Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Adventures

The Sixth Doctor Adventures is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the television series Doctor Who. It sees the return of Colin Baker reprising his role as the Sixth Doctor.

The Sixth Doctor Adventures
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Featuring	Sixth Doctor
Executive producer(s)	Jason Haigh-Ellery Nicholas Briggs
Release date	January 2002 (2002-01) (retroactively) August 2020 (2020-08) (actual)

History

In 1999, beginning with the story The Sirens of Time, Big Finish Productions began producing a series of audio adventures featuring the Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor and Seventh Doctor. For 22 years these stories continued collectively known as Big Finish's Main Range.^[1][2] In May 2020, Big Finish announced the main range would conclude in March 2021 and subsequently replaced with regular releases of each Doctor's adventures continuing in their own respective ranges.^[3][4] Several previously released special titles were retroactively reallocated into these new ranges by Big Finish.

Cast and characters

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This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season.

•   A green cell indicates the actor is a main cast member.
•   A red cell indicates the actor is a recurring cast member.
•   A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest or special guest cast member.

Actor	Character	Appearances
		Sp.	The Last Adventure	6D & Peri	The Eleven	Water Worlds	Purity Undreamed	Purity Unleashed	Purity Unbound	TQD	TTOATL	2025A	2025B
Colin Baker	The Doctor	✓
Nicola Bryant	Peri Brown	✓	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear					✓		TBA
India Fisher	Charley Pollard	✓	✓	Does not appear								TBA
Lisa Greenwood	Flip Jackson	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear						✓	Does not appear	TBA
Miranda Raison	Constance Clarke	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear				✓	Does not appear	TBA
Bonnie Langford	Melanie Bush	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear		✓						TBA
Michael Jayston	The Valeyard	✓		Does not appear
Mark Bonnar	The Eleven	Does not appear			✓	Does not appear
Lucy Gaskell	Miskavel	Does not appear			✓	Does not appear
Ruth Madeley	Hebe Harrison	Does not appear				✓		✓	✓	Does not appear		TBA
Cherylee Houston	Elise	Does not appear				✓	✓	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear
Imogen Stubbs	Patricia McBride / Purity	Does not appear					✓	✓		Does not appear
Toby Hadoke	Ron	Does not appear					✓	✓		Does not appear

Notable Guests

• Toby Longworth as Beep the Meep & Josiah W. Dogbolter
• Robert Jezek as Frobisher
• Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe
• Yee Jee Tso as Doctor Reece Goddard
• Stewart Lee as Ryan Carey
• Richard Herring as Taylor Renchard
• Nicholas Briggs as the Cybermen and the Krotons
• Philip Madoc as Rag Cobden
• Lynda Bellingham as The Inquisitor
• Chris Finney as Keith Potter
• Trevor Baxter as Professor George Litefoot
• Christopher Benjamin as Henry Gordon Jago
• Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor
• Rove McManus as Jonah Strong
• Martin O'Neill as Arthur Lee
• David Banks as Cyber Leader
• Terry Molloy as Davros

Episodes

Specials

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"The Ratings War"[5]	Gary Russell	Steve Lyons	Sixth Doctor, Beep the Meep	January 2002 (2002-01)
2	"The Maltese Penguin"[6]	Gary Russell	Robert Shearman	Sixth Doctor, Frobisher	June 2002 (2002-06)
3	"Real Time"[7]	Gary Russell	Gary Russell	Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Cybermen	December 2002 (2002-12)
4	"Her Final Flight"[8]	Gary Russell	Julian Shortman	Sixth Doctor, Peri	December 2004 (2004-12)
5	"Cryptobiosis"[9]	Gary Russell	Elliot Thorpe	Sixth Doctor, Peri	December 2006 (2006-12)
6	"Return of the Krotons"[10]	Nicholas Briggs	Nicholas Briggs	Sixth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Krotons	December 2008 (2008-12)
7	"Trial of the Valeyard"[11]	Barnaby Edwards	Alan Barnes and Mike Maddox	Sixth Doctor, The Inquisitor, the Valeyard	December 2013 (2013-12)

The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (2015)

Main article: The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"The End of the Line"[12]	Nicholas Briggs	Simon Barnard and Paul Morris	Sixth Doctor, Constance Clarke, the Master, the Valeyard	August 2015 (2015-08)
2	"The Red House"[12]		Alan Barnes	Sixth Doctor, Charley Pollard, the Valeyard
3	"Stage Fright"[12]		Matt Fitton	Sixth Doctor, Flip, Jago & Litefoot, the Valeyard
4	"The Brink of Death"[12]		Nicholas Briggs	Sixth Doctor, Mel Bush, the Valeyard, Seventh Doctor

