Doctor Who - The First Doctor Adventures: Fugitive of the Daleks

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Vicki is back in the TARDIS.
Much loved Doctor Who actor Maureen O’Brien steps back on board the TARDIS alongside the First Doctor (played by the acclaimed Stephen Noonan) in a brand-new First Doctor Adventures audio drama by veteran Big Finish writer Jonathan Morris.
As many Doctor Who fans will know, Vicki (played by Maureen O’Brien) departed the TV series back in the 1965 story, The Myth Makers. Maureen has since featured many times in various Big Finish productions over the years, brilliantly recreating the vibrant, youthful energy of Vicki, a companion the Doctor and friends rescued from a crashed spaceship in The Rescue (1965).
But in Fugitive of the Daleks, things are a little different.
“Up to now, I’ve always played Vicki at the age of 15, which was the age she was when she first met the Doctor, so to be playing Vicki as the age I am now is very refreshing,” said Maureen.
Doctor Who - The First Doctor Adventures: Fugitive of the Daleks is now available to buy for just £22.99 (collector’s edition CD box set + download) £18.99 (download only), exclusively at the Big Finish website.
Director and script editor Nicholas Briggs, who also voices the Daleks in this box set, explained: “Listeners may remember that at the end of our last First Doctor story, The Incherton Incident, the Doctor suddenly disappeared. And this has some bearing on how he now finds himself travelling with an older version of Vicki.”
This is, of course, Maureen’s first encounter with Big Finish’s recast First Doctor, Stephen Noonan. “Oh, he’s fantastic,” she enthused. “We’re fellow Liverpudlians, so we have a lot in common. He is doing an extraordinary job as William Hartnell’s Doctor. It’s an incredible challenge but he’s incredibly meticulous and he is getting it right. He’s got the rhythm of William Hartnell, which I think is always the most important thing about how someone speaks. It’s really a fantastic portrayal.”
Fugitive of the Daleks takes the TARDIS team on a whirlwind tour of space and time, plunging them into many life-threatening situations, with the Doctor’s arch enemies never far away.
“There’s a lot for the older Vicki to cope with," added Nicholas Briggs. “But she embraces every challenge with gusto. This is an exciting and emotional journey for her as she plunges back into the fray with renewed vigour!”
Big Finish listeners can purchase Fugitive of the Daleks along with 2024’s Second Doctor Adventures box set (title TBC) together in a bundle for just £44 (collector’s edition CD box set + download) £36 (download only).
Fugitive of the Daleks is also available to purchase as part of a 12-release 2024 Classic Doctor bundle for just £240 (collector’s edition CD + download) or £204 (download only). A 15-release bundle is also available to purchase for just £294 (collector’s edition CD + download) or £252 (download only).
All the above prices include the special pre-order discount and are subject to change after general release.

[@AndrewHsieh96]

I was in the middle of re-listening to Fugitive of the Daleks when I stumbled upon the trailer, and it's visually magnificent!

[@jeremythomaswebb1485]

Both the trailer and the audio story are Brilliant!!! 10/10

[@rexorr]

The thing is that the visual trailers are always superior to the Audio. Which is disappointing.

[@tenshiigarashi4063]

Stephen Noonan is the closest they have come to replicate Hartnell. I listened to this last night, and it was amazing. It is like I was watching a classic serial. Big finish really knows how to replicate the atmosphere of each era. Who knows...in several years when he is older, he could even star in a live action adventure in the main show ;)?.

[@williamwebster9437]

Okay, Big Finish. You've convinced me. I'll get this one.

[@jeremythomaswebb1485]

You won't regret it!

[@CaJoel]

this story was so much fun! it’s like a spiritual successor to The Chase, and also I love the use of the Vicki stills from Tales of the TARDIS in the trailer

[@rhy5d3ll]

Wonderful to have a third helping of the First Doctor from Stephen Noonan, who shines in this as usual, and gives an especially extraordinary performance this time around!! It’s an extra special treat to have both Lauren Cornelius as Dodo AND Maureen O’Brien as Vicki. Overall, a wonderfully fun and twisty story well worth the wait after that cheeky cliffhanger from last year’s set! I really hope we can get sets like these for a good few years to come!

[@stephennoonan8417]

Absolutely delighted you enjoyed this one, Rhys. And thank you so much for all the supportive comments you’ve made over the past two years! We’re preparing for the next recording as we speak; and I’m full of confidence that Nicholas will ensure that this project continues to grow - from strength to strength. Very best wishes, Stephen 😁

[@jaytender4949]

This seems like an exciting boxset! It must have been fun for Stephen Noonan to work not only the brilliant Maureen O’Brien but also facing up the Daleks for the first time!

[@Timelord007]

This was a epic audio drama, a great cast, brilliant script & excellent atmospheric sound design. Stephen is killing it as the First Doctor 👍 👍

[@Eltonlaleham]

I must consider getting this story, and Vicki really should have stayed longer IMO she was awesome

[@Eltonlaleham]

I do say the Dalek time space ship is awesome in billions of ways.

[@methylpants]

Awesome. All right! So cool!!

