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 '''Big Finish Productions''' is a [[British]] audio production company founded in 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20021016233937/http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/faq.htm|title=Big Finish FAQ (From 2002)|author=Big Finish|date of source=March 23, 2014|website name=Big Finish|accessdate=2002}}</ref>. Since 1999, it has produced numerous licensed ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio dramas, audiobooks and prose stories, as well as a number of series set within the [[DWU]]. Big Finish's current licence to produce ''Doctor Who'' on audio extends to [[31 March (production)|31 March]] 2030.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-audio-dramas-from-big-finish-guaranteed-until-2030 |title=Doctor Who audio dramas from Big Finish guaranteed until 2030! |date of source=10 December 2021 |website name=Big Finish Productions |accessdate=10 December 2021}}</ref>
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 The name of the company originates from an episode called ''The Big Finish?'' of children's TV programme ''Press Gang'', written by [[Steven Moffat]], who in 2010 became the showrunner of the [[Doctor Who|''Doctor Who'' TV series]].
-According to [[James Goss]], by December 2017, Big Finish has become the second largest producer of original audio dramas in the UK after Radio Four.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/12-days-of-big-finishmas-10-20-years-of-bernice-summerfield</ref>
+According to [[James Goss]], by December 2017, Big Finish has become the second largest producer of original audio dramas in the UK after Radio Four.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/12days-of-big-finishmas-10-20-years-of-bernice-summerfield</ref>
+During lockdown restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Big Finish began recording audio dramas remotely. A Fourth Doctor story, ''[[Shadow of the Sun (audio story)|Shadow of the Sun]]'', was the first audio released which had been recorded under these conditions.
+To celebrate 25 years of the company producing Doctor Who audios, in [[2024 (releases)|2024]] Big Finish staged a live recording of an audio drama, ''[[The Stuff of Legend (stage play)|The Stuff of Legend]]'', featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor along with [[India Fisher]] as [[Charley]] and [[Alex Macqueen]] as [[Reborn Master|the Master]].
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 In [[2007 (releases)|2007]], a separate monthly series of one-hour ''[[The Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|The Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' was created that ran for four series. Initially the range was also broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra|BBC 7]] and featured [[Sheridan Smith]] as [[Lucie Miller]]. Following the conclusion of the fourth series, the range was reformatted into boxset releases, beginning a run of four 16-episode sagas; ''[[Dark Eyes (audio series)|Dark Eyes]]'', ''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]'', ''[[Ravenous (audio series)|Ravenous]]'' and ''[[Stranded (audio series)|Stranded]]''. The Eighth Doctor would continue to appear very occasionally in the monthly range, including the anthology release ''[[The Company of Friends (audio anthology)|The Company of Friends]]'' which featured companions from the Eighth Doctor's series in [[DWM comic stories|DWM's comic]] and [[BBC Books]]. Occasional standalone boxsets were also released set during his travels with Charley and Lucie, ''[[The Eighth Doctor: The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller: Volume One|The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller]]'' and ''[[Charlotte Pollard: The Further Adventuress (audio anthology)|Charlotte Pollard: The Further Adventuress]]''. In [[2022 (releases)|2022]] ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures'' moved away from the sagas to standalone boxsets, beginning with ''[[What Lies Inside? (audio anthology)|What Lies Inside?]]''.
-In [[2009 (releases)|2009]] Big Finish launched a new range adapting scripts that had been abandoned for TV, entitled ''[[The Lost Stories]]''. The range began with the stories originally intended for [[Season 23]] prior to the hiatus and eventually encompassed stories from every classic Doctor. The range came to an end in [[2013 (releases)|2013]] but was later revived in [[2019 (releases)|2019]].
+In [[2009 (releases)|2009]] Big Finish launched a new range adapting scripts that had been abandoned for TV, entitled ''[[The Lost Stories]]''. The range began with the stories originally intended for [[Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 23]] prior to the hiatus and eventually encompassed stories from every classic Doctor. The range came to an end in [[2013 (releases)|2013]] but was later revived in [[2019 (releases)|2019]].
 In [[2010 (releases)|2010]], Big Finish revived their ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' series, which had ended in prose after their licence to publish prose ''Doctor Who'' was not renewed, in an audiobook format. Initially the series was released in volumes, with each volume including stories for each classic Doctor, until [[2015 (releases)|2015]] when it was reformatted into monthly releases. In [[2016 (releases)|2016]] Big Finish began an [[The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity|annual competition]] for fans to submit a Short Trip, in memory of producer [[Paul Spragg]], with the winning entry being produced and released for free. In [[2020 (releases)|2020]] the monthly range was ended and the series returned to volumes, with the first of the new volumes being released in [[2022 (releases)|2022]].
