Big Finish Productions’ audio series Doctor Who – The Lost Stories, which adapts adventures that were pitched to the production office during the classic era of the TV show but never produced, began in November 2009 with the first of eight stories starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant as his companion Peri. 

Together, these eight releases formed a new season of adventures for the Doctor and Peri, set after 1985’s Season 22. They incorporated stories that had been pitched for Season 22 alongside ones that had been planned for the following season but shelved when the series went on hiatus. 

Across their eight trips in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Peri visit everywhere from Elizabethan London to a whaling ship in deep space, though their adventures begin in Blackpool, 1986. Here they face the Doctor’s old enemy the Toymaker (david bailie). Other returning aliens across the series include Sil (Nabil Shaban), the Ice Warriors, and the Tractators. 

These eight popular audio adventures are now due to be re-released in a repackaged digital edition. 

Producer David Richardson said: “It’s astonishing to think that it’s heading for almost 20 years since I proposed The Lost Stories to Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs. Until that point, Big Finish had been focused on devising new adventures in the Whoniverse. I felt that there was room to document gaps in the TV series too, to track down stories that never made it to the screen and bring them to audio with their intended Doctors. 

 “I loved the weeks of research that producing these Lost Stories involved – identifying unmade tales, locating the storylines or scripts, and tracking down the writers and rights holders. So many treasured memories, like spending the day with the delightful family of the late Graham Williams, visiting Barbara Clegg at home and negotiating the rights to Point of Entry over a cup of tea, liaising with PJ Hammond and Ingrid Pitt…  

“I’m really proud of the series, because I think we discovered some true gems. Paradise 5 is a cracking story and remains a favourite. Point of Entry is atmospheric and exciting and dripping in period detail. And Leviathan, which turned up in a surprise email from Paul Finch, would have been a classic of its era had it made it to the screen. 

“Best of all, The Lost Stories are still going to this day. I’m no longer producing them, but what a treat it is to sit back and enjoy them as a listener!”

Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: The Collected Sixth Doctor 1 is now available to pre-order exclusively from the Big Finish website, as a digital download to own, for just £44.99. 

The eight stories in this collection, each of which runs for approximately two hours, are: 

The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams

The TARDIS has been drawn to Blackpool in the year 1985, where the Doctor intends to investigate a dangerous space/time vortex... while enjoying some local attractions along the way. But an old enemy is watching from his base deep within the amusement park, a timeless being who craves revenge. 

The Celestial Toymaker has returned. The game is on. And, should he lose, the Doctor will pay the ultimate forfeit...

Mission to Magnus by Philip Martin 

The Doctor and Peri face enemies at every turn on the planet Magnus. There's the Time Lord bully Anzor, who made the Doctor's life hell during his time at the Academy. There's also Rana Zandusia, the matriarchal ruler of the planet, who seeks to prise the secret of time travel from these alien visitors. 

Also on Magnus is the slug-like Sil, still bitter from his defeat on the planet Varos and seeking to make his fortune from the most potentially destructive ends. And, deep within the planet, there is something else. Another old enemy of the Doctor’s. And the future is looking decidedly colder... 

Leviathan by Brian Finch and Paul Finch

No one lives to old age in the village. When their Time is come, they are taken and never seen again. That is The Way. And, should anyone try to break with the established order of things, then the fury of Herne the Hunter is unleashed... 

When the TARDIS materializes near a castle in this medieval society, the Doctor and Peri befriend Gurth, a terrified youth who is attempting to flee his fate. And Herne is closing in... 

Why does the local baron impose the culling? What is the secret of Zeron? And who are the Sentinels of the New Dawn? The answers lie within a cave...

The Hollows of Time by Christopher H Bidmead 

The Doctor and Peri have been on holiday, visiting old friend Reverend Foxwell in the sleepy English village of Hollowdean. But why are their memories so hazy? 

Piecing together events they recall a mysterious chauffeur, who is not what he seems, and Foxwell's experiments that could alter the nature of reality. Huge sand creatures have been sighted on the dunes, and many of the locals are devoted to a leader known as ‘Professor Stream’. 

But who is Stream? And what lies within the Hollows of Time? 

The Doctor will discover that not every question has a definitive answer... 

Paradise 5 by PJ Hammond and Andy Lane

The Doctor and Peri visit the planet Targos Delta to check in on old friend Professor Albrecht Thompson, only to discover that he has vanished. He was last sighted taking a shuttle to the holiday resort of Paradise 5, then never seen again. 

The Doctor's curiosity is piqued. They must investigate, but they must do so stealthily... Peri will go undercover on Paradise 5, while the Doctor hides in the shadows. Because paradise holds a terrible secret beneath the white marble and golden trimmings. The mute Cherubs have a story to tell. And the Elohim are coming. 

Beware. 

Point of Entry by Barbara Clegg and Marc Platt

The 16th Century. Playwright Kit Marlowe is attempting to write Doctor Faustus when a darkness descends on his life, in the cadaverous form of a Spaniard called Velez. The monstrosity is in search of a stone blade that was brought from South America... 

After a near-disastrous collision with an asteroid in space, the TARDIS makes an emergency landing in Elizabethan England. 

These two events are connected. The Omnim are ready. And the point of entry approaches... 

The Song of Megaptera by Pat Mills

Deep space in the distant future, and Captain Greeg and his crew are hunting mile-long Space Whales on a vast harvesting ship. By pure accident, they also capture the TARDIS. 

The Doctor and Peri must use all their wits to survive. But what is the creature running loose in the ship's bowels? And can the Doctor save Megaptera before its song is extinguished forever? 

The Macros by Ingrid Pitt and Tony Rudlin

The TARDIS materialises on the USS Eldridge, after the Philadelphia Experiment has gone disastrously wrong. Most of the crew are dead, the ship is disintegrating, and the Doctor soon realizes that the problem comes from another dimension... 

As they attempt to find a way to get the ship home, the Doctor and Peri visit the distant planet Capron and meet its tyrannical ruler Osloo. But the search for a possible solution only creates increasingly dire problems. Osloo’s horizons have been widened - and Space and Time are hers for the taking... 

Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: The Collected Sixth Doctor 1 is now available to pre-order exclusively here, as a digital download to own, for just £44.99. 

All the above prices (including pre-order and multibuy bundle discounts) are fixed for a limited time only and guaranteed no later than 30 April 2026.