Adding to the rich collection of Doctor Who stories, Big Finish have been creating monthly full-cast audio adventures – starring one of the original actors to play the Doctor – since 1999 (helping fill the hiatus between the classic series and the new series.) These stories are imaginative and well crafted – with new enemies and threats as well as the well known existing foes such as Cybermen and Daleks.
The Doctor Who – Monthly Adventures series are full-cast audiobook dramas, featuring the 5th, 6th and 7th Doctors. The 8th Doctor also did a number of the monthly adventures (this collection is sometimes referred to as his first “season”) before having his own series (Eighth Doctor Adventures, Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition etc.)
The stories are cleverly woven into the existing timelines for these Doctors – with original companions returning, as well as some new companions fitting in between televised adventures.
I found first the year or so had a few minor sound balance (and episode length) issues, but the stories were still top notch, and subsequent seasons showed the team maturing into a pattern of excellent dramas.
Episodes are available to purchase for MP3 download on the Big Finish website, and if you want to try it out first the following episodes are available for free:
One-Off Stories you can download (registration required)
These are smaller stories than the full main range, but worth a listen (shorter story, smaller cast, less soundscaping)
Last of the Titans
The Ratings War
Living Legend
No Place Like Home
Available to stream from Big Finish’s Soundcloud Page
Cuddlesome
Urgent Calls
The Mutant Phase
The Veiled Leopard
Mission of the Viryans
Additionally, the first 50 episodes listed here are available on Spotify.
Episode List
- 001 – The Sirens of Time – 5th, 6th, 7th Doctors
- 002 – Phantasmagoria – 5th
- 003 – Whispers of Terror – 6th
- 004 – The Land of the Dead – 5th
- 005 – The Fearmonger – 7th
- 006 – The Marion Conspiracy – 6th
- 007 – The Genocide Machine – 7th
- 008 – Red Dawn -5th
- 009 – The Spectre of Lanyon Moor – 6th
- 010 – Winter For The Adept – 5th
- 011 – The Apocalypse Element – 6th
- 012 – The Fires of Vulcan – 7th
- 013 – The Shadow of the Scourge – 7th
- 014 – The Holy Terror – 6th
- 015 – The Mutant Phase – 5th (free stream)
- 015a – The Last of the Titans – 7th (free download)
- 015b – Shada – 8th (Remake of incomplete 4th Doctor TV story)
- 016 – Storm Warning – 8th
- 017 – Sword of Orion – 8th
- 018 – The Stones of Venice – 8th
- 019 – Minuet In Hell – 8th
- 020 – Loups-Garoux – 5th
- 021 – Dust Breeding – 7th
- 022 – Bloodtide – 6th
- 023 – Project Twilight – 6th
- 024 – The Eye of the Scorpion – 5th
- 025 – Colditz – 7th
- 026 – Primeval – 5th
- 027 – The One Doctor – 6th
- 027a – The Ratings War – 6th (free download)
- 028 – Invaders From Mars – 8th
- 029 – The Chimes of Midnight – 8th
- 029a – Living Legend – 8th (free download)
- 030 – Seasons of Fear – 8th
- 031 – Embrace the Darkness – 8th
- 032 – The Time of the Daleks – 8th
- 033 – Neverland – 8th
- 033a – The Maltese Penguin – 6th
- 034 – Spare Parts – 5th
- 035 – …Ish – 6th
- 036 – The Rapture – 7th
- 037 – The Sandman – 6th
- 038 – The Church and the Crown – 5th
- 038a – No Place Like Home – 5th (free download)
- 038b – Real Time – 6th
- 039 – Bang Bang A Boom – 7th
- 040 – Jubilee – 6th
- 041 – Nekromanteia – 5th
- 042 – The Dark Flame – 7th
- 043 – Doctor Who and the Pirates – 6th
- 044 – Creatures of Beauty – 5th
- 045 – Project Lazarus – 6th and 7th
- 046 – Flip Flop – 7th
- 047 – Omega – 5th
- 048 – Davros – 6th
- 049 – Master – 7th
- 050a – Zagreus – Wonderland – 8th, feat. 5th,6th, 7th
- 050b – Zagreus – Heartland – 8th, feat. 5th,6th, 7th
- 050c – Zagreus – Wasteland – 8th, feat. 5th,6th, 7th
- 050d – Living Legend – 8th
- 051 – The Wormery – 6th
- 052 – Scherzo – 8th
- 053 – The Creed of the Kromon – 8th
