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There are new adventures on the way for the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough.

Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson star in The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Helter Skelter, a box set of full-cast audio adventures, due for release April 2026.

It begins with a visit to the 1950s, where an English village has become the target of the Asteri, powerful aliens with the ability to grant wishes. Then, Tegan gets trapped in a time loop in an amusement park deep in space, before the time travellers return to Earth to find it changed into a much darker place – but what has caused this dystopian descent?

Field of Miracles by Lauren Mooney & Stewart Pringle

The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in the quaint village of Heatherington in 1951. But something strange is happening. In an England of post-war austerity, Heatherington is thriving – the shops are full of produce and everyone seems to have everything they’ve ever wanted, even if what they’ve wanted is the dead to return to them. The Doctor and his friends must stop the creeping invasion of the Asteri, wish-granting crystalline organisms of awesome destructive power, before they extract a terrible price from the villagers.

Helter Skelter by James Moran

When a bio-engineered planet and amusement park undergoes a critical malfunction, the entire planet tears itself apart – and the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are thrown back to their arrival, trapped in a repeating time loop. But for some reason, only Tegan can see the loop, not the Doctor – it has been hidden from him somehow. So why can Tegan see it, and how is she going to fix it?

Land of Fools by Lauren Mooney & Stewart Pringle

The TARDIS arrives in London, 1980, but something has gone wrong with the timeline. The city is a quasi-police state, overseen by a mysterious new company, Luqos, which promises miraculous gifts to its followers. As Tegan takes off to reconnect with an old friend, and the Doctor teams up with young activist Zan, Turlough is pulled into the heart of Luqos by the shadowy ‘M’, where they discover an old enemy at work beneath the city.

The box set’s guest cast includes Jack Barton (Heartstopper), Matthew Cottle (The Windsors), and Hiba Medina (Vigil).

Producer Sonny McGann said: “Turlough, Tegan and the Doctor are back! We’re returning to Earth, where a new threat has emerged wielding immense psionic power. In an England suffering from post-war austerity, one village appears to have everything they’ve ever wanted. Some will pay any price to see a wish fulfilled – a choice which may ripple through time.

“Meanwhile, when a visit to an amusement park on a bio-engineered planet traps the Doctor and his friends in a time loop, one of our companions will have to step up to prevent the planet from tearing itself apart. Three new stories full of wit, emotion, and good technobabble, according to Peter Davison!”

Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Helter Skelter is available to pre-order now.