September 18th, 2024
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Big Finish The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
The Fugitive Doctor is Most Wanted
Jo Martin and Alice Krige star in a brand-new box set of full-cast audio drama due to be released in January 2025, as the long-awaited Fugitive Doctor lands at Big Finish Productions.
The Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin, is the mysterious incarnation from the Doctor’s past first seen in 2020 TV episode Fugitive of the Judoon. Having worked as an agent for the secretive Division, she’s now on the run from her Time Lord employers in The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted.
In three exciting audio adventures, Martin’s determined Doctor encounters ruthless bounty hunters, a mythical Russian witch, and even the Daleks (Nicholas Briggs). All the while, she must evade the hot pursuit of Time Lord agent Cosmo, voiced by Alice Krige (best known for her role as the Borg Queen in the Star Trek franchise).
Jo Martin said: “Doing these audios has been super fun! There wasn’t enough time in the TV episodes to see all the different sides of the Fugitive Doctor. She’s gung-ho, but there’s a softer side to her. With these episodes, the listeners will hear her vulnerability, her kindness and her loyalties. She’s a lone wolf, and that can’t be easy.”
The Worlds of Doctor Who – The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted is now available to pre-order for just £22.99 (collector’s edition CD box set + download) or £18.99 (download only), exclusively from www.bigfinish.com.
The three episodes in this box set are:
Fast Times by Robert Valentine
- When the mysterious Division tries to arrest their equally mysterious agent, the Doctor, she evades capture and heads out in search of answers… but trouble is never far behind. Captured by bounty hunters and imprisoned in a maximum-security hulk ship, the Doctor is about to learn that there’s no time to stand still when you’re a fugitive. And times are about to get very fast indeed.
The Legend of Baba Yaga by Rochana Patel
- On the run from the Time Lords and in serious need of help, the Doctor heads for 17th century Russia in search of the legendary witch of Slavic folklore… Baba Yaga. But while trying to gain assistance from this powerful entity, the Doctor finds herself embroiled in events from the most famous of Baba Yaga’s tales when the tries to help a beautiful young woman called Vasilisa retrieve a burning ember to save her family from the bitter Russian winter. What is real? What is fantasy? And will the Doctor be able to tell the difference in time?
The Dimension of Lost Things by Lisa McMullin
- Fleeing Cosmo through the Vortex, the TARDIS gets sucked down a temporal plughole, and the Doctor emerges into a weird landscape. Finding other lost souls in the form of mountaineer George Mallory and scavenger Athelia, the Doctor soon stumbles across another, more surprising denizen of this strange dimension – herself! With Cosmo still in pursuit and memory-stealing winds threatening to wipe her mind for good, the Doctor senses a complex trap in action. But whose trap is it, and how can she possibly escape?
Producer David Richardson said: “This was an absolute treat to work on. The Fugitive Doctor is such a brilliant, head-turning twist in this amazing long-running show we all love, and script editor Robert Valentine and I had such fun making plans.
“Thirteenth Doctor showrunner, Chris Chibnall, very generously gave up his time and met with us on Zoom while we threw around ideas and he gave us some clarifications about this most enigmatic era of Doctor Who. We came out of that meeting elated, full of purpose and sure of our direction.
“Chris told us that Jo was fantastic and a gorgeous person to work with, and he was absolutely right of course – she came into the studio full of joy for the part, always smiling, always brilliant and charismatic. The Fugitive Doctor now has her own audio series – and as the saying goes, it’s about time…”
Big Finish listeners can pre-order Most Wanted in a bundle with the second Fugitive Doctor box set (Title TBA), to be released later in 2025, for just £44 (on collector’s edition CD box set + download) or £36 (download only), exclusively from www.bigfinish.com.
All the above prices include the special pre-order discount and are subject to change after general release.
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Doctor Stu
September 21st, 2024 - 12:48pmA lot more exciting than anything happening on screen. The proms is all we have left of proper Doctor Who come December and then that’s it, officially dead. All we have left is big finish, I don’t understand though how she can meet the Daleks. She’s supposed to be a locked away doctor, deep in the past, a bit like the Star Wars high republic stuff, pre absolutely everything and as distant from it as possible. There shouldn’t be Daleks, they should not be aware of a pre Hartnell Doctor, not with all the history they have with the ‘proper’ Doctor. They know he’s 1-13.
