Hear The Chimes Of Midnight

As the Doctor Who watchalongs have the episodes streaming free, Big Finish has followed suit, putting their classic Eighth Doctor Christmas special The Chimes Of Midnight on Soundcloud free for the listen-along tomorrow.

Time Lord Victorious

Time Lord Victorious, a new multi-platform story with books, audio plays, games, immersive theatre and escape rooms.

Like the Star Wars everything-except-a-movie event Shadows Of The Empire with added live things which often overlap LARP.

Sunday adventure hook: Now On The Big Screen

Now On The Big Screen

Back to Earth just a few years after their own time, the travellers see a billboard for a film about the Doctor...

“I don’t remember doing that. And why are the Daleks all red?”

The Big Night In

Tonight, BBC One, Comic Relief and Children In Need come together for The Big Night In. The Doctors will be appearing out of character.

World Book Night

World Book Night, the dark opposite of World Book Day, is tonight. (Although not nearly six months apart.)

Earth Day

Happy fiftieth Earth Day. Save the world.

John Muir

John Muir, born April 21, 1838, is known as Father of the National Parks.

Hubble at 30

The Hubble telescope has been in operation for thirty years. NASA celebrated with an online search by date for the archive by date (though not year) asking “what did Hubble see on your birthday?”

In my case, Seyfert’s Sextet.

Human Nature watchalong this Friday

Human Nature & The Family of Blood
Friday 24 April, 7pm (BST)

Live tweets from writer @Paul_Cornell & director Charles Palmer!

Hashtag: #DoctorOfMine

Extras promised again...

Sunday adventure hook: The Unmaker

The Unmaker

A slow, grinding war (perhaps the Great War?) and a weapon that won’t be invented for centuries is about to be deployed, a time attack that will erase the opposing faction before the war can even begin and allowing total victory in the here and now.

“It should never have been made. Its whole point was that it never was made. So what’s it doing here?”

Farewell, Sarah Jane

Farewell. Expect this to make you cry.

Sunday watchalong on the Subwave Network

RTD explains.

The Shadow Passes

The Shadow Passes, a Thirteenth Doctor story by Paul Cornell.

Heaven Sent watchalong

Heaven Sent watchalong for Peter Capaldi’s birthday tonight, Hashtag: #HellofaBird

Sunday adventure hook: Jack In The Green

Jack In The Green

A picturesque English village, an Easter parade, and suddenly all the children are missing.

“You didn’t hire somebody to lure away all your rats, did you?”

The Doctor’s Wife Watchalong

Tonight, 8pm BST, on Twitter, with Neil Gaiman, Michael Sheen and director Richard Clark, and a promise of... something.

How would you have made the movie?

RPGnetters suggest ways to introduce Doctor Who to an unfamiliar mid-90s US audience.

The Terror Of The Umpty Ums

A new short story by Steven Moffat, writing for Thirteen. Well, sort of.

A Big Finish free download every week

A free Doctor Who audio per week from Big Finish.

Sunday adventure hook: The Hour Thieves

The Hour Thieves

We return to modern Earth and a traveller’s home, and nothing immediately unusual seems to be happening!

Until a band of artron energy raiders teleport in and attempt to extract the returning traveller’s residual time-travel afterglow.

“Come out, come out, whenever you are!”

The Raggedy Doctor, by Amelia Pond

A story by Amelia Pond, via Steven Moffat.

The Eleventh Hour at ten

Tomorrow’s watchalong is The Eleventh Hour, for its tenth anniversary. Hashtag fishcustard

More short stories

io9 on the latest, including Press Play.

Press Play

Press Play, by Peter McTighe, in which Susan explains David Bowie’s eyes.

33 Doctors

So I decided on Twitter to suggest an actor who I think would make a great Doctor every day for a month, with GIFs of each of them mostly saying or doing something Doctor-y.