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Circuit Breaker continues as the Doctor and Martha close in on the final piece of the puzzle: The Kaleidoscope

All summer, the Fugitive Doctor has been returning a mysterious shopping list of items to their rightful place in time and space. It’s taken her from ancient Greece and medieval Italy to early Skaro and even stranger places. Its course has also taken her through audiobooks, comics, short stories and games. Now, as she prepares for her final mission, this year’s Doctor Who multimedia event Circuit Breaker enters the world of novels with The Kaleidoscope.

Currently head of the UNIT Black Archive, Osgood has recruited Martha Jones to assist the Doctor on her task. The debut novel by actor, playwright and script writer Jo Martin (aka the Fugitive Doctor itself) delves deep into the Doctor’s troubled past. The pair have set out to discover the secret of this seemingly ordinary kaleidoscope. But this is a children’s toy displaced in time and glowing with strange energy. But the answer will also bring them face to face with they mystery of the Doctor’s heavily edited memories…

 

Doctor Who: The Kaleidoscope. Cover by Lee Binding (c) Penguin Books Doctor Who: The Kaleidoscope

When memories lie, the truth can be fatal.

In the aftermath of an improbable mission, the Fugitive Doctor and Martha realise that something is interfering with their minds. Something that doesn’t want to be found.

Their investigation leads to a curious artefact in the British Museum: an apparently medieval toy known as the Kaleidoscope. But the object refuses to stay in one place, one time – or one identity. And when the Doctor is repeatedly mistaken for someone she’s never met, fragments of unfamiliar memories begin to surface.

Across the Earth, a hidden pattern emerges; evidence of a secret that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal. As ancient enemies close in and innocent lives are put at risk, the Doctor learns the hard way that some truths were buried for a reason…

You can order your copy of The Kaleidoscope now, as a hardback or an ebook, from your preferred vendor with the links here.

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Tom Baker’s Sir Sherlock returns in Holmes’ most… cinematic outing yet

 

Tom Baker will return for another adventure as the aging Sherlock Holmes in the audio series from AUK Studios. Sir Sherlock: The Parting Shot once again co-stars his former Doctor Who co-star John Leeson. The K9 actor returns as Sir Sherlock’s unshakable companion, Dr. Watson.

Gary Hopkins provides the script for The Parting Shot, having written the series’ first story, The Red Letter Day. Notably, Hopkins previously dramatised four classic stories for the Granada TV series starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke,

But this time, the roaring 1920s push our Victorian heroes into new territory – a film set!

Sir Sherlock: The Parting Shot is now live on Kickstarter, where fans can pre-order the project here. Chinbeard Books are also publishing an official novelisation, available to pre-order in paperback and hardback. Author Kenton Hall has adapted the novelisation from Gary Hopkins’ original script.

 

The response to the first two Sir Sherlock stories has already changed plans for The Parting Shot to be the finale

The Parting Shot is not just a cinematic pun. It’s also a reference to the original plan for the final Sir Sherlock release to end with this release. However, AUK Studios now say that the response from fans has been so incredible that production plans have changed.

As Gary Hopkins explains: “The Parting Shot was originally the third of only three audio plays planned for the run, until it became apparent that the series could continue for a little longer. It therefore represents an ending and a beginning for Sherlock Holmes, in a story featuring some faces both old and new.”

Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was never shy of bringing the latest in crime-solving technology into his stories. “It therefore made sense, as the Great Detective was now at work in the 1920s, that Holmes and Watson should find themselves investigating a crime linked to the fledgling film industry!” continues Hopkins, who calls the juxtaposition of Holmes’ Victorian origins with slightly more modern technology “part of the fun.

“Although Conan Doyle lived long enough to see in the age of the ‘talkies’, he never actually incorporated moving pictures into his Holmes stories, but I dare say he’d have got there eventually.”

 

Fellow Doctor Who star Sophie Aldred joins Tom Baker and John Leeson for the new adventure

Another Doctor Who star joining the iconic duo of Tom Baker MBE and John Leeson in Sir Sherlock: The Parting Shot is Sophie Aldred as the grand and ice-cool Lady Vanadia Vallance. Famous for her role as the Doctor’s companion Ace, her link to Baker and Leeson “didn’t go unmissed!”

