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RELEASE SCHEDULE
Updated Regularly • Please Note, these are all UK release dates and are subject to change

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The following is a breakdown of all official releases over the coming months.

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• OCTOBER 2004

The Last
By Gary Hopkins
Big Finish Audio • Featuring 8th Dr, Charley & C'Rizz

Trapped on a dying world, the Doctor and Charley come face-to-face with those responsible for the war to end wars, while C'rizz tries to understand what has happened and learns the terrible truth.

Powerful forces are at work on Bortresoye that not even a nuclear holocaust can tame; natural forces that have excited the interest of Excelsior, the self-proclaimed saviour of her people.

With Charley immobilised and C'rizz left to battle against the elements with some of the victims of war, one final, desperate hope of escape presents itself to the travellers.

But who will be the last to leave the planet? Who will have to stay behind? And will the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz live long enough to find out?

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Dalek Empire III, Chapter 5 - The Warriors
By Nicholas Briggs
Big Finish Audio

The fight against the Daleks must succeed now. But while the Wardens are outnumbered and without a strategy, the Dalek Supreme is sensing victory.

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The Deadstone Memorial
By Trevor Baxendale
BBC Books • 8th Dr, Fitz & Trix

There is no such thing as a good night. You may think you can hide away in dreams. Safely tucked up in bed, nothing can touch you.

But, as every child knows, there are bad dreams. And that dreams are where the monsters are.

The Doctor knows all about monsters. And he knows that sometimes they can still be there when you wake up. And when the horror is more than just a memory, there is nowhere to hide.

Even here, today, tonight... in the most ordinary of homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike.

A young boy will suffer terrifying visions... and his family will encounter a deathless horror. Only the Doctor can help - but first, he must uncover the fearsome secret of the Deadstone Memorial.

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Short Trips: Monsters
Edited by Ian Farrington
Big Finish Books • Doctor Who Anthology

Whether made of flesh and bone, or created in the deep recesses of the mind, monsters are terrible things…

They hunt, they chase, they stalk.

They don't stop and they don't listen to your pleas…

They come after you in the night, when you least expect it; they invade your world when all seems safe.

Monsters features stories that tell tale of such beasts - some real, some imaginary; some alien, some homegrown.

Don't read it alone…

Featuring stories by Marc Platt, Steve Lyons, Jacqueline Rayner, Jim Mortimore, Joseph Lidster and many more!

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The Discontinuity Guide
By Paul Cornell, Keith Topping & Martin Day
Monkeybrain Publishing • Doctor Who Reference Book (Re-issue)

Independent publisher MonkeyBrain is re-releasing (through National Book Network Distributors) The Discontinuity Guide by Paul Cornell, Keith Topping and Martin Day. The re-release is simply a reprint of the earlier version published by Virgin, with no additional material, although it bears a new cover, and is due out in October.

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The Doctor Who Error Finder
By R.H. Langley
McFarland & Company Publishing • Doctor Who Reference Book

In Episode Four of Doctor Who's "Stones of Blood," 14 minutes and 22 seconds into the show, a crow lands on a large "rock," causing it to shake. In Episode One of "State of Decay," at 9:37, the hole in Aldric's pants mysteriously grows a patch. 32 minutes and 26 seconds into the first episode of "Attack of the Cybermen," one notices that the Cyberman in the left rear seems to be intoxicated.

This work is the largest existing collection of errors appearing in Doctor Who, from every episode of the original television series, the movies, and the spin-offs. Presenting over 4000 errors, plus about 1500 other items of interest to fans, it includes transmitted bloopers such as microphones or equipment visible in a shot, obvious strings, anachronisms, unsteady sets, and actors having trouble walking.

This book not only presents bloopers not previously recorded, but also corrects errors in other lists. T he work is divided by Doctor (from the first to the eighth); each story begins with the title, official BBC codes, alternate titles, writer and directors, media in which the episode is available, running times, highlights including characters and actors, and questions to keep in mind. The individual episodes in each story each include date of first transmission and a list of errors and trivia, each with an approximate time in the episode.

The work also includes errors from the untransmitted parts of the pilot episode and Shada; it concludes with "the forgotten doctor," and related programs such as K-9 and Company, Dimensions in Time, and The Curse of the Fatal Deata.

