Doctor Who Series 5 (soundtrack)

Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 season of Doctor Who. This release continues the double-disc format of the 2009 specials soundtrack, and includes most of the music recorded for the entire fifth season. Read more

Doctor Who: The Lost Stories: The Fragile Yellow Arc Of Fragrance

Doctor Who UnboundBig Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama box set The Lost Stories: The First Doctor, containing audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. William Russell and Carole Ann Ford star in a story originally intended for the first season of Doctor Who. Read more

Doctor Who: The New Dalek Paradigm action figures

Doctor Who action figuresBritish toymaker Character Options releases a wave of five action figures depicting the New Dalek Paradigm introduces in the 2010 season of Doctor Who. These toys reflect the extremely colorful redesign – somewhat controversial in Who fandom – of the Doctor’s arch enemies. Read more

Doctor Who: Demon Quest Part 5 – Sepulchre

Doctor WhoBBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fifth and final Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. A third series of adventures will follow in 2011, prior to the fourth Doctor’s Big Finish audio debut in 2012. Read more

Doctor Who: The Four Doctors

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases a bonus Doctor Who audio drama starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann. (This title was initially exclusive to Big Finish’s subscription program, as an incentive for those whose subscriptions included The Demons Of Red Lodge.) Read more

Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – Quinnis

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the 38th Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Carole Ann Ford and Tara-Louise Kaye star. Read more

Doctor Who: The Lost Stories: Prison In Space

Doctor Who UnboundBig Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama box set The Lost Stories: The Second Doctor, containing audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury star in a story originally intended for the first season of Doctor Who. Read more

Nicholas Courtney, Doctor Who actor, dies

Nicholas CourtneyForever known as the Brigadier (and thus the only ranking UNIT officer who counts), actor Nicholas Courtney dies at the age of 81, the only actor to have appeared alongside every Doctor in Doctor Who. After appearing as a one-off guest character in the Hartnell era, Courtney is drafted into the role of Colonel Lethbridge Stewart for a 1968 Doctor Who story, proving popular enough to return the following season with a promotion to Brigadier. In this role, Courtney guest starred with every television Doctor (including, thanks to a cameo in a 1993 charity skit, Colin Baker); he would also appear alonside Paul McGann in a Big Finish audio play, a medium that also saw him appearing with David Tennant, years before being cast as the tenth Doctor. Courtney would play the role for Big Finish several times, and even reprised the Brigadier in a 1995 fan-made video production, before bringing the character back in a two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Doctor Who: Space / Time

Doctor WhoA two-part Doctor Who sketch airs as part of the BBC’s Comic Relief telethon. Featuring only series regulars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, the mini-adventure runs around eight minutes in length.

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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (soundtrack)

Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol. This is the first time in the revived series that a single episode has gotten an individual soundtrack release; Katherine Jenkins’ song “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)” is inclucded. Read more

Doctor Who: To The Death

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the 34th and final episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith; the eighth Doctor’s adventures will continue in a series of boxed sets, beginning with Dark Eyes in 2012. Read more

Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who actress, dies

Elisabeth SladenActress Elisabeth Sladen, possibly the performer who has maintained the longest on-screen association with a Doctor Who character in the history of the franchise, dies at the age of 65. In 1973, the producers of Doctor Who had hired another actress to play the part of new companion Sarah Jane Smith, only to meet with strenuous objections from series lead Jon Pertwee. Elisabeth Sladen was then cast in the part, continuing to play Sarah Jane through 1976, one of the longest-running companions in the original series. Numerous times she had been approached to reprise her role, only agreeing to do so in 1981 in her own spinoff, K-9 & Company, which never made it past the pilot stage. After reprising the role of Sarah Jane for Big Finish’s audio spinoff series centered around the character, she was asked to play the part again – on television – alongside David Tennant, sparking new interest in the character and ultimately leading to her own spinoff series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. Filming of the fifth season of that series had been put on hold while she was admitted to the hospital.