Doctor Who: Christopher Eccleston Returning for More Audio Dramas
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th Doctor in the second volume of
Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish Productions. This follows the release this week of the first volume of 3 audio drama adventures. Due for release in August 2021,
Respond to All Calls takes the TARDIS s phone panel message literally, as the Ninth Doctor answers cries for help from around the galaxies in a trio of full-cast audio adventures. Doctor Who: the 9th Doctor Adventures – Respond to All Calls cover, BBC, Big Finish
Prepare to meet the Serapheem, a lighter-than-air alien species, the First and Second Incorporation, representatives of a business-obsessed race from the dawn of time, and an artificial intelligence called Fred. The stories included in the second volume are as follows:
He kept us waiting which I guess is fair, for a Time Lord.
Big Finish has been teasing the arrival of its new line of
Doctor Who audio adventures for a while now. It marks Christopher Eccleston’s first official return to the franchise since he departed the show in 2005. But after a long, long wait, the company has announced that, like a TARDIS showing up on your doorstep, the Doctor is in! As of today!
The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers collects three new episodes
Food Fight,
Cataclysm, and
Sphere of Freedom starring Eccleston as the Doctor, wandering time and space in the wake of the soul-scarring events of the Last Great Time War. With a few new friends along the way in the form of Nova (Camilla Beeput) and Audrey (Jayne McKenna), the Doctor’s ready to stop the universe from being devoured by sinister forces, after his plan to stop an evil business empire goes horribly wrong.
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“Holy sh t!”
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I know, it’s a little early for language. But I can’t sugarcoat how I felt – and expressed to a colleague on WhatsApp – when I heard that Christopher Eccleston was returning to the worlds of Doctor Who, over a decade after leaving under a (well-documented) cloud.
While his attitude to Who had definitely thawed over the years, it still felt unthinkable that he’d feel comfortable enough to come back (albeit in audio drama form), let alone headline a whole series of adventures.
But come back he did – and now, many months later fans can finally see (or rather, hear) the results in The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers, a three-part story from Big Finish that sees Eccleston’s Time Lord tangling with terrifying monsters, deadly drones, Roman soldiers and (most terrifying of all) a Gaming CEO in a complex, twisty adventure.
Christopher Eccleston returning as the Ninth Doctor in the series of new audio dramas from Big Finish
Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers, the actor has been making the rounds to promote his return and offering his thoughts on the long-running BBC sci-fi series past- and in this case, it s future. In this case, Eccleston is making the case that there needs to be more of a female presence in front of the camera- and that should start with one of the Doctor s oldest foes.
Doctor Who – BBC Studios I think it s high time we had a Cyberwoman, I must say that, Eccleston revealed to
In the clip below, you can hear The Ninth Doctor in action as Eccleston proves he hasn t lost either his abrupt humor or his intensity in the role.
Though Eccleston has said fans shouldn t expect him to make a return to the TV side of things anytime soon, we ve got him in the audio world for at least the next year or so.
Ravagers is the first of four new
Ninth Doctor Adventures collections set to be released by Big Finish between now and next February, and future installments will see the Doctor encountering everyone from Cybermen to his old Earth friend The Brigadier.