From 2020 to 2022, David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor met his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth incarnations in three special audio adventures, each entitled Out of Time. Now the trio of tales is being brought together as a single digital release for the first time. 

Doctor Who: Out of Time - The Complete Series is now available for pre-order for just £17.99 (download to own), exclusively here. Due for release in August 2025, this compilation includes Out of Time, Out of Time 2: The Gates of Hell and Out of Time 3: Wink. 

Producer David Richardson said: “Out of Time was planned as a one-off, a chance to get David Tennant and Tom Baker together in a special story. Then COVID-19 came along and we were able to secure David for more recordings, and so the second and third instalments became a possibility. 

“The recording of each one was so different… The second, The Gates of Hell, was great fun in studio as David and Peter Davison know each other so well. And I remember David being so very happy to be working with Colin Baker on the third, telling Colin what an honour it was… 

“Out of Time 3: Wink was actually one of the most stressful recording days I’ve ever produced. We had some catastrophic remote recording equipment failures and so we didn’t even start recording until 2:30 in the afternoon. This one went in the can almost “as live”, but we had such an experienced team of actors that it really didn’t matter – they were all ‘first take wonders’ anyway!” 

Matt Fitton wrote the first of the releases, bringing together David and Tom with the Daleks. He recalls: “This was an absolute dream come true: uniting the Doctor from my childhood with an iconic new series Doctor – probably the two greatest peaks of popularity among the general public that the show has seen. “When I heard the end result, I couldn’t help smiling all the way through. It’s a love letter to so many things. I wanted these two Doctors to impress one another – for the Tenth to remember his magnificent past and the Fourth to be reassured about his future – and pay homage to some old enemies and friends along the way.” 

The second adventure, The Gates of Hell by David Llewellyn, unites the Tenth and Fifth Doctors along with the Cybermen. David says of writing for the villains: “They are surprisingly difficult. It’s too easy to slip into dialogue that’s too chatty, especially if everyone else is speaking that way, but they’re Cybermen. And if anything, they’re less expressive than the Daleks! 

“There was some discussion about which era of Cybermen I was writing for because the voices, and even what passes for a personality, changes over the years. It was my first go at writing for them so it took a couple of drafts to get it right.” 

The final story in this collection is Wink, a cheeky nod to the story which introduced the Weeping Angels, featuring the Tenth and Sixth Doctors. Writer Lisa McMullin said: “This was written and recorded in about a fortnight during lockdown. I absolutely adore the way Colin and David bounce off each other – the total dream team. And the way the music and sound design conveys the threat of the Weeping Angels (who should be near impossible to do justice to on audio) blows me away!” 

The Tenth Doctor has an appointment with fate that he doesn't want to keep.

On one last tour around the universe he runs into a few old faces... The only trouble is, they're all his own!

As the Doctor visits an extradimensional cathedral, the catacombs of Paris, and a world enveloped by light - it's not just past selves that he finds. Old enemies are waiting too...

Out of Time by Matt Fitton

The Cathedral of Contemplation is an enigma, existing outside time. It turns through history, opening its doors across the universe to offer solace to those in need.

Occasionally, the Doctor drops in - when he's avoiding his destiny, it’s an ideal place to get some perspective. Only this time he's already there from several lives earlier, so when dimension barriers break down, his past and present collide.

And when the Daleks invade and commandeer the Cathedral, two Doctors must unite to stop them - or face extermination twice over!

Out of Time 2: The Gates of Hell by David Llewellyn

Paris, 1809. The Fifth Doctor takes a tour of the Catacombs and meets a sassy Time Agent doing the same...

Paris, 1944. The Tenth Doctor misses his target and lands in occupied France. He hides from the Nazis - in the Catacombs.

A collision of two Doctors' timelines triggers a temporal catastrophe, granting the Cybermen dominion over the Earth.
The Doctors must travel back in time to find the source of the Cyber-invasion and close the Gates of Hell...

Out of Time 3: Wink by Lisa McMullin

When the Sixth Doctor goes sight-seeing on Lucidus Silvara, he finds himself in a place where nothing is visible at all... only all-encompassing light! The Tenth Doctor is drawn in by a temporal anomaly, and the two Doctors meet a species with no sense of sight, living in a city surrounded by Weeping Angels. To save a civilisation, the Doctors must keep their eyes on the Angels. Don't blink.

Don't even wink...

Doctor Who: Out of Time - The Complete Series is now available for pre-order for just £17.99 (download to own), exclusively here.

All the above prices (including pre-order and multibuy bundle discounts) are fixed for a limited time only and guaranteed no later than 30 September 2025.