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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* [[James Goss]], producer of ''Time Lord Victorious'', reassured users on Twitter that all the stories would be available globally (with the exception of the [[escape room]] and the immersive theatre<ref>[https://twitter.com/gossjam/status/1254762134598189056 James Goss tweet]</ref>) and that the story was "inclusive", so that even if someone hadn't purchased some of the releases, they could have still got a "completed story".<ref>[https://twitter.com/gossjam/status/1254782346366038016 James Goss tweet]</ref>
* [[James Goss]], producer of ''Time Lord Victorious'', reassured users on Twitter that all the stories would be available globally (with the exception of the [[escape room]] and the immersive theatre<ref>[https://twitter.com/gossjam/status/1254762134598189056 James Goss tweet]</ref>) and that the story was "inclusive", so that even without purchasing all of the releases, they would still get a "completed story".<ref>[https://twitter.com/gossjam/status/1254782346366038016 James Goss tweet]</ref>
* The title of this series comes from the Tenth Doctor in [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', who briefly believes that rather than being a survivor of the Time War, he is the winner: the [[Time Lord Victorious]]. The episode was later retroactively incorporated as a part of the series.
* The title of this series comes from the Tenth Doctor in [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', who briefly believes that rather than being a survivor of the Time War, he is the winner: the [[Time Lord Victorious]]. The episode was later retroactively incorporated as a part of the series.
* Even as the series was announced and was beginning to roll out, Doctor Who licenses were still coming to Goss with ideas on how to expand the event because of how enthused they were with the idea.<ref name="comiccon">[https://youtu.be/zXfuQ2dnAck Titan Comics Time Lord Victorious Panel at SDCC Home]</ref>
* Even as the series was announced and was beginning to roll out, Doctor Who licenses were still coming to Goss with ideas on how to expand the event because of how enthused they were with the idea.<ref name="comiccon">[https://youtu.be/zXfuQ2dnAck Titan Comics Time Lord Victorious Panel at SDCC Home]</ref>

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The Time Lord Victorious series was a multi-platform story released between 17 August 2020 and January 2021. The series featured the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors, as well as Rose Tyler, the Ood and the Daleks.

Overview

The story was first teased online by Big Finish Productions and Doctor Who social media on 26 April 2020,[1][2] with first details of the storyline being announced on the following day.

Big Finish's news announced that "Time Lord Victorious will tell a new and untold story, set in the Dark Times near the start of the universe, when even the Eternals were young. Following several Doctors across space and time as they defend their home planet from a terrible race, this is a story like no other."[3]

The first releases were the UNIT Field Logs from 17-20 August.

Stories

Various stories were released, across media, by Penguin Random House, Doctor Who Magazine, Titan Comics, Escape Hunt, Big Finish Productions, Eaglemoss Hero Collector, Immersive Everywhere, Maze Theory, BBC Books and BBC Audio.[3]

The 2009 TV story The Waters of Mars has also been retroactively included in the event, being promoted as a chapter in the Tenth Doctor's path.

Comics

Titan Comics

# Title Author Doctor Featuring Printed in Released
1 Defender of the Daleks Jody Houser 10th Daleks TLV 1 - 2 2 September - 6 October 2020
Title Author Doctor Featuring Released Notes
Time Lord Victorious[4] Jody Houser 10th Daleks 17 November 2020 Collects TLV 1 - 2

Doctor Who Magazine

# Title Author Doctor Featuring Printed in Released
1 Monstrous Beauty Scott Gray 9th Rose, Great Vampires DWM 556 - 558 17 September - 12 November 2020

Prose

Doctor Who The Official Annual 2021

Title Author Featuring Released
The Guide to the Dark Times Paul Lang River Song 3 September 2020

Doctor Who newsletter

Title Author Featuring Released
The Dawn of the Kotturuh[5] James Goss Kotturuh 23 September 2020

Titan Merchandise

Title Author Featuring Released
Brian the Ood[6] James Goss Brian the Ood 30 September 2020

BBC Books

# Title Author Doctor Featuring Released
1 The Knight, The Fool and The Dead[7][8] Steve Cole 10th Ood, Kotturuh 1 October 2020
2 All Flesh is Grass[8][9] Una McCormack 8th, 9th, 10th Daleks, Kotturuh 10 December 2020

Eaglemoss Collections magazine

# Title Author Doctor Featuring Released
1 The Last Message[10][11][12] James Goss 10th Daleks 20 October 2020
2 Mission to the Known[11][13] 8th 1 November 2020
3 Exit Strategy[11][14] 8th, 9th, 10th 23 November 2020
4 TBA[11] 10th TBA 1 March 2021

