Doctor Who: Special Offers on the Lost Stories
This Easter weekend - save on our entire range of audios recreating unmade Doctor Who classics.
The Doctor Who Lost Stories range recreates unmade and abandoned scripts for the original Doctor Who television series, adapting them into full-cast audios and dramatic readings with era-authentic sound effects and music. The first seven Doctors are all represented – alongside companions both new and returning and old enemies appearing in unexpected places!
Until noon Tuesday 29th March, you can enjoy special savings across the entire range, with our double and triple disc releases available for just £5 each on both CD and to download. And remember, when you choose to buy this release on CD directly from Big Finish, you will also unlock instant access to a digital copy for download.
The first series of Lost Stories were all adapted from unmade scripts for the cancelled 1985 season, each starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as the Sixth Doctor and Peri. The TARDIS finally reaches Blackpool in Graham William's Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair; where the Celestial Toymaker (david bailie) has planned a deadly trap. Next we head to the planet Magnus for a fateful encounter with Time Lord bully Anzor (Malcolm Rennie), the slimy mentor Sil (Nabil Shaban) and the Ice Warriors (Nicholas Briggs) in Philip Martin's Doctor Who: Mission to Magnus.
Then the secrets of the New Dawn are revealed in the Brian Finch and Paul Finch's medieval adventure Doctor Who: Leviathan, while the sleepy village of Hollowdean houses an old enemy in Christopher H. Bidmead's Doctor Who: The Hollows of Time. The Reverend Foxwell (Trevor Littledale) is conducting bizarre experiments under the supervision of the mysterious Professor Stream (David Garfield) and now a race of sand creatures have been brought to the Earth... the Tractators.
The Doctor attempts another getaway in PJ Hammond and Andy Lane's Doctor Who: Paradise 5, where a space-station holds a terrible secret. An emergency landing in Elizabethan England links playwright Kit Marlowe (Matt Addis) to a South American curse in Barbara Clegg and Marc Platt's Doctor Who: Point of Entry. The legend of the Space Whales is revisited in Doctor Who: The Song of Megaptera by Pat Mills and finally, the secrets of the Philadelphia Experiment are uncovered in Ingrid Pitt and Tony Rudlin's Doctor Who: The Macros.
Series 2 opens with two box-sets featuring the First and Second Doctors, available for just £10 each on both CD and download. Doctor Who: The First Doctor Box Set adapts two legendary scripts by Moris Farhi, and stars Carole Ann Ford and William Russell. Doctor Who: Farewell, Great Macedon sees the travellers visit the court of Alexander the Great (John Dorney) while Doctor Who: The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance finds the TARDIS landing on the utopian planet Fragrance.
Doctor Who: The Second Doctor Box Set features an adaptation of Dick Sharples' Doctor Who: Prison in Space by Simon Guerrier, presenting a contemporary look at Sixties' gender politics. The set also includes The Daleks: The Destroyers, an audio adaptation of Terry Nation's unmade pilot for his creation's very own spin-off series. Adapted by Nicholas Briggs and John Dorney, this epic adventure stars Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom, along with fellow SSS Agents Mark Seven (Alan Cox), Jason Corey (Chris Porter) and David Kingdom (Alex Mallinson).
The next four releases continue the adventures of the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) in stories originally written from the unmade 1990 series. Doctor Who: Thin Ice by Marc Platt depicts an incursion into Soviet Russia by the Ice Warriors (Nicholas Briggs) and introduces the travellers to free trader Markus Creevy (Ricky Groves).
Creevy's daughter Raine (Beth Chalmers) joins the team in Andrew Cartmel's Doctor Who: Crime of the Century; where the young safe cracker's skills could prove vital in defeating the plans of the Metatraxi (John Banks). The Doctor reunites with UNIT's Brigadier Bambera (Angela Bruce) to investigate a University's testing lab in Doctor Who: Animal. Then the Metatraxi prepare to take their revenge in Doctor Who: Earth Aid. The galaxy's only hope in defeating the aliens is the battle ship Vancouver and its Captain: Ace!
Next we have the epic six-disc Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Box Set, containing two unmade adventures for the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson). Doctor Who: The Foe from the Future (written by Robert Banks Stewart and adapted by John Dorney) sees the travellers investigate a haunted Grange, where a thousand year scheme is about to reach its conclusion. Doctor Who: The Valley of Death finds the Doctor joining a expedition to the Amazon Rainforest, in a story written by Philip Hinchcliffe and adapted by Jonathan Morris.
The box-set can be enjoyed today for just £25 on both CD and to download, and is also available as part of a bundle with Doctor Who: Philip Hinchcliffe Presents. Containing two full-length stories – Doctor Who: The Ghost of Gralstead and Doctor Who: The Devil's Armada – from Philip Hinchcliffe and adapted by Marc Platt, the two box-sets can be enjoyed together for just £65 on CD or £60 to download (with the set also available separately for £45 on both CD and to download).
Series 3 begins with a trio of adventures for the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Tegan (Janet Fielding). Doctor Who: The Elite finds the paradise world of Florana engulfed by war – with the dreaded High Priest (Nicholas Briggs) pulling the strings. Doctor Who: Hexagora finds the Doctor forced into an engagement with Queen Zafira (Jacqueline Pearce) in a story already available to download for just £2.99 as March's Listeners promotion. Doctor Who: The Children of Seth finds the crew battling against a crusade in the Archipelago of Sirius, and stars Honor Blackman, Adrian Lukis, David Warner and Vernon Dobtcheff.
The Sixth Doctor and Peri begin another round of Lost Stories in Doctor Who: The Guardians of Prophecy by Johnny Byrne and Jonathan Morris, which sees the TARDIS return to the Traken Union, where an army of Melkurs await! Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling) faces a frosty reunion with the Doctor in Doctor Who: Power Play by Gary Hopkins. And the origins of an old enemy are revealed in Doctor Who: The First Sontarans by Andrew Smith.
Another legendary First Doctor tale is rescued from the archives with Doctor Who: The Masters of Luxor by Anthony Corburn (adapted by Nigel Robinson). This six-part tale sees the travellers arrive on a planet of intelligent robots, all focused on becoming more than a mockery of man. Then, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) take on killer plants in Donald Tosh's Doctor Who: The Rosemariners.
The fourth series of four releases explore the early years of Doctor Who, with a final Lost Story for the First Doctor in Doctor Who: The Dark Planet by Brian Hayles (adapted by Matt Fitton). The Second Doctor meets Hecuba (Caroline Faber), the sister of the Celestial Toymaker in Doctor Who: The Queen of Time, before heading to Mars for a climatic battle with the Ice Warriors in Brian Hayles' Doctor Who: Lords of the Red Planet, adapted by John Dorney. Finally, the Third Doctor enjoys his single Lost Stories entry in Doctor Who: The Mega by Bill Strutton (adapted by Simon Guerrier), with Katy Manning as Jo and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates.
You can pick up every single title in this weekend's offer in our Lost Stories Easter 2016 bundle, which contains all 28 releases, and is available to buy for just £190 on CD and £175 to download, with free UK shipping. Bundles of Series 1-4 are also available – but hurry, offers must end noon Tuesday 29th March (UK Time).
And don't forget, next Wednesday 30th March sees the launch of Big Finish's March Madness; a day of hourly offers on some of Big Finish's biggest titles. Click here for more information.