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Two new novels will adapt unfilmed Doctor Who scripts by Terrance Dicks

 

Some of the most compelling Doctor Who stories are the ones that never got told. In his 13 year association with the TV show itself, Terrance Dicks wrote many scripts. Most made it to the screen, some were abandoned, and others changed radically during the development process. Now, Penguin Random House are releasing two of these infamous ‘lost’ classics in novel form, each adapted by another expert Doctor Who writer.

 

The Vampire Mutation and The Six Doctors finally reached screens as the radically different State of Decay and The Five Doctors

The Vampire Mutation was Dicks’ original attempt to bring the undead into the Whoniverse. In the spirit of the show’s beloved ‘gothic’ phase, it takes loose inspiration from Dracula, with the Fourth Doctor and Leela tracking the first segment of the Time Key to a world under the shadow of the sinister Council of Seven. Can the terrified locals be right that this really is the work of vampires? The Vampire Mutations was originally put aside and replaced in the Season 16 running order with Robert Holmes’ The Ribos Operation. Dicks later reworked it for Season 18 as State of Decay, but it changed hugely in development. The novel by Steve Cole finally presents the version of the story the writer originally wanted to tell.

Meanwhile, The Six Doctors represents Terrance Dicks’ original idea for celebrating the show’s 20th anniversary. In this version, a sinister force moves through time and space, not to kidnap the Time Lord’s different incarnations, but to destroy them. Only the Fourth stands a chance at survival, but at the price of betraying his other selves. However, one of them may not be what they seem. Few stories in the show’s history have had as complicated a development as 1983’s anniversary special, and Simon Guerrier’s The Six Doctors reconstructs one of Dicks’ early drafts after joining the project.

The Six Doctors is out on the 21st of January 2027, with The Vampire Mutation following on the 6th of March. Click the titles to get pre-order links for your preferred retailer.

 

Doctor Who: The Vampire Mutation (c) Penguin Random House Doctor Who: The Vampire Mutation

‘The conjunctions of the stars at last permit the awakening of the Dead One…’

Summoned by the White Guardian to a domain outside time and space, the Doctor learns that the lynchpin of the cosmos – the Time Key – has been stolen. He must recover its six components before a great darkness smothers the universe.

The first fragment draws the TARDIS to a remote, mist-choked planet. Captured by terrified locals, Leela hears tell of night-creatures that drink the blood of their victims… while the Doctor falls prey to the sinister Council of Seven.

Who are the Witch Lords? What is the terrible significance of the Thousand Year Sabbath? With the world on the brink of catastrophe, will the vampire mutation thwart the Doctor’s quest for the Time Key before it’s even begun?

 

Doctor Who: The Six Doctors (c) Penguin Random House Doctor Who: The Six Doctors

‘Play the game, Doctor. Destroy your other selves!’ Fireballs tear through time and space. Each one hunts down a different incarnation of the Doctor… ready to erase them in an instant. But one Doctor is offered a terrible alternative. He can not only survive but live forever – if he agrees to help destroy his other selves. One Doctor. One timeline. One victor. The Fourth Doctor would usually refuse without hesitation. But after escaping E-Space he feels his life running out and knows he is nearing the end of his time. With nothing to lose, he accepts his role in the deadliest game of all…

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Doctor Who Magazine 632 includes a Circuit Breaker comic and River Song audio drama

 

This month’s Doctor Who Magazine, issue 632, brings Circuit Breaker to DWM’s comic strip. There’s also more coverage of the new multimedia event taking place across audios, comics, novels, audiobooks, and more this summer. Meanwhile, in DWM’s main cover story, they summons a panel of experts to discuss the show’s future. You can also listen to an audio drama from Big Finish, starring Alex Kingston as time travelling archaeologist River Song.

 

Highlights this issue:

• Where Next for the TARDIS – Director Warris Hussein, former showrunner Steven Moffat, and prolific Big Finish script writer Rochana Patel consider where the series might go next…
• Ingrid Oliver – the actor talks to DWM about the return of UNIT’s Petronella Osgood – and her involvement in the Circuit Breaker story arc…
• The Deadliest Weapon – Writer Steve Lyons and producer Michael Stevens on pitting Jo Martin’s Doctor against the Cybermen in Circuit Breaker audio original The Deadliest Weapon…
• The Fugitive TARDIS – James Sutton reveals the intriguing story of the Fugitive Doctor’s Police Box.
• The Honourable Society – The Fugitive’s Circuit Breaker quest brings her into conflict with the Sontarans in this extra comic strip
• Peepshow – River Song fights her way through a carnival of monsters in this audio drama

 

Also this issue:

