Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Empty Vessels

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Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures

Released December 2025

Written by Matt Fitton Roy Gill

Starring Paul McGann Nicola Walker

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This title was released in December 2025. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 January 2026, and on general sale after this date.

The TARDIS will always respond to a cry for help - although its timing can be a little off! The Doctor, Liv and Helen have the skills to save anyone in danger - if they can find them.

Empty vessels make the loudest sound - but sometimes that sound is a scream of terror...

Eos Falling by Matt Fitton
The Doctor, Helen and Liv find themselves on an abandoned spacecraft, hurtling towards an inhabited world. The crew have vanished - but the TARDIS travellers are not alone on this empty vessel...

Have they really discovered a ghost ship?

Lure of the Zygons Parts 1-2 by Roy Gill
A distress call draws the Doctor, Liv and Helen to a remote world and a crashed ship, where Captain Elhan is searching for her lost sibling...

As the storms close in, the two crews must investigate the wreck together. In the darkness, the Zygons are waiting...

**Please note: the collector's edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,500 copies**

Recorded on: 28 March, 4 April, 7 and 14 May, and 4 June 2025

Recorded at: The Soundhouse

Producer David Richardson said: "It’s been many years since the Eighth Doctor encountered the Zygons, and so we felt that the time was right for a rematch. And what a rematch it is - Roy Gill's two-parter is brilliant, a characterful thriller that touches upon the nature of identity. It's a story that has definitely been worth waiting for."

Writer Roy Gill added: "Matt Fitton, the script editor, asked if I'd like to do a Zygon story, and I answered very quickly, yes please. When I was a kid, I had the Terror of the Zygons VHS and I must have watched it... I don’t want to admit how many times! The Zygons are really distinctive, unusual, interesting monsters. Their ability to duplicate and to copy people can be very unnerving."

Paul McGann said: "Back with Nicola and Hattie, and not before time! I've missed them. There's an ease, we can just get straight to it, but in the stories, it feels like we’re still finding out about one another."

Hattie Morahan added: "Matt's script for Eos Falling is really haunting and very moving. Helen's starting to think, where do I end up? I'm planetless now and sort of timeless, but I am mortal. So it must end up somewhere, what's in store for me?"

Nicola Walker commented on the second story: "The Zygons are quite disturbing - huge, fleshy, suckered, evil, whispery, strange blob creatures. Lure of the Zygons is about the ability to replicate human emotion and memory. And just because something looks like it's human, presents as human, at what point does it reveal itself to not be human?"

And Nicholas Briggs, who voices the Zygons, said: "I think the reason the Zygons are so popular with Doctor Who fans is because Terror of the Zygons, made back in 1975, was such a corking story. It was so beautifully directed and beautifully played. And they're always fun to use because of their ability of assuming other people’s appearance, which is a handy sci-fi plot device!"