DdD
September 21st, 2024 - 2:52pmThis is Big Finish we are talking about. Expect her to meet River Song, all the Doctors, Jackie Tyler etc in future volumes. They don’t care about continuity.
Mrs Croot
September 22nd, 2024 - 6:16amTechnically nothing stopping her from meeting the daleks. If she manages to destroy every Dalek in the story, they might not be able to update their information so the rest of the empire doesn’t find out, or they might do a river and in hearing she’s the doctor it doesn’t compute with their intel so they just dismiss her.
Col
September 22nd, 2024 - 9:24pmPlus the daleks could be from much later in the doctors time line so they know who the doctor is ..and she has her memory wiped so would fit 🙂
Matt
September 23rd, 2024 - 8:39amWe literally have a whole season next year plus a spin off
Doctor Stu
September 23rd, 2024 - 9:02pmThere’s only 2 mill left watching, everyone else has left, the horse has bolted,
WhoWhatWhere?
September 25th, 2024 - 2:44pmWhat I don’t understand is why the extended delay after pre-paying for this, and the follow-up set, two years ago!
I know they record these far in advance, but that’s Big Finish stretching good will a bit too far! I say this as a regular customer from the start.
Whofan44
September 25th, 2024 - 5:07pmBriggs has said on the podcast before that they have been waiting for the BBC to agree to a release slot. Had Big Finish had there own way probably would have been out sooner.
Matt
September 26th, 2024 - 2:16amDoctor Stu that’s completely leaving out that people often watch things only on streaming, and that 2 mil figure is only the overnights without the iplayer numbers too. That also still doesn’t change that we still have a whole season, spin off, and Christmas special for Doctor Who ahead of us
The Fishmonger
September 19th, 2024 - 7:42pmAlice Krige is great casting.
Bellal
September 18th, 2024 - 11:27pmWhat I’m looking forward to most is the theme they give the fugitive doctor, perhaps the theme used from Fugitive of the Judoon mixed like the original intro music. 4 years tk the month since she first appeared
The Timeless Chibnall
April 24th, 2022 - 8:56pmHopefully they can place ‘The fugitive Doctor ‘ in-between the second and third Doctors. A forgotten incarnation that was exiled to the 20th century and did occasional jobs for the ‘division’ until she managed to avert the Time Lord’s and send herself and the Tardis into the future hidden in the 21st Century. Able to pilot the ship slightly only forwards in time, but not backwards or through space, only within the U.K, Earth. Eventually caught she has her mind wiped of ‘that’ incarnation and is returned unconscious to the Tardis back into the second Doctors clothes and is none the wiser of ‘The fugitive’ when waking up in the hospital in ‘Spearhead from Space’. But I doubt they would go down that route.
JR
April 25th, 2022 - 3:11pmAre you getting confused with Beyond War Games? The Jo Martin Doctor is pre-Hartnell.
Rex Farrel
April 25th, 2022 - 4:52pmI expect he said that because continuity-wise it would fit better. (It doesn’t quite work either way if you think about it too much, but being a slave to 50+ years of continuity isn’t going to help anyone.)
James Evans
September 18th, 2024 - 11:00pmThe Fugitive Doctor being 6B serves no narrative purpose to the Timeless Child story arc. She’s a Pre-Hartnell incarnation, as she was introduced to set up the reveal of forgotten incarnations before the First Doctor. And her TARDIS being disguised as a Police Box, before the events of An Unearthly Child, is hardly impossible. The TARDIS is a sentient time/space machine, that we know can archive console rooms that haven’t even been chosen by the Doctor yet. Have you thought that the Fugitive Doctor coming to Earth was actually a deliberate move by the TARDIS? Because the Master discovers the Doctor’s hidden past, teases the Doctor of what he found at the end of Spyfall, then not long after that the Doctor coincidentally bumps into an incarnation from her hidden past, so the TARDIS being behind the Fugitive and13th Doctor meeting each other makes sense, as it was helping the 13th Doctor with learning more about her forgotten past, & the TARDIS took on the Police Box disguise that in the future it will get stuck as, so that when the 13th Doctor dug it up, she’d know it was her TARDIS.
