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The post-War Games Second Doctor has a whole new world of trouble to explore in this year’s release.

The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill, a full-cast audio drama box set is due August 2026.

The Second Doctor (Michael Troughton) – as well as his friends Jamie (Frazer Hines), Zoe (Wendy Padbury), and Raven (Emma Noakes) –  land on an alternative version of Earth, where the Doctor had never arrived before.

Across three distinct episodes, all written by Alan Barnes, the fugitive time travellers explore this strange but familiar world. They meet figures from the Doctor’s past and future – including Lethbridge-Stewart (Jon Culshaw) and Liz Shaw (Daisy Ashford) – whose lives have gone in a very different direction from their counterparts in the Doctor’s timeline.

There are recognisable enemies, too, as Earth is threatened by the crystalline Krotons – who first fought the Second Doctor in a 1968-9 TV story, and here make their Second Doctor Adventures debut, voiced by Nicholas Briggs. In a world free of the Doctor’s influence, who will be able to stand up to them?

The Haunted Windmill

An Emergency Beacon Alert from Gallifrey means trouble for the Doctor, Raven, Jamie and Zoe. Their only possible escape is a desperate plan that seems to change everything. The TARDIS arrives in a strange land. Strange, but uncannily familiar too.

The Crystal Ship

A failed rocket-plane mission crashes to Earth. But where are the crew? The Doctor and Raven encounter Professor Quigley and his trusty, undervalued assistant, Liz Shaw. Will scientific hubris lead to the end of the human race? A certain Miss Heriot has other plans in mind.

The Hungry Glass

A mysterious mirror, a glimpsed figure and powerful static electric discharges form a web of intrigue that draws in friends and foes from history.

This box set’s guest cast includes Ilan Galkoff (known for the Good Omens TV series) and Roger Ringrose (Berlin Station), as well as Becky Wright, Olivia Woolhouse, and Wayne Forester.

Writer Alan Barnes said: “I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to send the Second Doctor and friends somewhere they’ve never been – an Earth as it would have been if he’d never, ever landed there, back in 1963! But this isn’t It’s a Wonderful Life – this is a weirdly wrong 1963, where some of his past, present and future friends’ lives took different turns…

“The challenge with this one was to come up with three wildly different stories and styles. So we’ve got an adventure told from the perspective of two teenagers who run into the fugitives, we’ve got the Krotons crashing through the atmosphere, and we’ve got a terrible secret hidden in a strange and spooky antique shop…”

Doctor Who – TheSecond Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill is now available to pre-order.