List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish


This is a list of audio productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions.

Overview

These are the season and episode counts for all seasons and series released so far, ordered by the date that they were initially released.

Cast

The dramas feature both former actors who portrayed the Doctor and his companions, and new continuing characters as well as elements from other spin-off media. The canonicity of the audio dramas, as with other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear. To date, productions have featured the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, War and Tenth Doctors portrayed by their original actors.
Big Finish's current licence from the BBC allows it to produce audio dramas featuring the first twelve incarnations of the Doctor and associated characters introduced into the series between 1963 and 2017. However, it does not allow the use of the current Thirteenth Doctor, or any characters which originate from her era.
Nearly all of the companions from the original series have appeared, voiced by their original actors. They include Susan, Ian Chesterton, Vicki, Steven Taylor, Sara Kingdom, Polly, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot, Jo Grant, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant Benton, Mike Yates, Leela, K9, Romana I, Romana II, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown, Melanie Bush and Ace. Adventures featuring revival series companions Rose Tyler and Donna Noble have also been released.
Several actors who played the Doctor and companions of previous Doctors have appeared in other roles, including Russell, O'Brien, Marsh, Wills, Watling, Padbury, Caroline John, Manning, Elisabeth Sladen, Leeson, Daphne Ashbrook, Tennant and Bernard Cribbins. Sladen also reprised Sarah Jane Smith in a spin-off series simply entitled '. Sladen never appeared as Sarah alongside any incarnation of the Doctor for Big Finish; a series with Tom Baker was planned, but was never recorded due to Sladen's untimely death in April 2011.
Initially Matthew Waterhouse declined to reprise the role of Adric so the character was recast and played by Andrew Sachs as an older version of the character. Waterhouse later returned to the role on an ongoing basis.
Big Finish also started The Companion Chronicles series of plays, featuring a companion or friend of the Doctor and a supporting cast member. Ford, Russell, O'Brien, Purves, Marsh, Wills, Hines, Watling, Padbury, Manning, Jameson, Tamm, Ward, Sutton, Strickson and Aldred have all reprised their roles in this series along with John.
As well as this, Big Finish started the ' series of full-cast plays, featuring the First Doctor and the Second Doctor, and companions Barbara Wright and Ben Jackson, and Russell, Ford, O'Brien, Purves, Marsh, Wills, Hines, Watling and Padbury reprising their roles from the original series. They also started series of full-cast plays, featuring Tim Treloar recast as the Third Doctor, Manning as Jo, and Franklin as Yates.
Big Finish released The Ninth Doctor Chronicles, a series of plays narrated by Nicholas Briggs and featuring Camille Coduri returning as Jackie Tyler and Bruno Langley returning as the Ninth Doctor's companion Adam Mitchell.
New companions created for the audio series include Evelyn Smythe, Charley Pollard, Erimem, Hex Schofield, C'rizz, Lucie Miller, Thomas Brewster, Abby, Tamsin Drew, Elizabeth Klein, Flip Jackson, Molly O'Sullivan, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair and Constance Clarke. Lisa Bowerman has appeared as Bernice Summerfield, a companion from the Virgin New Adventures, in several Doctor Who audio dramas as well as in original productions with her as the central character. Robert Jezek and Jemima Rooper have appeared as Frobisher and Izzy Sinclair, companions from the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, Travis Oliver and Yasmin Bannerman have portrayed companions Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej from the Virgin New Adventures, and Matt Di Angelo has played Fitz Kreiner, a companion from the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures.
Charley, C'rizz, Lucie, Tamsin and Molly were all referenced by name in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor".