Sophie Aldred says: “When I was asked to join such an illustrious cast in such a soon-to-be classic series, I couldn’t believe my luck. Such fun, such a lovely part and such a talented group of actors. What could be better?!”

Cast regulars Katy Ashworth and Nicholas Rowe (Young Sherlock Holmes, Mr Holmes) return as Emily Lestrade and Norton, respectively, with the late Norman Eshley appearing posthumously as Lord Lestrade. Wink Taylor (Ivor Novello, Alfred Hitchock) and Conrad Westmaas (Freddie Valance) round out the cast. Meanwhile, even producer/director Barnaby Eaton-Jones moonlights in a voice role.

“There’s a cinematic flavour to this new adventure, in setting and in denouement,” says Eaton-Jones. “It’s fun to hear a very young Alfred Hitchcock and a very young Ivor Novello (both played by Wink Taylor) sparring with each other.”

 

Sir Sherlock: The Parting Shot (c) AUK Studios Sir Sherlock: The Parting Shot

Now that Sir Sherlock and Doctor Watson have returned to 221B Baker Street, there has been renewed interest in their stories by the most modern of entertainments: the motion picture.

Whilst visiting the set of a film, Watson witnesses what appears to be a tragic accident.
>Holmes, Watson, Norton and Sergeant Emily Lestrade are drawn into the world of the movies to discover that show business is, indeed, like no business they know.

Should they keep the culprit from the gallows? What does the case have to do with a villain from their past? And who will still be standing when the credits roll?

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A new wave of Funko Pops brings new versions of Doctors and villains to life

 

A new wave of Doctor Who Funko Pops are on the way, and HMV have them available for pre-order now. One of the merchandise sensations of the 21st century, Funko Pops use a cute design and uniform template to bring a vast multiverse of fun together in one compatible set of figures. This newest wave includes seven Doctor Who characters from the modern eras. There will also be an additional Pop available exclusively from Funko, and a limited chase variant.

The main wave is available to pre-order now from HMV and features the following Doctor Who characters:

 

The Ninth Doctor Funko Pop (c) Funko The Ninth Doctor

This Pop features Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor in his green jumper from Dalek, The Long Game, and Father’s Day. In one of this incarnation’s most iconic poses, he has one hand reached out, ready to welcome new friends. This is the third variant of the incarnation from Funko, following one with his sonic screwdriver and purple top from The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and one with a banana and his black jumper from Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways.

Funko Pop TARDIS with Tenth Doctor (c) Funko TARDIS with Tenth Doctor Vinyl Ride Deluxe

One of Funko Pop’s range of iconic vehicles alongside their owners, this TARDIS set includes the Tenth Doctor, coat on, sonic screwdriver in hand, as he steps out of the Police Box on the lookout for his next adventure.

This is the fourth Funko version of the TARDIS. Previously, there was a regular version, a ‘materialisation’ semi-transparent variant, and one with the Clara memorial from Hell Bent.

 

The Tenth Doctor Funko Pop (c) Funko The Tenth Doctor

“I don’t want to go!” This version of David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor shows him looking mournfully at his own hand, as it begins to glow with regeneration energy. This is the seventh Tenth Doctor Funko Pop (including the TARDIS set in this wave.) Other versions include him in blue suit with coat, in brown suit and coat and 3D glasses, in his spacesuit, regenerating, and in blue suit with his disembodied hand in a jar.

 

The Eleventh Doctor Funko Pop (c) Funko The Eleventh Doctor

This Funko Pop depicts Matt Smith’s incarnation wielding his sonic screwdriver and wearing a blue shirt/red bow tie combination. It’s the sixth Eleventh Doctor figure. Earlier Funkos feature him in his red shirt/red blue tie look, in his Series 7B frock coat while carrying Handles from The Time of the Doctor, with his fez and mop from The Big Bang, in his spacesuit, and as Mr. Clever in Nightmare in Silver.

 

The Fifteenth Doctor Funko Pop (c) Funko The Fifteenth Doctor

Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor receives his first ever Funko Pop, here wearing his outfit from The Church on Ruby Road and holding his sonic screwdriver.