Audios

Big Finish Productions' Time Lord Victorious series.[15][16]

# Title Author Director Doctor Featuring Released
1 He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not Carrie Thompson Scott Handcock 8th Ood 31 October 2020
2 The Enemy of My Enemy Tracy Ann Baines Daleks 29 November 2020
3 Mutually Assured Destruction Lizzie Hopley 30 December 2020

Vinyl release

Title Author Director Doctor Featuring Released
Echoes of Extinction[17] Alfie Shaw Scott Handcock 8th, 10th 27 November 2020 (Vinyl)
4 December 2020 (Download)[18]

Short Trips

# Title Author Director Featuring Released
1 Master Thief[15][19][20] Sophie Iles Lisa Bowerman The Master 7 October 2020
2 Lesser Evils[15][20] Simon Guerrier The Tremas Master, Kotturuh

BBC Audio

Title Author Narrator Doctor Featuring Released
The Minds of Magnox[21] Darren Jones Jacob Dudman 10th Ood 3 December 2020

Webcasts

UNIT Field Log

Main article: UNIT Field Log

Multiple webcasts were released to tie in to the immersive experience, Time Fracture.

# Title Author Featuring Released
1 14681 UNIT Field Log TBA UNIT 17 August 2020
2 14682 UNIT Field Log 18 August 2020
3 14683 UNIT Field Log 19 August 2020
4 14684 UNIT Field Log UNIT, Kate Stewart 20 August 2020

Daleks!

Main article: Daleks!

Beginning in November, Daleks! was an animated series of five 10 minutes episodes starring the Daleks released on the official YouTube channel. It was written by James Goss and starred Nicholas Briggs, Joe Sugg, Anjli Mohindra, and Ayesha Antoine. It was animated by Studio Liddell.[22]

# Title Author Featuring Released
1 The Archive of Islos[23] James Goss November 2020
2 The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy[23] TBA
3
4
5

Immersive experiences

File:Official Trailer Doctor Who Time Fracture

  • Doctor Who: Time Fracture - A 90 minute immersive event put on by Immersive Everywhere in central London, originally to premiere in Autumn 2020,[24] before being pushed back to 2021.[25][26]

Escape rooms

  • A Dalek Awakens - the second Doctor Who-themed "escape room" game developed by Escape Hunt.[11] While nothing has been added to this escape room specifically for this event, this event elaborates on the history of the particular Dalek found therein.[27]

Video games

  • The Edge of Time - A VR game previously developed by Maze Theory. At the same time that two non-VR titles are in development to expand The Edge of Time into a trilogy of games, new updates are being planned that will connect the original game to the multi-platform event. Some will be story content, some will be new items, and some will be traditional feature-based updates.[28]

Merchandise

Eaglemoss Collections

Eaglemoss Hero Collector is releasing four separate figurine sets, each of which come with a companion magazine that further explains the story.[10]

# Featuring Released
1 Dalek Emperor and Dalek Drone[10] 20 October 2020
2 Dalek Time Commander and Dalek Scientist[11][29] 1 November 2020
3 Dalek Executioner and Dalek Strategist[11] 23 November 2020
4 The Time Lord Victorious and Brian the Ood[11] 1 March 2021

Titan Merchandise

Titan Merchandise is releasing a t-shirt that tells a "very important piece of the Time Lord Victorious narrative".[30]

# Featuring Released
1 Brian The Ood[30] 30 September 2020

Paths

Different exploration paths were officially promoted[31] although not all announced merchandise were displayed (note: default sorting is in order of release date):

Title 8th 9th 10th Daleks Brian Kotturuh
The Waters of Mars x x 2 x x x
A Dalek Awakens x x x 8 x x
Defender of the Daleks x x 1 2 x x
The Guide to the Dark Times x x x x x 2
Monstrous Beauty x 1 x x x x
The Dawn of the Kotturuh x x x x x 1
The Knight, The Fool, and The Dead x x 3 x 2 3
Master Thief x x x x x 6
Lesser Evils x x x x x 7
He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not 2 x x x 1 x
The Last Message x x x 1 x x
Mission to the Known x x x 5 x x
Exit Strategy x x x 7 x x
Echoes of Extinction 1 x 6 x x x
The Enemy of My Enemy 3 x x 3 x x
The Minds of Magnox x x 5 x 4 5
All Flesh Is Grass 4 2 4 4 3 4
Mutually Assured Destruction 5 x x 6 x x

