Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures

The Tenth Doctor Adventures
The Tenth Doctor Adventures
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Featuring	Tenth Doctor;
Executive producer(s)	Jason Haigh-Ellery; Nicholas Briggs;
Music	Howard Carter
Release date	May 2016

The Tenth Doctor Adventures, announced in October 2015, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the television series Doctor Who. It sees the return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The first trilogy of stories was released in May 2016.^[1]^[2] In November 2017 a second volume was released, featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler.^[3]^[4] A third volume was released in May 2019, with Tate again reprising her role as Donna.^[5]

Cast

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Actor	Character	Appearances
		Volumes			Specials		Out of Time			Dalek Universe
		1	2	3	TDRS	TDCC	1	2	3	1	2	3
David Tennant	The Doctor	✓
Tom Baker		Does not appear					✓	Does not appear
Peter Davison		Does not appear			✓	Does not appear		✓	Does not appear
Colin Baker		Does not appear			✓	Does not appear			✓	Does not appear
Catherine Tate	Donna Noble	✓	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear
Billie Piper	Rose Tyler	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear
Alex Kingston	River Song	Does not appear			✓	Does not appear						✓
John Leeson	K9	Does not appear				✓	Does not appear
Louise Jameson	Leela	Does not appear				✓	Does not appear
Sarah Sutton	Nyssa	Does not appear				✓	Does not appear
Sophie Aldred	Ace	Does not appear				✓	Does not appear
Jane Slavin	Anya Kingdom	Does not appear								✓
Joe Sims	Mark Seven	Does not appear								✓		Does not appear
Kevin McNally	Merrick Kingdom	Does not appear								✓		Does not appear
Nicholas Briggs	Ice Warriors	Does not appear	✓	Does not appear
	Judoon	Does not appear		✓	Does not appear
	Daleks	Does not appear					✓	Does not appear		✓
	Cybermen	Does not appear						✓	Does not appear
	Mechonoids	Does not appear								✓	Does not appear

Notable Guests

Doctor Who characters

Camille Coduri as Jackie Tyler
Jacqueline King as Sylvia Noble

Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott
Terry Molloy as Davros

Other

Chris Jarman as The Pastor & Vesht
Gemma Whelan as The Nun
Blake Ritson as Rudolph & Major McLinn
Nina Toussaint-White as Mariah Six

Mark Gatiss as George Sheldrake & Joseph Delon
Noma Dumezweni as Rodekka
Joseph Millson as Colonel Keelan

Episodes

Volumes

Volume 1 (2016)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Technophobia"	Nicholas Briggs	Matt Fitton	Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble	May 2016 (2016-05)
2	"Time Reaver"		Jenny T Colgan
3	"Death and the Queen"		James Goss
Paying a visit to Earth in Donna's not-too-distant future, the Doctor and Donna discover an alien invasion that seeks to destroy humanity by restricting their intelligence. An attempt to purchase a new part for the TARDIS reveals a trade in a dangerous weapon. Donna accepts a proposal from a prince, but soon learns that her new country has a deal with an ancient alien race that will require her to be sacrificed.

Volume 2 (2017)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Infamy of the Zaross"	Nicholas Briggs	John Dorney	Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler	November 2017 (2017-11)
2	"The Sword of the Chevalier"		Guy Adams	Tenth Doctor, Rose
3	"Cold Vengeance"		Matt Fitton	Tenth Doctor, Rose, Ice Warriors
Jackie calls in the Doctor and Rose when aliens attack Norwich, but the Doctor swiftly realises this invasion is more than it seems. The Doctor and Rose meet the Chevalier d'Éon and investigate alien slavers. A visit to a frozen food storage asteroid reveals the presence of the Ice Warriors.

Volume 3 (2019)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"No Place"	Nicholas Briggs	James Goss	Tenth Doctor, Donna, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott	May 2019 (2019-05)
2	"One Mile Down"		Jenny T Colgan	Tenth Doctor, Donna, Judoon
3	"The Creeping Death"		Roy Gill	Tenth Doctor, Donna

Out of Time (2020–2022)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Out of Time"	Nicholas Briggs	Matt Fitton	Tenth Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Daleks	August 2020 (2020-08)
2	"The Gates of Hell"	Ken Bentley	David Llewellyn	Tenth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Cybermen	June 2021 (2021-06)
3	"Wink"	Ken Bentley	Lisa McMullin	Tenth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Weeping Angels	June 2022 (2022-06)
The Fourth and Tenth Doctors visit the other-dimensional Cathedral of Contemplation just in time to face a Dalek invasion. The Fifth and Tenth Doctors come together to face a Cyberman invasion of Earth. The Sixth and Tenth Doctors visit a planet where the multiple local suns mean that the residents never developed the sense of sight, just as Weeping Angels attack the planet.