 

River Song Funko Pop (c) Funko River Song

The Doctor’s wife, River Song, gets a new Funko in in her Husbands of River Song costume, with leather jacket, sonic trowel, and her iconic diary. This is the successor to her previous Funko Pop, which had her costume from the climax of Day of the Moon.

 

Two Dalek figures for this wave are exclusive to Funko’s own site

 

Bronze Dalek Funko Pop (c) Funko Bronze Dalek

Available exclusively from Funko directly, this Pop recreates the Dalek design introduced in the 2005 episode of the same name. This is the fifth Dalek variant from the company, but this new edition features a new metallic finish to be more bronze than ever. This edition also has a chase variant, meaning that you have an five in six chance of getting a Bronze Dalek when you order.

 

Silver Dalek Funko Pop (c) Funko Silver Dalek

This chase Dalek can’t be specifically ordered. However, when you order a Bronze Dalek from Funko you have a one in six chance of getting one of these rare Silver Daleks instead. Although it utilizes the same mould as the Bronze Dalek (rivets and all) it has a classic 1960s livery of silver and blue. Which also, appropriately enough, is how the Daleks appeared in classic story The Chase!

 

The new figures will be available later this year, but be warned: Doctor Who Pops generally quickly sell out

Funko Pops frequently sell out quickly, sometimes even on pre-order. Certainly all the previous variants listed above are long gone off shelves. So if you’d like to grab any or all of these Funko Pops for yourself, you may want to act quickly. You can pre-order from HMV here.

To order you Bronze Dalek, and stand a 1-in-6 chance of getting a Silver Dalek, pre-order it on the Funko site ahead of its release at the end of the year.

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Arcadia returns to iconic Doctor Who location the Temple of Peace in October

Doctor Who convention Arcadia, by Cygnus Alpha Events, returns to Cardiff’s Temple of Peace this October. The Temple of Peace, of course, was the location used for filming some of the most popular Doctor Who episodes of the past 21 years. It was Platform One in The End of the World, and the Senate of New New York in Gridlock. It also appeared as part of the Silurian city in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, and the Temple in Fires of Pompeii.

The Temple of Peace also provided the setting for the climax of Eleventh Doctor story Let’s Kill Hitler. Appropriately, then, one of the guests for Arcadia is Albert Welling, who played the German Fuhrer in that episode. Fellow guest Simon Carnew was a Cyberman in Nightmare in Silver – yet another story which used the Cardiff location for filming. But Carnew has also been in a host of other Doctor Who episodes as a creature performer, not just as Cybermen, but as Daleks, Sandmen, Spacesuit zombies, Movellans, Judoon, and much more.

Also on the guest list are costume designers Louise Page and Ray Holman. Page worked on Doctor Who from The Christmas Invasion to The End of Time, and was responsible for the iconic looks of the Tenth Doctor and his companions Rose, Martha, and Donna, as well as so many other characters and aliens. Holman provided costume designs for episodes Blink and Turn Left, before returning to the show full time for Series Five, and making further returns for Series 9 and Series 11, 12, and 13. As such, he was the originator of the key costumes for the Matt Smith and Jodie Whittaker, as well as revamping Peter Capaldi’s look as a time travelling rock star.

 

You can order your tickets, which includes guest autographs and a buffet lunch, now

Other guests for Arcadia include creature performer Tim Dane Reid (Dalek, Cyberman ‘Patient’, Spoonhead, Monk, Kasavian, and more) and puppeteer Josh Elwell (Goblin King, Space Babies, Scoot the droid, and Sutekh.) Elwell was also a Lakertyan in 1980s story Time and the Rani!

Based on the layout of Cygnus Alpha’s page for the event, fans can expect announcements for three more guests between now and the one day convention on the 10th of October. Tickets are £95, including full access, an autograph from each guest, and a finger food buffet lunch.

You can order your tickets now from the Cygnus Alpha website.

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Doctor Who fans can now pre-order the Standard Edition of Season 25 on Blu-ray

 

Listings for pre-ordering Doctor Who: Season 25 – The Collection in the Standard Edition format, along with the cover, are now available in both the UK and the North America. The set includes all the episodes and extras from the original Limited Edition Season 25 Collection Blu-ray, but now in the more budget and shelf space friendly Standard Edition.

