DOCTOR WHO - THE AUDIO ADVENTURES
SERIES 4
SEPTEMBER 2019
An in-depth episode guide to the new series of Doctor Who Audio Adventures coming this Autumn.
1. AUTONOMOUS
Written By Daniel Bury & Jaime Harrison
SATURDAY 21st September 2019
The Doctor, Kara, and Pip, the TARDIS Crew are back!
Michael Jenkins may look like a normal schoolboy at a boys' boarding school, but Micahel is not like the other boys. Michael comes across a strange alien sphere on the school grounds, he soon finds himself in very real danger.
By coincidence, Michael's maths teacher is an old friend of the Doctors. But why can't Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart remember that? The Doctor, along with his friends Kara and Pip are about to find out.
2. CALCATRAX
Written By Christopher Cribb & Stephen Hynes
SATURDAY 28th SEPTEMBER 2019
A falling star falls to Earth, Dunbar, in the year 1985. Not far from the Torness nuclear power station. Arriving in Dunbar, The Doctor, Pip, and Kara discover that there are strange power fluctuations frequently occurring in the local area and offer to help. With the power fluctuations getting worse and people going missing, the mystery deepens when the Doctor comes to inspect the complex. The alien Calcatrax and his mother, are draining the town's energy, and if not handled carefully they will consume the whole city, and then the whole of Scotland and then the world.
3. THE BELLS OF ST ALBANS
Written By Jaime Harrison
SATURDAY 5th OCTOBER 2019
The Bells of St Albans are ringing, 12 strikes at noon 12 strikes at midnight.
There is a rumor going around of a ghostly monk who haunts the Abbey in the shadows.
Arriving at the Abbey by happenstance The Doctor, Pip, and Kara come to investigate the truths behind the stories of the history of St Albans and unlock the mysteries time has left behind, with help from Father Nicholas Lethbridge Stewart. The Doctor is not all surprised when he discovers what's behind the truth; or more importantly. Whom...
4. THE MARK OF THE VAHLEY
Written By Anne Welsh and Jaime Harrison
SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER 2019
Preparations are being made to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Shataran Empire. King Ash is dead and a new King reigns supreme and with a new king comes new policies and customs which alternate the development of the Shataran Empire, and a new Empire is born.
The Doctor and Pip arrive thirty years after the succession of the new-founded King to the throne. For most of his reign, there has been peace and prosperity. The Empire flourished. But five years ago, the dreaded war came. And nothing was ever the same again. Now the Shatarans are in the middle of a long and bloody war with the mysterious alien race known as the Valhey led by the evil dark warlord Emperor Zarda. As more and more on both sides perish in the war, events are rushing to a head.
What exactly does Zarda want? What is the secret of the Valhey's weapon, the terrifying 'Mark of the Valhey'? As the Doctor and Kara race to save an Empire, they may not like the answers they find.
5. OPEN THE DOOR
Written By Jaime Harrison
SATURDAY 19th OCTOBER 2019
The door is ready... but what's behind it? The Doctor, Pip, and Kara are stuck in a creepy mansion house, cut off from the TARDIS and all communication from the outside world. What terrors or things lie from behind the door?
6. GENERATION OF THE DALEKS
Written By Daniel Bury and David Kent
SATURDAY 26th OCTOBER / 2nd NOVEMBER 2019
PART ONE - Shortly after arriving in London 2018, the TARDIS is loaded onto a lorry and stolen. The Doctor, Kara, and Pip are forced into following a trail of clues, which in turn lead them to an antique shop, and then lead into a trap by one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest adversaries.
PART TWO - Transported back in time to 1908 by scientists Edmond Stevenson and Maximillian Robson, the Doctor discovers that the Dalek's are blackmailing Stevenson and holding his daughter and son prisoner, Kara tries to make a rescue bid, and Pip is manipulated into becoming part of Dalek technology. The Daleks seek out to gain "The Human Factor". But the Doctor fears that if the Daleks uncover this, then nothing will stop their ruthless ambitions.
7. DEEP FREEZE
Written By Daniel Bury
SATURDAY 9th NOVEMBER 2019
8. DOUBLE TROUBLE
Written By Daniel Bury & Jaime Harrison
SATURDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2019
One of Doctor's old foes The Vixen tries to steal a computer drive from one of the universes' top secret security establishments and ends up teaming up with another of the Doctor's old enemies The Rani. Who also wants the computer drive. They form an alliance to get back at the Doctor, and from the looks of things, he'd better watch out!
9. THE MASTER BUILDER
Written By Daniel Bury
SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2019
This episode of Doctor Who The Audio Adventures is in celebration of Doctor Who's Anniversary
George Retsam is a middle-aged master builder of a small town and has lived his life as a successful architect with some distinct and local reputation. Retsam is paid a visit by his friend Doctor John Smith. Retsam's past soon starts to catch up with him or maybe his future.
10. THE SNAKE AND THE JAGUAR
Written By Daniel Bury & Chris Foster
SATURDAY 30th NOVEMBER 2019
Kara Connor thought she was free of the Mara forever, but when Kara has a nightmare, she fears that her traumatic experience with the Mara may come again. Suddenly everything in Kara's nightmare starts to come true when the TARDIS arrives on a desolate desert world.
Concerned for her safety, the Doctor decides to leave Kara in the TARDIS with Pip whilst he investigates the planet. But this is all part of a cunning and devious plan to resurrect the Mara and inhabit the darkness on the inside of the host, the darkness grows and the Mara will live again.
The heart of the secret lies in a crystal known as the Snake Charmer. Only the Doctor and Pip can stop the Mara in order to save Kara, but will they find the Snake Charmer in time, and convince the authorities that they are not deluded fools who believe in a children's fairytale.
11. STILL HUMAN
Written By Daniel Bury & Jaime Harrison
SATURDAY 7th/14th DECEMBER 2019
PART ONE - The Doctor is continuing working on his pet project, Rodney, a robot who breaks down and so the only way to fix him is to go to the planet of Trade World where the robot parts the Doctor needs are manufactured. When they arrive on Trade World they discover that the planet is run by the International Cybernetics company, all of which is the doing of Mr. Paul Rankin, a professor who specializes in the rights of robotics and cybernetics and is perfecting on his newest experiment, and developing human upgrades, but when his experiment goes horribly wrong the Doctor steps in to help. Little does he know he is assisting to resurrect one of his oldest and deadliest foes.
PART TWO - The Cybermen are back! Can the Doctor save humanity and shut down the Cyber Grid, or is the disassemble mathematically impossible?
11. THE GAME OF GODS
Written By Daniel Bury
SATURDAY 21st / 28th DECEMBER 2019
PART ONE - The World is in trouble, and there's only one man who can save it. But that man is gone, and he may never come back. Perry 'Pip' Mickels needs the Doctor's help. But he is nowhere to be seen. While Pip struggles to survive a terrible illness, an even greater threat to the human race is about to be realised. The human race must accept the reality of the situation; they have been defeated.
PART TWO - It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for.
DOCTOR WHO AUDIO ADVENTURES - SERIES 4. Coming this Autumn. 2019
