What If Doctor Who's Audio Adventures Were Planned Like They Were Being Made for TV?

The Doctor and Donna are off on new adventures—and they’ve brought along some familiar faces.

Listening to a Doctor Who story as an audio drama and sitting down on a Saturday night (or Sunday, depending on the season!) to watch an episode of the show are very different things. But while the mediums are both different avenues of storytelling, one thing can help bring both to life: storyboarding.

To celebrate the arrival of Big Finish’s third volume of audio adventures with David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor—this time re-uniting him not just with Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, but also Bernard Cribbins and Jacqueline King as Wilfred Mott and Donna’s mother Sylvia, respectively—io9 has an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at some of the bonus features that come with the deluxe edition collection of the three new tales.

The full cover for The Tenth Doctor Adventures’ third volume.

Set during the fourth season of the revived era of Doctor Who, James Goss’ “No Place,” Jenny T. Colgan’s “One Mile Down,” and Roy Gill’s “The Creeping Death” see the Doctor and Donna face familiar threats like the Judoon as well as all-new monsters, like a sinister creature lurking in the great smogs of ‘50s London. The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 3 is jam-packed with chills and thrills, just as you’d expect out of any Doctor Who story. But listeners only ever get to hear those aforementioned chills and thrills, as actors speak their lines and mimic as if they’re actually running down corridors and fighting monsters from the comfort of a recording booth. The “seeing” of each adventure is left to their imagination.

But to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Big Finish’s Doctor Who line this year, the company asked VFX supervisor Mike Tucker—whose Doctor Who work stretches across both the classic and revived periods of the show—to actually whip up storyboards for each of the Doctor and Donna’s new adventures as if they were being planned for filming like an episode of the show, to be included as part of a special book in the new collection’s deluxe edition. 

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