The 14 episodes bring the Doctor and his new friend, 1980s Perivale teenager Ace, across the universe to face new and terrible dangers. Originally broadcast in 1988, the season celebrates Doctor Who’s 25th Anniversary with a return to where it all began: Coal Hill School. There are also Daleks, Cybermen, eldritch gods, and fascist dictatorships to overthrow by tea time in one of the 1980s most popular seasons.

 

The Season 25 Collection includes:

• Remembrance of the Daleks
• The Happiness Patrol
• Silver Nemesis
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Plus, fans can experience this season like never before, with brand new extended special editions of all four adventures, exclusive to this Blu-ray set.

The four versions feature unseen footage, updated special effects, immersive surround sound, and surprises. All episodes have been newly remastered from available sources meaning these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

 

Doctor Who: The Collection: Season 25 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:

• UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
  Exclusive to Blu-ray, on the original broadcast versions of Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
• BEHIND THE SOFA
  New episodes with Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford (Mel), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Dame Sheila Hancock (Helen A), Jessica Martin (Mags), Karen Gledhill (Allison) and Mark Hardy (Cyber-Lieutenant).
• IN CONVERSATION
  Three new episodes, with Sophie Aldred, script editor Andrew Cartmel and director Chris Clough.
• LOOKING FOR DURSLEY
  A documentary looking back at the life and career of Dursley McLinden (Mike in Remembrance of the Daleks).
• THE MAKING OF DOCTOR WHO
  A rare vintage documentary from 1988, previously only available on VHS.
• SILVER NEMESIS – VHS EXTENDED VERSION
  A version of the story originally released on VHS with extra footage.
• SILVER NEMESIS – SPECIAL EDITION OMNIBUS
  A special cut-down feature-length version of this adventure, in the tradition of the 1970s Christmas repeats.
• THE COLLECTORS – THE 1980s
  Host Emily Cook chats to Doctor Who collectors about their 1980s treasures.
• THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM – TEAM SEVENTH DOCTOR
  Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Bonnie Langford attempt to escape the room of doom.
• WHEN SOPHIE MET LESLEY
  Sophie Aldred chats to Lesley Dunlop, her co-star from The Happiness Patrol who also appeared in the Fifth Doctor story Frontios (1984).
• STEPHEN MANSFIELD INTERVIEW
  The practical effects genius Stephen Mansfield looks back on his Season 25 work.
• STUDIO & LOCATION FOOTAGE
  Hours of raw footage and outtakes captured during the making of all four stories.

This eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including documentaries, featurettes, audio commentaries and more.

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Dark Tides has a haunted ship, a missing crew, and infinite terrors, but also this season’s biggest thrill ride

 

The Ninth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish have broken free of the Powell Estate at long last. And Dark Tides take full advantage of the widened scope by immediately launching the Doctor and Rose into one of the wildest, darkest, corners of the Doctor Who universe. That’s dark as in creepy, as in morbid, and, for a substantial portion of the drama, as in ‘with the lights off.’ Though not, despite what the Doctor says, as in ‘the dark ages.’ It’s one of Blogtor Who’s pet peeves that we can’t but point out, but only a couple of episodes after getting it right in Cloud Eight (a dark age being a period from which little documentary evidence survives, leaving a gap in the recorded history), the Time Lord’s now using the cliched old error (a dark age being a barbaric, blood drenched period when civilization went backwards.)

Still, leaving such naming conventions aside, it’s a compelling setting. In the distant future, humankind still travels between the stars with the remnants of its old technology. But few now know the science, and even then their comprehension doesn’t extend much further than Jackie Tyler’s mastery of the VCR. Enter the Knights of Atlas, combining feudal manners with space-walks. They’ve entered a volatile region at the edge of space to salvage the Vesterbold. Trapped in the dark tides for centuries, it’s a veritable time capsule of lost knowledge – especially its star maps, which could revitalize space exploration. However, those aren’t the only secret the Vesterbold holds…

 

Doon Mackichan’s Vivian Rest is a fantastically fun creation

The Knights are an entertaining bunch, with their own motivations and priorities. There’s the arrogant and haughty Sir Carl (Ben Arogundade) determined to reclaim his family legacy. Meanwhile, Mervyn (Sam Stafford) is trying to live down the shame of having more brains that Sir Carl thinks decent for a son of his. And finally David Shaw-Parker as resident ‘scholar’ Holbrook perfectly embodies the energy of that one flatmate who “works with computers” so expected to fix the wifi by poking it with a stick.

