Doctor Who: The Lost Stories

Doctor Who: The Lost Stories is a range of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish Productions, adapted from unused TV stories.

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.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Doctor	Featuring	Release Date	Prod. code
1	"The Nightmare Fair"	John Ainsworth	Graham Williams	6th	Peri, Celestial Toymaker	November 2009	6Y/AA
2	"Mission to Magnus"	Lisa Bowerman	Philip Martin	6th	Peri, Ice Warriors, Sil	December 2009	6Y/AB
3	"Leviathan"	Ken Bentley	Brian Finch and Paul Finch	6th	Peri	January 2010	6Y/AC
4	"The Hollows of Time"	John Ainsworth	Christopher H. Bidmead	6th	Peri, Tractators	February 2010	6Y/AD
5	"Paradise 5"	Barnaby Edwards	PJ Hammond and Andy Lane	6th	Peri	March 2010	6Y/AE
6	"Point of Entry"	John Ainsworth	Barbara Clegg and Marc Platt	6th	Peri	April 2010	6Y/AF
7	"The Song of Megaptera"	John Ainsworth	Pat Mills	6th	Peri	May 2010	6Y/AG
8	"The Macros"	John Ainsworth	Ingrid Pitt and Tony Rudlin	6th	Peri	June 2010	6Y/AH

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.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Doctor	Featuring	Release Date	Prod. code
1.1	"Farewell Great Macedon"	Lisa Bowerman	Moris Farhi, adapted by Nigel Robinson	1st	Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright	November 2010	H/B
1.2	"The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance"	Lisa Bowerman	Moris Farhi, adapted by Nigel Robinson	1st	Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright	November 2010	H/A
2.1	"Prison in Space"	Lisa Bowerman	Dick Sharples, adapted by Simon Guerrier	2nd	Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot	December 2010	VV/A
2.2	"The Destroyers"	Lisa Bowerman	Terry Nation, adapted by Nicholas Briggs & John Dorney	none	Sara Kingdom, Daleks	December 2010	TBA
3	"Thin Ice"	Ken Bentley	Marc Platt	7th	Ace, Ice Warriors	April 2011	7P/A
4	"Crime of the Century"	Ken Bentley	Andrew Cartmel	7th	Ace, Raine	May 2011	7P/B
5	"Animal"	Ken Bentley	Andrew Cartmel	7th	Ace, Raine, Brigadier Bambera	June 2011	7P/C
6	"Earth Aid"	Ken Bentley	Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel	7th	Ace, Raine	July 2011	7P/D

Fourth Doctor Lost Stories (2011)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Doctor	Featuring	Release Date	Prod. code
1	"The Foe from the Future"	Ken Bentley	Robert Banks Stewart and John Dorney	4th	Leela	October 2011	4R/A
2	"The Valley of Death"	Ken Bentley	Philip Hinchcliffe and Jonathan Morris	4th	Leela	November 2010	4V/A

Series 3 (2011-12)

This third batch of stories features three stories with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka, followed by three stories with the Sixth Doctor and Peri, followed by dramatic readings of a First Doctor and Second Doctor story to round out the final two releases of the series. This series was released in October 2011-September 2012.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Doctor	Featuring	Release Date	Prod. code
1	"The Elite"	Ken Bentley	Barbara Clegg and John Dorney	5th	Tegan, Nyssa, Dalek	October 2011	6E/AA
2	"Hexagora"	Ken Bentley	Paul Finch, from a story by Peter Ling & Hazel Adair	5th	Tegan, Nyssa	November 2011	6E/AB
3	"The Children of Seth"	Ken Bentley	Christopher Bailey and Marc Platt	5th	Tegan, Nyssa	December 2011	6E/AC
4	"The Guardians of Prophecy"	Ken Bentley	Johnny Byrne and Jonathan Morris	6th	Peri	May 2012	6Y/AI
5	"Power Play"	Ken Bentley	Gary Hopkins	6th	Peri, Victoria	June 2012	6Y/AJ
6	"The First Sontarans"	Ken Bentley	Andrew Smith	6th	Peri, Sontarans, Rutans	July 2012	6Y/AK
7	"The Masters of Luxor"	Lisa Bowerman	Anthony Coburn, adapted by Nigel Robinson	1st	Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright	August 2012	H/C
8	"The Rosemariners"	Lisa Bowerman	Donald Tosh	2nd	Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot	September 2012	XX/A

Series 4 (2013)

A fourth series of stories was released in 2013, featuring one story with the First Doctor, two with the Second Doctor and one with the Third Doctor, featuring the first Third Doctor lost story ever released. The series was released September–December 2013, and the first three stories are connected because they were all originally by Brian Hayles.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Doctor	Featuring	Release Date	Prod. code
1	"The Dark Planet"	Ken Bentley	Brian Hayles, adapted by Matt Fitton	1st	Vicki, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright	September 2013	TBA
2	"The Queen of Time"	Lisa Bowerman	Brian Hayles, adapted by Catherine Harvey	2nd	Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot	October 2013	TBA
3	"Lords of the Red Planet"	Lisa Bowerman	Brian Hayles, adapted by John Dorney	2nd	Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot, Ice Warriors	November 2013	TBA
4	"The Mega"	Ken Bentley	Bill Strutton, adapted by Simon Guerrier	3rd	Jo Grant, Mike Yates	December 2013	TBA

References

1. Richardson, David (2009), "'Missing Season 23' news: The line-up of stories - revealed!", Doctor Who Magazine Issue 407, London: Panini Magazines.
2. Berry, Dan (2009), "Lost and Found!", Doctor Who Magazine Issue 415, London: Panini Magazines
3. "The 'missing' Season 27 gets underway at last", Doctor Who Magazine Issue 420, London: Panini Magazines, 2010.