Category: 8th Doctor

Doctor Who: The Movie

Doctor WhoAfter a seven-year gap since the BBC cancelled the original series, Fox premieres Doctor Who: The Movie as its Tuesday Night Movie (and, if ratings prove to be a success story, a backdoor pilot for a series). Depicting the seventh Doctor’s regeneration into the eighth (Paul McGann), this is effectively the 698th episode of Doctor Who, and guest stars Yee Jee Tso and Eric Roberts as the Master. US ratings ultimately prove to be a disappointment, and this remains the only televised adventure of the eighth Doctor (though this incarnation of the Time Lord is carried forward in novels, comics and audio stories). Doctor Who does not make a full return to TV until 2005. Read more

Doctor Who: The New Adventures: The Dying Days

Doctor WhoVirgin Publishing releases the 61st book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Lance Parkin’s The Dying Days. This is the first and only book in the series to feature the eighth Doctor introduced in the previous year’s TV movie, and marks the end of Virgin’s Doctor Who license, as BBC Books has brought the license in-house in the wake of the 1996 movie. The New Adventures books will continue with no direct Doctor Who references and focusing on the original character of Dr. Bernice Summerfield. Read more

Doctor Who: Minuet In Hell

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the 19th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Nicholas Courtney appears as the Brigadier in a story closing out Big Finish’s first “season” of eighth Doctor adventures. Read more

Doctor Who: Zagreus

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the 50th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann. This story, which unites many past stars of TV Doctor Who in unusual roles, celebrates 40 years of Doctor Who. Read more

Doctor Who: Shada (audio drama)

Doctor Who: Real TimeBig Finish Productions releases the one-off audio drama Doctor Who: Shada, which premiered on the BBCi website as an audio series with limited Flash animation. Paul McGann, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, and Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) star. Read more

Doctor Who: Blood Of The Daleks – Part 1

Doctor WhoBBC Radio 7 airs the first episode of a new series of Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor, with Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller. The new eighth Doctor adventures are produced by, and will later get a CD release from, Big Finish Productions. Read more