• Meet the forgotten Romanas! –  Maggy Armitage speaks for the first time about her fleeting appearance alongside Tom Baker in 1979’s Destiny of the Daleks.
• Vanessa Poulton – The make-up designer talks about her work on Doctor Who in the seventies and eighties.
• Ace Odyssey – Sophie Aldred and producer Paul Carmichael talk about this quirky podcast series.
• Lorne Martin – The events mastermind who was involved in countless Doctor Who exhibitions, is remembered by those who worked with him.
• Star Trek – Did Terrance Dicks get his ideas from Star Trek?! Find out how the classic sci-fi series may have influenced some of his Who serials.
• The Sontaran Stratagem – The Fact of Fiction about the Tenth Doctor’s skirmish with the formidable warmongers!
• This Month In… – Travel back to the sweltering summer of 1976!
• The Randomiser –  Learn all about William Hartnell’s holiday cover stand-in for The Celestial Toymaker…
• Brief Encounters – A new prose short story, as two Doctor Who heroines meet in a deserted London Underground station.
• The Daleks’ Master Plan Interlude Part One – A brand-new comic strip adventure for the First Doctor, Steven, Katarina, and Bret.
• Gallifrey Guardian – the monthly round-up of news.
• Reviews – All he latest audio dramas from Big Finish.
• Other Worlds – The essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
• Competitions – Prizes to be won include the new comic collection featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

 

DWM 632 (c) Panini Doctor Who Magazine 632

DWM Issue 632 is on sale Thursday the 23rd of July from the online Panini store, TG Jones and other retailers priced £11.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from Pocketmags for £10.99. You can also save with a subscription, as well as receiving exclusive, text-free covers.

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The Fugitive Doctor heads into the Daleks’ past to save her own future in Doctor Who: Dawn of the Daleks, out now from Titan Comics

 

This year’s multi-media Doctor Who adventure, Circuit Breaker continues with the second of two issues from Titan Comics. It’s already featured battles with Sontarans, Cyberman, and Daleks in audiobooks, magazines, and comics. Now, Circuit Breaker #2: Dawn of the Daleks arrives, as the Fugitive Doctor and Osgood head to the planet Skaro in the ancient past.

In 1975’s Genesis of the Daleks, the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry were on Skaro without the TARDIS. Worse still, Kaled soldiers confiscated the Time Ring – their only way off the planet. In Circuit Breaker the Time Ring has mysteriously materialised in UNIT’s Black Archive. Soon, its unstable energies threatening to destroy London. If the Fugitive can’t get it back where it belongs, her future will end in the Daleks’ past…

Dawn of the Daleks is written by Dan Watters with art by Sami Kivelä, the team behind Everyone Must Go!, and The Prison Paradox.

You can find links for buying in the US, or from Forbidden Planet in the UK here.

 

Dawn of the Daleks comes with five variant covers to choose from: Circuit Breaker #2. Cover by Nipuni (c) Titan Comics Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2 Cover B (c) Titan Comics Circuit Breaker #2 Cover C by Kit Wallis (c) Titan Comics Circuit Breaker #2. Cover D by Flops Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2. Cover E by Flops

Circuit Breaker continues throughout August and September, in books, audios, comics and even more. Check here for the complete list of chapters, as well as release dates.

 

 

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2

Dawn of the Daleks: The Doctor Travels To The War-Ravaged World Of Skaro As She Battles The Daleks With The Fate Of Their Kaled Forebears At Stake!

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Covers and details for Big Finish’s grand finale for Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker are here

 

Circuit Breaker, this year’s Doctor Who multimedia epic, continues throughout August and September. The various chapters are standalone adventures while also building into one huge storyline. By the end, it will have wound its way through Titan Comics, Doctor Who Magazine, BBC Audiobooks, East Side Games, and books from Puffin and Penguin Random House. The grand finale, however, will play out in audio releases from Big Finish. Covers and details of those two audio releases are now available.

Big Finish’s contributions comprise the two-hour series finale, Full Circuit (a full-cast audio drama) and two Short Trips-style audiobook stories released together as Short Circuits. Both will be out in September.

Circuit Breaker sees UNIT recruit the Fugitive Doctor to help with a major crisis. Objects from throughout the Time Lord’s history have mysteriously appeared in UNIT’s Black Archive. Each radiates the same strange energy which threatens to tear time and space apart over the skies of London. The Fugitive is the only one who can return them to their proper place. But the danger may be more linked to her own past with Division than anyone realizes…

The cast of Full Circuit includes Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor, Ingrid Oliver as Osgood, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Omari Douglas as Andrew, and Dan Starkey. You can also expect more casting news closer to the release date. Dan Starkey also reads both stories in Short Circuits.

 

“It all pays off at UNIT Tower, facing a massive threat to the planet, and only they can stop it!”

