| The Fifth Doctor Adventures | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
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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.
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 ". [1] [2] 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. [3] [4] Several previously released special titles were retroactively reallocated into these new ranges by Big Finish.
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season.
| Actor | Character | Appearances | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp. | Fifth Doctor Boxset | Wicked Sisters | Lost Resort | Forty | Conflicts of Interest | In The Night | The Dream Team | The Great Beyond | 2025A | 2025B | |||
| 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 | ✓ | ||||||||||||
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "No Place Like Home" [5] | Gary Russell | Iain McLaughlin | Fifth Doctor, Erimem, Shayde | January 2003 |
| 2 | "Cuddlesome" [6] | Barnaby Edwards | Nigel Fairs | Fifth Doctor | March 2008 |
| 3 | "Return to the Web Planet" [7] | Barnaby Edwards | Daniel O'Mahony | Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Zarbi, Menoptera | December 2008 |
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Psychodrome" [8] | Ken Bentley | Jonathan Morris | Fifth Doctor,Adric,Nyssa,Tegan | August 2014 |
| 2 | "Iterations of I" [8] | John Dorney | |||
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Garden of Storms" [9] | Lisa Bowerman | Simon Guerrier | Fifth Doctor,Leela,Abby,Zara | November 2020 |
| 2 | "The Moonrakers" [9] | ||||
| 3 | "The People Made of Smoke" [9] | ||||
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Lost Resort" [10] | Scott Handcock | AK Benedict | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan,Marc,Adric | September 2021 |
| 2 | "The Perils of Nellie Bly" [10] | Scott Handcock | Sarah Ward | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan,Marc | |
| 3 | "Nightmare of the Daleks" [10] | Samuel Clemens | Martyn Waites | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan,Marc,Daleks | |
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
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| Volume 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Secrets of Telos" [11] | Ken Bentley | Matt Fitton | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan,Cybermen | January 2022 | |||||||
| 2 | "God of War" [11] | Sarah Grochala | Fifth Doctor,Adric,Nyssa,Tegan,Ice Warriors | |||||||||
| – | "Interlude:I,Kamelion" [11] | Read by :Dan Starkey | Dominic Martin | Fifth Doctor,Turlough,Kamelion | January 2022 | |||||||
| Volume 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | "The Auton Infinity" [12] | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor,Tegan,Turlough,Kamelion,The Brigadier,Autons,The Master | September 2022 | |||||||
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "Friendly Fire" [13] | Ken Bentley | John Dorney | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan | April 2023 |
| 2 | "The Edge of the War" [14] | Jonathan Barnes | |||
| – | "Interlude:Gobbledegook" | Read by :Dan Starkey | Frazer Lee | Fifth Doctor | April 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 | |||
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "The Merfolk Murders" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan,Adric | April 2024 |
| 2 | "Dream Team" | Lizzie Hopley | |||
| – | "Interlude:Meanwhile,Turlough" | Read by :Dan Starkey | Jonathan Blum | Fifth Doctor,Tegan,Turlough | April 2024 |
A second boxset is scheduled for release in September 2024. [15] 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". [16]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released |
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| 1 | "Part 1" | Ken Bentley | James Kettle | Fifth Doctor,Nyssa,Tegan,Adric | September 2024 |
| 2 | "Part 2" | ||||
| 3 | "Part 3" | ||||
| 4 | "Part 4" | ||||
| 5 | "Part 5" | ||||
| 6 | "Part 6" | ||||
On 23 May 2024,Big Finish announced their slate of boxsets for 2025. Senior Producer John Ainsworth said "...in 2025,Peter Davison stars in a 12-part Fifth Doctor story for the first time ever. It's an epic featuring new worlds,new creatures and a searing light that could burn everything to dust." [17] The two boxsets are scheduled for release in April [18] and May 2025, [19] respectively.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |||||||
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| Part 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Part 1" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor,Eighth Doctor,Tegan,Nyssa,Adric | April 2025 | |||||||
| 2 | "Part 2" | |||||||||||
| 3 | "Part 3" | |||||||||||
| 4 | "Part 4" | |||||||||||
| 5 | "Part 5" | |||||||||||
| 6 | "Part 6" | |||||||||||
| Part 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Part 7" | Ken Bentley | Tim Foley | Fifth Doctor,Eighth Doctor,Tegan,Nyssa,Adric | May 2025 | |||||||
| 2 | "Part 8" | |||||||||||
| 3 | "Part 9" | |||||||||||
| 4 | "Part 10" | |||||||||||
| 5 | "Part 11" | |||||||||||
| 6 | "Part 12" | |||||||||||
| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Work(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| Scribe Awards | 2015 | Best Audio | Iterations of I | Won | [20] |
| 2022 | The Lost Resort | Nominated | |||
| 2024 | Pursuit of the Nightjar | Nominated |