Into The Time Vortex - Episode 52 - Doctor Who - The Ambassadors Of Death

Doctor Who - Details on Short Trips: The Blame Game

This month's download only adventure features the 3rd Doctor and Liz Shaw as they take on The Monk.  This story is narrated by Rufus Hound who has played The Monk in past Big Finish stories. You can get this download only story from the Big Finish website.
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-blame-game-1350

To escape his Earth exile, the Doctor is prepared to make any bargain, come to any arrangement, or to do any deal with any devil – even if in this case the Devil wears a monk's robes. But when past misdeeds start catching up with both the Doctor and the Monk, who can Liz Shaw trust when time is running out and death is rapidly approaching?

Producer Ian Atkins
Script Editor John Pritchard
Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs

Written By: Ian Atkins
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman

Cast
Rufus Hound (Narrator)

Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space Review

To celebrate Jon Pertwee's 96th birthday we look back at his very first story as The Doctor.

Doctor Who:
Spearhead From Space
By Robert Holmes

“You really believe in a man who has helped to save the world twice, with the power to change his physical appearance? An alien who travels though time and space, in a police box!”

The newly regenerated 3rd Doctor has arrived on earth the worst for wear as he has been traumatize by being forced to regenerate by the Time Lords after his trial.  His exile on earth hasn’t started off all that well as The Doctor is hospitalized and almost kidnapped and then grazed by a bullet from a UNIT soldier.  Not a very good start in your new body.  Over shadowed by those events was a mysterious asteroid shower with quite a few of them making their way to earth.  But the problem is these are not your ordinary space debris as The Nestene Intelligence is was part of that and that act was the first salvo fired in the invasion of Earth.  With the control of plastic and the plastic creatures the Autons to control it’s up to the new Doctor and his new companion Liz Shaw to stop them with the aid of UNIT and the Brigadier.  

Doctor Who: The Last Post Synopsis

Here is the synopsis for the last audio adventure that Caroline John did before her death last June.  The Last Post is out now by Big Finish to buy or download.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-last-post-743


People are dying. Just a few, over a period of months... but the strange thing is that each person received a letter predicting the date and time of their death.

Throughout her time as the Doctor’s assistant, Liz Shaw has been documenting these passings.

Her investigation ultimately uncovers a threat that could lead to the end of the world, but this time Liz has someone to help her.

Her mother.

Written By: James Goss
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman

Caroline John Doctor Who Companion To The 3rd Doctor Has Passed Away

Caroline John (1940 - 2012) who was Jon Pertwee's first companion in 1970 has passed away on June 5th 2012.  She played Liz Shaw in Jon Pertwee's first season as the Doctor and made her first appearance in Spearhead from Space until her last appearance in Inferno.  She also returned for a cameo appearance in The Five Doctors and also had a part in the Children In Need skit the Dimensions in Time.

She also reprised her role as Liz Shaw for the BBV productions in The P.R.O.B.E series written by Mark Gatiss and feature numerous Doctor Who alumni.  She also acted along with Colin Baker in the BBV Stranger series of videos also.  Ironically Caroline John was married to Geoffrey Beavers who played The Master in the Tom Baker story The Keeper of Traken. 

I had the good fortune of meeting Caroline John at a convention back in the 2000's.  She was very nice and talked to everyone in the autograph line.  Her panel was very interesting as she gave us an insite into the beginning of the Third Doctor era and what Jon Pertwee was like during his first season.  She will be missed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18531461
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/s7/doctor-who/news/a388805/doctor-who-star-caroline-john-dies.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_John

http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/Obituary-Caroline-John-(1940-2012).aspx

This obituary from I09 is excellent - http://io9.com/5920283/how-caroline-john-helped-save-doctor-who