It’s Christmas come early for the Sixth Doctor and Peri
Ho ho ho! The TARDIS team meets characters from fiction and folklore in Doctor Who: Blood on Santa’s Claw and Other Stories, released today.
This Yuletide audio selection box is now available as a collector’s edition CD or on download from £12.99, just in time for Christmas.
In addition to the title story, the anthology features three more starring Colin Baker (as the Doctor), Nicola Bryant (as Peri), and introducing Luke Allen-Gale (as new companion Joe).
Colin Baker, playing the Sixth Doctor, welcomed this festive treat: “I think it's such a nice tradition now. Doctor Who is so much a part of all our culture that it's now part of Christmas too. I don't know whether the other Doctors are doing Christmassy stories, but let's hope it's just me!”
Nev Fountain, writer of the anthology’s closing story, Brightly Shone The Moon That Night, added: “I think the Sixth Doctor is made for anything, but especially Christmas! He has that larger-than-life demeanour and whimsical costume that merge to make him almost a figure of children’s myth and legend – a combination of Santa, the Pied Piper and the Ghost of Christmas Present.
“Of all the Doctors, I can imagine the Sixth helping out Santa and dropping presents down the chimneys. I think it was wonderfully captured in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips where he rubbed up against Alice in Wonderland and Rupert Bear!”
Doctor Who: Blood on Santa’s Claw and Other Stories is now available as a collector’s edition CD or download at the Big Finish website from £12.99. Get it into your Christmas stocking! All CD purchases unlock a download option via the Big Finish app and the Big Finish website.
Or why not save money by getting a subscription to Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures? When you subscribe you'll get 30% off the price, free specially recorded Short Trips stories, PDFs of the scripts, and extended downloadable extras. You can subscribe for either 6 or 12 releases.
Coming up next in The Monthly Adventures range, the Seventh Doctor is reunited with Ace after decades apart. But are they still friends, or now deadly enemies? Doctor Who: Dark Universe is released in January 2020.