Robert Valentine, writer of Full Circuit, said: “I was thrilled to write the climactic episode of the Circuit Breaker saga, and it was quite the responsibility. The Doctor, Osgood and Andrew have been on this perilous journey together, and it all pays off at UNIT Tower, where Kate Lethbridge-Stewart is facing a massive threat to the safety of the planet, and only they can stop it.

“It was also huge fun pairing the Fugitive Doctor with Osgood and Kate, because Jo Martin’s Doctor is an irreverent, no-nonsense incarnation with no sentimental baggage about her UNIT allies, so her Doctor can say things to them that no other version of the Doctor could. And that was a blast to write!”

Valentine also script edited Short Circuits, about which he said: “What I love about the two Short Circuits stories is the sidelights they cast on the two main Circuit Breaker characters brand-new to Doctor Who – the formidable villain known as the Conductor, and Osgood’s gifted assistant, Andrew Turner – and the extra depths they give them.”

 

 

Full Circuit by Robert Valentine:

The Doctor, Osgood and Andrew are joined by Kate Lethbridge Stewart. A final mysterious object is manifesting, this one at the pinnacle of UNIT Tower itself.

A Time Bomb! Which threatens a dark future for all of the Doctor’s incarnations.

Only this Doctor can save herself – and her other selves – from this intricately woven scheme.

 

Doctor Who: Short Circuits. Cover by Soundsmyth Creative (c) Big Finish Short Circuits contains these two short stories: Battleships by Alex Hewitt

Meet the Conductor. This cadaverous specimen is a peerless tactical genius. But life is hard for a man who stands out from his fellows, and this formidable mastermind must outwit certain rivals before setting his sights on his true enemy.

Get Rich or Die Trying by Alex Hewitt, from a story by Natasha Siegel

Meet Andrew – a young man with a good job and a mysterious benefactor. Following a coded message to the Jurassic Coast, where a team of palaeontologists are digging up a dinosaur skeleton, Andrew encounters a stranger who gives him a so-called time-travel device. Before he knows what’s happened, Andrew is plunged back through history, all the way to the Jurassic Period itself. Why has he been sent here?

Who is his anonymous benefactor? And is he the victim of a sinister experiment? Only time will tell…

 

Doctor Who – Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit is now available to pre-order for just £13.99 (download to own) or £21.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively from the Big Finish website. And, Doctor Who – Circuit Breaker: Short Circuits is now available to pre-order as a download to own for £11.99.  

Plus, a multi-buy bundle of both releases is available for £23 (download to own) or £31 (download to own + Full Circuit collector’s edition CD). 

 

 

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2. Art by Jay Anacleto (c) Titan Comics Circuit Breaker continues with Dawn of the Daleks, from Titan Comics on the 4th of August

 

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The second in Doctor Who Magazine’s Legends series examines the career of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton, and how he changed the character forever

 

Doctor Who Magazine presents the second issue of Legends – a special tribute to actor Patrick Troughton. “It’s 60 years since Troughton was cast as the Doctor,” says editor Marcus Hearn. “William Hartnell had already made an indelible impact in the role, but the endearing ‘cosmic hobo’ that Troughton created was the version of the Doctor that gave the series practically limitless potential.

“This is the most detailed analysis of Troughton’s life and career that DWMhas ever published,” he continues. “It’s a revealing look at the style and techniques that made him the Doctors’ Doctor, as well as an unflinching account of an enigmatic actor with a complicated private life.”

 

Highlights include:

• A rare interview with Patrick Troughton, conducted in 1984.
• New interviews with Troughton’s Doctor Who co-stars Nicola Bryant, Frazer Hines, Katy Manning, Wendy Padbury and Anneke Wills.
• Script to screen on classic Troughton stories The Faceless Ones, The Web of Fear, The War Games and The Five Doctors.
• A deep dive into each of Troughton’s seasons as the Time Lord, and his wider acting career.
• Michael Troughton describes growing up with – and without – his famous father.
• The evolution of the Second Doctor’s costume and best-known props.
• The truth behind Troughton’s departure from the series – and the curious legacy of his decision.
• The inside story of the day Doctor Who Magazine met Troughton.

 

 

DWM Legends: Patrick Troughton (c) Panini Doctor Who Magazine – Legends: Patrick Troughton

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Rutans vs Sontarans reaches its climax in Peace at Last, out now from Big Finish

One war has stretched throughout the history of the Doctor Who universe. Since 1973’s The Time Warrior introduced the Sontarans, they’ve been in a seemingly endless conflict with the Rutans. But now, a conclusion may finally be in sight… Big Finish’s Rutans vs Sontarans series began with the very first stages of the war, and the fourth and final instalment – Peace at Last by Tim Foley, is out now – is set at what could be its end, as the Sontarans propose a peace deal.