Notes

  • James Goss, producer of Time Lord Victorious, reassured users on Twitter that all the stories would be available globally (with the exception of the escape room and the immersive theatre[32]) and that the story was "inclusive", so that even without purchasing all of the releases, they would still get a "completed story".[33]
  • The title of this series comes from the Tenth Doctor in TV: The Waters of Mars, who briefly believes that rather than being a survivor of the Time War, he is the winner: the Time Lord Victorious. The episode was later retroactively incorporated as a part of the series.
  • Even as the series was announced and was beginning to roll out, Doctor Who licenses were still coming to Goss with ideas on how to expand the event because of how enthused they were with the idea.[34]
  • One idea discussed was whether you could tell a story on a T-shirt.[34][35]
  • The genesis of this project was described by Goss as the BBC calling him in, saying they wanted this project, "it should probably be called Time Lord Victorious, good luck!" He came back with some ideas, they liked them, nothing happened for a few months, and then they just gave him the green light out of nowhere.[34]
  • Due to the COVID-19 crisis there was a very real worry that this entire project would have to be canceled in its entirety.[34]
  • As of July 25, 2020 Goss notes that both the Immersive Theater and the Escape Room are working to find ways to open in a safe way even given the pandemic.[34] However, the Immersive Theater ended up being pushed back to spring of 2021, even though it was originally planned for Autumn of 2020.[25]
  • Goss told the Radio Times that the BBC had been covertly digitally focus grouping ideas for what fans actually wanted in spin-off media through sneaking questions into certain events. When Goss was first brought to a meeting regarding this topic, he was given a list of things that fans were interested in seeing, Doctors, monsters, etc, based on this practice. While this influenced broad story beats, such as having interest in more of the Eighth Doctor or the Daleks, it didn't specifically cause them to include a story involving the two of them together.[36]

Cover gallery

  • The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

    The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

  • All Flesh is Grass

    All Flesh is Grass

  • He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not

    He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not

  • The Enemy of My Enemy

    The Enemy of My Enemy

  • Mutually Assured Destruction

    Mutually Assured Destruction

  • Master Thief / Lesser Evils

    Master Thief / Lesser Evils

  • Echoes of Extinction

    Echoes of Extinction

  • Monstrous Beauty Part 1

    Monstrous Beauty Part 1

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Big Finish Time Lord Victorious teaser
  2. ↑ Doctor Who Time Lord Victorious teaser
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Time Lord Victorious - a new multi-platform adventure!
  4. ↑ Time Lord Victorious - Penguin Random House
  5. ↑ https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/the-dawn-of-the-kotturuh/
  6. ↑ https://forbiddenplanet.com/307272-doctor-who-time-lord-victorious-t-shirt-brian-the-ood-glow-in-the-dark/
  7. ↑ The Knight, The Fool and The Dead on Amazon
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 First ‘Time Lord Victorious’ stories announced!
  9. ↑ All Flesh is Grass on Amazon
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Time Lord Victorious Figurine Collection Magazine #1 Dalek Emperor & Drone
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 Time Lord Victorious Timeline
  12. ↑ https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/the-last-message/
  13. ↑ https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/mission-to-the-known/
  14. ↑ https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/exit-strategy/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Big Finish Time Lord Victorious page
  16. ↑ https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=time%20lord%20victorious&page=1
  17. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-time-lord-victorious-echoes-of-extinction-2262
  18. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/david-tennant-and-paul-mcgann-star-in-doctor-who-time-lord-victorious
  19. ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfOdjL_XgAI3W9c?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 https://www.doctorwho.tv/time-lord-victorious/
  21. ↑ The Minds of Magnox
  22. ↑ https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=daleks-the-animated-series-coming-soon-time-lord-victorious
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/daleks/
  24. ↑ Step into your own Doctor Who Adventure
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Cultbox Article
  26. ↑ Immersive Everywhere
  27. ↑ James Goss tweet about escape room
  28. ↑ Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time to get new content
  29. ↑ Figurine Collection Magazine Time Lord Victorious #2
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 https://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/tlv-t-shirt-brian-the-ood-glow-in-the-dark-mens-womans-fit/
  31. ↑ Paths from the Doctor Who newsletter
  32. ↑ James Goss tweet
  33. ↑ James Goss tweet
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.4 Titan Comics Time Lord Victorious Panel at SDCC Home
  35. ↑ Radio Times Podcast
  36. ↑ How Doctor Who fans created the story of Time Lord Victorious – without even realising it
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