Doctor Who: Anniversary - A 2005-2025 Doctors Collection

by Nicholas Briggs, John Dorney, AK Benedict

**A collection of selected Big Finish audio dramas featuring the Ninth to Thirteenth Doctors, the War Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor, originally released between 2015-2025**

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Sphere of Freedom by Nicholas Briggs - On the Sphere of Freedom, the Doctor is about to shut down an evil Immersive Games business empire. He's assisted by a valiant galley chef called Nova. But his plan spectacularly fails... And who exactly is Audrey?

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Infamy of the Zaross by John Dorney - When Jackie Tyler takes a trip to visit her old friend Marge in Norwich, she finds her holiday immediately interrupted in the worst way possible - an alien invasion! The infamous Zaross have come to take over the Earth. Or have they? After Jackie calls in the Doctor and Rose to deal with the menace, it soon becomes clear that this is a very unusual invasion indeed.

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: The Calendar Man by AK Benedict - Answering a cry for help, the Doctor and Amy arrive on a misty colony world - but nobody thinks anything is wrong. Nobody, except for one young woman, hiding in shadows and scribbling in her notebook. Soon, Amy is on the trail of missing colonists, while the Doctor strides into the fog in search of a fairy-tale. But time is running out, and the Calendar Man is flicking through the pages of their lives...

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles: Field Trip by Una McCormack - Osgood gets an offer she can’t resist when the Doctor drops in - her first flight in the TARDIS! The Doctor is calling on Osgood's expertise to stop an invasion, but what begins as a fact-finding mission quickly becomes something far more dangerous.

Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Vampire Weekend by Tim Foley - It's Gina's hen-do and her Maid of Honour has booked a large manor in the Peak District. All her friends should be here - including Yasmin Khan. But Yaz is bringing a guest. Someone who isn't invited. Someone who might prove a little disruptive. The Doctor is joining the celebrations...

Doctor Who: The War Doctor: The Innocent by Nicholas Briggs - As the Daleks mass their time fleet for a final assault on Gallifrey, something ancient is waiting for them at Omega One. And a sacrifice must be made. Arch-manipulator and Time Lord strategist, Cardinal Ollistra receives shock news of the Doctor's death. Meanwhile, on the planet Keska, a parochial war has returned to plague a peaceful civilisation after decades of tranquillity. But how can such a war have any connection with the great Time War which, at any one moment in the whole of eternity, could threaten to tear the universe apart? If only the Doctor were still alive.

Doctor Who: The Fugitive Doctor: Fast Times by Robert Valentine
When the mysterious Division tries to arrest their equally mysterious agent, the Doctor, she evades capture and heads out in search of answers... but trouble is never far behind. Captured by bounty hunters and imprisoned in a maximum-security hulk ship, the Doctor is about to learn that there's no time to stand still when you're a fugitive. And times are about to get very fast indeed.

Audiobook

First published November 21, 2025

About the author

Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. Some of Briggs' earliest Doctor Who-related work was as host of The Myth Makers, a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors and writers involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with War Time, the first unofficial Doctor Who spin-off, and Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner showcasing bloopers from the Myth Makers series built around a loose storyline featuring Briggs as a down on his luck private detective in the near future.

He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He also wrote and appeared in a non-Stranger BBV production called The Airzone Solution (1993) and directed a documentary film, Stranger than Fiction (1994).

Briggs has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He has also written and directed the Dalek Empire and Cyberman audio plays for Big Finish. In 2006, Briggs took over from Gary Russell as executive producer of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range.

Briggs co-wrote a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide.

Since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, Briggs has provided the voices for several monsters, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen. Briggs also voiced the Nestene Consciousness in the 2005 episode "Rose", and recorded a voice for the Jagrafess in the 2005 episode "The Long Game"; however, this was not used in the final episode because it was too similar to the voice of the Nestene Consciousness. He also provided the voices for the Judoon in both the 2007 and 2008 series. On 9 July 2009, Briggs made his first appearance in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in the serial Children of Earth, playing Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Rick Yates.

Reviews

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

A compilation of previous released material from the various Doctor Adventures and Doctor Chronicles featuring the voices of John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin and many others.

Sphere of Freedom (originally included in Doctor Who: Ravagers) - A convoluted tale that’s told out of sequence. We start at the end and work our way around through layers of stories and timeframes. Just delightful. Eccleston sounds like he’s not aged a day since he’s played the Doctor and his performance is precision perfect. Just close your eyes and there he is, smiling like a know-it-all buffoon. Big Finish has done a fantastic job on this one, glorious sound scape, great supporting cast and a top notch script. I have a feeling it’s gonna be a wild ride. (5/13/2021) (4/5)

Infamy of the Zaross (originally included in Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume 2 - What a romp! This one really plays with the audience’s expectations. Tennant and Piper are is classic Doctor and Rose mode. Big Finish at its finest. (11/8/2025) (5/5)

The Calendar Man (originally included in Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Volume 1) - I’m not a huge fan of these audio-hybrids (part audiobook and part audio drama), generally I prefer the audio dramas. Still this was pretty good. The (Eleventh) Doctor and Amy Pond disputing their early days. Not great, but entertaining. (11/23/25) (3/5)

Field Trip (originally included in Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles, Volume 1) - A fun romp with The (Twelfth) Doctor and Osgood on a trip that has nothing to do with UNIT. A bit too silly for me, I kept waiting for some kind of noir twist to occur. (11/23/25) (3/5)

Vampire Weekend (originally released as Doctor Who: Vampire Weekend) - Wonderful! So much fun! While this was a great kick-off for the Thirteenth Doctor Adventures, my one complaint was that there were a couple of times it was hard to follow who was speaking. There are a few moments that it’s hard to differentiate the voices, and it’s additional complicated as two characters are played by the same actor. The premise is a delightful and playful locked manor house troupe, that’s a touch of the party game Werewolf and a touch Agatha Christie and a touch of a slasher movie. The (Thirteenth) Doctor and Yasmin Khan chemistry is here and it’s as brilliant as it always was. (7/3/2025) (4/5)

The Innocent (originally included in Doctor Who: The War Doctor, Vol. 1: Only the Monstrous) - Not quite as engaging as I was hoping for, but I was still entertained. And I certainly enjoyed it enough to move onto the next in the series. (6/23/2019) (4/5)

Fast Times (originally included in Doctor Who: The Fugitive Doctor, Vol. 1: Most Wanted) - I have to admit that I had no idea what to expect from, well not only this release but also from this Doctor. I mean, there is so little know about this particular iteration of the Doctor and the era she appears from. So, this could have been a complete disaster, just more generic Doctor adventures, or something really special. But, of course, Big Finish delivered something unlike anything I thought it might be. There is a touch of TV shows like The Prisoner, The Fugitive, Lost and maybe a bit of Twin Peaks, and a lot of this was not necessarily directions I was anticipating. I really enjoyed the mystery and confusion of this new era and I am looking forward to whatever is to come with a lot of anticipation. (2/26/2025) (4/5)

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

I already owned the sets these stories each originally appeared in, so I just relistened in the order listed here instead of buying this compilation. I don't really have my own list of stories that should have been on this collection instead, but for the Eleventh Doctor, I think it would've been better to include Valerie Lockwood's introductory story, as that whole run was amazing. Most of the selected stories are first installments from first sets, though exceptions include Ten's coming from Volume 2, and Twelve's being the fourth story of his first set, which is odd. The Doctors are presented 9-13, then War, then Fugitive, but I think it should have started with War since he's before 9 anyway and his story is the best, sure to hook new listeners right away. Fugitive is technically the earliest Doctor here chronologically, but I think having her story be the closer kind of works.