New Companion Chronicles
(
24/10/2008)
The twelfth and final release of the third season of
Big Finish’s
Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles range can now be announced. Strictly speaking, this special release doesn’t actually feature any of the Doctor’s companions.
The Mahogany Murderers by Andy Lane, reunites Trevor Baxter as Professor Litefoot and Christopher Benjamin as Henry Gordon Jago (both pictured here) - two very popular characters last seen in the 1977 TV story
The Talons of Weng-Chiang. ‘This is a reunion that fans of the series have been demanding for literally years,’ says series producer, David Richardson. ‘We’re delighted to finally make this a reality.’
Recording took place in September, and both actors were thrilled by Lane's script, which stays true to the wit and imagination of Robert Holmes and finds the amateur sleuths on the trail of another mystery in Victorian London. ‘It was very good script indeed,’ said Christopher Benjamin after the recording. ‘Andy Lane obviously knew the characters.’
‘It’s as though one has never been away,’ added Trevor Baxter. ‘From the moment we started reading it, I just felt that we were back.’
Also just added to the line-up of Season 3 of
The Companion Chronicles is
The Transit of Venus by Jacqueline Rayner. Scheduled for release in the first week of January 2009, the story features William Russell who returns as Ian Chesterton, a role he last played on screen in 1965. The story features the original TARDIS crew as they meet legendary explorer Captain James Cook...
The Companion Chronicles will also be crossing over in to the monthly
Doctor Who releases: Scheduled to begin in Spring 2009 is
The Three Companions, a special story told in ten-minute episodes. The script has been written by Marc Platt, and the twelve parts will be available as an extra feature on consecutive full-cast plays in the
Doctor Who range (ultimately amounting to a two-hour tale). Platt's script will bring together three different eras of the show, and it's confirmed that one of the companions will be Anneke Wills, reprising her role as Polly.