-In [[2012 (releases)|2012]], Big Finish released a [[Love and War (audio story)|full cast adaptation]] of the [[Virgin New Adventures|Virgin New Adventure]] Seventh Doctor novel ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'' as part of their celebrations of [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s twentieth anniversary. This release led to a series of ''[[Novel Adaptations]]'', including the Fourth Doctor in addition to the Seventh. The range ended in [[2016 (releases)|2016]] with the release of [[Cold Fusion (audio story)|an adaptation]] of ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', featuring the Fifth and Seventh Doctors together. Big Finish later produced a boxset of original stories with characters from the Virgin novels, entitled ''[[The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures: Volume One|The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures]]''.
+In [[2012 (releases)|2012]], Big Finish released a [[Love and War (audio story)|full cast adaptation]] of the [[Virgin New Adventures|Virgin New Adventure]] Seventh Doctor novel ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'' as part of their celebrations of [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s twentieth anniversary. This release led to a series of ''[[Novel Adaptations]]'', including the Fourth Doctor in addition to the Seventh. The range ended in [[2016 (releases)|2016]] with the release of [[Cold Fusion (audio story)|an adaptation]] of ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', featuring the Fifth and Seventh Doctors together. Big Finish later produced a boxset of original stories with characters from the Virgin novels, entitled ''[[The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures: Volume One|The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures]]''. In [[2024 (releases)|2024]] Big Finish revived the range with an [[Goth Opera (audio story)|adaptation]] of ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]''.
 In the 2010s, the classic Doctors began to appear in boxsets outside of the monthly range including a Seventh Doctor crossover with ''[[UNIT (audio series)|UNIT]]'' entitled ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', a [[The Fifth Doctor Box Set|box set]] featuring the [[Season 19 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 19]] crew to mark [[Matthew Waterhouse]]'s return as [[Adric]], a release expanding on the Sixth Doctor's [[regeneration]], entitled ''[[The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure]]'', which gave Colin Baker the chance to perform a regeneration story for his Doctor, and a Fifth Doctor crossover with ''[[Graceless (audio series)|Graceless]]'', ''[[Wicked Sisters (audio anthology)|Wicked Sisters]]''.
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 === Unbound ''Doctor Who'' ===
 In [[2003 (releases)|2003]] Big Finish released six stories set in variants of the Doctor Who universe with premises fundamentally altered, in a range entitled ''[[Doctor Who Unbound]]''. These stories featured new versions of the Doctor played by [[Geoffrey Bayldon]], [[David Warner]], [[David Collings]] and [[Arabella Weir]], as well as [[Michael Jayston]] reprising his role of [[the Valeyard]] and [[Derek Jacobi]] as a [[Martin Bannister|writer]] in a meta-textual storyline where ''Doctor Who'' had never aired on TV. After the initial six releases, two sequels were released expanding on the Doctors played by Bayldon and Warner, in [[2005 (releases)|2005]] and [[2008 (releases)|2008]] respectively.
-David Warner’s [[Unbound Doctor]] was later incorporated into ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'', beginning with ''[[The Unbound Universe (audio anthology)|The Unbound Universe]]'' in [[2015 (releases)|2015]]. This Doctor subsequently appeared in four more volumes of the range, as well as appearing in the set ''[[The Story So Far: Volume Two]]'' to mark Benny’s anniversary, until Warner’s death in 2022. An [[Unbound Master|incarnation of the Master]] played by [[Mark Gatiss]] from the universe of the Unbound Doctor also appeared in the fourth volume of ''[[The War Master (audio series)|The War Master]]'' series and in the special marking 50 years of the Master, ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]''.
+David Warner’s [[Unbound Doctor]] was later incorporated into ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'', beginning with ''[[The Unbound Universe (audio anthology)|The Unbound Universe]]'' in [[2015 (releases)|2015]]. This Doctor subsequently appeared in four more volumes of the range, as well as appearing in the set ''[[The Story So Far: Volume Two]]'' to mark Benny’s anniversary, until Warner’s death in 2022. His Doctor also appeared in the 60th anniversary series ''[[Once and Future]]'' and in ''[[Dark Gallifrey (audio series)|Dark Gallifrey]]'' recorded prior to Warner’s death and released posthumously. An [[Unbound Master|incarnation of the Master]] played by [[Mark Gatiss]] from the universe of the Unbound Doctor also appeared in the fourth volume of ''[[The War Master (audio series)|The War Master]]'' series and in the special marking 50 years of the Master, ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]''.
 In [[2022 (releases)|2022]] Big Finish revived Unbound with a duology of boxsets entitled ''[[Doctor of War (audio series)|Doctor of War]]''. Unlike previous storylines this used an established Doctor actor, [[Colin Baker]], but had him performing a new version of his Doctor called [[the Warrior]].
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 In [[2016 (releases)|2016]] [[The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume One|a set]] of ''[[The Tenth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Tenth Doctor Adventures]]'' starring [[David Tennant]] and [[Catherine Tate]] was released, marking the company's first true foray into "New Series" ''Doctor Who''.<ref name="The Tenth Doctor Adventures">{{cite web |url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-the-tenth-doctor-adventures |title=Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures |date of source=26 October 2015 |website name=Big Finish Productions |accessdate=26 October 2015}}</ref> Later volumes of ''The Tenth Doctor Adventures'' featured [[Billie Piper]] reprising her role as [[Rose Tyler]], [[Alex Kingston]] as [[River Song]], and also included characters established in other Big Finish ranges, such as [[Anya Kingdom]] from ''The Fourth Doctor Adventures''.
