Last month, BBC Studios announced a big and multi-platform Doctor Who event called Time Lord Victorious. This event will take place place over a 12-week period starting later this fall.
Two books featuring the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Doctor called Doctor Who: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead: Time Lord Victorious (written by Steve Cole) and Doctor Who: All Flesh is Grass: Time Lord Victorious (written by Una McCormack) will be released in in October and December 2020 respectively.
Big Finish will publish three Time Lord Victorious stories featuring Paul McGann (The Eight Doctor) in October, November, and December 2020. The audio dramas are directed by Scott Handcock and produced by David Richardon. Silas Carson (Brian), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks/Krinso), Jack DeVos (Samson), Rachel Atkins (Sarathin), and Samantha Béart (Tiska) are also part of the cast. You can read the synopsis of the three dramas here:
1. Doctor Who – Time Lord Victorious: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not by Carrie Thompson
On the desert world of Atharna, the Doctor’s life is about to be changed forever.
Looking to visit one of the Seven Hundred Wonders of the Universe, he’s quickly embroiled in a web of deceit. Worse than that, this Wonder of the Universe is missing, and the Doctor is about to encounter one of his most dangerous and duplicitous adversaries.
The Doctor is about to meet Brian.
2. Doctor Who – Time Lord Victorious: The Enemy of My Enemy by Tracy Ann Baines
The people of Wrax are happy to begin peaceful negotiations with the Dalek Empire. The two species are preparing to engage in an alliance that will last throughout the ages.
The only one who seems to object to this happy union is the Doctor. He knows that you can never trust the Daleks.
But more than that, he knows that the Wraxians should never have existed…
3. Doctor Who – Time Lord Victorious: Mutually Assured Destruction by Lizzie Hopley
The fallout of the great battle.
Outnumbered and alone, on a Dalek time-ship careering through the vortex, the Doctor must use all his cunning to survive. As the saucer disintegrates around them, the Doctor is trapped with a crew of increasingly desperate Daleks.
Or are the Daleks trapped with him?
Big Finish will also release in October a Short Trips called Doctor Who – Time Lord Victorious: Short Trips : Master Thief/Lesser Evils centered on The Master. The two stories will be narrated by Jon Culshaw and directed by Lisa Bowerman:
Master Thief by Sophie Iles
The Master wants to plunder one of the most secure vaults in the universe, the Repository. He’s got a plan, and a deadly new weapon to assist him. However, as the Master quickly discovers, getting in might be easy, but getting away with it might cost him everything.
Lesser Evils by Simon Guerrier
The Kotturuh have arrived on the planet Alexis to distribute the gift of the death to its inhabitants. The only person standing in their way is a renegade Time Lord, who has sworn to protect the locals. A Time Lord called the Master…
Check out the official annoucement here:
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— Big Finish (@bigfinish) June 2, 2020
The three Doctor Who – Time Lord Victorious stories are already available to pre-order on the Big Finish website as CD editions and downloads. Fans can also choose to purchase the story as a bundle to save money.
Stay tuned for more information on the Time Lord Victorious future releases!
