Series 1 (2009–10) The first series is largely adapted from stories planned for the
unmade 1985–1986 series.
Colin Baker and
Nicola Bryant star as the
Sixth Doctor and
Peri. Clegg wrote a detailed story breakdown for
Point of Entry, which Platt turned into a complete script. Hammond wrote an incomplete script for
Paradise 5, which was completed and adapted for audio by Lane. Martin, Bidmead, and Mills have revised their own scripts, with Bidmead describing his revision as a "top-to-bottom rewrite". Paul Finch approached Big Finish with a complete script that his father Brian had written for Season 22 in 1985. The story was completely unknown to Big Finish before this.
Michael Feeney Callan's The Children of January was originally part of the line-up, but fell through due to the author's other commitments and was replaced by
The Macros.
Series 2 (2010–11) The first release of the second series is
The First Doctor Boxset, a four-disc boxed set including
Moris Farhi's stories
Farewell Great Macedon and
The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance. Farhi's scripts for
Farewell Great Macedon have been adapted as an enhanced audiobook, performed by
William Russell and
Carole Ann Ford, who, respectively, played
Ian Chesterton and
Susan Foreman. The second release is
The Second Doctor Boxset, another four-disc boxed set including
Dick Sharples' The Prison in Space. Sharples' story has been adapted by
Simon Guerrier, and is performed by
Frazer Hines and
Wendy Padbury, who played
Jamie McCrimmon and
Zoe Heriot. The set also includes
The Destroyers, the unmade pilot episode of a proposed Dalek-centred spin-off series for American TV. The episode has been adapted as a full-cast drama, with
Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks. The remaining releases have been adapted from stories planned for the
unmade Season 27, and introduced a new companion for the
Seventh Doctor, a young safecracker named
Raine Creevy, played by Beth Chalmers. They were released monthly from January–April 2011 are as follows. The character of Raine makes her debut as an adult in
Crime of the Century, but appears as a newborn baby in
Thin Ice; Beth Chalmers plays Raine's mother in that story.
Fourth Doctor Lost Stories (2012) Series 3 (2011–12) This third batch of stories features three stories with the
Fifth Doctor,
Nyssa and
Tegan Jovanka, followed by three stories with the
Sixth Doctor and
Peri, followed by dramatic readings of a
First Doctor and
Second Doctor story to round out the final two releases of the series. This series was released in October 2011 – September 2012.
Series 4 (2013) A fourth series of stories was released in 2013, featuring one story with the
First Doctor, two with the
Second Doctor and one with the
Third Doctor, featuring the first Third Doctor lost story ever released. The series was released September–December 2013, and the first three stories are connected because they were all originally by
Brian Hayles.
Series 5 (2019) Two further stories were released in November 2019. The first features the
Fifth Doctor,
Tegan, and
Turlough in an unmade story from
Season 21 while the second features the
Sixth Doctor and
Peri in a fourth story from the
unmade 1985–1986 series.
Series 6 (2021) Special (2022) On 18 January 2021,
Russell T Davies, former and current Doctor Who
showrunner revealed that, in preparation for a
watch party for "
The Runaway Bride", he found an old spec script that he submitted to the BBC in 1985–86, titled "Mind of the Hodiac". The audio adaptation of the script was co-written by
Scott Handcock, and released in March 2022. It features the Sixth Doctor, alongside companion Mel.
Series 7 (2023) Series 8 (2024) Series 9 == References ==