January 9th, 2013
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Big Finish 50th Anniversary Release
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Release Announced
In November 2013, Big Finish will be releasing Doctor Who: The Light at the End, a very special 100-minute story to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. Tom Baker (1975-81), Peter Davison (1982-84), Colin Baker (1984-86), Sylvester McCoy (1987-89) and Paul McGann (1996) will all reprise their roles as, respectively, the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors, whose paths suddenly intersect when they face imminent destruction.
“We wanted to do a proper, fully-fledged multi-Doctor story for this very special occasion,” says writer, director and executive producer Nicholas Briggs, “and it’s wonderful that all the surviving Doctors threw themselves behind the project so enthusiastically. That’s not to say the first three Doctors don’t appear – we wanted to pay homage to the whole history of the classic series.”
The Doctors will also be joined by a number of their regular companions: Louise Jameson reprises the role of the savage Leela, Sarah Sutton plays the scientist Nyssa, Nicola Bryant is American botany student Peri, Sophie Aldred is streetwise kid Ace and India Fisher returns as Edwardian adventurer Charley Pollard.
“And that’s not all,” says producer David Richardson, “because Geoffrey Beevers is back to create mayhem as the Master, and there will be a number of appearances from some much-cherished old friends from the TV series…”
Doctor Who: The Light at the End will be released in two different versions. A five-disc limited special edition comes with two hour-long documentaries, plus The Revenants, a Companion Chronicles tale which began life as a free Doctor Who Magazine download. It’s performed by William Russell, who starred in the very first TV story as Ian Chesterton. The special edition comes in beautiful special packaging, and will include a number of exclusive professionally photographed images of the cast.
The standard edition comprises two discs, featuring the two hour-long episodes of the story
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doctor hugh
January 12th, 2013 - 9:23amit was only half way trough when i realised this was a cd 🙁
CG
January 9th, 2013 - 10:30pmSo because they are doing this does it mean they are not going to do a similar thing with a tv episode?
The TARDIS
January 9th, 2013 - 8:59pmGreat news about this, made a great birthday present to come home from school to this news! Can’t wait for this release, nice to see Big Finish really getting into the fiftieth. Roll on November…
andrew
January 9th, 2013 - 8:23pmThis sounds amazing, this has soo much potentional for TV, why don’t they have the funding for that? Why can’t the BBC see sense and give these amazing stories the TV they deserve!? Or use their stories in current Doctor Who. They could at least give Paul McGann the series he deserved, just a little late??
celestial toymaker
January 9th, 2013 - 8:47pmunfortunately they wouldn’t have the budget to transfer it to tv
TheWhomobile
January 9th, 2013 - 4:54pmI cannot wait till this is released! At least if there is no TV story we have this instead! 😀
Some bloke
January 9th, 2013 - 4:12pmOH MY GOD, SOOOO EXCITED. Completely getting the 5 disc set. EEEEKKK!! Cant wait
The TARDIS
January 9th, 2013 - 4:07pmI intend to get the collectors edition… Always love a good box set!
trenzalore
January 9th, 2013 - 3:59pmthis would be good on TV but i can understand why its not