''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the
British science fiction television programme ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'', produced by
Nicholas Briggs and
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the ...
and starring one of the original actors to play
The Doctor on television in the
classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December.
In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022.
With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series.
Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the
Fifth Doctor,
Sixth Doctor, and
Seventh Doctors, starting with ''
The Sirens of Time'' in July 1999.
This continued through to 2000, and from 2001 to 2007, the main range also included releases featuring the
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Paul McGann.
The character was introduced in the 1996 TV film ''Doctor Who'', a back-door pilo ...
with his companions
Charley Pollard
Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio 7, based on the long-runni ...
and C'rizz,
but these were ended due to the simultaneously-running ''
Eighth Doctor Adventures'', which ran from 2006 to 2011 and featured companion
Lucie Miller. From 2008 to late 2011, only one Eighth Doctor release was produced for the main range: ''
The Company of Friends'', featuring companions from other media to the audio plays and the historical figure
Mary Shelley. The Eighth Doctor returned to the main range in a trilogy of adventures with Mary Shelley in October 2011.
Cast
Notable Guests
*
Nicholas Courtney and
Jon Culshaw
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English actor, comedian and impressionist. He is best known for his work on the radio comedy '' Dead Ringers'' since 2000.
Culshaw has voiced a number of characters for ITV shows including ''2DT ...
as
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
*
Lalla Ward as
Romana
*
Louise Jameson as
Leela
*
John Leeson as
K9
*
Frazer Hines as
Jamie McCrimmon
*
Katy Manning as
Jo Grant and
Iris Wildthyme
*
Richard Franklin as
Mike Yates
*
Peter Purves as
Steven Taylor
*
Maureen O'Brien as
Vicki
Vicky, Vicko,
Vick, Vickie or Vicki is a feminine given name, often a hypocorism of Victoria (name), Victoria. The feminine name Vicky in Greece comes from the name Vasiliki.
Women
* Family nickname of Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901 ...
*
Ian McNeice as
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
*
Robert Jezek as
Frobisher
*
Lisa Bowerman
Lisa Bowerman (born 1 February 1962) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Sandra Mute, the paramedic, in the BBC One medical drama ''Casualty'', in the first two series (1986–1987). She also starred as Professor Bernice Summe ...
as
Bernice Summerfield
*
Miles Richardson as
Irving Braxiatel
*
Anna Hope as DI Menzies
*
John Picard as
Thomas Brewster
*
Julie Cox as
Mary Shelley
*
Maggie O'Neill as Lysandra Aristedes
*
Nicola Walker as
Liv Chenka
*
Amy Pemberton as Sally Morgan
*
Christian Edwards as Will Arrowsmith
* George Watkins as Marc
*
Geoffrey Beevers,
Alex Macqueen, and
James Dreyfus as
The Master
*
Don Warrington as
Rassilon
*
Ian Collier as
Omega
*
Terry Molloy as
Davros
*
Nabil Shaban as
Sil
SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:
Organizations
* Servis Industries Limited, Pakistan
* Smithsonian Institution Libraries
* SIL International, formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics
* Apex Silver Mines (former American Stock Exchange ticker symb ...
*
Siobhan Redmond as
The Rani
*
Graeme Garden and
Rufus Hound as
The Monk
*
Mark Bonnar as The Eleven
*
Nicholas Briggs as the
Daleks,
Cybermen, and
Ice Warriors
Releases
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Continuation
In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022.
The new boxsets for each Doctor were announced in May 2021. With the exception of the Second Doctor, Big Finish already produced boxset ranges for each Doctor. The
First,
Third
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (d ...
,
Fourth and
Eighth Doctor Adventures ranges enjoyed regular releases by the time the Monthly Adventures ended, whereas the
Fifth,
Sixth and
Seventh Doctor Adventures ranges had only occasional releases prior to these series being relaunched.
Notes
World records
References
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Big Finish Productions
Doctor Who spin-offs