Once and Future 3: A Genius for War Limited Edition
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Ken Bones (The General), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks/dalek Supreme), Beth Chalmers (Veklin), Esmonde Cole (Bosco), Terry Molloy (Davros), Yasmin Mwanza (Aldan), Stephen Noonan (The First Doctor), Tim Treloar (The Third Doctor), Michael Troughton (The Second Doctor)
This title was released in July 2023. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 30 September 2023, and on general sale after this date.
The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form – instead, The Doctor’s past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly between incarnations…
Staggering to his TARDIS, The Doctor sets out to solve the mystery of his ‘degeneration’. Who has done this to him? How? And why? From the Earth to the stars, across an array of familiar times and places, he follows clues to retrace his steps, encountering old friends and enemies along the way. Tumbling through his lives, The Doctor must stop his degeneration before he loses himself completely…
In the midst of the Time War, the Time Lords have received a communication from Falkus, the prison moon of Skaro. Its sole inmate, Davros, wishes to make them an offer.
He will help them win the Time War… but only if The Doctor comes to his rescue.
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The Doctor’s journey up and down his own timeline continues in the latest adventure of Big Finish’s 60th anniversary series with Once and Future: A Genius for War.
A game of chess for Davros and the Doctor
Sylvester McCoy stars as the Seventh Doctor in a battle of wits with his greatest enemy, in a full-cast Doctor Who audio drama released today.
Davros (Terry Molloy), the General (Ken Bones) and Veklin (Beth Chalmers) are just some of the familiar faces encountered as The Doctor tries to find out more about the mysterious weapon which injured him during the Time War.
Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War is now available to own as a single-disc collector’s edition CD (+ download for just £10.99), or digital download only (for just £8.99).
In the midst of the Time War, the Time Lords have received a communication from Falkus, the prison moon of Skaro. Its sole inmate, Davros, wishes to make them an offer.
He will help them win the Time War… but only if The Doctor comes to his rescue.
Writer Jonathan Morris said: “I was thrilled to be asked to write for the 60th anniversary audio series. Working on other Big Finish things, I’d occasionally caught a tantalising glimpse of a page of script or overheard actors in the studio recording a scene which I didn’t know about. And I was all, ‘Oh, that sounds terribly exciting, I wish they’d ask me to do something’. And then, out of the blue, they did!
“I had two main thoughts, though, which you could consider part of my ‘brief to self’. It needed to deal with a significant part of the series mythology – it couldn’t be ‘just another Doctor Who story’. And rather than being written in the style of the Seventh Doctor’s era it had to be a contemporary piece because it’s not only a celebration of the past, it’s a celebration of the fact that it’s still going.”
Actor Sylvester McCoy added: “Doctor Who was only supposed to last for six weeks and it’s now sixty years! It’s astonishing.
“I’m sure the other Doctors and companions will tell you, when they meet people throughout the world, many of them say ‘Doctor Who inspired me to become a doctor’, ‘Doctor Who inspired me to become a scientist’, or ‘Doctor Who inspired me and helped me to get through life’. It’s extraordinary. What a blessing to be in such a wonderful programme.”
Big Finish listeners can pre-order the bundle of all eight Once and Future audio adventures for just £72 (on collector’s edition CD and download) or £60 (download only).
A special edition series bundle, which contains extended behind-the-scenes extras and music suites for each story, is also available to pre-order for just £62 (as a digital download only).
All the above prices include the special pre-order discount and are subject to change after general release.
Please note that Big Finish is currently operating a digital-first release schedule. The mailout of collector’s edition CDs will be delayed, but all purchases of this release unlock a digital copy that can be immediately downloaded or played on the Big Finish app from the release date.
