidian | ||
The Enigma Dimension |
Doom Coalition, featuring the Eighth Doctor, Liv, and Helen, concludes.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Ship in a Bottle | Liv, Helen, Ollistra, the Monk, Weeping Angels | |
Songs of Love | ||
The Side of the Angels | ||
Stop the Clock |
Charlotte Pollard’s adventures continue… (as of writing, this is the last series of Charlotte Pollard).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Embankment Station | Robert, Viyrans | |
Ruffling | ||
Seed of Chaos | ||
The Destructive Quality of Life |
Each release in this quarter is two 2-part adventures.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Alien Heart/Dalek Soul | 5th | Nyssa, Daleks | |
Vortex Ice/Cortex Fire | 6th | Flip | |
Shadow Planet/World Apart | 6th | Flip |
The third and final story from Philip Hinchcliffe, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Helm of Awe |
The final series of Jago & Litefoot, before Trevor Baxter (the actor for Litefoot) passed away.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Stuff of Nightmares | Ellie, Quick | |
Chapel of Night | ||
How the Other Half Lives | ||
Too Much Reality |
Big Finish produced an audio anthology, featuring Nicholas Briggs as both Narrator and as the voice of the Ninth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Bleeding Heart | Rose, Adam, Jackie Tyler | |
The Window on the Moor | ||
The Other Side | ||
Retail Therapy |
The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue, featuring the Silurians.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Call to Arms | Kate, Osgood, Benton, Mike Yates, Jo Jones, Silurians | |
Tidal Wave | ||
Retrieval | ||
United |
Another spin off series from Big Finish, featuring Jack Harkness’ adventures outside of Torchwood. A second volume was released in 2019.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Year After I Died | ||
Wednesdays for Beginners | ||
One Enchanted Evening | ||
Month 25 |
The First Doctor’s stories continue.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Fields of Terror | 1st Doctor, Vicki, Steven, Polly, Ben, Daleks | |
Across the Darkened City | ||
The Bonfires of the Vanities | ||
The Plague of Dreams |
A Subscriber Short Trip:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Horror of Hy-Brasil | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe |
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:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The High Price of Parking | 7th | Ace, Mel | |
The Blood Furnace | 7th | Ace, Mel | |
The Silurian Candidate | 7th | Ace, Mel, Silurians | |
Time in Office | 5th | Tegan, Leela, Time Lords |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Night of the Vashta Nerada | 4th | Vashta Nerada | |
Empire of the Racnoss | 5th | Racnoss | |
The Carrionite Curse | 6th | Carrionite | |
Day of the Vashta Nerada | 8th | Vashta Nerada |
Two more adventures of the Third Doctor and Jo.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Conquest of Far | Jo, Daleks | |
Storm of the Horofax |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Visiting Hours | Rhys | |
The Dollhouse | ||
Corpse Day | Owen, Andy | |
torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor | Sato | |
The Office of Never Was | Ianto | |
The Dying Room |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Changes Everything | Jack, Gwen, Tyler, Orr | |
Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy | ||
Orr | ||
Superiority Complex |
Bernice’s Adventures in the Unbound Universe continue.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Short Stories: True Stories | The Unbound Doctor, The Unbound Master | |
The City and the Clock | ||
Asking for a Friend | ||
Truant | ||
The True Saviour of the Universe |
The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Romana II.