- 054 – The Natural History of Fear – 8th
- 055 – The Twilight Kingdom – 8th
- 056 – The Axis of Insanity – 5th
- 057 – Arrangements for War – 6th
- 058 – The Harvest – 7th
- 059 – The Roof of the World – 5th
- 060 – Medicinal Purposes – 6th
- 061 – Faith Stealers – 8th
- 062 – The Last – 8th
- 063 – Caerdroia – 8th
- 064 – The Next Life – 8th
- 064a – Her Final Flight – 6th
- 065 – The Juggernauts – 6th
- 066 – The Game – 5th
- 067 – Dreamtime – 7th
- 068 – Catch-1782 – 6th
- 069 – Threes A Crowd – 5th
- 070 – Unregenerate – 7th
- 071 – The Council of Nicaea – 5th
- 072 – Terror Firma – 8th
- 073 – Thicker Than Water – 6th
- 074 – Live 34 – 7th
- 075 – Scaredy Cat – 8th
- 076 – Singularity – 5th
- 077 – Other Lives – 8th
- 077a – Cryptobiosis – 6th
- 078 – Pier Pressure – 6th
- 079 – Night Thoughts – 7th
- 080 – Time Works – 8th
- 080a – The Veiled Leopard – companions of 5th and 7th (free stream)
- 081 – The Kingmaker – 5th
- 082 – The Settling – 7th
- 083 – Something Inside – 8th
- 084 – The Nowhere Place – 6th
- 085 – Red – 7th
- 086 – The Reaping – 6th
- 087 – The Gathering – 5th
- 088 – Memory Lane – 8th
- 089 – No Mans Land – 7th
- 090a – The Year of the Pig – 6th
- 090b – Return of the Daleks – 7th
- 091 – Circular Time – 5th
- 092 – Nocturn – 7th
- 093 – Renaissance of the Daleks – 5th
- 094a – I.D. – 6th
- 094b – Urgent Calls – 6th (free stream)
- 095 – Urban Myths – 5th
- 096 – Valhalla – 7th
- 097 – The Wishing Beast – 6th
- 097a – The Vanity Box – 6th
- 098 – Frozen Time – 7th
- 099 – Son Of The Dragon – 5th
- 100 – Four Stories With Extras – 6th
- 100a – 100 BC – 6th
- 100b – My Own Private Wolfgang – 6th
- 100c – Bedtime Story – 6th
- 100d – The 100 Days Of The Doctor – 6th
- 101 – Absolution – 8th
- 102a – The Mind’s Eye – 5th
- 102b – Mission of the Viyrans – 5th (free stream)
- 103 – The Girl Who Never Was – 8th
- 104 – The Bride of Peladon – 5th
- 105 – The Condemned – 6th
- 106 – The Dark Husband – 7th
- 107 – The Haunting of Thomas Brewster – 5th
- 108 – Assassin In The Limelight – 6th
- 109 – The Death Collector – 7th
- 110 – The Boy That Time Forgot – 5th
- 111 – The Doomwood Curse – 6th
- 112 – Kingdom of Silver – 7th
- 113 – Time Reef – 5th
- 114 – Brotherhood of the Daleks – 6th
- 115 – Forty-Five – 7th
- 116 – The Raincloud Man – 6th
- 116A – Return of the Krotons – 6th
- 117 – Key 2 Time – The Judgement of Isskar – 5th
- 118 – Key 2 Time – The Destroyer of Delights – 5th
- 119 – Key 2 Time – The Chaos Pool – 5th
- 120 – The Magic Mousetrap – 7th
- 121 – Enemy of the Daleks – 7th
- 122 – The Angel of Scutari – 7th
- 123 – The Company of Friends – 8th
- 124 – Patient Zero – 6th
- 125 – Paper Cuts – 6th
- 126 – Blue Forgotten Planet – 6th
- 127 – Castle of Fear – 5th
- 128 – Eternal Summer – 5th
- 129 – Plague of the Daleks – 5th
- 130 – Thousand Tiny Wings – 7th
- 131 – Survival of the Fittest – 7th (+ 8th)
- 132 – The Architects of History – 7th
- 133 – City of Spires – 6th
- 134 – The Wreck Of The Titan – 6th
- 135 – Legend of the Cybermen – 6th
- 136 – Cobwebs – 5th
- 137 – The Whispering Forest – 5th
- 138 – Cradle of the Snake – 5th
- 139 – Project Destiny – 7th
- 140 – A Death in the Family – 7th
- 141 – Lurkers At Sunlights Edge – 7th
- 142 – The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories – 5th
- 143 – The Crimes of Thomas Brewster – 6th
- 144 – The Feast of Axos – 6th
- 145 – Industrial Evolution – 6th
- 146 – Heroes of Sontar – 5th
- 147 – Kiss of Death – 5th
- 148 – Rat Trap – 5th
- 149 – Robophobia – 7th
- 150 – Recorded Time and Other Stories – 6th
- 151 – The Doomsday Quatrain – 7th
- 152 – House Of Blue Fire – 7th
- 153 – The Silver Turk – 8th
- 154 – The Witch from the Well – 8th
- 155 – Army of Death – 8th
- 155a – The Five Companions – 5th
- 156 – The Curse of Davros – 6th
- 157 – The Fourth Wall – 6th
- 158 – Wirrn Isle – 6th
- 159 – The Emerald Tiger – 5th
- 160 – The Jupiter Conjunction – 5th
