Incoming transmission from the Universe Next Door…..

The Lost Doctor is a continuing series of audio adventure exploring one of the biggest ‘What if’s…?’ In Doctor Who history. 

Ken Campbell was the Time Lord who almost was.

He lost out to Sylvester McCoy for the role of the Doctor back in 1987. But by using a mixture of original Ken audio and brilliant actors, from beyond the veil he finally claims the helm of all Time and Space! in a series of original audio episodes, and other multi-media gems created by a talented ensemble, *this* Doctor embodies the searching, anarchic and bewildering spirit of a true creative maverick. This is Ken’s lost run on the show. It aims to add to the show’s mythos by introducing new companions, new villains, surprising guests and the TARDIS’ elusive Eternity Room.

This is a truly unique Doctor Who fan project, fuelled by love and imagination, which brings Ken Campbell’s eccentric incarnation-that-could-have-been to life.

So sit back, break out your jammy dodgers, stick on the headphones and prepare to explore what *might* have been.

Welcome then, Seekers, to the world of The Lost Doctor! 

Tom Calderbank 2023

Ken Campbell writes:

In 1987, I was invited to audition for the part of a certain traveller in Time and Space. Didn’t get it, and suggested that they take Sylvester McCoy in my stead, who I considered a protégé, as without me, he’d never have thought to stuff ferrets down his trousers.

Anyway,  some nits eventually decided to do an audio fan series about what my ‘lost series’ would have been like in ‘the universe next door’  It's all quite impressive. In the series, I am accompanied on adventures by Robert Anton Wilson's cryogenically revivified daughter Luna, and a cyborg who is from a fungible race on a planet that's one giant consciousness (as you do); I’ve...

• met Dadaists

• walked through James Joyce’s brain

• meditated on the aftermath of Hiroshima

• saved The Beatles from the machinations of a star-spanning Walrus

• fought sentient cephalopods

• investigated what lies beneath Silbury Hill

• watched from a grassy knoll as a certain US president was assassinated

• and, principally, battled the eternally evil members of The Guild of Temporal Assassins and the mysterious 'Client' they work for.

Surprisingly, this does all make sense.

They got a bloke to impersonate me (Tom Baker – no, not that one), and won backing from some impressive people – Daisy, my daughter and holder of access to my life’s archive, the KLF (sort of), Alan Moore (who didn’t say NO) and some apt contributors: my old impro group ‘The School of Night’(including Alan Cox as Dr. John Dee), Philip Olivier (as John Peel), Nabil Shaban (as a malevolent octopus), John Higgs, Kermit Leveridge (as the 23rd Doctor). You get the idea. 

By some kind of strange alchemy this idea generated some notable artwork and some scintillating musical contributions (including some techno, some accordion playing, some whistling in harmony, funk, and a Beatles pastiche – you really get the idea).

The ’creative team’ came up with the idea of doing an annual celebrating this – both a nostalgic call back to your childhood reveries and a bit of subversive randomness. There are stories and comic strips, scientific tales and novelty games in it, as well as some extra surprises. And it's a lot better quality than we were all expecting. So, back it for the novelty value! I lion tame a giant parrot in it! Or talk to some underwater robots! Or whatever it is I do.