Story | Companion | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Beast of Kravenos | Romana II | K9, Jago, Litefoot | |
The Eternal Battle | Romana II | K9, Sontarans | |
The Silent Scream | Romana II | K9 | |
Dethras | Romana II | ||
The Haunting of Malkin Place | Romana II | ||
Subterranea | Romana II | ||
The Movellan Grave | Romana II | Movellans | |
The Skin of the Sleek | Romana II | ||
The Thief Who Stole Time | Romana II |
The final Monthly Adventures of 2017.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Behemoth | 6th | Constance, Flip | |
The Middle | 6th | Constance, Flip | |
Static | 6th | Constance, Flip |
The second box set of Aliens Among Us.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Love Rat | Jack, Gwen, Rhys, Andy, Tyler, Orr | |
A Kill to a View | ||
Zero Hour | ||
The Empty Hand |
A prequel to The War Doctor, this series features the Eighth Doctor and companion Bliss.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Starship of Theseus | Bliss, Ollistra, Daleks | |
Echoes of War | ||
The Conscript | ||
One Life |
Three more stories featuring the Tenth Doctor, this time with Rose as his companion.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Infamy of the Zaross | Rose, Jackie | |
The Sword of the Chevalier | Rose | |
Cold Vengeance | Rose, Ice Warriors |
The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Dalek Transaction | Kate, Osgood, Daleks, Sontarans | |
Invocation | ||
The Sontaran Project | ||
False Negative |
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Splintered Man | ||
The Ship of Sleepwalkers | ||
My Enemy’s Enemy | ||
Time of the Intelligence |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The World Beyond the Trees | 8th | Liv, Molly | |
Gardener’s Worlds | 3rd | Jo, Yates | |
The Jago & Litefoot Revival | 10th, 11th | Jago, Litefoot, Ellie | |
Falling | 1st | Ben, Polly | Yes |
How to Win Planets and Influence People | 4th | The Monk, Sarah Jane, Harry | |
Flashpoint | 8th | Lucie | |
The British Invasion | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe | |
A Heart on Both Sides | 8th | Nyssa | |
All Hands on Deck | 8th | Susan | |
The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | |
O Tannenbaum | 1st | Steven | |
Landbound | 3rd |
The War Master stars the Master, played by Derek Jacobi.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Beneath the Viscoid | Daleks, Cole | |
The Good Master | ||
The Sky Man | ||
The Heavenly Paradigm |
The fourth series of The Early Adventures features the Second Doctor again.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Night Witches | 2nd | Ben, Polly, Jamie | |
The Outliers | 2nd | Ben, Polly, Jamie | |
The Morton Legacy | 2nd | Ben, Polly, Jamie | |
The Wreck of the World | 2nd | Jamie, Zoe |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Destination Wars | Susan, Ian, Barbara, the Master | |
The Great White Hurricane |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 1124 audio dramas and 132 audio books.
The first few stories of 2018.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Kingdom of Lies | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | |
Ghost Walk | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | |
Serpent in the Silver Mask | 5th | Adric, Nyssa, Tegan |
Series 3 of River Song’s adventures with classic doctors, featuring the Fifth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Lady in the Lake | 5th Doctor, Madame Kovarian | |
A Requiem for the Doctor | ||
My Dinner with Andrew | ||
The Furies |
The Gallifrey series returns for stories set during the Time War…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Celestial Intervention | ||
Soldier Obscura | ||
The Devil You Know | ||
Desperate Measures |
The second volume of stories centering around Churchill.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Young Winston | 9th, 10th, and 11th Doctor, Vastra | |
Human Conflict | ||
I Was Churchill’s Double | ||
Churchill Victorious |
The final box set of Aliens Among Us.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Poker Face | Jack, Gwen, Rhys, Andy, Tyler, Orr | |
Tagged | ||
Escape Room | ||
Herald of the Dawn |
This box set focused around New Earth (as shown in the TV episodes New Earth and Gridlock).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Escape from New New York | Devon, Hame, 10th Doctor | |
Death in the New Forest | ||
The Skies of New Earth | ||
The Cats of New Cairo |
Two more adventures of the Third Doctor and Jo.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Rise of the New Humans | The Monk, Cybermen | |
The Tyrants of Logic |
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.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Helliax Rift | 5th | Daniel Hopkins, UNIT | |
The Lure of the Nomad | 6th | ||
Iron Bright | 6th | ||
Hour of the Cybermen | 6th | Daniel Hopkins, UNIT, Cybermen |
Another series of Eighth Doctor adventures, following on from the events of Doom Coalition.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Their Finest Hour | Liv, Helen, the Eleven, Churchill | |
How to Make a Killing in Time Travel | ||
World of Damnation | ||
Sweet Salvation |
One Torchwood special was released in 2018.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Believe | Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Tosh, Owen |
Featuring Jacob Dudman as both Narrator and as the voice of the Tenth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Taste of Death | Rose, Martha, Sylvia Noble, Lady Christina de Souza | |
Backtrack | ||
Wild Pastures | ||
Last Chance |
The end of the Jago & Litefoot series. Litefoot’s lines were taken from archive recordings.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Jago & Litefoot Forever |
The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue. This series focuses on technology and cybermen.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Game Theory | Kate, Osgood, Cybermen, the Master | |
Telepresence | ||
Code Silver | ||
Master of Worlds |
The Fourth Doctor’s adventures continue, with Leela.
