Big Finish Productions has revealed details of the first of 2025’s Third Doctor Adventures box set, coming next February. Doctor Who and the Brain Drain, written by Nicholas Briggs and Richard James, brings the Doctor’s UNIT team to Scotland in a new adventure and, like in the TV series of that era, tells the tale over seven episodes.
The Doctor is getting accustomed to his exile on Earth and is settling down to his role as UNIT’s scientific advisor when he is suddenly dispatched to Scotland along with Dr Liz Shaw and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. When they arrive at a symposium at an imposing Scottish castle, Professor MacLeod and her son announce that they have developed a new treatment for memory loss and a possible cure for dementia. However, this new treatment seems to have some connection to the sightings of strange mythical creatures and the ghosts that are roaming the castle’s corridors. Can the Doctor and his team uncover what is happening in this remote Scottish castle?
Tim Treloar plays the Doctor with Daisy Ashford as Dr Liz Shaw and Jon Culshaw as the Brigadier. They are joined by Rosalyn Landor, Mark Elstob, Susan Harrison, Glen McCready and Callum Pardoe.
From L to R: Jon Culshaw, Richard James, Nichola Briggs, Glen McCready, Tim Treloar, Callum Pardoe, Daisy Ashford, Roslyn Landor, Susan Harrison, Mark Elstob
Nicholas Briggs said: “My wife had been editing one of Richard’s books and said to me, he writes beautifully. He also knows his old Doctor Who and has a very clear sense of the Third Doctor era, so I asked him for ideas for Third Doctor stories. He sent this one pitch and it had something about it that I really liked. It felt like Doctor Who, but also like an old-fashioned Sunday afternoon teatime adventure.”
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The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain is available to pre-order now as a collector’s edition CD box set and digital download for £24.99 or the digital download only for £19.99.
