In cooperation with Big Finish, Tenth Planet will be releasing the Big Finish audio Caerdroia in a limited edition with a different cover during the Dimensions convention in early November. Tenth Planet will also sell the limited edition CD on their website. Click on the thumbnail at right for a larger version of the alternate cover. (Thanks to Tenth Planet)

Outpost Gallifrey has received the cover illustration for The Juggernauts by Scott Alan Woodard, the February 2005 audio starring Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and Terry Molloy (as Davros). Click on the thumbnail for a larger version of the cover. (Thanks to Gary Russell)

At the "Dr. Who & The Daleks II" convention this past weekend, Nicholas Briggs announced Big Finish will release a Cybermen audio series in 2005; no further details available. (Thanks to Sean Alexander)

According to the latest DWM, BBC Audio will release an unabridged reading of Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks, the novelisation of the series' second story "The Daleks," as an MP3-CD in March 2005; William Russell (Ian) will be doing the reading. Also confirmed are our earlier reports about the release of The Pescatons in January and The Underwater Menace in February, but it notes that Anneke Wills (Polly) has done the narration and also does an interview on the CD. Meanwhile on the Big Finish front, Short Trips 12: Seven Deadly Sins has been announced, edited by David Bailey, scheduled for March 2005, with seven stories: 'Envy' by Tara Samms; 'Gluttony' by Rebecca Levene; 'Wrath' by Mark Wright; 'Pride' by John Binns; 'Sloth' by Gareth Wigmore; 'Lust' by Paul Magrs; 'Avarice' by David Bailey and with additional linking material by Jacqueline Rayner. Also, the forthcoming release of The Game, the January Big Finish audio starring Peter Dvaison, will still be 6 episodes but only on two discs; the magazine also has the cover illustration for The Juggernauts which will hopefully be on the Big Finish site in the near future.

As previously reported, Storm Mine by Daniel O'Mahony, the sixth chapter of the "Kaldor City" audio series, will be released later this year, featuring appearances by Gregory De Polnay (who played the role of D84 in the Doctor Who serial "The Robots of Death") and Philip Madoc (who played Solon in "The Brain of Morbius"). Magic Bullet Productions has announced that the release date is December 18, and have issued the cover and story blurb for the CD, below. "Kaldor City" is the continuing series of audios based in the universe of "The Robots of Death" by Chris Boucher, who serves as creative consulant; this will be the first story in which the character of Uvanov, previously played by the late Russell Hunter, will not appear.

Big Finish has released the titles of its forthcoming UNIT audio series. Part One is Time Heals by Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett; part two is Snake Head by Jonathan Clements; part three is The Longest Night by Joseph Lidster; and part four is McLaughlin and BartlettÆs The Wasting. Also noted today is that a special 'prelude' adventure, The Coup by Simon Guerrier, with the new UNIT cast will be released with a forthcoming issue of Doctor Who Magazine prior to the start of the series (so likely, the November or December issue). More casting and other UNIT details were previously announced here on the OG news page.

Also updated today, the full list of stories for Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury edited by Paul Cornell. The stories include "Last Christmas" by Simon Guerrier, "UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas" by Nick Wallace, "In the TARDIS: Christmas Day" by Val Douglas, "Water's Edge" by Peter Adamson, "Who the Dickens?" by Juliet E. McKenna, "Spookasem" by Peter Anghelides, "Christmas Special" by Marc Platt, "Never Seen Cairo" by Darren Sellars, "The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas" by Mark Michalowski, "Last Minute Shopping" by Neil Perryman, "Every Day" by Stephen Fewell, "The Eight Doctors of Christmas" by Matthew Griffiths, "The Little Things" by Paul Beardsley, "UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce" by Terrance Dicks, "The Clanging Chimes of Doom" by Jonathan Morris, "Perfect Present" by Andy Campbell, "Present Tense" by Ian Potter, "Good Will Toward Men" by J. Shaun Lyon, "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow" by Martin Day, "All Our Christmasses" by Steve Lyons, "Lily" by Jackie Marshall, "A Yuletide Tail" by Dave Stone, "Be Forgot" by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright, "The Feast of Seven. Eight (and Nine)" by Vanessa Bishop, "UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass" by Karen Dunn, and "Evergreen" by Stephen Cole, with linking material by Paul Cornell.

There has also been a clarification regarding Her Final Flight, the subscriber-only CD release that was numbered #65 as part of the regular relases. After repeated queries about this, "we've opted thus to take Her Final Flight out of the sequential system and list it instead alongside The Maltese Penguin (our previous subscriber-only free disc), Real Time and Shada as a 'special'. Thus January's regular release, The Game becomes 65, The Juggernauts, 66 and so on." We do know from several correspondents who have checked that the story will be released at some point later for general availability, but likely not for the first year. They also mention a another subscriber-only free disc towards the end of next year.

The Big Finish site also mentions that part five of the "Dalek Empire III" series, The Warriors, and the ninth Short Trips volume, Short Trips: Monsters are now in release; and that they have re-released the four-CD set The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs as part of their "Talk Back" series with a new cover illustration. Finally, Big Finish does clarify that the reissues of older stories on the play.com website do not have new covers; the different illustration was simply for benefit of that site.

Big Finish has released the cover for the fifth Dalek Empire III serial, The Warriors, due out in October. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version. Meanwhile, part four of Dalek Empire III as well as the current Eighth Doctor serial "Faith Stealer" have been released according to Big Finish.

Big Finish has released details for Her Final Flight, the special one-off audio release due in December. Although it was previously announced as a Sylvester McCoy audio, this has changed; it now reunites Colin Baker with Nicola Bryant (the Sixth Doctor and Peri) as the principal cast for the first time since "...ish" two years ago. It's also got a regular number - number 65 - as opposed to previous limited-edition releases (which may surely irritate people who aren't part of the subscriber base!) Click on the thumbnail below for a larger version of the cover.

A clarification on our story from late last week: it appears that the release of the Tom Baker / Elisabeth Sladen audio adventure The Pescatons will indeed be a BBC audio release; according to a page on the UK Amazon site, BBC Audiobooks is the publisher for the January 3, 2005 release, with an ISBN number of 0563527641. (Thanks to Ceri Laing)

Another familiar face (so to speak) is joining the cast of Kaldor City 6: Storm Mine, the forthcoming CD from Magic Bullet Productions: actor Gregory de Polnay, who played "dumb" robot D84 -- actually a secret agent robot working undercover -- in "The Robots of Death". "Kaldor City" is a series of audio adventures continuing in the universe of that classic Doctor Who tale; visit their website for more information. (Thanks to Fiona Moore)