But Dark Tides truly belongs to Doon Mackichan as Dr. Vivian Rest, sole survivor of the Vesterbold. She’s plainly having a whale of a time, and her recording booth comes away gloriously chewed. Like John Waters’ Serial Mom in space, Rest’s a perky, chatty, wryly funny lady… who just happens to like winding down at the end of the day with a nice murder or two. She adds a darkly funny edge to a plot that otherwise follows the shame grim outline of Event Horizon, as those here to salvage the derelict behemoth slowly uncover the terrible, grotesque fate of its crew. Though the real terror may be what people will do, then and now, to survive.

 

Doon Mackichan recording Dark Tides (c) Big Finish Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper bring all their sparky energy to the Doctor Who’s patented ‘screwball horror’ sub-genre

Amid this horror movie vibes, it’s obvious who our Final Girl (and Boy) are. Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper embrace the atmosphere and pace of Dark Tides to give some of their most wonderful banter-filled performances yet. Dark Tides gives us the pair in Empty Child mode, zipping witticism back and forth even in the darkness, as they ask all the right questions and run down every wrong corridor. Though the ump scares and creepy atmosphere in Tim Foley’s script are very effective, there’s a real sense of joy too. After some of the recent, comparatively heavy, psychological dramas, this screamfest is basically the Doctor and Rose having fun.

Listeners will have just as much fun aboard the Vesterbold as they do. Dark Tides’ mix of terror, action, and wit, provides another entry in one of Doctor Who’s most successful formulas.

 

Doctor Who: Dark Tides. Cover by Soundsmyth Creative (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: Dark Tides

A long-lost ship, the Vesterbold, has returned to normal space. And the Knights of Atlas seek her treasure. But two strangers have joined their expedition – the Doctor and Rose, who warn of danger.

For the Vesterbold has drifted free of the Dark Tides at the edge of the universe. And she may have brought something back with her.

Not even the bravest knights are ready for the evil which lies inside…

 

Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides is now available to purchase for just £9.99 (download to own) or £11.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed. 

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The original Doctor Who Weekly comic strips get another outing, now in hardback

 

The early Doctor Who Weekly strips are receiving the deluxe hardcover treatment in a new collection from Panini. Though these comic strip adventures for Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor have been printed multiple times before, The Dogs of Doom is their first time in the hardback format. These stories feature work by some of the UK’s greatest comic creators of the period, including Pat Mills and John Wagner, fresh from the creation of Judge Dredd, and Dave Gibbons who would go on to co-create Watchmen with Alan Moore.

Based on the official description and page count it seems the volume will include the following stories:

• Doctor Who and the Iron Legion by Pat Mills, John Wagner, and Dave Gibbons (DWW 1-8)
• City of the Damned by John Wagner, Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons (DWW 9-16)
• Doctor Who and the Star Beast by Pat Mills, John Wagner and Dave Gibbons (DWW 19-26)
• Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom by John Wagner, Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons (DWW 27-34)
• Doctor Who and the Time Witch by Steve Moore and Dave Gibbons (DWW 35-38)

The Dogs of Doom will be out on the 2nd of February, 2027 and you can pre-order now.

 

Doctor Who: The Dogs of Doom. Cover by Dave Gibbons (c) Panini Doctor Who: The Dogs of Doom

THE DOCTOR’S CLASSIC COMIC-STRIP ADVENTURES, COLLECTED IN DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME. This opening volume begins with a collection of era-defining tales as the iconic Fourth Doctor encounters the likes of an eternal Roman Empire, the unpredictable anarchy of the notorious Meep, Daleks in deep space, a psychic witch capable of rewriting reality, and much more! Created by some of Britain’s greatest comicbook talent – including Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons and Judge Dredd creators Pat Mills and John Wagner – these timeless adventures are essential reading for Doctor Who fans and lovers of classic comics alike.

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