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Doctor Who is once more in the loving embrace of Bad Wolf Productions, the only production company to ever send its brand name back in time to paradoxically ensure its own creation. With that, and the shiny new Disney+ revenue flowing in, the word on the street is that Doctor Who is about to try to build its own MCU.

When The Doctor appreciates your decor...

Companions new and old combine as Strax makes the transition to the world of Big Finish's Doctor Who audio adventures…

While rumours of a Paternoster Gang Doctor Who spin-off have been floating around for ages, no one could have predicted this – an audio production that teams up Dan Starkey’s Strax with Tom Baker-era companions Jago and Litefoot, played by Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter (they first appeared in Tom Baker’s The Talons Of Weng-Chiang in 1977).

While classic companions are normally fair game to Big Finish (indeed, there's already 9 series worth of Jago and Litefoot material), Strax’s inclusion here makes him the latest in a very-recently-established trend that has seen the Torchwood cast, the main show's Unit characters, Alex Kingston’s River Song, and Ian McNiece’s Winston Churchill all swap the televisual realm for Big Finish audio adventures, all in the space of the last year.

Doctor Who's irascible Sontaran butler Strax is getting his own spinoff - on audio.

In news so exciting your puny human minds might not be able to handle it, the fan-favourite character (played by Dan Starkey) will feature in a new adventure from Big Finish.

Big Finish produce a wide range of Doctor Who audio productions - with 'new series' releases featuring Unit and River Song also in the offing.

In a new 2-disc special - coming in November - Strax will team-up with Victorian investigators Jago and Litefoot.

Jago (Christopher Benjamin) and Litefoot (Trevor Baxter) were first introduced in the classic Tom Baker adventure 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' (1977) - and already have their own Big Finish spinoff series.

"'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' was one of my favourite Doctor Who stories growing up," Starkey said. "Now it's a joy to bring Strax face to face with the characters who...

Tony Jones is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Those infamous investigators of infernal incidents, Jago & Litefoot, are back for their ninth boxset. Yes ninth! Not bad for a spin-off from a single fourth Doctor story, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, all those decades ago. Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin are in their usual fine form as this time they go on a much...

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Meredith Burdett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

With Christmas coming up, you might be looking for suggestions for those Whovians in your life – and we recommend the Target book reading of fan-favourite adventure, The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The unabridged reading of Terrance Dicks’s Target novelisation is performed by Christopher Benjamin; depending on how far your love of Doctor Who goes you’ll either

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Digital Spy readers named David Tennant as Doctor Who's greatest ever Doctor - now, with less than a month to go until the 50th anniversary, DS is embarking on a new quest... to list the top 10 Who stories of all time.

Appropriately enough, slot number four is filled by the fourth Doctor. Tom Baker's first entry in our 50th list is a fan favourite tale penned by one of the show's most acclaimed writers, the esteemed Robert Holmes...

4. The Talons Of Weng-chiang (1977) - Six episodes - written by Robert Holmes

"Let the talons of Weng-Chiang... Shred Your Fleee-aaaa-eeesh!!"

The finale to Doctor Who's 14th series is a wonderfully lurid, Penny Dreadful-inspired piece of drama, where the fog-strewn streets of London are littered with severed limbs and innocents meet a gruesome demise.

'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' features not one but two iconic villains."Slathering, gangrenous vampire" Magnus...

Meredith Burdett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

On a lighter note, rather than having to take on nasty aliens or time travelling foes, all Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter have to do this month is take on...

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Cameron K McEwan Aug 16, 2016

Cameron sings the praises of 25 classic and modern Doctor Who adventures that went underappreciated. See what made the cut below...

Doctor Who fans can be an odd bunch at times (and by that I mean all the time), what's gold to one is dross to another. And when you think everyone is agreed on a genuine stinker (Timelash, for example), you'll find it has admirers in abundance. But what's here are some of the stories that, for whatever reason, get overlooked, underseen and, perhaps, undervalued - in no particular order.

The Awakening

Two-parters often get forgotten about (in classic Doctor Who at any rate) and this Peter Davison story, whilst perhaps best known to Who fans for a famous blooper featuring a horse, has some tremendous imagery and beautiful location shooting. Best of all is the villain of the piece, The Malus, who put the willies...

