February 8th, 2013
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Doctor Who: The Early Adventures Announced!
Doctor Who: The Early Adventures Announced!
Big Finish Productions will be launching a brand new audio range in 2014. Doctor Who: The Early Adventures will comprise four-part stories starring the surviving lead cast members from Doctor Who’s black and white era.
“While working on The Lost Stories, we fell in love with releases like Farewell, Great Macedon and The Masters of Luxor, which combine narration with dialogue,” says producer David Richardson. “I suggested to executive producers Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery we could use that format to tell new stories for the First and Second Doctors, pushing the full cast elements in order to create big, impressive productions.
“The scripts for the first four Early Adventures are now in, and it’s so exciting to bring the early days of the series back to life in this way. The aim is for these to feel like lost television soundtracks. The first series will comprise First Doctor tales, and will feature an historical, a trip into outer space, a beautifully reflective character piece… and the return of a classic villain from the early years!”
Big Finish has also revealed that three of its Doctor Who audio ranges will be reaching their grand finales.
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories, the adaptations of scripts originally devised for television but never made, will end in December after a short final run of stories for the first three Doctors. Gallifrey, the much-loved spin-off centred on Romana and Leela on the Time Lord homeworld, concludes in spectacular style in October with series six. And The Companion Chronicles, adventures narrated by the Doctor’s friends, will end their monthly run in June 2014.
“It’s always sad to say goodbye to something, especially if they are popular,” says Nicholas Briggs. “But at Big Finish we feel we must always be moving forward, and finding new ways to tell exciting Doctor Who stories on audio.”
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The TARDIS
February 13th, 2013 - 9:39amIt wil be a shame to see the companion chronicles go, I enjoy listening to them. Hopefully there will be a good last story. Still, it’s nice that the fourth doctor range is staying, but I wonder… What will they do with all of the out of work companions?
The Monitor
February 9th, 2013 - 9:45pmYou have to respect their decisions as these people understand Doctor Who far far better than anyone else. They are incredibly creative and resourceful.
I am quite surprised at the Companion Chronicles coming to an end, but they have done wonders keeping that format running for so long and keeping it so fresh.
Series like Gallifrey I buy but don’t listen to, just because of time and the sheer qty of stuff to listen to.
I think the spine of the business is the monthly releases and the day those end will be an immense tragedy.
Anonymous
February 10th, 2013 - 9:26pmIt’s unlikely they’d end the omtnly range (unless they lost the licence of course).
It could change considerably of course but it will still follow the basic format.
Anonymous
February 8th, 2013 - 2:16pmcool