Classic Doctors, New Monsters

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Classic Doctors, New Monsters was an audio series produced by Big Finish Productions beginning in 2016. It featured Doctors from the "classic" series of Doctor Who, along with aliens from the "new", revived series.

Stories

Volume One

Main article: Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume One
# Title Author Doctor Featuring Released
1.1 Fallen Angels Phil Mulryne 5th Weeping Angels 28 July 2016
1.2 Judoon in Chains Simon Barnard, Paul Morris 6th Judoon
1.3 Harvest of the Sycorax James Goss 7th Sycorax
1.4 The Sontaran Ordeal Andrew Smith 8th Sontarans

Volume Two

Main article: Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two
# Title Author Doctor Featuring Released
2.1 Night of the Vashta Nerada John Dorney 4th Vashta Nerada 27 July 2017
2.2 Empire of the Racnoss Scott Handcock 5th Racnoss
2.3 The Carrionite Curse Simon Guerrier 6th Carrionite
2.4 Day of the Vashta Nerada Matt Fitton 8th Vashta Nerada, War Ollistra

The Stuff of Nightmares

Main article: The Stuff of Nightmares (audio anthology)
# Title Author Doctor Featuring Released
3.1 The House That Hoxx Built Tim Foley 3rd Sarah, Balhoonians 28 July 2022
3.2 The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much Robert Valentine 4th Leela, Tivolians
3.3 Together in Eclectic Dreams Roy Gill 6th Eighth Doctor, Kantrofarri
3.4 If I Should Die Before I Wake John Dorney (from a story by Jacqueline Rayner) 8th Charley, Kantrofarri

Broken Memories

Main article: Broken Memories (audio anthology)
# Title Author Director Doctor Featuring Released
4.1 Invasion of the Body Stealers Jonathan Morris Barnaby Edwards 4th Sarah, Harmony Shoal 14 March 2024
4.2 The Queen of Clocks Jacqueline Rayner 6th Mel, Clockwork Droids
4.3 The Silent Priest David K Barnes 8th Silents
4.4 The Silent City 7th

Notes

  • Volume One featured the Eighth Doctor facing the Sontarans as the "new" monster, despite them being a classic series creation that debuted in The Time Warrior in 1973. This was justified by having the Sontarans in The Sontaran Ordeal being a clone batch from the era of the Last Great Time War. The front cover uses the 2008 design from the Sontarans' reintroduction in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky in Series 4.
  • Subsequent volumes of the range have the Eighth Doctor facing an enemy already faced by a previous Doctor in an earlier story of the same box set.

Other stories

Big Finish also released a number of stories in which a classic-era Doctor encounters a revived-era alien as part of other ranges. Although not part of Classic Doctors, New Monsters, they utilise the same concept.

The same concept is also used in other media not produced by Big Finish, notably in anthology short stories like A Comedy of Terrors where the Second Doctor faces a Raxacoricofallapatorian, and Red Planet where the Fourth Doctor faces the Sycorax. Prior to Classic Doctors, New Monsters, the comic stories The Forgotten and A Rare Gem featured an encounter between the Judoon and the Fifth and Fourth Doctors respectively.

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