Doctor Who has a long history of re-uniting the various incarnations of the Doctor in both televised and audio adventures. In the 1970s, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee came together in The Three Doctors, followed by The Five Doctors in 1983 and The Two Doctors in 1985, which teamed by then-current Doctor Colin Baker with second Doctor Patrick Troughton.
In 1993, a 3D multi-Doctor story, Dimensions in Time, formed part of the BBC’s Children In Need line-up.
When Big Finish launched their Doctor Who range, their first story featured Davison, Colin Baker and McCoy together and, more recently, another Children in Need TV story featured a meeting between Peter Davison and David Tennant.
In comics, of course, there have been several meetings of Doctors, including a charity gathering on behalf of Comic Relief that also saw several Doctors encounter Dan Dare and the Mekon, many years ago now. And downthetubes supremo John Freeman teamed up with artist Lee Sullivan to bring us Planet of the Dead, a Seven Doctors story in Doctor Who Magazine.
It remains to be seen if we will see another Doctors team-up on the TV for the 50th anniversary in 2013 but, in the meantime, The Four Doctors will be keenly awaited by fans. The four Big Finish Doctors have come together before in Zagreus, a 40th anniversay audio story, but on that occasion they did not all play their usual character. This looks like it will be a ‘proper’ multi-Doctor story, complete with Daleks!
There is just one catch – you have to be a Big Finish subscriber to get it!
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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