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Welcome to the Release Guide Archive for September 2012, here at Doctor Who Online. This is the place where you can find information on items that have been released previously.

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The Dalek Project

BBC Books

By Justin Richards
11th Doctor / Graphic Novel

RRP: £14.99 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 6th September 2012

A stunning new graphic novel, featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith in an exciting adventure with the Daleks.

1917. It’s the height of the Great War and Hellcombe Hall is a house full of mystery: locked doors, forbidden rooms, dustsheets covering guilty secrets, and ghostly noises frightening the servants. Most mysterious of all, the drawing room seems to open directly onto a muddy, corpse-filled trench on the Western Front…

Arriving at this stately home, the Doctor meets Lord Hellcombe, an armaments manufacturer who has a new secret weapon he believes will win the war: he calls it ‘the Dalek’. Soon, the Doctor and his new friends are in a race against time to prevent the entire Western Front from becoming part of the Dalek Project!

A History of the Universe in 100 Objects

BBC Books

By James Goss and Steve Tribe
11th Doctor / Reference

RRP: £20.00 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 27th September 2012

Every object tells a story. From ancient urns and medieval flasks to sonic screwdrivers and glass Daleks, these 100 objects tell the story of the entire universe, and the most important man in it: the Doctor.

Each item has a unique tale of its own, whether it’s a fob watch at the onset of the Great War or a carrot growing on the first human colony on Mars. Taken together, they tell of empires rising and falling, wars won and lost, and planets destroyed and reborn.

Within these pages lie hidden histories of Time Lords and Daleks, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, the plot to steal the Mona Lisa and the story of Shakespeare’s lost play. You’ll find illustrated guides to invisible creatures, the secret origins of the internet, and how to speak Mechonoid.

A History of the Universe in 100 Objects is an indispensible guide to the most important items that have ever existed, or that are yet to exist.

Vengeance on Varos: Special Edition

BBC DVD

6th Doctor

RRP: £20.42 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com

Released: 10th September 2012

Further details coming soon...

Special Features:

• Commentary - With actors Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant and Nabil Shaban.
• Nice or Nasty? – cast and crew talk to presenter Matthew Sweet about the making of Vengeance on Varos. With actors Nabil Shaban and Sheila Reid, writer Philip Martin, script editor Eric Saward and composer Jonathan Gibbs.
• The Idiot’s Lantern – presenter Samira Ahmed looks at the way Doctor Who stories have used the medium of television within the narrative over the years.
• Extended and Deleted Scenes – scenes cut from story before transmission, taken from timecoded production tapes.
• Acid Bath Scene with Alternative Music - the infamous acid bath scene featuring a different music cue from the one finally used in the programme.
• Behind the Scenes – a glimpse inside the studio during recording of the story.
• Outtakes – outtakes from the studio recording session.
• Trailers – BBC1 trailers for both episodes.
• Continuities – BBC1 continuity announcements from the story’s original transmission.
• Tomorrow’s Times – The Sixth Doctor – the latest instalment in our series looking at the way newspapers reviewed and reported on the programme reaches the Colin Baker era. Presented by Sarah Sutton.
• News – BBC News reports on Colin Baker’s casting as the Doctor.
• Breakfast Time – Frank Bough interviews Colin Baker just after the announcement of his casting.
• Saturday Superstore – Mike Read interviews Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant on the BBC’s Saturday morning kids show and the pair take phone calls from their audience – and from an old adversary!
• French & Saunders – an unused Doctor Who spoof shot on the set of one of Colin Baker’s other stories.
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon Trailer
• Isolated Music
• 5.1 audio

The Empty House

BBC Audio / AudioGO

11th Doctor

RRP: £10.20 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 6th September (CD) / 1st September (DL)

The Empty House is an exciting audio exclusive adventure for the 11th Doctor and his companions Amy and Rory.

When the TARDIS materialises in rural England in the 1920s, the Doctor and his friends discover a crashed spaceship nearby.

It’s the beginning of a nightmarish adventure for them.

The story is read by Raquel Cassidy, who played Miranda Cleaves in the TV story The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, with original sound design.