Story | Companion | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Sons of Kaldor | Leela | Kaldor robots | |
The Crowmarsh Experiment | Leela | ||
The Mind Runners/The Demon Rises | Leela | K9 Mark I | |
The Shadow of London | Leela | ||
The Bad Penny | Leela | ||
Kill The Doctor/The Age of Sutekh | Leela | Sutekh |
A series focusing on the exploits of Jenny after the events of the TV episode The Doctor’s Daughter.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Stolen Goods | Jenny, Noah, Ood | |
Prisoner of the Ood | ||
Neon Reign | ||
Zero Space |
The second volume of Second Doctor stories.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Curator’s Egg | Ben, Polly, Jamie, Victoria | |
Dumb Waiter | ||
The Iron Maid | ||
The Tactics of Defeat |
The tales of Torchwood One continue.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Law Machines | Yvonne, Ianto | |
Through the Ruins | ||
Uprising |
The continuation of the Eighth Doctor’s time in the Time War
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Lords of Terror | Bliss, Daleks, Ollistra | |
Planet of the Ogrons | ||
In the Garden of Death | ||
Jonah |
The second volume of adventures using the cast of An Adventure in Space and Time.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Invention of Death | Susan, Ian, Barbara | |
The Barbarians and the Samurai |
As mentioned above, this is one month offset from the actual third quarter of 2018, because these stories are all related.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Red Planets | 7th | Ace, Mel | |
The Dispossessed | 7th | Ace, Mel | |
The Quantum Possibility Engine | 7th | Ace, Mel |
The tales of thief Lady Christina de Souza, the character introduced in the TV episode Planet of the Dead.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
It Takes a Thief | ||
Skin Deep | ||
Portrait of a Lady | ||
Death on the Mile |
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Death of Captain Jack | Jack, John Hart, Gwen, Ianto, Rhys, Andy, Norton Folgate, Queen Victoria | |
The Last Beacon | Owen, Ianto | |
We Always Get Out Alive | Gwen, Rhys | |
Goodbye Picadilly | Andy, Norton Folgate | |
Instant Karma | Sato | |
Deadbeat Escape | Bilis Manger |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Gifted | ||
Life Experience | ||
Tell Me You Love Me | ||
Everybody Loves Reagan | ||
Now You Know… | ||
In Remembrance |
Featuring Jacob Dudman as both Narrator and as the voice of the Eleventh Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Calendar Man | Amy, Kazran, Dorium, Clara, Jane Austen | |
The Top of the Tree | ||
The Light Keepers | ||
False Coronets |
Series 4 of River Song’s adventures with classic doctors, featuring the Fourth Doctor.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Time in a Bottle | 4th Doctor | |
Kings of Infinite Space | ||
Whodunnit? | ||
Someone I Once Knew |
The Eighth Doctor storyline Ravenous continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Escape from Kaldor | Liv, Helen, the Eleven | |
Better Watch Out | ||
Fairytale of Salzburg | ||
Seizure |
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).