Doctor Mysterio
September 23rd, 2024 - 9:13amIts very clear she was pre-Hartnell and I don’t see why they’d rewrite that.
Rex F
September 23rd, 2024 - 11:14pmChibbers said that he had “a theory” on where the fugitive fitted into the timeline, so he didn’t actually work out the specifics, just told the story he wanted to tell – a perfectly valid way of doing things, even if not always necessarily the most popular or ideal (and I say that as someone who’s always considered him a hack – I can’t completely condemn him here, even though I’d actually like to, because then I’d have to tear people like David Lynch apart too).
The ergon
April 24th, 2022 - 7:49pmI dont think any boxset spin offs from now on should go beyond 4. Keep coming up with fresh ideas.
Auton
April 24th, 2022 - 9:32pmIf there are stories to tell and they have ideas to for future box sets then they should do them but if not then there is no point making another one after they run out of ideas for any of the series they have made
The ergon
April 24th, 2022 - 11:19pmI think 4 is adequate. They dont all need to run and run. I like different ideas but i suppose popularity dictates.
Doctor Thirteenth
April 24th, 2022 - 4:03pmI hope we don’t get anymore hidden past doctors as much as I love the war & Fugitive Doctor s let’s not have anymore otherwise the numbering of the doctors are going to be stupid
Urrozdinee
April 24th, 2022 - 1:14pmThese look great. I also want John Simm’s Master to get his own box set. Also a Lumiat Box set would be cool
Agent Smoulder
April 24th, 2022 - 5:39amI really hope they don’t ruin this character the way they have the John Hurt War Doctor, who should have been left well alone.
Urrozdinee
April 24th, 2022 - 1:13pmHow have they ruined the War Doctor?
Doug Who
April 24th, 2022 - 2:21pmI was going to ask the same thing not having heard the Big Finish War Doctor plays.
The ergon
April 24th, 2022 - 3:14pmThe war doctor stories are very good and a fitting tribute to john hurt. Im glad we got them before he passed away.
bryan
April 23rd, 2022 - 11:00pmOh the day gets Better and Better.
How utterly amazing is this news. Jo Martin in a 2 boxed set series and Sacha Dhawan with a 2 Boxed set series. then this from David Richardson
The Fugitive Doctor Adventures marks the first in a range of spin-offs from the Thirteenth Doctor’s era of Doctor Who at Big Finish, with more new series to follow.
So a Range of of Thirteenth Doctor. Come on Jodie and Mandip, Too soon to hang up the Keys yo the TARDIS just yet. We can but Dream
davidhhh
April 24th, 2022 - 11:02amThe Adventures of Ryan and Graham?
Auton
April 23rd, 2022 - 10:33pmVery much looking forward to these boxsets as Jo Martin was amazing in her short time as the fugitive doctor and was easily so much better than Jodie Whitaker
Doug Who
April 23rd, 2022 - 7:55pmBrilliant! Very exciting and very much looking forward to this series.
Will be very interesting to see what Big Finish do with her story.
I think Jo Martin was one of the best things about the last couple of years and personally I much prefer her interpretation of the Doctor than the default Tennant-type version that Jodie Whittaker’s version was saddled with.
The ergon
April 23rd, 2022 - 9:30pmTo think tennant chose the mockney accent rather than his scottish accent, makes me wish jodie had gone against type and gone more home counties. Also the ill chosen attempts at humour which mimmicked tennant and smith with all that namedropping etc was a bad move as well.humour is developed and should come naturally without trying too hard. Jo Martin was a great doctor in her short stint and hit the mark with the sharp quips. If only jodie hadnt been saddled with chibnall. I like jodie but she could have been so much more.
Doug Who
April 24th, 2022 - 2:19pmI do completely agree with you Ergon. Personally I wish they would break the template of the breathless exposition and performed ‘zaniness’.