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• NOVEMBER 2004

Lost In Time: The Collection
BBC DVD • 3 Disc Set

Disc 1

(Episodes) - The Crusade:1, The Crusade:3 (commentary by Julian Glover, Gary Russell); The Daleks’ Master Plan:2 (commentary by Peter Purves, Kevin Stoney, Ray Cusick), The Daleks’ Master Plan:5 & 10; The Celestial Toymaker:4

(Audio Only) - The Crusade:2 & 4 (Special Features) - The Daleks’ Master Plan - Surviving Clips; The Smugglers - Surviving Clips and Location Film; The Tenth Planet - Surviving Clips; The Crusade - introductions to episodes 1, 3 and afterword; 8mm off-screen footage from the Hartnell Era - various clips

Disc 2

(Episodes) - The Underwater Menace:3; The Moonbase:2 & 4; The Faceless Ones:1 & 3; The Evil of the Daleks:2 (commentary by Deborah Watling, Gary Russell)

(Audio Only) - The Moonbase:1 & 3

(Special Features) - The Power of the Daleks - BBC1 trail & Surviving Clips; The Highlanders - Surviving Clips; The Underwater Menace - Surviving Clips; The Macra Terror - Surviving Clips; The Last Dalek - 8mm film of 'The Evil of the Daleks' in studio, with commentary; 8mm off-screen footage from the Troughton era - various clips

Disc 3

(Episodes) - The Abominable Snowmen: 2 (commentary by Deborah Watling, Gary Russell); The Enemy of the World:3; The Web of Fear:1 (commentary by Deborah Watling, Derrick Sherwin, Gary Russell); The Wheel in Space:3; The Wheel in Space:6 (commentary by Derrick Sherwin, Tristan deVere Cole); The Space Pirates:2

(Special Features) - The Abominable Snowmen - Surviving Clips & location film; The Web of Fear - Surviving Clips; Fury from the Deep - Surviving Clips, including a reconstruction of the weed creature's attack on the control room, 8mm colour film shot in the studio and raw film trims from the battle in episode 6; The Wheel in Space - Surviving Clips; The Space Pirates - film inserts; The Missing Years - updated version of the 1998 BBC Video documentary

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Cyberman Tin • Tenth Planet & The Invasion
BBC Audio • Soundtracks

In a similar line to last years Dalek Tin, this set features the audio recordings of both The Tenth Planet, William Hartnell's final adventure, and also the Patrick Troughton tale, The Invasion, neither of which sadly, exist in their entirity in the BBC video archives. Also present, is the CD release of The Origins of the
Cybermen
, narrated by David Banks (better known as The Cyberleader) which was originally release back in 1989.

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Caerdroia
By Lloyd Rose
Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 8th Dr, Charley & C'Rizz

Self-exiled to a new universe, separated from his TARDIS, opposed and manipulated by the Divergence and their agent the Kro'ka, the Doctor has been struggling to work out the nature of the cosmic game in which he's an unwilling pawn. Now, at last, he has a chance to find the answer ­ and regain the TARDIS!

Threatened and desperate, the Kro'ka abandons his behind-the-scenes machinations to confront the Doctor directly. But will both of them lose their way in the maze of the strange world in which they find themselves? A world in which a clock may have a cuckoo but no hands, a labyrinth imprisoning a paradox, and a Garden of Curiosities reveals something the Doctor has never seen before.

As the Doctor faces these challenges, Charley and C'rizz provide valuable help. But with the TARDIS itself at stake, the Doctor reaches deep inside himself to find some surprising new allies.

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Dalek Empire III - Chapter 6; The Future
By Nicholas Briggs
Big Finish Audio

'Maybe this chapter of history will be a bad one. Another one in which the Daleks win. But maybe it won't be.' It would seem that not even Saloran Hardew knows what the future will hold.

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Doctor Who Unbound: A Storm of Angels
By Marc Platt
Big Finish Audio

What if...
the Doctor really had changed History,
even just the tiniest bit?

1480: Leonardo da Vinci visits the stars.
1508: Vasco da Gama sets foot on Mars.
1585: Francis Drake begins charting the Asteroid Belt.
1588: Earth is destroyed by a storm of angels.

The Doctor was really enjoying his freedom. But now there’s a Temporal Agent on his tail. Gloriana and the President of Gallifrey are not amused. And Susan’s none too well either.

Possibilities, like the Doctor, have a habit of running away with themselves. But who cares, when the jewels are so dazzling…

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The Indestructible Man
By Simon Messingham
BBC Book • Featuring the 2nd Dr, Jamie & Zoe

The Myloki, mysterious aliens from beyond Time and Space.

Their Target: Earth.
The human defenders of PRISM are enmeshed in a doomed interstellar war against an unknowable invader armed with the power to possess, duplicate and destroy from within.

Only one man stands in their way. A man destiny has made indestructible. Against all the odds the legendary Indestructible Man saves the Earth but victory comes at the highest price. The world economy collapses, governments crumble and PRISM itself is torn apart by a best-selling expose.

AD2096; PRISM has gone underground, becoming the clandestine SILOET, headed by new commander Hal Bishop.

Bishop receives an urgent summon to his headquarters. An infiltrator has been unmasked and captured in the heart of SILOET itself. Fatally wounded, the infiltrator makes a miraculous recovery. It appears he is indestructible.

The implications are terrifying.

The Myloki may just have returned. And who is left to stop them?

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Short Trips: 2040
Edited by John Binns
Big Finish Books • Doctor Who Anthology

The future is here - and it's not what we expected…

To the governments and corporations of the world in 2040, expansion is an article of faith The human race must expand outwards, exploring new territories, new technologies, new ways of thinking.