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Future Pain | ||
The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood | ||
See No Evil | ||
Night Watch |
The last Monthly Adventures from 2018:
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Warlock’s Cross | 7th | Elizabeth Klein, Daniel Hopkins, UNIT | |
Muse of Fire | 7th | Ace, Hex, Iris, Panda | |
The Hunting Ground | 6th |
This series is a continuation of the New Adventures novels, featuring the companions Roz and Chris.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Trial of a Time Machine | Roz, Chris | |
Vanguard | ||
The Jabari Countdown | ||
The Dread of Night |
The exploits of UNIT under the command of Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood continue.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Hosts of the Wirrn | Wirrn | |
Breach of Trust | ||
Open the Box |
First, the two volumes of The Story So Far, summarising the different eras of Bernice’s life:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Ever After Happy | ||
The Grel Invasion of Earth | Jason | |
Braxiatel in Love | Brax | |
Every Dark Thought | The Valeyard | |
Empress of the Drahvins | Ruth | |
The Angel of History | The Doctor | |
Short Stories: In Time | Various |
And then, Treasury, an anthology of previously published short stories in the Bernice Summerfield series:
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield | ||
And Then Again | ||
Misplaced Spring | ||
Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother | ||
Walking Bcakwards for Christmas | ||
The Least Important Man | ||
Bernice Summerfield and the Library of Books | ||
A Mutual Friend |
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Authentic Experience | 6th | Peri | |
Mel-evolent | 6th | Mel | |
The Turn of the Screw | 8th | Charlie Sato, Ruth Matheson | |
Erasure | 4th | Adric, Narvin | |
Trap For Fools | 5th | Turlough | |
The Siege of Big Ben | Meta-crisis 10th Doctor | Jackie | |
The Darkened Earth | 6th | Constance | |
Flight Into Hull! | Meta-crisis 10th Doctor | Jackie | |
A Small Semblance of Home | 1st | Ian, Barbara, Susan | |
I Am The Master | 4th | The Master | |
The Mistpuddle Murders | 5th | Nyssa, Tegan | |
The Devil’s Footprints | 7th | Mel | |
The Last Day at Work | 2nd | Jamie |
The fifth series of The Early Adventures features the First doctor again.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Dalek Occupation of Winter | 1st | Steven, Vicki, Daleks | |
An Ideal World | 1st | Steven, Vicki | |
Entanglement | 1st | Steven, Vicki | |
The Crash of the UK-201 | 1st | Steven, Vicki |
The War Master series continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Call for the Dead | Ood | |
The Glittering Prize | ||
The Persistence of Dreams | ||
Sins of the Father |
A few Subscriber Short Trips. Two of these are from 2017, but moved here for logistical reasons.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Helmstone | 1st | Steven | |
The Night Before Christmas | 7th | ||
Mission Improbable | 6th | Evelyn | |
Taken for Granted | 3rd | Jo | |
The Smallest Battle | 4th | Leela | |
Tuesday | 8th | Harry |
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 |
If you’ve listened to everything up to this point, you’ve listened to 1277 audio dramas and 140 audio books.
The first quarter of Monthly Adventures from 2019 featured the reintroduction of Kamelion!