The Sixth Doctor and Peri (2020)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"The Headless Ones"[13]	Scott Handcock	James Parsons & Andrew Stirling-Brown	Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown	August 2020 (2020-08)
2	"Like"[13]		Jacqueline Rayner
3	"The Vanity Trap"[13]		Stuart Manning
4	"Conflict Theory"[13]		Nev Fountain

The Eleven (2021)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"One for All"[14]	Ken Bentley	Lizzie Hopley	Sixth Doctor, Constance, the Eleven	September 2021 (2021-09)
2	"The Murder of Oliver Akkron"[14]		Nigel Fairs
3	"Elevation"[14]		Chris Chapman

Water Worlds (2022)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"The Rotting Deep"[15]	Helen Goldwyn	Jacqueline Rayner	Sixth Doctor, Melanie Bush, Hebe Harrison	May 2022 (2022-05)
2	"The Tides of the Moon"[15]		Joshua Pruett
3	"Maelstrom"[15]		Jonathan Morris
–	"Interlude: The Dream Nexus"[16]	Read by : Toby Hadoke	Adam Christopher	Sixth Doctor, Melanie Bush, Hebe Harrison	May 2022 (2022-05)

Purity Undreamed (2022)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"The Mindless Ones"[17]	Helen Goldwyn	Paul Magrs	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Hebe, Elise, Ron, Patricia	August 2022 (2022-08)
2	"Reverse Engineering"[17]		Jonathan Morris	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Hebe, Patricia
3	"Chronomancer"[17]		Robert Valentine	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Hebe, Elise, Ron, Patricia / Purity

Purity Unleashed (2023)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Broadway Belongs to Me!"	Helen Goldwyn	Matthew Sweet	Sixth Doctor, Mel	May 2023 (2023-05)
2	"Purification"		Chris Chapman	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Purity
3	"Time-Burst"		Ian Potter	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Purity, Hebe, Ron
–	"Interlude: The Doctor and His Amazing Technicolour Nightmare Coat"	Read by : Rosie Baker	Gary Russell	Sixth Doctor, Mel	May 2023 (2023-05)

Purity Unbound (2023)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Girl in a Bubble"	Helen Goldwyn	Jacqueline Rayner	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Hebe, Purity	August 2023 (2023-08)
2	"The Corruptions"		Mark Wright
3	"The Wrong Side of History"		Robert Valentine

The Quin Dilemma (2024)

On 30 June 2023, two boxsets were scheduled for 2024.^[18] The first is scheduled for March 2024.^[19] Big Finish's Senior Producer John Ainsworth teased that it would follow "the Sixth Doctor celebrates his 40th anniversary by encountering some old acquaintances".^[18]

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"The Exaltation"	Samuel Clemens	Jacqueline Rayner	Sixth Doctor, Mel	March 2024 (2024-03)
2	"Escape from Holy Island"		Chris Chapman	Sixth Doctor, Peri, HG Wells
3	"Sibling Rivalry"		Robert Valentine	Sixth Doctor, Constance, Flip, Sontarans
4	"Children of the Revolution"		Robert Valentine	Sixth Doctor, Constance, Flip, Sontarans
5	"The Thousand Year Thaw"		Chris Chapman	Sixth Doctor, Peri
6	"The Firstborn"		Jacqueline Rayner	Sixth Doctor
–	"Interlude: The Ultimate Poe"	Read by : David Monteath	Andrew Collins	Sixth Doctor, Mel, Edgar Allan Poe	April 2024 (2024-04)

The Trials of a Time Lord (2024)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Part One"	Jonathan S Powell	Rochana Patel	Sixth Doctor, Peri, Mel, Cyber Leader, Davros	August 2024 (2024-08)[20]
2	"Part Two"		Rochana Patel
3	"Part Three"		Katharine Armitage
4	"Part Four"		Katharine Armitage
5	"Part Five"		Stewart Pringle
6	"Part Six"		Stewart Pringle

2025A (Title TBA)

On 23 May 2024, Big Finish announced their slate of boxsets for 2025. Senior Producer John Ainsworth said “The Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors will feature in two box sets each, as in previous years. I shan't give too much away but expect companions old and new, some classic series monsters that haven't featured on audio for a decade, and a name that's been hiding in plain sight (and it's time to go there...).”^[21] The first boxset is scheduled for March 2025^[22]

2025B (Title TBA)

The second boxset is scheduled for August 2025^[23]

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