Only problem is, the human race doesn't necessarily share that faith. And with so much at stake, their leaders may have to call in some new partners to make sure we see the light…

Featuring stories by Marc Platt, Lance Parkin, Kate Orman, Jacqueline Rayner, Rebecca Levene, Tara Samms, and many more.

2040 is compiled and edited by John Binns, who edited the previous Short Trips collections Life Science, Steel Skies, and A Universe of Terrors.

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Doctor Who: The Scripts - Volume Four
Big Finish Books • Audio Scripts

Presented in this book are the original scripts for four of Big Finish's most popular stories ­ three adventures which made up a loose trilogy of returning villain stories, and Big Finish's 2003 Doctor Who anniversary special, Zagreus.

Peter Davison starred in Omega, penned by Dead Ringers writer Nev Fountain. The story saw the return of the misguided Time Lord played by Ian Collier.

Lance Parkin's Davros matched Colin Baker's Doctor against Terry Molloy's incarnation of the Daleks creator.

From the Seventh Doctor run is Master, written by Joseph Lidster, and starring Sylvester McCoy and Geoffrey Beevers.

Rounding this collection off is Zagreus, Big Finish's contribution to Doctor Who's 40th anniversary. The play not only saw a pivotal chapter in the on-going Eighth Doctor story arc, it also brought together many of Big Finish's regular Doctor Who actors ­ Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and many, many
more.

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• DECEMBER 2004

The Next Life
By Alan Barnes
Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 8th Dr, Charley & C'Rizz

"All things must die."

Washed up on the sandy shores of a paradise island, a wild-eyed shipwreck survivor is rescued by the wife of Daqar Keep, the richest man in the galaxy.

Her name's Perfection. He's the Doctor. Together, they face a journey into the dark heart of this mysterious island, to discover the deepest secrets of this timeless cosmos. That's if the giant crabs, killer crocodiles and murderous natives don't get them first.

Meanwhile, fellow travellers Charley and C'rizz have their own ordeal to endure, in the grip of the Doctor's most dangerous rival. And in a universe that's facing extinction, even the best of friends may soon become enemies...

This life is almost over. And not everyone will make it to the next.

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Her Final Flight
By Julian Shortman
Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 7th Doctor
EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY! • Single CD

When the Doctor lands on Refiloe, he's not impressed.

In fact, he doesn't intend to stay for more than just a few minutes. But someone has decided that the TARDIS has made her final flight. Someone whose future depends on the Doctor's death.

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UNIT - Episode One; Time Heals
By Iain McLaughlin & Claire Bartlett
Big Finish Audio • UNIT Series

Short Trips 11: A Christmas Treasury
Edited by Paul Cornell
Big Finish Books • Doctor Who Anthology

• Looking further ahead ....

January 2005

Horror of Fang Rock • BBC DVD • Featuring the 4th Dr & Leela
The Juggernauts By Scott Alan Woodard • Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 6th Dr & Mel
UNIT - Episode Two; Snake Head By Jonathan Clements • Big Finish Audio • UNIT Series
The Pescatons • BBC Audio Collection • Soundtrack
Match of the Day By Chris Boucher • BBC Books • Featuring the 4th Dr & Leela
So You Think You Know Dr. Who? By Clive Gifford • Doctor Who Reference Book

February 2005

The Game By Darin Henry • Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 5th Dr
UNIT - Episode Three; The Longest Night By Joseph Lidster • Big Finish Audio • UNIT Series
The Underwater Menace • BBC Audio Collection • Soundtrack
To the Slaughter By Stephen Cole • BBC Books • Featuring the 8th Dr, Fitz & Trix

March 2005

The Mind Robber • BBC DVD • Featuring the 2nd Dr, Jamie & Zoe
Dreamtime By Simon A. Forward • Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 7th Dr, Ace & Hex
UNIT - Episode Four; The Wasting By Iain McLaughlin & Claire Bartlett • Big Finish Audio • UNIT Series
The Death Players • BBC Books • Featuring the 9th Dr & Rose (may be postponed/moved)

April 2005

Three's A Crowd By Colin Brake • Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 5th Dr
Masques By Gary Russell • Big Finish Audio • Gallifrey Series, 2.01
The Clockwise Man • BBC Books • Featuring the 9th Dr & Rose (may be postponed/moved)

May 2005

The Claws of Axos • BBC DVD • Featuring the 3rd Dr, Jo & UNIT
Catch-1782 By Alison Lawson • Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 6th Dr
Spirit By Stewart Sheargold • Big Finish Audio • Gallifrey Series, 2.02
The Ice Warriors • BBC Audio Collection • Soundtrack
Monsters Inside • BBC Books • Featuring the 9th Dr & Rose (may be postponed/moved)

June 2005

Dead Man's Hand By John Ostrander • Big Finish Audio • Featuring the 7th Dr, Ace & Hex
Pandora By Justin Richards • Big Finish Audio • Gallifrey Series, 2.03
The Gallifrey Chronicles By Lance Parkin • BBC Books • Featuring the 8th Dr, Fitz & Trix

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