As Colin Baker celebrates his 79th birthday, the BBC and Big Finish have announced that his Sixth Doctor will be teaming up with David Tennant’s Tenth for a frightening showdown with an old enemy, the terrifying Weeping Angels, in the full cast audio drama Doctor Who – Out of Time 3: Wink.
“The Weeping Angels tap into childhood fears,” states writer Lisa McMullin. “You can’t reason with them. The only way you can stop an attack is by looking at them or by getting them to look at each other. But what would happen if the Weeping Angels were dropped into a colony of people who don’t have the sense of sight? That’s where the Doctors come in.”
“It works very well to have the Weeping Angels on audio,” said David Tennant. “I think the fact that it all happens when you’re not looking is the scary thought — that, if you look away, things will change when you look back. It undermines everything we think we know about how the physical world manifests. To introduce a whole race that doesn’t have the power of sight at all is very clever as, for them, the Angels are a concept that they have to come to terms with.”
“I did wonder how the Weeping Angels would work on audio but it’s all totally credible, real, and happening,” added Colin Baker. “Hats off to Lisa McMullin for making it work. I liked it — more please!”
When the Sixth Doctor goes sight-seeing on Lucidus Silvara, he finds himself in a place where nothing is visible at all… only all-encompassing light! The Tenth Doctor is drawn in by a temporal anomaly, and the two Doctors meet a species with no sense of sight, living in a city surrounded by Weeping Angels. To save a civilisation, the Doctors must keep their eyes on the Angels. Don’t blink. Don’t even wink…
Doctor Who – Out of Time 3: Wink is available now on CD and digital download from the Big Finish website.