-In [[2017 (releases)|2017]] Big Finish began releasing a series of partially narrated stories, ''[[The Doctor Chronicles]]'' featuring the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, with [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jacob Dudman]] performing the narration and Doctor's dialogue. This allowed Big Finish to tell stories with Doctors whose actors were not currently contributing to the company. The range expanded to include the Twelfth Doctor. In [[2021 (releases)|2021]] the ''Chronicles'' series was changed to a full cast format, with Dudman now playing the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. Beginning with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in ''[[The Jago & Litefoot Revival (audio story)|The Jago & Litefoot Revival]]'', revived series Doctors also began to appear in the ''Short Trips'' range and were later included in ''The Audio Novels'', beginning with ''[[Emancipation of the Daleks (audio story)|Emancipation of the Daleks]]''.
+In [[2017 (releases)|2017]] Big Finish began releasing a series of partially narrated stories, ''[[The Doctor Chronicles]]'' featuring the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, with [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jacob Dudman]] performing the narration and Doctor's dialogue. This allowed Big Finish to tell stories with Doctors whose actors were not currently contributing to the company. The range expanded to include the Twelfth Doctor. In [[2021 (releases)|2021]] the ''Chronicles'' series was changed to a full cast format, with Dudman now playing the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. After the sixth volume of The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles and the third volume of The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles were released in 2024, Dudman retired from the roles.
+Beginning with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in ''[[The Jago & Litefoot Revival (audio story)|The Jago & Litefoot Revival]]'', revived series Doctors also began to appear in the ''Short Trips'' range and were later included in ''The Audio Novels'', beginning with ''[[Emancipation of the Daleks (audio story)|Emancipation of the Daleks]]''.
 To mark twenty years of their ''Doctor Who'' ranges, Big Finish produced a special boxset entitled ''[[The Legacy of Time (audio anthology)|The Legacy of Time]]'', which crossed over classic Doctors with revived era characters including [[River Song]], [[Jenny]], [[Kate Stewart]] and [[Petronella Osgood]].
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 Beginning in [[2020 (releases)|2020]], Big Finish produced a trilogy of multi-Doctor stories, entitled ''[[Out of Time (audio series)|Out of Time]]'', involving the Tenth Doctor meeting the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Doctors.
-In 2021, [[Jonathon Carley]] debuted as a recast War Doctor in a new range exploring the younger days of the character following ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', entitled ''The War Doctor Begins''. This range came to an end in [[2023 (releases)|2023]], following the sixth boxset ''[[Enemy Mine (audio anthology)|Enemy Mine]]'', which included an guest appearance by Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.
+In 2021, [[Jonathon Carley]] debuted as a recast War Doctor in a new range exploring the younger days of the character following ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', entitled ''The War Doctor Begins''. This range came to an end in [[2023 (releases)|2023]], following the sixth boxset ''[[Enemy Mine (audio anthology)|Enemy Mine]]'', which included an guest appearance by Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. In 2024 a new range, entitled ''The War Doctor Rises'', was announced to succeed it.
-In 2021 [[Christopher Eccleston]] made his Big Finish debut as the [[Ninth Doctor]] in a new series entitled ''[[The Ninth Doctor Adventures]]''. This leaves only three of the shows' headlining actors left to partake in this aspect of the ''Doctor Who'' franchise ([[Matt Smith]], [[Peter Capaldi]] & [[Jodie Whittaker]], respectively).
+In 2021 [[Christopher Eccleston]] made his Big Finish debut as the [[Ninth Doctor]] in a new series entitled ''[[The Ninth Doctor Adventures]]''. The series ran for 12 volumes, including stories featuring [[Cybermen]], the Brigadier and River Song. Eccleston also appeared in one episode of the 60th anniversary series ''[[Once and Future]]''.
 Beginning in 2022, Big Finish started utilising characters from the spin-off series ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', with [[Anjli Mohindra]] reprising [[Rani Chandra]] on audio in the second release of the ''[[The Eighth of March (audio series)|The Eighth of March]]'' series. A new range starring Rani, ''[[Rani Takes on the World (audio series)|Rani Takes on the World]]'', began in 2023, also featuring [[Daniel Anthony]], [[Mina Anwar]], [[Tommy Knight]] and [[Samantha Bond]] reprising their respective roles.
+In 2024 Big Finish announced [[Jodie Whittaker]] and [[Mandip Gill]] would be reprising their roles as the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Yasmin Khan]] in ''[[The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures]]'' beginning in 2025. This leaves only two of the shows' headlining actors left to partake in this aspect of the ''Doctor Who'' franchise ([[Matt Smith]] & [[Peter Capaldi]], respectively).
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