Broadcast

In 2005, six of the audio dramas featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor were broadcast on the digital radio station BBC 7: Storm Warning, Sword of Orion, The Stones of Venice, Invaders from Mars, Shada, and The Chimes of Midnight. These plays were rebroadcast on BBC7 beginning in July 2006. The Chimes of Midnight was repeated again as part of "The New Eighth Doctor Adventures" Series 1 & 2 in 2009.
In January 2007, a new series of Eighth Doctor audio adventures was broadcast on BBC7. These starred McGann alongside Sheridan Smith as the aforementioned new companion Lucie Miller. There were eight 50-minute episodes in total; the first and last stories were two-parters, and the rest were single episodes. These adventures have since been released on CD. In 2008, BBC7 broadcast the second series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures bar the final two-part story. All fourteen episodes were then repeated in 2009, and the final two-part story later that year. Big Finish has gone on to produce two further series of these Adventures, and four selected stories from the third series were aired in 2010, with BBC Radio 4 Extra skipping ahead to the fourth series in early 2013.
In May/June 2011, BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast the Fifth Doctor stories Cobwebs, The Whispering Forest, and Cradle of the Snake. In May/June 2012, these were followed by the Seventh Doctor stories A Thousand Tiny Wings, Survival of the Fittest, Klein's Story and The Architects of History. For the fiftieth anniversary of the show, BBC Radio 4 Extra repeated several stories and broadcast two new stories; Protect and Survive starring Sylvester McCoy and 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men starring Peter Davison. In May 2015, BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast the first series of Fourth Doctor Adventures starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. In 2016, the station broadcast a run of Sixth Doctor adventures: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, Industrial Evolution and The Curse of Davros.

Current range

''Main Range'' (1999–present)

The Doctor Who – Main Range is a series of full-cast audiobook adventures based on the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December.
Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors, starting with The Sirens of Time in July 1999. This continued through to 2000, and from 2001 to 2007, the main range also included releases featuring the Eighth Doctor with his companions Charley Pollard and C'rizz, but these were ended due to the simultaneously-running Eighth Doctor Adventures, which ran from 2006 to 2011 and featured companion Lucie Miller. From 2008 to late 2011, only one Eighth Doctor release was produced for the main range: The Company of Friends, featuring companions from other media to the audio plays, and the historical figure Mary Shelley. The Eighth Doctor returned to the main range in a trilogy of adventures with Mary Shelley in October 2011.

2020

''Specials'' (2001–present)

This table includes all special releases, including those that would otherwise be considered a spin off release.

''The Eighth Doctor Adventures'' (2007–present)

In 2006 Big Finish began a standalone range of audio plays featuring the Eighth Doctor. These stories were set after his travels with Charley Pollard and C'rizz in the main range, which were subsequently ended.

Series 1 (2007)

Series 2 (2008)

Series 3 (2009)

Series 4 (2009–2011)

Series 5: ''The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller'' (2019)

Announced in August 2018, this series is set between the first and second series of audio adventures.

''The Companion Chronicles'' (2007–present)

Series 1 (2007)

Series 2 (2007–2008)

Series 3 (2008–2009)

Series 4 (2009–2010)

Series 5 (2010–2011)

Specials (2011)

Series 6 (2011–2012)

Special (2012)

Series 7 (2012–2013)

Series 8 (2013–2014)

Series 9: ''The First Doctor Volume 1'' (2015)

Series 10: ''The Second Doctor Volume 1'' (2016)

Series 11: ''The First Doctor Volume 2'' (2017)

Series 12: ''The Second Doctor Volume 2'' (2018)

Series 13: ''The First Doctor Volume 3'' (2019)

Series 14: ''The Second Doctor Volume 3''

''Short Trips'' (2009–present)

Single Short Trips (2009–present)

Volume 1 (2010)

Volume 2 (2011)

Volume 3 (2011)

Volume 4 (2011)

Series 5 (2015)

Series 6 (2016)

Series 7 (2017)

Series 8 (2018)

Series 9 (2019)

Series 10 (2020)

''The Lost Stories'' (2009–present)

Series 1 (2009–2010)

Series 2 (2010–2011)

''Fourth Doctor Lost Stories'' (2011)

Series 3 (2011–2012)

Series 4 (2013)

Series 5 (2019)

Series 6

''The Fourth Doctor Adventures'' (2012–present)

In 2012, Big Finish began a range of ongoing dramas featuring the Fourth Doctor, as portrayed by Tom Baker. Baker had previously declined to feature in Big Finish releases, but after recording The Fourth Doctor Box Set had been encouraged to participate.

