Doctor Who: The Potential Daleks

The Second Doctor Adventures #4

by Nicholas Briggs, Mark Wright, Michael Troughton (Narrator)

Humpty Dumpty by Nicholas Briggs - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. A nursery rhyme through time is on the brink of causing a cosmic catastrophe. And for the Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and Raven, this is just the beginning of a final battle.
A battle which began on Skaro.

Secret of the Daleks by Mark Wright - The Daleks have returned... or have they? Following the lingering trail of the Daleks' space-time corridor, the time travellers are surprised when the TARDIS arrives on a tropical forest world. Taking refuge with the population of a peaceful village, the Doctor wonders if he has finally defeated his most terrible enemy. Is the secret of the Daleks about to be revealed?


War of the Morai by Mark Wright and Nicholas Briggs - The Doctor and friends dash back to the Vanishing Point, hoping to warn Ananke and the Morai of an impending invasion. However, what they discover is a fiendish plan in operation and a population in exile. Zoe must resort to an extraordinary use of her own mental powers, while the Doctor, Raven and Jamie fight to restore order and save the universe.

Genres: Doctor Who

Audio CD

First published December 16, 2025

About the author

Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. Some of Briggs' earliest Doctor Who-related work was as host of The Myth Makers, a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors and writers involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with War Time, the first unofficial Doctor Who spin-off, and Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner showcasing bloopers from the Myth Makers series built around a loose storyline featuring Briggs as a down on his luck private detective in the near future.

He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He also wrote and appeared in a non-Stranger BBV production called The Airzone Solution (1993) and directed a documentary film, Stranger than Fiction (1994).

Briggs has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He has also written and directed the Dalek Empire and Cyberman audio plays for Big Finish. In 2006, Briggs took over from Gary Russell as executive producer of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range.

Briggs co-wrote a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide.

Since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, Briggs has provided the voices for several monsters, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen. Briggs also voiced the Nestene Consciousness in the 2005 episode "Rose", and recorded a voice for the Jagrafess in the 2005 episode "The Long Game"; however, this was not used in the final episode because it was too similar to the voice of the Nestene Consciousness. He also provided the voices for the Judoon in both the 2007 and 2008 series. On 9 July 2009, Briggs made his first appearance in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in the serial Children of Earth, playing Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Rick Yates.

Reviews

[Danny Welch · Rating 5 out of 5]

'The Potential Daleks' is a release I've been waiting all year for. This set unfortunately got delayed because of recording dates being pushed forward. I've really enjoyed the past few sets, and despite knowing this won't be the end of this storyline, it's exciting to see things start to wrap up.

Humpty Dumpty:
Skaro is returning; the Daleks are being resurrected from their graves. The Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and Raven must find their way out of the vanishing point to save the cosmos. On Earth in two different time period's a young child and an old woman, both the same person, are being plagued by a ghostly phantom she calls a 'kipper'. Some nursery rhymes can spell the end of everything.

Nicholas Briggs has written an incredible opening episode that is timey-wimey, creepy. It manages to feel equally isolated as well as epic. I really loved this episode; unnerving and epic, with some really cool ideas. That cliffhanger at the end though, has me hyped for the next two episodes. 10/10

Secret of The Daleks:
Trying to arrive on Skaro, the Tardis crew find themselves on an exotic planet with the kindest of inhabitants. They're weak and tired from everything they've had to endure, but they can't rest for long. The Daleks are coming, and their plans for the universe will change everything.

It's hard to review this installment without giving anything away. It's a really solid episode that properly brings the Daleks back into the fold of things. I can't wait to see how it all concludes. 9/10

War of The Morai:
The Daleks are entering The Vanishing Point; soon all of reality will be there's to conquer. The Doctor, Zoe, Jamie and Raven are ready to make their last stand.

Nicholas Briggs and Mark Wright have written a really satisfying finale that concludes the Dalek storyline setup in The Final Beginning. It's a trippy and character driven script that concludes with an ending promising more to come. 8.5/10

Overall: 27.5/30

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Humpty Dumpty - Well, this is certainly surreal. Ludicrous and surreal. (2/5)

Secret of the Daleks - This post-War Games series of adventures for The (Second) Doctor continue to be the bizarre are surreal episodes that Big Finish has delivered (at least of those I’ve listened to). (3/5)

War of the Morai - An ambitious bit of absolutely crazy, abstract surrealism. This is definitely the kind of story that only The (Second) Doctor could deal with, okay maybe The (Eleventh) Doctor too. It’s all just a tremendous amount of ludicrous insanity. (3/5)

Also includes the usual interviews with cast and crew.