The Eighth Doctor Canon: The Audio Adventures

Title

Medium

Companions

Notes

Doctor Who

TV by Matthew Jacobs

Grace

First appearance of Doctor Grace Holloway.

 

Features the Master.

 

After this adventure, the Doctor’s timeline diverges into three separate continuities: the novels; the audio adventures; and the comic strips.  Some adventures occur for the Doctor in all three realities, some do not.  Below is an account of the ‘audio universe’.

Travelling Alone

The Dying Days

New Adventure by Lance Parkin

Benny

The Brigadier

The Doctor is reunited with Bernice Summerfield and the Brigadier.

 

Features the Ice Warriors.

Shada

Webcast/Audio adapted from a story by Douglas Adams.

Romana

K9 (Mark II)

The Doctor returns to Gallifrey and briefly reunites with Romana and K9 (Mark II) to solve the paradox of Shada, an adventure he remembers having, but also doesn’t remember having (referring to the cancelled TV story, Shada, from Season 17, starring Tom Baker).

 

Features Gallifrey.

Model Train Set

Short Story / Audio by Jonathan Blum

 

The Doctor is alone.

 

Released as a short story and also on audio cassette, read by Sophie Aldred.

Stacy and Ssard

Dreadnought

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

First appearance of Stacy Townsend.

 

Features the Cybermen.

Descendance

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

First appearance of Ssard, an Ice Warrior.

 

Features the Ice Warriors.

Ascendance

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

Continues the story begun in Descendance.

Perceptions

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

 

Coda

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

This story features the final appearances of Stacy and Ssard as the Doctor’s companions.

Big Finish Season 1: The Charley Arc

Storm Warning

BFA by Alan Barnes

Charley

First appearance of Charlotte Pollard.

 

First appearance of Ramsey, the Vortisaur.

Sword of Orion

BFA by Nicholas Briggs

Charley

Features the Cybermen.

 

Features the Androids.

 

Events in this CD are explored further in the audio series: Cybermen.

The Stones of Venice

BFA by Paul Magrs

Charley

 

Minuet in Hell

BFA by Alan W Lear and Gary Russell

Charley

The Brigadier

The Doctor is reunited with the Brigadier.

 

Ramsey departs.

Big Finish Season 2: The Charley Arc

Invaders from Mars

BFA by Mark Gatiss

Charley

 

The Chimes of Midnight

BFA by Robert Shearman

Charley

 

Living Legend

BFA by Scott Gray

Charley

 

Seasons of Fear

BFA by Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox

Charley

Features the Nimon.

 

First appearance of Sentris, the Anti-Time version of Charley.

 

Features Rassilon.

Embrace the Darkness

BFA by Nicholas Briggs

Charley

 

The Time of the Daleks

BFA by Justin Richards

Charley

Features the Daleks.

Neverland

BFA by Alan Barnes

Charley

Romana

The Doctor is reunited with Romana.

 

Features Vansell, Sentris and Rassilon.

 

Features Gallifrey

 

At the close of this story, the Doctor absorbs the anti-time and becomes Zagreus. 

40th Anniversary

Zagreus

BFA by Alan Barnes and Gary Russell

Charley

Romana

Leela

K9 (Mark I and II)

Features appearances by Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor), Colin Baker (the 6th Doctor), Sylvester McCoy (the 7th Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown), Caroline Morris (Erimem), Bonnie Langford (Mel Bush), Maggie Stables (Evelyn Smythe), Robert Jezek (Frobisher), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Lisa Bowerman (Bernice Summerfield), Stephen Fewell (Jason Kane), although none of them appear as their usual Doctor Who roles.  However, as the TARDIS is creating the characters they do play from the TARDIS memory banks, it is possible that they share physical similarities with their original roles.

 

The TARDIS manifests itself as both the 3rd Doctor, to the Doctor, and as the Brigadier, to Charley.

 

Features Irving Braxiatel.

 

Features Gallifrey.  Events on Gallifrey are further explored in the audio series: Gallifrey.

 

Features Lady Louisa Pollard.

 

At the close of this story, the Doctor is forced to enter the Alternate Universe to protect our own universe from the powers of ‘Zagreus’.

Big Finish Season 3: The Alternate Universe Arc

Scherzo

BFA by Robert Shearman

Charley

The Doctor and Charley find themselves without the TARDIS in the alternate universe.

The Creed of the Kromon

BFA by Philip Martin

Charley

C’Rizz

First appearance of C’Rizz.

 

First appearance of the Kro’ka.

 

First appearance of L’Da.

The Natural History of Fear

BFA by Jim Mortimore

Charley

C’Rizz

 

The Twilight Kingdom

BFA by Will Schindler

Charley

C’Rizz

Features the Kro’ka

Big Finish Season 4: The Alternate Universe Arc

Faith Stealer

BFA by Graham Duff

Charley

C’Rizz

Features the Kro’ka.

 

Features L’Da

The Last

BFA by Gary Hopkins

Charley

C’Rizz

Features the Kro’ka

Caerdroia

BFA by Lloyd Rose

Charley

C’Rizz

Features the Kro’ka

The Next Life

BFA by Alan Barnes and Gary Russell

Charley

C’Rizz

Features the Kro’ka

 

Features Rassilon

 

Features Lady Louisa Pollard (Zagreus).

 

Features L’Da.

 

At the close of the story, the Doctor and Charley manage to return to their own universe, taking C’Rizz with them.  They are immediately confronted by Davros and the Daleks.

Big Finish Season 5

Terror Firma

BFA by Joseph Lidster

Charley

C’Rizz

Features Davros and the Daleks.

Scaredy Cat

BFA by Will Schindler

Charley

C’Rizz

 

Other Lives

BFA by Gary Hopkins

Charley

C’Rizz

 

Time Works

BFA by Steve Lyons

Charley

C’Rizz