Season 1 (2012)

Season 2 (2013)

Season 3 (2014)

Season 4 (2015)

Season 5 (2016)

Season 6 (2017)

Season 7 (2018)

Season 8 (2019)

Season 9 (2020)

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

''The Early Adventures'' (2014–present)

Series 1 (2014)

Series 2 (2015–2016)

Series 3 (2016)

Series 4 (2017)

Series 5 (2018)

Series 6 (2019)

''The Third Doctor Adventures'' (2015–present)

Volume 1 (2015)

Volume 2 (2016)

Volume 3 (2017)

Volume 4 (2018)

Volume 5 (2019)

Volume 6 (2020)

''The Tenth Doctor Adventures'' (2016–present)

Volume 1 (2016)

Volume 2 (2017)

Volume 3 (2019)

''The Tenth Doctor and River Song''

''The Doctor Chronicles'' (2017–present)

Volume 1: ''The Ninth Doctor Chronicles'' (2017)

Four new stories from the Ninth Doctor’s era, performed by Nicholas Briggs. Featuring Bruno Langley as Adam Mitchell and Camille Coduri as Jackie Tyler.

Volume 2: ''The Tenth Doctor Chronicles'' (2018)

Four narrated stories set in the Tenth Doctor era, performed by Jake Dudman. Featuring Jacqueline King as Syliva Noble, Michelle Ryan as Lady Chrstina de Souza and Jon Culshaw.

Volume 3: ''The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles'' (2018)

Four narrated stories set in the Eleventh Doctor era, performed by Jake Dudman. Featuring Danny Horn as Kazran Sardick and Simon Fisher-Becker as Dorium Maldovar

Volume 4: ''The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles'' (2020)

Four narrated stories set in the Twelfth Doctor era, performed by Jake Dudman. Featuring Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink and Ingrid Oliver as Osgood

''The Eighth Doctor: The Time War'' (2017–present)

A special run of prequels to Doctor Who: The War Doctor.

Series 1 (2017)

Series 2 (2018)

Series 3 (2019)

Series 4

''The First Doctor Adventures'' (2017–present)

Volume 1 (2017)

Volume 2 (2018)

Volume 3 (2019)

Volume 4 (2020)

Volume 5

''The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures'' (2018–present)

''The Comic Strip Adaptations'' (2019–present)

''Stranded'' (2020–present)

Series 1 (2020)

Featuring the first appearance of Tania Bell, the first transgender companion in any Doctor Who media.

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Upcoming

''The Sixth Doctor and Peri''

''Wicked Sisters''

Past releases

''Excelis'' (2002)

''Bonus Releases'' (2002–2013)

''Unbound'' (2003–2008)

''Doctor Who Magazine'' (2006–2008)

''The Stageplays'' (2008)

''Novel Adaptations'' (2012–2016)

''Dark Eyes'' (2012–2015)

Following on directly from the Eighth Doctor Adventures, Dark Eyes consists of four box sets, each made up of four hour-long episodes, the first released in November 2012 and the last in March 2015.

Dark Eyes (2012)

Dark Eyes 2 (2014)

Dark Eyes 3 (2014)

Dark Eyes 4 (2015)

''Destiny of the Doctor'' (2013)

Produced for AudioGo to celebrate Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, it was the first series produced by Big Finish to feature Doctors from the revived series.

''Philip Hinchcliffe Presents'' (2014–2017)

Series 1 (2014)

Series 2 (2016)

Series 3 (2017)

''Doom Coalition'' (2015–2017)

Doom Coalition 1 (2015)

Doom Coalition 2 (2016)

Doom Coalition 3 (2016)

Doom Coalition 4 (2017)

''The War Doctor'' (2015–2017)

Series 1: ''Only the Monstrous'' (2015)

Series 2: ''Infernal Devices'' (2016)

Series 3: ''Agents of Chaos'' (2016)

Series 4: ''Casualties of War'' (2017)

''Classic Doctors, New Monsters'' (2016–2017)

Volume 1 (2016)

Volume 2 (2017)

''Ravenous'' (2018–2019)

Ravenous 1 (2018)

Ravenous 2 (2018)

Ravenous 3 (2019)

Ravenous 4 (2019)