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|3|| ''[[Full Fathom Five (audio story)|Full Fathom Five]]'' || [[David Bishop]] || [[The Doctor (Full Fathom Five)|The Doctor (Unbound 3)]] || [[Ruth (Full Fathom Five)|Ruth]] || July 2003 | |3|| ''[[Full Fathom Five (audio story)|Full Fathom Five]]'' || [[David Bishop]] || [[The Doctor (Full Fathom Five)|The Doctor (Unbound 3)]] || [[Ruth (Full Fathom Five)|Ruth]] || July 2003 | ||
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|4|| ''[[He Jests at Scars... (audio story)|He Jests at Scars | |4|| ''[[He Jests at Scars... (audio story)|He Jests at Scars...]]'' || [[Gary Russell]] || [[The Valeyard (He Jests at Scars...)|The Valeyard]] || [[Melanie Bush (He Jests at Scars...)|Melanie Bush]] || September 2003 | ||
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|5|| ''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'' || [[Robert Shearman]] || Martin Bannister || || October 2003 | |5|| ''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'' || [[Robert Shearman]] || Martin Bannister || || October 2003 | ||
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Doctor Who Unbound was a series produced by Big Finish Productions. It featured hypothetical stories set in variants of the Doctor Who universe with premises fundamentally altered. These premises were often built upon "what if" propositions such as; "what if the Doctor hadn't left Gallifrey" (Auld Mortality), "what if the Doctor hadn't been UNIT's scientific advisor?" (Sympathy for the Devil) and "what if the Valeyard had won" (He Jests at Scars...). Others like Full Fathom Five's story was more vague built upon the idea of "what if the Doctor believed the ends justified the means?", while Deadline takes on the more meta-textual premise of "what if Doctor Who had never existed?" The final story in the ongoing series, Exile, featured a female Doctor, an idea that has been raised several times throughout Doctor Who's production.
First released in 2003, the first series of six Unbound stories were part of Big Finish's celebration of the 40th anniversary year of Doctor Who. Two subsequent stories were released in later years: the 2005 story A Storm of Angels was a sequel to Auld Mortality, and the 2008 story Masters of War was a sequel to Sympathy for the Devil.
Audio dramas
| # | Title | Author | Doctor | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auld Mortality | Marc Platt | The Doctor (Unbound 1) | Susan (Unbound) | May 2003 |
| 2 | Sympathy for the Devil | Jonathan Clements | The Doctor (Unbound 2) | Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Unbound), The Master (Unbound) | June 2003 |
| 3 | Full Fathom Five | David Bishop | The Doctor (Unbound 3) | Ruth | July 2003 |
| 4 | He Jests at Scars... | Gary Russell | The Valeyard | Melanie Bush | September 2003 |
| 5 | Deadline | Robert Shearman | Martin Bannister | October 2003 | |
| 6 | Exile | Nicholas Briggs | The Doctor (Unbound 6) | October 2003 | |
| 7 | A Storm of Angels | Marc Platt | The Doctor (Unbound 1) | Susan (Unbound) | January 2005 |
| 8 | Masters of War | Eddie Robson | The Doctor (Unbound 2) | Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Unbound), Davros (Unbound) | December 2008 |
Other usage of the term
Aside from stories officially released under the Doctor Who Unbound range, the "unbound" term has been adopted as a general descriptor of out-of-continuity stories. Paul Cornell, writer of Scream of the Shalka (which was retroactively subsumed in continuity by the BBC Wales Doctor Who series) has since referred to that story as his "unbound."[1] Nicholas Briggs has also informally described certain stories in Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes range which don't fit into its general continuity as "Sherlock Holmes Unbound."[2]
External links
- Doctor Who Unbound at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The DiscContinuity Guide: Doctor Who Unbound
- Official Doctor Who Unbound page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
- ↑ Paul Cornell (25 February 2009). Gallifrey and Things. PaulCornell.com. Retrieved on 29 July 2012. “Dude, they're, like, cosplaying my unbound!”
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/have-you-heard-sherlock-holmes
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