Feature Cameron K McEwan 26 Apr 2013 - 07:00

Cameron sings the praises of twenty-five classic and modern Doctor Who adventures that deserve more love. See what made the cut below...

Doctor Who fans can be an odd bunch at times (and by that I mean all the time), what's gold to one is dross to another. And when you think everyone is agreed on a genuine stinker (Timelash, for example), you'll find it has admirers in abundance. But what's here are some of the stories that, for whatever reason, get overlooked, underseen and, perhaps, undervalued - in no particular order.

The Awakening

Two-parters often get forgotten about (in classic Doctor Who at any rate) and this Peter Davison story, whilst perhaps best known to Who fans for a famous blooper featuring a horse, has some tremendous imagery and beautiful location shooting. Best of all is the villain of the piece, The Malus,...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Back in the day, one of the best old series Who episodes aired. It was called “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”, and it featured the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela investigating sinister goings on in 1890s England. That story introduced two characters who went on to be very popular, namely theatrical impresario Henry Gordon Jago (Christopher Benjamin) and coroner George Litefoot (Trevor Baxter).

Jago and Litefoot were often talked about for their own spinoff series, something that eventually happened when Big Finish began their line of (really excellent) Jago and Litefoot stories. They even teamed up the two with the Sixth Doctor for a set of (really excellent, and very cheap) adventures, but they’d never gotten around to having them run around with the Fourth Doctor. Until now.

This story concerns the arrival of the Doctor and Romana (Mary Tamm) in London in the 1890s.

Wasps. What are they good for? Well, as the old song goes, absolutely nothing – apart from to irritate the hell out of you on a hot summer's day. And even worse, they'll sting you without a second thought. At least bees may think twice about this, given that they're committing suicide in the process. But the wasp has no such mechanism to make it as benign, and more to the point, they'll make you look a fool in the process. Whether you're freezing like a waxwork dummy or doing some sort of crazy war dance in a vain bid to get rid of the annoying bugger, they'll still sting you like no tomorrow.

So a giant wasp should scare the bejesus out of any living man, woman or child. No wonder the latest Doctor Who story makes a virtue out of this with a story called The Unicorn And The Wasp.

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (12A)

(Michael Bay, 2011, Us) Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Josh Dempsey, John Malkovich. 155 mins

Despite the bombastic patriotism, drooling machine porn, all-round political dodginess, atrocious comedy, antiquated alien-invasion plot, etc, there's something oddly compelling about metropolitan destruction and high-tech combat rendered on this scale. If only there weren't those irritating humans getting in the way. It's an improvement on the last one, but this is so defiantly crass, it's almost admirable. Best watched with a 10-year-old boy, a hangover, or a cultural historian by your side to tell you how wrong it all is.

A Separation (PG)

(Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran) Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami. 123 mins

The complete opposite of Transformers: a complex, intricate and deeply satisfying study of Iranian society. Built around a divorcing couple, but ranging far wider, it's a web of social taboos, domestic clashes and building tension.

A smashing new entry into the Companions Chronicles from Big Finish, The Mahogany Murderers reunites Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter as Jago and Litefoot from the lauded 1977 Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng Chiang... I’m a sucker for “event drama” – as an occasional listener to big finish’s output, I’ve previously listened to first adventure The Sirens of Time, first Eighth Doctor audio Storm Warning, anniversary story Zagreus, Unbound classic...

The Mahogany Murderers is a new play from Big Finish, one of the leading lights of their Companion Chronicles series, featuring as it does the much anticipated reunion of Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter reprising their roles from 1977's Doctor Who adventure the Talons of Weng Chiang! That's right - Henry Gordon Jago and Professor Litefoot are reunited! Professor George Litefoot: the eminent pathologist who advises the police in some of their grisliest cases. Henry Gordon Jago: the...

ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at the trailer for IFC Films' Angel , written and directed by François Ozon. The romantic drama, opening in theaters on March 18th, stars Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling, Jacqueline Tong, Janine Duvitski, Christopher Benjamin, Simon Woods and Jemma Powell. In the film, set in Edwardian England, a precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.