September 16th, 2025
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Big Finish The Second Doctor Adventures The Potential Daleks
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
The Secret of the Daleks revealed
Michael Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury battle their greatest enemies in The Second Doctor Adventures: The Potential Daleks, coming December 2025.
The Second Doctor’s post-War Games adventures continue in his next box set of full-cast audio dramas, and this time, he’s up against his arch-enemies from Skaro, the Daleks!
The Second Doctor Adventures: The Potential Daleks picks up from where 2024’s box set Conspiracy of Raven ended. The Doctor (Michael Troughton), Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) – along with the Doctor’s Time Lord supervisor Raven (Emma Noakes) – have been investigating the mysterious Kippers and the space-time archive known as the Vanishing Point. Now, they’ve discovered a Dalek plot that threatens the whole universe.
To stop the Daleks and the rise of an eternal Skaro, they must battle from 19th-century Earth to the edge of the universe…
Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: The Potential Daleks is available to pre-order now for just £19.99 (download to own) or £24.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD). Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed.
The three perilous new adventures for the Second Doctor are:
- Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall… A nursery rhyme through time is on the brink of causing a cosmic catastrophe. And for the Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and Raven, this is just the beginning of a final battle. A battle which began on Skaro.
- The Daleks have returned… or have they? Following the lingering trail of the Daleks’ space-time corridor, the time travellers are surprised when the TARDIS arrives on a tropical forest world. Taking refuge with the population of a peaceful village, the Doctor wonders if he has finally defeated his most terrible enemy. Is the secret of the Daleks about to be revealed?
- The Doctor and friends dash back to the Vanishing Point, hoping to warn Ananke and the Morai of an impending invasion. However, what they discover is a fiendish plan in operation and a population in exile. Zoe must resort to an extraordinary use of her own mental powers, while the Doctor, Raven and Jamie fight to restore order and save the universe.
Humpty Dumpty by Nicholas Briggs
Secret of the Daleks by Mark Wright
War of the Morai by Mark Wright and Nicholas Briggs
Jacqueline King (known as Sylvia Noble from TV Doctor Who) returns as Ananke, the Overseer of the Vanishing Point, who previously encountered the TARDIS crew in last year’s Conspiracy of Raven.
The Daleks are voiced by Nicholas Briggs, and the guest cast also includes Clare Corbett, Gary Turner, and Callum Pardoe.
Producer Mark Wright said: “After some unavoidable time distortion, the Second Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and Raven are back for more cosmic adventures set after The War Games. What a joy to be back in studio with the happy band of Michael, Frazer, Wendy and Emma.
“We felt it was time to bring things to a crescendo – but not a finale – and The Potential Daleks has our time travelling quartet facing a true invasion of time. The three stories in this box set follow a cosmic trail from 19th and 20th century Earth to a lush forest world, before a return to the Vanishing Point for a final reckoning.
“The Daleks have risen and are ready to conquer time itself… Great jumping gobstoppers, as the Doctor might say!”
Praise for the previous Second Doctor Adventures box set, Conspiracy of Raven:
“An immersive experience that feels straight out of ’60s Doctor Who.” – Who Review
“It’s terrific to hear Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury reunited as Jamie and Zoe.” – CultBox
“Conspiracy of Raven left me on the edge of my seat.” – Sci-Fi Pulse
Big Finish listeners can save money be pre-ordering The Potential Daleks in a multibuy bundle with 2025’s First Doctor Adventures box set, The Living Darkness (which was released in January), for just £38 (download to own) or £47 (download to own + collector’s edition CD box set).
Alternatively, listeners can buy this release as part of a bundle of all 15 Classic Doctor Who box sets released in 2025 from just £285 (download to own) or £352.50 (download to own + collector’s edition CD).
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Bill Silver
September 17th, 2025 - 11:53amThe second Doctor and the Daleks! Wonderful stuff!
Nick
September 16th, 2025 - 5:01pmFabulous cover! Looking forward to this – needed a crescendo for a long time!
DJS
September 16th, 2025 - 4:31pmI dont consider BF as canon any more, primarily because of the sheer volume of adventures out there (and counting). How can one person have so many adventures, and i dont just mean the Doctor. Also no matter how hard I try I cannot reconcile any canon adventures between Planet of Fire and Caves of Androzani. To me BF takes place in an alternate multiverse caused by the time war changing everything.
Calm Basil
September 17th, 2025 - 10:11amIn all honesty, there’s no point in trying to reconcile canon when the show’s timeline is also in such a mess.
Just enjoy the stories for what they are, and they are pretty good!
Owen
September 18th, 2025 - 1:07amRTD…………..
John
September 23rd, 2025 - 3:52pmBF ignore their own canon!!!
Jámes
September 16th, 2025 - 11:00amStupid question. Do all the big finish adventures fit into the timelines? Are they all canon?
OpenTheWatch
September 16th, 2025 - 11:12amThere is a lot of debate on this, mainly as there is no definitive answer. But for the most part, if it doesn’t contradict the TV show, then it can be considered canon. If the TV show offers a different explanation or does something that makes an expanded media story mute, then the TV of course takes priority. Most stories do fit in the timeline, or often give an explanation as to why if they don’t.
James
September 16th, 2025 - 11:53amThank you. Wonder if there is a list somewhere if someone has managed to put in order in between to stories.
Mainly ask due to the synopsis of this box set where it says they continue post war games adventures. How does it fit in if it is supposed to?
Rory, the original you might say
September 16th, 2025 - 12:21pmhttps://eyespider.org.uk/drwho/compleat.html does a decent job of fitting everything into a coherent timeline. I don’t agree with all of the decisions, but it’s generally sound.
As to the Second Doctor adventures post War Games, that’s the season 6A theory that the Doctor was sent on missions for the Time Lords after his trial but before his exile and regeneration. Five Doctors and Two Doctors are usually considered to take place in this period, and the PDA novels World Gamed and Players are explicitly set there.
Clay
September 16th, 2025 - 8:08pmThey are made with the intention of fitting in with the TV series (though whether you choose to include them is up to you!).
The exception is the Doctor Who Unbound range, which started off as a “what if”-style miniseries with band new Doctors completely separate from the TV series, and has evolved into a sort of “alternative take on established history” sort of thing using TV Doctors in new ways (like Colin Baker as the War Doctor).
There’s also the Lost Stories range – unmade scripts written for the classic series – which mostly fit in just fine, but recently they’ve done a few based on earlier drafts of stories that did get made, which obviously contradict the actual TV versions (e.g. ‘Return of the Cybermen’ is the original draft of ‘Revenge’, ‘Deathworld’ is based on the original pitch for what became ‘The Three Doctors’).