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Devil in the Mist | 5th | Turlough, Tegan, Kamelion | |
Black Thursday / Power Game | 5th | Turlough, Tegan, Kamelion | |
The Kamelion Empire | 5th | Turlough, Tegan, 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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Hollow King |
Series 5 of The Diary of River Song features several incarnations of the Master.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Bekdel Test | Missy, Beevers Master, Roberts Master, Jacobi Master | |
Animal Instinct | ||
The Lifeboat and the Deathboat | ||
Concealed Weapon |
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Phoenicians | Susan, Ian, Barbara | |
Tick-Tock World |
A series of adventures starring Michelle Gomez as Missy.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
A Spoonful of Mayhem | The Monk | |
Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated | ||
The Broken Clock | ||
The Belly of the Beast |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Sinestran Kill | K9, Drashigs, Ada Lovelace | |
Planet of the Drashigs | ||
The Enchantress of Numbers | ||
The False Guardian | ||
Time’s Assassin | ||
Fever Island | ||
The Perfect Prisoners |
Part 2 of God Among Us.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Flight 405 | Yvonne, Andy, Norton, Tyler, Jack | |
Hostile Environment | ||
Another Man’s Shoes | ||
Eye of the Storm |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Emancipation | River, Leela, Benny, Ace, Vastra, Jenny, Strax, Kate, Osgood | Definitely |
The Big Blue Book | ||
Inside Every Warrior | ||
Narcissus |
A Fourth Doctor series adapted from the 70s and 80s. Much wackier than your typical Doctor Who.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Doctor Who and the Iron Legion | Sharon, K9, Beep the Meep | |
Doctor Who and the Star Beast |
The Gallifrey series returns for a second series of stories set during the Time War, focusing on the consequences of the resurrection of Rassilon
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Havoc | ||
Partisans | ||
Collateral | ||
Assassins |
The Eighth Doctor’s plight with the Ravenous continues…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Deeptime Frontier | Liv, Helen, the Eleven, the Nine, River, Bliss, Charley | |
Companion Piece | ||
L.E.G.E.N.D | ||
The Odds Against |
The second quarter of Monthly Adventures from 2019 brings back Mags, the werewolf from the psychic circus in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
The Monsters of Gokroth | 7th | Mags | |
The Moons of Vulpana | 7th | Mags | |
An Alien Werewolf in London | 7th | Mags, Ace |
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.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
This Sleep of Death | The Static, River Song | |
Tempest | ||
The Power of River Song |
This boxset sees the return of the Brigadier and Liz Shaw to the Third Doctor Adventures.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Primord | Jo, Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton | |
The Scream of Ghosts |
The Tenth Doctor and Donna return for three more adventures. And this time, they’re taking the family with them…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
No Place | Donna, Wilf, Sylvia | |
One Mile Down | Donna | |
The Creeping Death | Donna |
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!
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Cars that Ate London! | Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, Strax | |
A Photograph to Remember | ||
The Ghosts of Greenwhich |
The omnisexual Time Agent is back…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Piece of Mind | Captain Jack, 6th Doctor | |
What Have I Done? | ||
Driving Miss Wells |
The final adventures in the God Among Us series…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
A Mother’s Son | Captain Jack, Yvonne, Tyler, Orr | |
ScrapeJane | ||
Day Zero | ||
Thoughts and Prayers |
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?
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Survivor | The 8th Doctor | |
The Coney Island Chameleon | ||
The Missing Link | ||
Darkness and Light |
This set of Monthly Adventures features the 6th Doctor and Peri, a TARDIS team we haven’t seen for a while.
Story | Doctor | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|---|
Memories of a Tyrant | 6th | Peri | |
Emissary of the Daleks | 6th | Peri, Daleks | |
Harry Houdini’s War | 6th | Peri, Houdini |
The Doctor keeps to the fringes of the Time War, but his friends and enemies are drawing him ever close to his destiny…
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
State of Bliss | Bliss, Daleks, Time Lords, the Valeyard | |
The Famished Lands | ||
Fugitive in Time | ||
The War Valeyard |
The first four of these dramas feature Torchwood encountering monsters from Doctor Who.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Night of the Fendahl | Gwen, the Fendahl | |
The Green Life | Jack, Jo Jones | |
Sync | Suzie, Margaret Blaine | |
Sargasso | Rhys, the Autons | |
Serenity | Jack, Ianto | |
The Hope | Owen, Andy |
This series is focused around River Song slipping in at the fringes of stories with the Doctor, and dealing with problems on the sidelines.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
An Unearthly Woman | Ian, Barbara, Susan, the Yeti, the Great Intelligence, Drashigs, Jago | |
The Web of Time | ||
Peepshow | ||
The Talents of Greel |
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.)
