6. Doctor Who: Time War - Uncharted 1: Reflections - Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures

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Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures

6. Doctor Who: Time War - Uncharted 1: Reflections

Released October 2024

Written by Katharine Armitage Tim Foley James Moran

Starring Paul McGann Emma Campbell-Jones

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

The Doctor and his great-grandson Alex have been reunited amid the Time War. Splintered timelines draw them ever closer to another fellow traveller. Does Cass's destiny lie in the TARDIS?

As the Time War rages, the Doctor enters uncharted territory - where any 'friends' they meet might not be what they seem...

6.1 Nowhere, Never by Katharine Armitage
Cass is lost. In her place, a suburban housewife counting the hours until her family returns. But terrifying air raids are ripping through her calm.

The Doctor and Alex are trapped - patients in a strange hospital run by a fearsome Matron. They've both been injured in a war, but neither remembers exactly which war...

They all soon realise that time is not on their side.

6.2 The Road Untravelled by Tim Foley
The Doctor, Alex and Cass find themselves on board a strange ship in an even stranger environment.

It's a place where friends might be enemies, or worse. Where even time cannot be relied upon. And something is out in the Void, following them. Their troubles are only just beginning...

6.3 Cass-cade by James Moran
Cass is falling through the timestream of the Universe, splintered in chronology. She keeps encountering the Doctor and Alex, but for them, it's the first time they've met her, each time.

Cass must fight to centre herself, fight for her existence, and fight for her friends to even remember her.

6.4 Borrow or Rob by Tim Foley
The Doctor and friends are traversing the Void, pursued by unknown forces - and their grip on reality is becoming ever more tenuous. As the enemy boards their ship, Alex and Cass edge closer to the truth. And the Doctor faces the consequences of his choices...

Recorded on: 6-9 November 2023

Recorded at: The Soundhouse

Producer David Richardson said: “A new start in the Time War, with our now-established team of the Eighth Doctor, Cass and Alex. I loved the chemistry between this trio in the previous box set, Cass, and so it was inevitable we should get them back together and send them off in new directions. The journey is just beginning and it’s crashing towards some unexpected turns…”

Script editor Matt Fitton said: "We are back with the Eighth Doctor in the Time War, where he has picked up not one, but two rather unexpected companions! To begin with, the TARDIS crew is separated: while the Doctor and Alex languish in a military hospital plagued by air raids, Cass finds herself in what seems to be 1950s suburbia, with a very friendly neighbour. Their journey back together crosses one of the Time War’s most dangerous fronts – a Void which leads them into uncharted territory.

"We gave the writers free rein to play with the strangeness of the Time War, and they fully embraced the challenge! Cass and Alex are put through the wringer, as time and reality shift around them. The Doctor can no longer be sure who his friends and enemies are, and by the end of this series, things have changed for the TARDIS crew which will have huge repercussions to come!"

Paul McGann said: "In all the years I've been doing the Doctor Who stories, it's novel for there to be a family element, as there is when Alex is around. And it's kind of poignant. But in many of the Doctor's adventures, there'll come a point when people suddenly can't trust him - the Doctor's not always what he purports to be."

Sonny McGann added: "In the previous Time War release, Alex was offered another chance at life, to grow and be an adult. He has the opportunity to experience things and not have his time cut short. It's a comparable feeling to being given another chance to play a character.

"But Alex is having an existential crisis of not really knowing what’s happening. There’s something missing – a memory, a detail, a piece of information – which is a throughline in these stories, and Alex is trying to coax that out of the Doctor when the time feels right. 'What’s the deal? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s going on? Is there something you’re not telling me?'"

Emma Campbell-Jones said: "I love playing Cass. She's such a fun character. And I feel very privileged that she's been given another bite at the apple, as it were, to have that adventure that she never took when given the opportunity. She's having a bit of a mare, though – falling through time and space again and again and again and again!"