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Big Finish has announced its 50th Anniversary audiobook release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In November 2013, Big Finish will be releasing Doctor Who: The Light at the End, a very special 100-minute story to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. Tom Baker (1974-81), Peter Davison (1982-84), Colin Baker (1984-86), Sylvester McCoy (1987-89) and Paul McGann (1996) will all reprise their roles as, respectively, the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors, whose paths suddenly intersect when they face imminent destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to do a proper, fully-fledged multi-Doctor story for this very special occasion,\u201d says writer, director and executive producer Nicholas Briggs, \u201cand it\u2019s wonderful that all the surviving Doctors threw themselves behind the project so enthusiastically. That\u2019s not to say the first three Doctors don\u2019t appear \u2013 we wanted to pay homage to the whole history of the classic series.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Doctors will also be joined by a number of their regular companions: Louise Jameson reprises the role of the savage Leela, Sarah Sutton plays the scientist Nyssa, Nicola Bryant is American botany student Peri, Sophie Aldred is streetwise kid Ace and India Fisher returns as Edwardian adventurer Charley Pollard.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s not all,\u201d says producer David Richardson, \u201cbecause Geoffrey Beevers is back to create mayhem as the Master, and there will be a number of appearances from some much-cherished old friends from the TV series\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Doctor Who<\/strong>:\u00a0The Light at the End<\/em>\u00a0will be released in two different versions. A\u00a0five-disc limited special edition<\/a>\u00a0comes with two hour-long documentaries, plus\u00a0The Revenants<\/em>, aCompanion Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0tale which began life as a free\u00a0Doctor Who Magazine\u00a0<\/em>download. It\u2019s performed by William Russell, who starred in the very first TV story as Ian Chesterton. The special edition comes in beautiful special packaging, and will include a number of exclusive professionally photographed images of the cast.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0standard edition<\/a>\u00a0comprises two discs, featuring the two hour-long episodes of the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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