Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures
| The Tenth Doctor Adventures | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
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| Executive producer(s) | |
| Music | Howard Carter |
| Release date | May 2016 |
The Tenth Doctor Adventures, announced in October 2015, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the television series Doctor Who. It sees the return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The first trilogy of stories was released in May 2016. In November 2017 a second volume was released, featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. A third volume was released in May 2019, with Tate again reprising her role as Donna.
Cast
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| Actor | Character | Appearances | ||||||||||
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| Volumes | Specials | Out of Time | Dalek Universe | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | TDRS | TDCC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| David Tennant | The Doctor | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Tom Baker | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Peter Davison | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Colin Baker | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Catherine Tate | Donna Noble | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
| Billie Piper | Rose Tyler | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Alex Kingston | River Song | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
| John Leeson | K9 | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Louise Jameson | Leela | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Sarah Sutton | Nyssa | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Sophie Aldred | Ace | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Jane Slavin | Anya Kingdom | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Joe Sims | Mark Seven | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Kevin McNally | Merrick Kingdom | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Nicholas Briggs | Ice Warriors | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Judoon | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Daleks | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
| Cybermen | ✓ | |||||||||||
| Mechonoids | ✓ | |||||||||||
Notable Guests
Doctor Who characters
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Other
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Episodes
Volumes
Volume 1 (2016)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Technophobia" | Nicholas Briggs | Matt Fitton | Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble | May 2016 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | "Time Reaver" | Jenny T Colgan | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | "Death and the Queen" | James Goss | ||||||||||||||||
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Part 1 : Paying a visit to Earth in Donna's not-too-distant future, the Doctor and Donna discover an alien invasion that seeks to destroy humanity by restricting their intelligence. Part 2 : An attempt to purchase a new part for the TARDIS reveals a trade in a dangerous weapon. Part 3 : Donna accepts a proposal from a prince, but soon learns that her new country has a deal with an ancient alien race that will require her to be sacrificed. | ||||||||||||||||||
Volume 2 (2017)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Infamy of the Zaross" | Nicholas Briggs | John Dorney | Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler, Ice Warriors | November 2017 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | "The Sword of the Chevalier" | Guy Adams | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | "Cold Vengeance" | Matt Fitton | ||||||||||||||||
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Part 1 : Jackie calls in the Doctor and Rose when aliens attack Norwich, but the Doctor swiftly realises this invasion is more than it seems. Part 2 : The Doctor and Rose meet the Chevalier d'Éon and investigate alien slavers. Part 3 : A visit to a frozen food storage asteroid reveals the presence of the Ice Warriors. | ||||||||||||||||||
Volume 3 (2019)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "No Place" | Nicholas Briggs | James Goss | Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Judoon | May 2019 |
| 2 | "One Mile Down" | Jenny T Colgan | |||
| 3 | "The Creeping Death" | Roy Gill | |||
Out of Time (2020–2022)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Out of Time" | Nicholas Briggs | Matt Fitton | Fourth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Daleks | August 2020 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | "The Gates of Hell" | Ken Bentley | David Llewellyn | Fifth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Cybermen, Joseph Delon | June 2021 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | "Wink" | Ken Bentley | Lisa McMullin | Sixth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Weeping Angels | June 2022 | |||||||||||||
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Part 1 : The Fourth and Tenth Doctors visit the other-dimensional Cathedral of Contemplation just in time to face a Dalek invasion. Part 2 : The Fifth and Tenth Doctors come together to face a Cyberman invasion of Earth. Part 3 : The Sixth and Tenth Doctors visit a planet where the multiple local suns mean that the residents never developed the sense of sight, just as Weeping Angels attack the planet. | ||||||||||||||||||
Dalek Universe (2021)
Prologue (2021)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| – | "The Dalek Protocol" | Nicholas Briggs | Nicholas Briggs | Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9, Anya, Mark, Daleks, Exxilons, Bellal | April 2021 |
Episodes (2021)
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| 1 | "Buying Time" | Ken Bentley | John Dorney | Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, George Sheldrake, The Nun, Visian, Dalek, Merrick Kingdom, Mechonoids | April 2021 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | "The Wrong Woman" | John Dorney | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | "The House of Kingdom" | Andrew Smith | ||||||||||||||||
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Part 1 : The Doctor finds himself trapped in the pre-Time War universe, trying to save Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven from invisible aliens. Part 2 : The Doctor has apparently regenerated before confronting time-travel-entrepreneur George Sheldrake, but Anya and Mark soon realise that the new Doctor is not what she seems. Part 3 : Attempting to find a time machine to take the Doctor back to his timeline, the Doctor, Anya and Mark run into Anya's estranged grandfather. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 4 | "Cycle of Destruction" | Ken Bentley | Roy Gill | Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, Mariah Six, Jason Four, Daleks, Fliss Keeley, Major McLinn, Merrick Kingdom, The Lost | July 2021 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | "The Trojan Dalek" | John Dorney | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | "The Lost" | Rob Valentine | ||||||||||||||||
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Part 1 : A recall signal draws Mark back to the base where he was constructed, but the Doctor and Anya discover that Mark's fellow androids are hiding various secrets. Part 2 : Attempting to find a time machine leads the Doctor, Anya and Mark to an anti-Dalek research facility with several dark projects. Part 3 : The Doctor and Anya are trapped outside of time in a mysterious pocket dimension. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 7 | "The First Son" | Ken Bentley | Lizzie Hopley | Tenth Doctor, Anya, River Song, Movellans, Davros, Daleks | October 2021 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | "The Dalek Defence" | Matt Fitton | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | "The Triumph of Davros" | Matt Fitton | ||||||||||||||||
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Part 1 : Stuck in the middle of the Dalek-Movellan war, the Doctor and Anya are shocked to face River Song, who presents herself as the "Queen" of the Movellans. Part 2 : The Doctor is in an awkward position when Earth forces rescue Davros (from after his arrest in "Destiny of the Daleks") to gain an edge over the Movellans. Part 3 : Faced with the secret of the First Movellan, the Doctor struggles to resolve this conflict and escape back to his own time. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Tenth Doctor and River Song (2020)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "Expiry Dating" | Nicholas Briggs | James Goss | Tenth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, River Song | November 2020 |
| 2 | "Precious Annihilation" | Lizzie Hopley | Tenth Doctor, River Song | ||
| 3 | "Ghosts" | Jonathan Morris | Tenth Doctor, River Song | ||
Tenth Doctor, Classic Companions (2022)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "Splinters" | Helen Goldwyn | John Dorney | Tenth Doctor, K9, Leela | September 2022 |
| 2 | "The Stuntman" | Lizzie Hopley | Tenth Doctor, K9, Nyssa | ||
| 3 | "Quantum of Axos" | Roy Gill | Tenth Doctor, K9, Ace, Axos | ||
Awards and nominations
| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Work(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| Audie Awards | 2017 | Best Audio Drama | Death and the Queen | Nominated | |
| BBC Audio Drama Awards | 2017 | Best Online Only Audio Drama | Shortlisted | ||
| Scribe Awards | 2018 | Best Audio | Cold Vengeance | Nominated | |
| 2020 | The Creeping Death | Won | |||
| 2021 | Out of Time | Won | |||
| Audio and Radio Industry Awards | 2021 | Best Fictional Storytelling | Nominated |