''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the
British science fiction television programme ''
Doctor Who'', produced by
Nicholas Briggs and
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the ...
and starring one of the original actors to play
The Doctor on television in the
classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December.
In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022.
With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series.
Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the
Fifth Doctor,
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC Science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Colin Baker. Although his televisual time ...
, and
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', and the final incarnation of the original Doctor Who series. He is portrayed by Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy ...
s, starting with ''
The Sirens of Time'' in July 1999.
This continued through to 2000, and from 2001 to 2007, the main range also included releases featuring the
Eighth Doctor with his companions
Charley Pollard and C'rizz,
but these were ended due to the simultaneously-running ''
Eighth Doctor Adventures'', which ran from 2006 to 2011 and featured companion
Lucie Miller. From 2008 to late 2011, only one Eighth Doctor release was produced for the main range: ''
The Company of Friends'', featuring companions from other media to the audio plays and the historical figure
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also ...
. The Eighth Doctor returned to the main range in a trilogy of adventures with Mary Shelley in October 2011.
Cast
Notable Guests
*
Nicholas Courtney and
Jon Culshaw as
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and p ...
*
Lalla Ward as
Romana
*
Louise Jameson as
Leela
*
John Leeson as
K9
*
Frazer Hines as
Jamie McCrimmon
*
Katy Manning as
Jo Grant and
Iris Wildthyme
*
Richard Franklin as
Mike Yates
*
Peter Purves as
Steven Taylor
*
Maureen O'Brien
Maureen O'Brien (born 29 June 1943) is an English actress and author best known for playing the role of Vicki in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', although she has appeared in many other television programmes.
Early l ...
as
Vicki
Vicky, Vicko,
Vick, Vickie or Vicki is a feminine given name, often a hypocorism of Victoria (name), Victoria. The feminine name Vicky in Greece comes from the name Vasiliki.
Women
* Family nickname of Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901 ...
*
Ian McNeice as
Winston Churchill
*
Robert Jezek as
Frobisher
*
Lisa Bowerman
Lisa Bowerman (born 1 February 1962) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Sandra Mute, the paramedic, in the BBC One medical drama '' Casualty'', in the first two series (1986–1987). She also starred as Professor Bernice Summ ...
as
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length '' Doctor W ...
*
Miles Richardson as
Irving Braxiatel
*
Anna Hope as DI Menzies
*
John Picard as
Thomas Brewster
*
Julie Cox as
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also ...
*
Maggie O'Neill as Lysandra Aristedes
*
Nicola Walker as
Liv Chenka
*
Amy Pemberton as Sally Morgan
*
Christian Edwards as Will Arrowsmith
* George Watkins as Marc
*
Geoffrey Beevers,
Alex Macqueen, and
James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus (born 9 October 1968) is an English actor most notable for roles on television sitcoms '' The Thin Blue Line'' as Constable Kevin Goody, and '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' as Tom Farrell. Dreyfus is most recently known for a role as Rever ...
as
The Master
*
Don Warrington as
Rassilon
*
Ian Collier as
Omega
Omega (; capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and final letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/ isopsephy ( gematria), it has a value of 800. Th ...
*
Terry Molloy as
Davros
*
Nabil Shaban
Nabil Shaban (born 12 February 1953) is a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He co-founded Graeae—a theatre group which promotes disabled performers. He's best known as the recurring villain Sil in ''Doctor Who''.
Early years and career
...
as
Sil
*
Siobhan Redmond
Siobhan Redmond, ( ; born 27 July 1959) is a Scottish actress, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and known for various stage, audio and television roles.
Early life
Siobhan Redmond was born on 27 July 1959 in the Tollcross area of ...
as
The Rani
*
Graeme Garden and
Rufus Hound as
The Monk
''The Monk: A Romance'' is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (in one letter he claimed to have written it in ten weeks, but other correspondence suggests that he h ...
*
Mark Bonnar as The Eleven
*
Nicholas Briggs as the
Daleks
The Daleks ( ) are a fictional extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction on television, science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. They were conceived by write ...
,
Cybermen
The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. The Cybermen are a species of space-faring cyborgs who often forcefully and painfully convert human beings ...
, and
Ice Warriors
Releases
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Continuation
In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022.
The new boxsets for each Doctor were announced in May 2021. With the exception of the Second Doctor, Big Finish already produced boxset ranges for each Doctor. The
First,
Third,
Fourth and
Eighth Doctor Adventures ranges enjoyed regular releases by the time the Monthly Adventures ended, whereas the
Fifth,
Sixth and
Seventh Doctor Adventures ranges had only occasional releases prior to these series being relaunched.
Notes
World records
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doctor Who - Main Range
Big Finish Productions
Doctor Who spin-offs