Big Finish are reuniting Tom Baker (The Fourth Doctor) and Louise Jameson (Leela) with former Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe for two brand new audio adventures.
The Hinchcliffe era is considered by many fans to be one of the most successful and memorable in the show’s fifty year history, watched by huge audiences at the time, and now regularly tops fan polls.
The idea for revisiting the era came after Hinchcliffe visited the Big Finish studios to watch the recording of series three of The Fourth Doctor Adventures. Big Finish Producer David Richardson, said:
I know that Tom Baker and Louise Jameson were thrilled to have him there, and they both enthused to him about what a great time they were having working for Big Finish. After the recording ended, Philip took me and executive producer Nicholas Briggs aside, and pitched the idea of doing a set of stories of the kind he would have hoped to have done, had he stayed on to produce the series for longer. We just said ‘yes’ instantly!
The first story is an epic six-parter set in Victorian London, adapted by Ghost Light writer Marc Platt, and will be paired with a four-parter.
Hinchcliffe has said he wants to create new stories that feel as if they could belong to his second or third season, saying:
They are not designed to follow on from my era, more to re-evoke it for fans who enjoyed the originals: and so the Doctor and Leela in these new stories are the same as they were then, in the glorious seventies! That’s the beauty of radio – they look and sound the same
Doctor Who: Philip Hinchcliffe Presents will be released in August 2014, and is available for pre-order.