Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Adventures: The Doctor and Carnacki

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Doctor Who - The Seventh Doctor Adventures

Released November 2024

Written by AK Benedict Georgia Cook Jonathan Barnes

Starring Sylvester McCoy

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This title was released in November 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 December 2024, and on general sale after this date.

Ghost finder Thomas Carnacki deals with many uncanny mysteries that defy explanation. But throughout his life, a stranger keeps appearing.

Whether he is an ally or a rival remains to be seen, but one thing is certain. When the Doctor and Carnacki cross paths, death and danger are always close...

The Haunter of the Shore by AK Benedict
1897. Young Carnacki investigates a case at Edgemere Manor where the skeletons of tourists are left on the shore of the lake. Carnacki must discard everything he knows when he discovers that the estate’s hermit is the Doctor, and that time is being manipulated by an unseen force.

The Doctor and Carnacki must work together if the mystery of Edgemere Manor is to be solved, the house saved, and the haunted residents find peace.

The House by Georgia Cook
Awoken in the dead of night to assist his distraught friend Arkright, Carnacki finds himself unexpectedly thrust into a long-buried mystery from his childhood, and face-to-face with a man he hasn't seen in years: the Doctor.

But what is 'The House'? Why does everything Arkright touch transform into the same rotting furnishings and wallpaper? Can a man really be haunted by a building?

The Institute of Forgotten Souls by Jonathan Barnes
In the heart of England in 1936 there lies a home for wounded men. It is a strange, shadowed place, full of secrets.

Terrible beasts prowl the grounds, as if guarding something dreadful. Inmates are disappearing, picked off one by one, while a singular resident - a certain, now retired ghost finder - bravely staves off the darkness.

Yet tonight is the night when it's all going to end. For tonight is the night when the Doctor comes to call...

Recorded on: 9-11 April and 12-13 May 2024

Recorded at: The Soundhouse and Remote Recording

Script editor Matt Fitton said: "The Seventh Doctor lends himself to those kinds of spooky, eerie stories – things like Ghost Light and Curse of Fenric – and the idea of having him meet Carnacki on a ghost-finding adventure has been brewing in my mind for a while now.

"We have three stories here all written by writers who have a penchant for the horror genre. It's been great to bring them together and have the two characters bounce off each other all the way throughout Carnacki's life and career, from the beginning to the end."

Writer Georgia Cook added: "It was really good fun developing Carnacki. We have a good sense of him as an adult, and we get bits of him as a child throughout the original stories, but we never really get to meet him specifically as a younger man.

"So it was interesting developing who he might have been into who he is now and the insecurities that he might have had starting out, meeting the impossible and the supernatural for the first time, and the things that he might still carry with him to this day."

Producer Emma Haigh said: "I loved [script editor] Matt Fitton’s idea to create a spooky set where the Seventh Doctor meets Carnacki. And being able to bring both Joe and Dan in so we can explore Carnacki’s life a little more has been really great.

"Alexandra, Georgia and Jonathan have created three wonderfully eerie stories, where Carnacki is tested to his limit. We had a lot of fun in the studio bringing these to life and I couldn’t be more pleased with the final productions."

Actor Dan Starkey added: "It was quite a long time ago, the best part of ten years, that I recorded narrations of the original stories by William Hope Hodgson, which comprise the collection Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Those stories are great fun – it's almost like Sherlock Holmes with ghosts, he's very, very forensic about how he approaches ghost hunting.

"And with this, it's wonderful to play him in a drama where he's interacting with other characters, and actually meeting the Doctor, and the wider palette of the Doctor Who universe that he can explore as well. It's a very nice synergy, and the scripts are great."