Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures
| The Fifth Doctor Adventures | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
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The Fifth Doctor Adventures is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the television series Doctor Who. It sees the return of Peter Davison reprising his role as the Fifth Doctor.
History
In 1999, beginning with the story "The Sirens of Time", Big Finish Productions began producing a series of audio adventures featuring the Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor and Seventh Doctor. For 22 years these stories continued collectively known as Big Finish's "Main Range". In May 2020, Big Finish announced the main range would conclude in March 2021 and subsequently replaced with regular releases of each Doctor's adventures continuing in their own respective ranges. Several previously released special titles were retroactively reallocated into these new ranges by Big Finish.
Cast and characters
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season.
- A green cell indicates the actor is a main cast member.
- A red cell indicates the actor is a recurring cast member.
- A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest or special guest cast member.
| Actor | Character | Appearances | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp. | Fifth Doctor Boxset | Wicked Sisters | Lost Resort | Forty | Conflicts of Interest | In The Night | The Dream Team | |||
| Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | |||||||||
| Peter Davison | The Doctor | ✓ | ||||||||
| Matthew Waterhouse | Adric | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Sarah Sutton | Nyssa | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Janet Fielding | Tegan | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Louise Jameson | Leela | ✓ | ||||||||
| Ciara Janson | Abby | ✓ | ||||||||
| Laura Doddington | Zara | ✓ | ||||||||
| George Watkins | Marc | ✓ | ||||||||
| Mark Strickson | Vislor Turlough | ✓ | ||||||||
| Jon Culshaw | The Brigadier | ✓ | ||||||||
| The Master | ||||||||||
| Kamelion | ||||||||||
| Nicholas Briggs | Daleks | ✓ | ||||||||
| Cybermen | ✓ | |||||||||
| Ice Warriors | ✓ | |||||||||
Notable Guests
- Caroline Morris as Erimem
- Mark Donovan as Shayde
Episodes
Specials
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "No Place Like Home" | Gary Russell | Iain McLaughlin | Fifth Doctor, Erimem, Shayde | January 2003 |
| 2 | "Cuddlesome" | Barnaby Edwards | Nigel Fairs | Fifth Doctor | March 2008 |
| 3 | "Return to the Web Planet" | Barnaby Edwards | Daniel O'Mahony | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Zarbi, Menoptera | December 2008 |
The Fifth Doctor Box Set (2014)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Psychodrome" | Ken Bentley | Jonathan Morris | Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | August 2014 |
| 2 | "Iterations of I" | John Dorney | |||
Wicked Sisters (2020)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Garden of Storms" | Lisa Bowerman | Simon Guerrier | Fifth Doctor, Leela, Abby, Zara | November 2020 |
| 2 | "The Moonrakers" | ||||
| 3 | "The People Made of Smoke" | ||||
The Lost Resort and Other Stories (2021)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Lost Resort" | Scott Handcock | AK Benedict | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc, Adric | September 2021 |
| 2 | "The Perils of Nellie Bly" | Scott Handcock | Sarah Ward | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc | |
| 3 | "Nightmare of the Daleks" | Samuel Clemens | Martyn Waites | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc, Daleks | |
Forty (2022)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
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| Volume 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Secrets of Telos" | Ken Bentley | Matt Fitton | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Cybermen | January 2022 | |||||||
| 2 | "God of War" | Sarah Grochala | Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Ice Warriors | |||||||||
| – | "Interlude: I, Kamelion" | Read by : Dan Starkey | Dominic Martin | Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Kamelion | January 2022 | |||||||
| Volume 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | "The Auton Infinity" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion, The Brigadier, Autons, The Master | September 2022 | |||||||
Conflicts of Interest (2023)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "Friendly Fire" | Ken Bentley | John Dorney | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan | April 2023 |
| 2 | "The Edge of the War" | Jonathan Barnes | |||
| – | "Interlude: Gobbledegook" | Read by : Dan Starkey | Frazer Lee | Fifth Doctor | April 2023 |
In the Night (2023)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pursuit of the Nightjar" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan | September 2023 |
| 2 | "Resistor" | Sarah Grochala | |||
The Dream Team
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Merfolk Murders" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Adric | April 2024 |
| 2 | "Drean Team" | Lizzie Hopley | |||
Future
On 30 June 2023, two boxsets where schedule for April and September 2024. Big Finish's Creative Director Nicholas Briggs described them as "...really imaginative, celebratory adventures that feel like Classic Doctor Who turned right up to eleven, in the very best of ways".
Awards and nominations
| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Work(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| Scribe Awards | 2015 | Best Audio | Iterations of I | Won | |
| Scribe Awards | 2022 | Best Audio | The Lost Resort | Nominated |