Doctor Who: The Lost Stories

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Doctor Who: The Lost Stories is a sci-fi audio series produced by Big Finish Productions of Doctor Who audio plays adapted from unused TV stories.

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Episodes

Series 1 (2009–10)

The first series is largely adapted from stories planned for the unmade 1985–1986 series. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant star as the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

Clegg wrote a detailed story breakdown for Point of Entry, which Platt turned into a complete script. Hammond wrote an incomplete script for Paradise 5, which was completed and adapted for audio by Lane. Martin, Bidmead, and Mills have revised their own scripts, with Bidmead describing his revision as a "top-to-bottom rewrite". Paul Finch approached Big Finish with a complete script that his father Brian had written for Season 22 in 1985. The story was completely unknown to Big Finish before this. [1] Michael Feeney Callan's The Children of January was originally part of the line-up, but fell through due to the author's other commitments and was replaced by The Macros. [2]

No.TitleDirected byWritten byFeaturingReleased
1"The Nightmare Fair"John Ainsworth Graham Williams Sixth Doctor, Peri, Celestial Toymaker November 2009 (2009-11)
2"Mission to Magnus"Lisa Bowerman Philip Martin Sixth Doctor, Peri, Ice Warriors, Sil December 2009 (2009-12)
3"Leviathan"Ken Bentley Brian Finch and Paul Finch Sixth Doctor, PeriJanuary 2010 (2010-01)
4"The Hollows of Time"John Ainsworth Christopher H. Bidmead Sixth Doctor, Peri, Tractators February 2010 (2010-02)
5"Paradise 5"Barnaby Edwards P.J. Hammond and Andy Lane Sixth Doctor, Peri, Cherubs, ElohimMarch 2010 (2010-03)
6"Point of Entry"John Ainsworth Barbara Clegg and Marc Platt Sixth Doctor, Peri, OmnimApril 2010 (2010-04)
7"The Song of Megaptera"John Ainsworth Pat Mills Sixth Doctor, PeriMay 2010 (2010-05)
8"The Macros"John Ainsworth Ingrid Pitt and Tony RudlinSixth Doctor, PeriJune 2010 (2010-06)

Series 2 (2010–11)

The first release of the second series is The First Doctor Boxset, a four-disc boxed set including Moris Farhi's stories Farewell Great Macedon and The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance . Farhi's scripts for Farewell Great Macedon have been adapted as an enhanced audiobook, performed by William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, who, respectively, played Ian Chesterton and Susan Foreman.

The second release is The Second Doctor Boxset, another four-disc boxed set including Dick Sharples' The Prison in Space . Sharples' story has been adapted by Simon Guerrier, and is performed by Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury, who played Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. The set also includes The Destroyers , the unmade pilot episode of a proposed Dalek-centred spin-off series for American TV. The episode has been adapted as a full-cast drama, with Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks.

The remaining releases have been adapted from stories planned for the unmade Season 27, and introduced a new companion for the Seventh Doctor, a young safecracker named Raine Creevy, played by Beth Chalmers. [3] They were released monthly from January–April 2011 are as follows.

The character of Raine makes her debut as an adult in Crime of the Century, but appears as a newborn baby in Thin Ice; Beth Chalmers plays Raine's mother in that story.

Richardson, David (2009), "'Missing Season 23' news: The line-up of stories – revealed!", Doctor Who Magazine Issue 407, London: Panini Magazines.
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  • 1 2 "Lost Doctor Who story Return of the Cybermen will return". Big Finish Productions . Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  • "Doctor Who: Russell T. Davies' First "Who" Script Finding New Life?". bleedingcool.com. 22 December 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
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  • 1 2 "Iconic Doctor Who – The Lost Stories uncovered!". Big Finish Productions . Retrieved 9 August 2021.
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