Big Finish Productions has released a brand new audio drama for the Seventh Doctor and sees Sylvester McCoy’s lovable Doctor team up with his fourth incarnation’s companions. Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Sullivan and Cross – AWOL has the Doctor and his companions face off against murderous elves and even more deadly Daleks.
In this new full-cast audio drama, the Doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy) teams up with old companions Harry Sullivan (Christopher Naylor) and UNIT secretary Naomi Cross (Eleanor Crooks) to face some most unusual enemies through two brand-new adventures.
In the four part London Orbital by John Dorney, a mysterious massacre in a suburban house led a young Harry Sullivan to join UNIT but this crime was never solved. Now both Harry and Naomi Cross investigate curious goings on in the London Underground where mythological creatures run amok in a decades old war. With the war causing chaos, the Doctor makes his appearance to put an end to it once and for all.
Eleanor Crooks, Sylvester McCoy and Christoper Naylor
“There’s always something fun about old companions meeting new Doctors and having to cope with the different personalities. The Fourth and the Seventh Doctors are some of the more contrasting incarnations that I can possibly think of.”
Sylvester McCoy added: “The Seventh Doctor likes working with Harry and Naomi – he has a soft spot for them. They’ve have been my companions before but in another Doctor’s form. So, in a way I know them, even though I’ve never worked with them before.
John Dorney, writer of London Orbital, said: “It was always the game plan to bring Harry and Naomi back to the Seventh Doctor at some point. I like their dynamic.
In Scream of the Daleks, a two part adventure by Lisa McMullin, the Doctor, Harry and Naomi are back in 1969. When the trio respond to a scream they discover that people have been dying on that exact same spot on Halloween for millennia. In a bid to stop these needless deaths they unleash the oldest of the Doctor’s enemies, the Daleks.
“Scream of the Daleks was great fun and I enjoyed it a lot. When I first joned Doctor Who, I never felt like I was truly established until I defeated the Daleks so it’s always nice to go back and re-defeat them.”
Writer Lisa McMullin said: “I’ve been pestering script editor Matt Fitton for 100 years for a Dalek episode. The other reason I wanted to write for this set was because I haven’t written for this Doctor, so when Matt said, ‘Do you want to do a Sylvester story? And with the Daleks?’, I just couldn’t say no!”
Sylvester McCoy with the full cast.
Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Sullivan and Cross – AWOL is available now for just £19.99 as a collector’s edition CD box set + download or £16.99 for the download only.
Fans of the Seventh Doctor can purchase both 2022 Seventh Doctor titles together in a bundle for just £38 (collector’s edition CD box set + download) or £33 (download only).