Read by Raquel Cassidy

The Highlanders

BBC Audio / AudioGO

2nd Doctor

RRP: £13.25 (CD) / £10.99 (DL) - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 6th September 2012 (CD) / 1st September (DL)

The Second Doctor and his companions Ben and Polly find that the TARDIS have brought them to Culloden in 1746, during the famous battle between the Scots and the English.

There they become embroiled in events and meet a new friend: Jamie McCrimmon.

The Story is read by Anneke Wills, who played Polly in the original TV episodes, with original sound design.

Read by Anneke Wills.

Horror of Fang Rock

BBC Audio / AudioGO

4th Doctor

RRP: £13.25 (CD) / £10.99 (DL) - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 6th September 2012 (CD) / 1st September (DL)

The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, somewhere off the South Coast of England in the early 1900s, just as the lighthouse comes under attack by an unseen force.

The Doctor and Leela join the lighthouse keepers in a battle for survival through the night.

Louise Jameson, who played Leela in the TV series, provides linking narration, and recalls her time on Doctor Who in a 20 minute bonus interview. Also included are pdf files of the original TV camera scripts.

Read by Louise Jameson.

Torchwood: The Exodus Code

BBC Audio / AudioGO

Torchwood

RRP: £15.99 (CD) / £T.B.C (DL) - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 13th September 2012

Torchwood: The Exodus Code is a brand new novel written by John Barrowman (Captain Jack in the hit BBC TV series) and Carole E. Barrowman.

It starts with a series of unexplained events - earth tremors across the globe and people being driven insane by their heightened and scrambled senses. Then the world starts to notice - the number one Twitter trend is #TheLoco.

Governments and scientists are bewildered and silent. The world needs Torchwood, but there's not much of Torchwood left. Captain Jack has tracked the problem to its source: a village in Peru, where he's uncovered evidence of alien involvement.

Back in Cardiff, Gwen Cooper has discovered something lurking inside the Torchwood software - something alien and somehow connected to Jack. If the world is to be restored, she has to warn him - but she's quickly becoming a victim of the madness, too!

Read by TBC

164 - Gods and Monsters

Big Finish Productions

7th Doctor
RRP: £14.99 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 30th September 2012

The TARDIS travellers arrive in a bizarre landscape seemingly immune to the physical laws governing the rest of the universe. Ace, Hex and their motley army of allies battle to rescue the Doctor from the trap he's walked into… soon realising that the odds are stacked against them.

But the gods and monsters who inhabit this strange realm loaded the dice against them long ago, in the dim and distant past – and defeat's their only option.

165 - The Burning Prince

Big Finish Productions

5th Doctor
RRP: £14.99 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 30th September 2012

The Drashani Empire – a galaxy-spanning civilisation, the glory of Rome set among the stars. But for decades now, the Royal Houses of Gadarel and Sorsha have been at war, each claiming the Imperial throne.

The wedding of Prince Kylo and Princess Aliona was meant to change all that – a blessed union between the Houses, a new hope for the Empire. Until Aliona's wedding galley crash-landed on the planet Sharnax – and all contact was lost.

The TARDIS lands aboard the ship carrying the fiery Kylo in search of his lost princess – but with a sabre-toothed monster roaming its corridors, the Doctor soon discovers he's not the only alien presence aboard.

3.08 - The Lost Stories - The Rosemariners

Big Finish Productions

2nd Doctor
RRP: £12.99 - Compare Prices at CompareTheDalek.com
Released: 30th September 2012

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves on an almost deserted space lab. Earth Station 454 is being closed down, mothballed, its staff relocated. Years of research and co-operation are coming to an end and only distinguished xeno-botantist Professor Arnold Biggs remains on board.

But is there more to the closure than meets the eye? For the operation is being supervised by the Rosemariners of the planet Rosa Damascena. Their terrifying Commander, Rugosa, seems to have something to hide. Who is he? What do the Rosemariners want with the scientists? And what is the secret of Rosedream?

In a world where no one is quite what they seem, and deadly plants lurk around every corner, the Doctor will have to use all his ingenuity just to stay alive... just to stay himself.