However I just caught Points of View and it was really lovely to hear a parent describe their ten-year old’s reaction to Yaz and the Doctor. However much I’d like to see an actor like Nicola Walker or Olivia Coleman or Jo Martin (so pleased will we hear more from her Doctor) in the role, I can see how much Jodie’s energetic ‘wackiness’ would appeal to the younger audience and especially kids, and that after all is really where the core of the audience perhaps should be, not us jaded old fans!
The ergon
April 24th, 2022 - 3:19pmYes it is about appealing to the younger audience first and foremost doug, i agree.
Bobsuruncle
April 23rd, 2022 - 7:47pmI’m not a fan of her Doctor, but if anyone can make her good it’ll be Big Finish. Definitely will give this one a go.
thetruth
April 23rd, 2022 - 7:35pmIt means BBC have stopped using the character then.
The Outcast
April 24th, 2022 - 4:04amNot necessarily, the Master’s in the Centenary and he’s also getting some boxsets.
Doctor Stu
April 23rd, 2022 - 6:54pmAnd it’s official, chibnalls abandoned this idea and is leaving it up to big finish to try and make it make sense. Which begs the question….what was the point in the first place?
The ergon
April 23rd, 2022 - 7:05pmMaybe we,ll get the flux boxsets very soon and close that mess as well..
BigBen64
April 23rd, 2022 - 7:05pmTo give the show a bit of freshness after 58/59 years. To be fair, giving the Doctor a hidden past where she was forced to work for a cause and manipulated into serving the Division does make things quite interesting (and makes things seem fresh)…
And to be fair, there’s a comic series featuring the Fugitive Doctor coming out so I don’t really see what you’re on about when you say that Chibnall’s leaving it up to Big Finish. Surely Big Finish just found an area appropriate to explore and ran with it, just like with their many other releases.
Jdksmakaka
April 23rd, 2022 - 8:05pmBigBen64
Literally, what’s not to say that her story won’t get wrapped up in the centenary special this year. These adventures are probably gonna take place in from all over her timeline, so these are NEW adventures just like the comics
Fox
April 24th, 2022 - 4:11amI don’t think there’s anything essential left to wrap up. They gave us the major beats. We were never meant to know every detail.
Ultimately it was never a story about the Fugitive Doctor (she is just one of potentially thousands of lost incarnations), it was a story about the 13th Doctor’s identity crisis.
davidhhh
April 24th, 2022 - 11:05amOf course Chibnall’s abandoned the idea. He’s already left Doctor Who and has publicly said that he doubts he’ll ever go back to it. You can’t get much more abandoned than that!
ARDT19
April 24th, 2022 - 12:06pmBigBen64
I thought “freshness” was the point of bringing the Time Lords back? And also the point of having a female Doctor? If those ideas had been explored to their fullest potential they’d have been enough.
I’ve warmed up to the idea of Pre-Hartnell Doctors (I was originally very against this) but I don’t like the Doctor being the originator of the Time Lords, nor do I want to see BF or Titan make the Fugitive Doctor too heroic or anything like that. The First Doctor’s character arc was about starting to become a proper hero, so I don’t want that to be undercut by anything saying “the Doctor was already a hero long before Hartnell!” That’s really my only concern with this series. Love Jo Martin and I’m glad she’s getting an audio series of her own, but I have doubts it’ll be handled the way I would like to see.
You’re right that Chibnall’s not leaving it up to Big Finish – sounds like these stories are set post-FOTJ. I think the only unanswered question he should’ve handled himself is “WHY is she a fugitive?” which I believe the Titan Comic is going to cover? So I guess he’s leaving it up to them instead…
Fox
April 24th, 2022 - 6:48pmARDT19
That’s actually answered in S12. She’s a Fugitive because she ran away from the Division and the Division doesn’t like loose ends.
john
April 25th, 2022 - 3:51pmARDT19 you say you’ve warmed to the idea of pre Hartnell, you’ve obviously not seen BNrain of Morbius then with its pre Hartnell Doctors!
Auton
April 25th, 2022 - 6:41pmThose brain of morbius incarnations work better as incarnations of Morbius rather than the doctor
Trystan
April 23rd, 2022 - 6:38pmThat is amazing!
Col
April 23rd, 2022 - 6:30pmI am beyond excited for this so so thrilled