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
The Endless Night | Rose Tyler, Jackie, Pete | |
The Flood | ||
Ghost Machines | ||
The Last Party on Earth |
Bernice Summerfield is back in four new adventures with a Time Lord you could bring home to meet your universe.
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Pride of the Lampian | The Unbound Doctor | |
Clear History | ||
Dead and Breakfast | ||
Burrowed Time |
An epic six-part adventure celebrating 20 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish!
Story | Featuring | Listen? |
---|---|---|
Lies in Ruins | 3rd–8th Doctor, Benny, River Song, the Counter-Measures team, Ace, UNIT, Kate Stewart, Jo Jones, Osgood, Jenny (the Doctor’s Daughter), the Nine, DI Patricia Menzies, Charley, Romana, Leela | Definitely |
The Split Infinitive | ||
The Sacrifice of Jo Grant | ||
Relative Time | ||
The Avenues of Possibility | ||
Collision Course |
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.
Story | Range | Released | Seg |
---|---|---|---|
Further Adventures of Lucie Miller | Lucie Miller | 10th July | tba |
Tartarus | Monthly Adventures | 17th September | tba |
The Companion Chronicles: 1D V3 | Companion Chronicles | 18th September | tba |
The Vigil | Torchwood Monthly | 24th September | tba |
Torchwood One - Latter Days | Torchwood One | 25th September | tba |
Ravenous 4 | Ravenous | ?? October | tba |
Interstitial / Feast of Fear | Monthly Adventures | 15th October | tba |
Heritage 2 | The Paternoster Gang | 16th October | tba |
Torchwood: Smashed | Torchwood Monthly | 23rd October | tba |
(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:
Story | Range | Released | Seg |
---|---|---|---|
Scratchman | Audiobooks | 24th January | tba |
The Revisionists | Short Trips | 31st January | tba |
The Elysian Blade | Audiobooks | 7th February 2019 | tba |
The Astrea Conspiracy | Short Trips | 28th February | tba |
Loud and Proud | Subscriber STs | 25th March | tba |
Doctors and Dragons | Short Trips | 27th March | tba |
The Winged Coven | Audiobooks | 4th April | tba |
Year of the Drex Olympics | Short Trips | 16th April | tba |
Under ODIN’s Eye | Short Trips | 30th May | tba |
Still Life | Subscriber STs | 19th June | tba |
The Same Face | Short Trips | 27th June | tba |
Battle Scars | Short Trips | 31st July | tba |
#HarrySullivan | Short Trips | 29th August | tba |
An Ocean of Sawdust | Subscriber STs | 17th September | tba |
Dead Media | Short Trips | 30th September | tba |
The Second Oldest Question | Short Trips | ??th October | tba |
Segment | Potential Cost | Spent | Spent so far | Segment Length | Length so far |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BBC Rad 1 | $114.68 | 0 | 0 | 8h | 8 hours |
Pocket 2 | ? | 0 | 0 | 2h 17m | 10h 17m |
MR A 3 | $32 | 0 | 0 | 24h 29m | 34h 46m |
IScream 4 | ? | 0 | 0 | 0h 57m | 35h 43m |
Benny 1 5 | $48.15 | 48.15 | 48.15 | 10h 21m | 46h 04m |
Rani 6 | ? | 0 | 48.15 | 4h 16m | 50h 20m |
MR B 7 | $19 | 0 | 48.15 | 14h 30m | 64h 50m |
Wirrn 8 | ? | 0 | 48.15 | 1h 30m | 66h 20m |
MR C 9 | $22 | tba | tba | 15h 10m | 81h 30m |
Benny 2 10 | |||||
Dalek 1 11 | |||||
MR D 12 | |||||
Krynoid 13 | |||||
Benny 3 14 | |||||
Minds 15 | |||||
MR E 16 | |||||
SJS 1 17 | |||||
MR F 18 | |||||
Dalek 2 19 | |||||
MR G 20 |