[@warrennewman5325]

Half way through very brill at mo 👍

[@android65mar]

Nice work Rob Ritchie and Big Finish

[@mikeyandwho]

I really like this trailer. How nice would it be to get Big Finish animations.

[@GabeNotDave117]

Really enjoyed this boxset! I love seeing the trailer visualizations theyre so much fun:)

[@stephennoonan8417]

Hello Gabe. Would have loved to see you again this year in LA, but they didn’t invite us back! As Tom Baker once put it, ‘Was it something I said?’ 🥲

[@GabeNotDave117]

@@stephennoonan8417 Yeah, I was disappointed to see you weren't on the list this time😔 Maybe next year will be lucky!

[@jezcartner4104]

What a beautiful trailer

[@maxkennedy7430]

Big Finish. Please Continue The Doctor Who Comic Strip Adaptation Range.

[@TheValeyard92]

So... The Chase, then?

[@stephennoonan8417]

And so much more… 😁

[@DemetriusSorvo]

Yes and no. It's a very clever sequel to the Chase with a very nice twist at the end!

[@paulashe61]

Daleks meeting General Custer is silly.

[@EditedAF987]

It’s Doctor Who. Silliness is to be expected.

[@stephennoonan8417]

Although - as Mr TARDIS’s review suggests - what Morris does with it (and it’s only about 15 minute out of three hours) isn’t silly at all. 😁

[@DemetriusSorvo]

I was expecting it to be silly, but it actually worked quite well.

[@wolfielps4411]

I was thinking about the black female doctor, the one we see in the power of the doctor and think I know where she could be placed in the timeline so to speak, they call her the fugitive doctor yet this the first doctor was also known as the fugitive doctor, well she would fit nicely into the spot before him, meaning she would regenerate into the doctor we have here? Just a thought but it would at least give her an official spot in the line not just a random doctor from a random point in time.

[@stephennoonan8417]

It’s all fiction. Made up by hundreds of different writers with entirely different priorities, preoccupations and prejudices. What ultimately makes it all fit together is that it doesn’t. Just as what makes us all the same as people Is that we’re all entirely different from each other. A race of individual aliens. Like the Doctor.

[@cableguy6629]

For me this incarnation of the first dr sounds too much like Ebenezer scrooge as played by Ron Moody but still enjoyed this boxset

[@stephennoonan8417]

And that’s EXACTLY what I was going for! Might I recommend a remarkable 1971 film called Flight of the Doves, in which he plays multiple magisterial roles! Love, Stephen 😁

[@cableguy6629]

@@stephennoonan8417 thank you for the film recommendation have never heard of it. If that's the effect you were going for brilliant work you nailed it. If big finish ever do any dickens I demand they cast you 🤗

[@stephennoonan8417]

I was pulling your leg ever so slightly, cableguy. But Flight of the Doves IS a terrific film: Moody is magnificent in it; as is Jack Wilde (who played the Artful Dodger opposite him in that great 1968 masterpiece, Oliver!) Lots of love, S 😁

[@Bryan-gy2zu]

Thanks to bi-generation I like to think these adventures are all the more canon.

[@j.r.3981]

I find Noonan a bizarre choice - he either barks his lines aggressively or purrs them slowly and sinisterly, with practically zero charm, rarely evoking the First Doctor. I bet he could do Davros' "To hold in my hand a capsule" speech superlatively. His performance detracts a lot of my enjoyment of this range. Which is a shame because this play is hugely enjoyable, O'Brien is great as Vicki and makes a nice duo with Cornelius' Dodo. However... the comedy scene in episode 4 is absolute rubbish, replete with a heinous musical accompaniment, dreadful dialogue revolving around a visual gag and, perhaps, the worst performance Briggs has ever given - and he has generously and regularly given us many.

[@stephennoonan8417]

My dear fellow, I’m so very sorry to read this - because I really only participate in these recordings in the hope that they do justice to the early era and give pleasure to the fans. However, there’s a part of me that thrives on an intense curiosity about the sheer ‘Marmitey-ness’ of the enterprise and its reception: one comment superlatively flattering; then another - like yours - not so complimentary. An extraordinary game, this is - full of surprises, and with never a dull moment. It’s ceaselessly fascinating! Very best wishes to you. Stephen 😁

[@matthewst537]

He needs to grump up his old man voice

[@stephennoonan8417]

He has been known to… 😁

[@fuccasound3897]

the First Doctor was not some grumpy old man, if that was all Noonan took as basis for playing the Doctor then it would be a pretty one dimensional performance. Hartnell did not give a one dimensional performance. I particularly like Noonan's portrayal because he gets that slight northern (maybe yorkshire) inflection that Hartnell had from time to time, most versions of Hartnells Doctor miss this entirely.

[@plantainsame2049]

This is The first in the latter half of his era. He Has evolved past grumpy old man and into children's hero at this point

[@matthewst537]

@@plantainsame2049 no I know all that I literally mean his voice needs to be chain smoking to sound like bill hartnell

[@matthewst537]

@@fuccasound3897 yea I know the doctor evolved I mean this guy playing him sounds like if the doctor had a cold and couldn’t breathe out his nose he needs to get some grrr in his throat

[@MrLawrence85]

This sounds terrible to be honest 🙄

[@stephennoonan8417]

🤣🤣🤣