- 161 – The Butcher of Brisbane – 5th
- 162 – Protect and Survive – 7th
- 163 – Black and White – 7th
- 164 – Gods and Monsters – 7th
- 165 – The Burning Prince – 5th
- 166 – The Acheron Pulse – 6th
- 167 – The Shadow Heart – 7th
- 168 – 1001 Nights – 5th
- 169 – The Wrong Doctors – 6th
- 170 – Spaceport Fear – 6th
- 171 – The Seeds of War – 6th
- 172 – Eldrad Must Die! – 5th
- 173 – The Lady of Mercia – 5th
- 174 – Prisoners of Fate – 5th
- 175 – Persuasion – 7th
- 176 – Starlight Robbery – 7th
- 177 – Daleks Among Us – 7th
- 178 – 1963 – Fanfare For the Common Men – 5th
- 179 – 1963 – The Space Race – 6th
- 180 – 1963 – The Assassination Games – 7th
- 181 – Afterlife – 7th
- 181a – Night of the Stormcrow – 4th
- 182 – Antidote To Oblivion – 6th
- 183 – The Brood Of Erys – 6th
- 184 – Scavanger – 6th
- 185 – Moonflesh – 5th
- 186 – Tomb Ship – 5th
- 187 – Masquerade – 5th
- 188 – Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories – 6th
- 189 – Revenge of the Swarm – 7th
- 190 – Mask of Tragedy – 7th
- 191 – Signs and Wonders – 7th
- 192 – The Widow’s Assassin – 6th
- 193 – Masters Of Earth – 6th
- 194 – The Rani Elite – 6th
- 194a – Trial of the Valeyard – 6th
- 195 – Mistfall – 5th
- 196 – Equilibrium – 5th
- 197 – The Entropy Plague – 5th
- 198 – The Defectors – 7th
- 199 – Last of the Cybermen – 6th
- 200 – The Secret History – 5th
- 201 – We Are the Daleks – 7th
- 202 – The Warehouse – 7th
- 203 – Terror of the Sontarans – 7th
- 204 – Criss-Cross – 6th
- 205 – Planet of the Rani – 6th
- 206 – Shield of the Jotunn – 6th
- 207 – You Are the Doctor – 7th
- 207a – Come Die With Me – 7th
- 207b – The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel – 7th
- 207c – Dead to the World – 7th
- 208 – The Waters of Amsterdam – 5th
- 209 – Aquitaine – 5th
- 210a – The Peterloo Massacre – 5th
- 210b – The Horror at Bletchington Station – Bonus Short Story (1st)
- 211 – And You Will Obey Me – 5th
- 212 – Vampire of the Mind – 6th
- 213 – The Two Masters – 7th
- 214 – A Life of Crime – 7th
- 215 – Fiesta of the Damned – 7th
- 216 – Maker of Demons – 7th
- 217a – The Memory Bank – 5th
- 217b – The Last Fairy Tales – 5th
- 217c – Repeat Offender – 5th
- 217d – The Becoming – 5th
- 218 – Order of the Daleks – 6th
- 219 – Absolute Power – 6th
- 220 – Quicksilver – 6th
- 221 – The Star Men – 5th
- 222 – The Contingency Club – 5th
- 223 – Zaltys – 5th
- 224 – Alien Heart – Dalek Soul – 5th
- 225 – Vortex Ice – Cortex Fire – 6th
- 226 – Shadow Planet, World Apart – 7th
- 227 – The High Price of Parking – 7th
- 228 – The Blood Furnace – 7th
- 229 – The Silurian Candidate – 7th
- 230 – Time In Office – 5th
- 231 – The Behemoth – 6th
- 232 – The Middle – 6th
- 233 – Static – 6th
- 234 – Kingdom of Lies – 5th
- 235 – Ghost Walk – 5th
- 236 – Serpent in the Silver Mask – 5th
- 237 – The Helliax Rift – 5th
- 238 – The Lure of the Nomad – 6th
- 239 – Iron Bright – 6th
- 240 – Hour of the Cyberman – 6th
- 241 – Red Planets -7th
- 242 – The Dispossessed – 7th
- 243 – The Quantum Possibility Engine – 7th
- 244 – Warlock’s Cross – 7th
- 245 – Muse of Fire – 7th
- 246 – The Hunting Ground – 6th
- 247 – Devil in the Mist – 5th
- 248a – Black Thursday – 5th
- 248b – Power Game – 5th
- 249 – The Kamelion Empire – 5th
- 250 – The Monsters of Gokroth – 7th
- 251 – The Moons of Vulpana – 7th
- 252 – An Alien Werewolf in London – 7th
- 253 – Memories of a Tyrant – 6th
- 254 – Emissary of the Daleks – 6th
- 255 – Harry Houdini’s War – 6th
- 256 – Tartarus – 5th
- 257a – Interstitial – 5th
- 257b – Feast of Fear – 5th
- 258a – Warzone – 5th
- 258b – Conversion – 5th
- 259a – Blood on Santa’s Claw – 6th
- 259b – The Baby Awakes – 6th
- 259c – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – 6th
- 259d – Brightly Shone the Moon That Night – 6th
- 260 – Dark Universe – 7th
- 261 – The Psychic Circus – 7th
- 262 – Subterfuge – 7th + Churchill
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