Dalek Universe (2021)

Prologue (2021)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
–	"The Dalek Protocol"	Nicholas Briggs	Nicholas Briggs	Fourth Doctor, Leela, K9, Anya Kingdom, Mark Seven, Daleks, Exxilons, Bellal	April 2021 (2021-04)

Episodes (2021)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
Volume 1
1	"Buying Time"	Ken Bentley	John Dorney	Tenth Doctor, Anya Kingdom, Mark Seven, George Sheldrake, The Nun	April 2021 (2021-04)
2	"The Wrong Woman"		John Dorney	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, George Sheldrake, The Nun
3	"The House of Kingdom"		Andrew Smith	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, Merrick Kingdom, Mechonoids
Volume 2
4	"Cycle of Destruction"	Ken Bentley	Roy Gill	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, Daleks	July 2021 (2021-07)
5	"The Trojan Dalek"		John Dorney	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, Daleks
6	"The Lost"		Rob Valentine	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Mark, Merrick Kingdom, The Lost
Volume 3
7	"The First Son"	Ken Bentley	Lizzie Hopley	Tenth Doctor, Anya, River Song, Movellans, Daleks	October 2021 (2021-10)
8	"The Dalek Defence"		Matt Fitton	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Davros, Daleks, Movellans
9	"The Triumph of Davros"		Matt Fitton	Tenth Doctor, Anya, Davros, Daleks, Movellans

The Tenth Doctor and River Song (2020)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Expiry Dating"	Nicholas Briggs	James Goss	Tenth Doctor, River Song, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor	November 2020 (2020-11)
2	"Precious Annihilation"		Lizzie Hopley	Tenth Doctor, River
3	"Ghosts"		Jonathan Morris	Tenth Doctor, River

Tenth Doctor, Classic Companions (2022)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Featuring	Released
1	"Splinters"^[6]	Helen Goldwyn	John Dorney	Tenth Doctor, K9, Leela	September 2022 (2022-09)
2	"The Stuntman"^[6]		Lizzie Hopley	Tenth Doctor, K9, Nyssa
3	"Quantum of Axos"^[6]		Roy Gill	Tenth Doctor, K9, Ace, Axos

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee(s) of the award, and the result of the nomination
Award ceremony	Year	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref.
Audie Awards	2017	Best Audio Drama	Death and the Queen	Nominated	^[7]
BBC Audio Drama Awards	2017	Best Online Only Audio Drama	Death and the Queen	Shortlisted	^[8]
Scribe Awards	2018	Best Audio	Cold Vengeance	Nominated	^[9]
	2020		The Creeping Death	Won	^[9]
	2021		Out of Time	Won	^[10]
Audio and Radio Industry Awards	2021	Best Fictional Storytelling	Out of Time	Nominated	^[11]

References

^ "Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures". Big Finish Productions. 26 October 2015.
^ "Everything we know about the new David Tennant and Catherine Tate Doctor Who adventures". Radio Times. 19 February 2016.
^ "Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor and Rose Return!". Big Finish. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
^ "David Tennant and Billie Piper to reunite as the Tenth Doctor and Rose for new Doctor Who project". Radio Times. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
^ "David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Donna's family team up for new Doctor Who audio adventures". Radio Times. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Tenth Doctor is visiting some old friends!". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^ "2017 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
^ "The 2017 Shortlist". BBC.
^ "Previous Scribe Award Winners". International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. 24 June 2013.
^ "Big Finish Scribe Award Nominations Revealed! - News - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com.
^ "ARIAS Nominees 2021". Radio Academy.

[1] "Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures". Big Finish Productions. 26 October 2015.

[2] "Everything we know about the new David Tennant and Catherine Tate Doctor Who adventures". Radio Times. 19 February 2016.

[3] "Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor and Rose Return!". Big Finish. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

[4] "David Tennant and Billie Piper to reunite as the Tenth Doctor and Rose for new Doctor Who project". Radio Times. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

[5] "David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Donna's family team up for new Doctor Who audio adventures". Radio Times. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

[10cc-6] "The Tenth Doctor is visiting some old friends!". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

[7] "2017 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2021.

[8] "The 2017 Shortlist". BBC.

[9] "Previous Scribe Award Winners". International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. 24 June 2013.

[10] "Big Finish Scribe Award Nominations Revealed! - News - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com.

[11] "ARIAS Nominees 2021". Radio Academy.

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