Sixth Doctor and Peri box set - currently due for release Aug 2020

Four new adventures featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown are coming in August 2020, set after the adventure “Trial of a Time Lord” and the Big Finish adventure “The Rani Elite”.

Scott Handcock (producer/director) told us more: “Ever since the Sixth Doctor and Peri were reunited in The Widow’s Assassin back in 2014, listeners have wanted a continuation of their post-Trial of a Time Lord adventures together. And so now, to commemorate twenty years of Doctor Who at Big Finish, they’re getting a new collection of stories spanning the cosmos. We travel to nineteenth-century Africa, futuristic Earth colonies and a 1970s film studios plus we meet the ultimate Doctor/companion relationship counsellor in Sigmund Freud!”

1. The Headless Ones by James Parsons & Andrew Stirling-Brown

When a distress call from an unknown source threatens to rip the TARDIS from the vortex, the Doctor and Peri arrive in nineteenth-century Africa hoping to find the cause of the disturbance. Instead, they meet a British expedition searching for a long lost tribe: the B’lemyae… better known to the locals as ‘the Headless Ones’.

2. Like by Jacqueline Rayner

On the Earth colony world Rusina, the populace strive to be popular. Likes lead to promotion, dislikes lead to demotion – and more recently, something worse. So when the Doctor investigates the truth behind their subscriber-led society, he finds himself about to become very unpopular indeed.

3. The Vanity Trap by Stuart Manning

Myrna Kendal used to be a Hollywood film star. Now she spends her life reminiscing on chat shows but there is always one unfinished film she refuses to talk about… at least until the TARDIS interrupts a TV interview, and the Doctor and Peri’s appearance stirs up long-forgotten memories.

4. Conflict Theory by Nev Fountain

Concerned by the Doctor’s increasing over-protectiveness, Peri presents him with an ultimatum: either they seek counselling or she leaves the TARDIS permanently. Reluctant to lose one of his closest friends, the Doctor seeks out one of the finest psychoanalysts in the universe: Dr Sigmund Freud.

Nicola Bryant who plays Peri Brown told us more: “Because of the journey that BF have given them, both together and individually, we’ve been lucky enough to expand them into these amazing new people. If everything had stayed in some kind of stasis where we were stuck with exactly what we did on television, then I think the audience might have disappeared. But it just seems that we’ve been given such great journeys, and I love coming back to this Doctor/companion.”

Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor and Peri will be released in August 2020, available as a CD box set for £24.99 or on download at £19.99 from Big Finish.

Written by: James Parsons, Andrew Stirling-Brown, Jacqueline Rayner, Stuart Manning and Nev Fountain

Directed by: Scott Handcock

Cast

Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown), Deirdre Mullins (Amanda Latimer), Hugh Skinner (Lord Oliver Erpingham), Vivienne Acheampong (Siyanda), Javone Prince (Kaylin), Lucy Robinson (Christie), Eilidh Loan (Marconi), Amelia Donkor (Hoffmann), Rachel Atkins (Governor Crompton), Timothy Blore (Sandis-Fernis), Sarah Douglas (Myrna Kendal), Rosie Baker (Carolyn Sue), Stephen Critchlow (Jimmy Garfield), Ryan Forde Iosco (Dr. Karp), David Sibley (Dr. Freud), Raj Ghatak (The Complex), George Naylor (Dodo). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Script Editor/Producer: Scott Handcock

Executive Producers: Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Written by: James Parsons, Andrew Stirling-Brown, Jacqueline Rayner, Stuart Manning and Nev Fountain

Director: Scott Handcock

Sound Design: Andy Hardwick

Music: Andy Hardwick

Cover Art: Will Brooks

Number of Discs: 5

Duration: 300’ approx

Physical Retail ISBN: TBC

Digital Retail ISBN: TBC

Production Code: TBC

Recorded Dates: 16th/17th October, 22nd/23rd November 2018

Recorded at: Moat Studios

Product Format: TBC

Notes:

Rosie Baker, joining Big Finish for 3. The Vanity Trap, is Colin Baker's daughter.

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PRICING

Pre-order price – £24.99 on CD or £19.99 on download from www.bigfinish.com

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