Hear Tim Treloar as The Third Doctor in This New Trailer!

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Listeners can get their first taste of one of the most eagerly awaited Doctor Who audios of the year with a new trailer for The Third Doctor Adventures, with Tim Treloar recreating the voice of Jon Pertwee!

Based on this snippet Treloar has done an excellent job, succeeding in the difficult task of providing the voice of this most distinctive-sounding Doctors. His vocal similarity to Pertwee, reportedly commented on by Tom Baker in recordings for Destination: Nerva, has seen him handed this most challenging role.

Big Finish ruled out recasting any of the early Doctors for many years, and still maintain that this new set doesn’t amount to that (Treloar is billed as playing the narrator, who in turn voices the Doctor’s dialogue). Whatever your view, it will surely give the Third Doctor a new lease of life on audio after a few years of being rather under-used by Big Finish. And the sad truth is that, with so many people from that era no longer around to give voice to their much-loved characters, it’s becoming hard to see how adventures set in that era could be produced without some kind of vocal recreation by another performer.

The obvious question this raises, of course, is why stop there? Will we soon hear First and Second Doctor adventures with Hartnell and Troughton sound-alikes stepping in?

But all that can wait for another day. The Third Doctor Adventures box set, to be released in September 2015, will contain Prisoners of the Lake by Justin Richards and The Havoc of Empires by Andy Lane. Listen to the trailer above and pre-order now from Big Finish.

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