The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann), Charley Pollard (India Fisher) and C’rizz (Conrad Westmaas) are present to help out, but the ceasefire is a fragile one – there’s a lot of work to do to ensure the peace will last, and there are forces at work to ensure it doesn’t…

The guest cast of Peace at Last includes Dan Starkey (known for playing many Sontarans on television as General Greff, Ajjaz Awad as Selina Carr, Cecelia Appiah as the Rutan Ambassador, and Jonathon Carley as Scur/Hurgo.

 

The universe may soon known peace, but who will be left alive to enjoy it?

Writer Tim Foley said: “I love Charley and C’rizz, and I still haven’t quite forgiven Lizzie Hopley, who wrestled me to the floor in the previous miniseries to write for them. So this time, it was my time to shine with them. I don’t want to make people feel old, but I grew up with them, and they were such a good TARDIS team.

“The title of this story is Peace at Last, as we wanted to play with the idea of the very end of the Rutan-Sontaran War, though maybe it has a double meaning! It’s fun to imagine this eternal war – what were its murky beginnings, and what are its murky ends. And in that way, it really reflects the events of episode one, which kicked off the whole debacle.”

 

Doctor Who: Peace at Last. Cover by Sean Longmore (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: Peace at Last

On the precipice of peace it stands…

After the destruction of a major stronghold, the Sontarans propose something extraordinary. More extraordinary still, the Rutans say yes. The Doctor, Charley and C’rizz are on hand to watch history being made.

Yet history has other ideas. A plan that has taken centuries is about to come to fruition. The Melmoth is returning.

 

Doctor Who – Rutans vs Sontarans: Peace at Last is now available to purchase for just £9.99 (as a digital download to own) or £14.99 (download + 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 latest BBC Audio original remixes a classic Doctor Who in the style of another era, with pleasing results

Circle of Memory is the latest offering in BBC Audio’s range of original Doctor Who audio dramas. In many ways it’s William Hartnell classic The Savages reborn for the Matt Smith age. It begins in the middle, in true Moffat style. Three strangers awake near a mysterious stone circle, with no memory of how they got there. They’re “Amy and her boys, Rory and the Doctor,” according to the Polaroid photo they carry. But beyond that their only clue is a Dictaphone recording explaining the story so far.

As the recording plays out, it becomes clear our heroes are trapped on a planet where something or someone is parasitically living off the vitality of others. They’ve clearly already fallen victim to at least one attack themselves. And since they can no longer even operate the TARDIS, how can they escape? This mystery angle is another way in which Circle of Memory grounds itself firmly in the milieu of 2010s Doctor Who. The Savages may have attempted to subvert expectations with the Elders, in gold makeup and fine clothes, revealed as villains, but that was a skewering of exploitation and colonialism any child would instantly recognize. But Circle of Memory keeps its secrets much closer. The dynamics of the planet’s ecosystem take longer to reveal themselves.(At least if you avoid reading the official blurb which rather gives the final act twist away.)

And when they do, they may not be entirely what listeners expected.

 

Circle of Memory is a gently untaxing slice of Doctor Who, perfect for departure lounges or road trips

With a resolution also borrowing heavily from The Savages, the various plot twists of Circle of Memory won’t be too jaw dropping to anyone familiar with the earlier story. But there’s still a pleasing novelty to hearing it all play out through the eyes of the Eleventh Doctor and his friends. Dan Starkey reads with a gentle irony, as if with one eyebrow permanently raised. There’s no real attempt at impersonation of our leads, but his diffident Doctor, cautious Rory, and gung ho Amy capture their essences well.

As with most of the BBC Audio originals, the adventure feels all too brief, despite being about half as long again as a television episode of the modern era. But for the next time you’re commuting, or hitting the treadmill, it’s just right for spending that time with the good Doctor and his friends.

 

Doctor Who: Circle of Memory (c) BBC Audio Doctor Who: Circle of Memory

“Hello, I’m the Doctor… Doctor someone… can’t remember who at the moment. Hoping it will come back to me.”

On a planet with twin suns, three people wake in the shadow of a crashed spaceship. They don’t know who they are or where they are. All they have to go on is a photograph of themselves marked ‘Amy and her boys: Rory and the Doctor’. It’s obvious who Amy is – but which of them is the Doctor?

A voice recorder in one of their pockets reveals how the TARDIS materialised some days earlier in the centre of a stone circle and the travellers met blue-skinned Sunaya, apparent sole survivor of the crashed ship.

Yet Sunaya isn’t who she claims to be, and she is also far from alone. She and her children have been waiting to feed on the memories and identities of the living.

And as their own memories fade, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are in danger of being left behind for ever…

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