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Action Figures The Essential Guide 2005-2023
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ACTION PLAN
CHRISTOPHER HILL decribes how the 21st-century revival of Doctor Who led to a resurgence of interest in its licensed merchandise.
THE NINTH DOCTOR
The first 5.5” humanoid figures in the Character Options range were included with a pair of radio-controlled Dalek Battle Packs – one coming with Rose Tyler, the other with the Ninth Doctor.
ROSE
Plastic people come to life and wreak havoc across London.
THE END OF THE WORLD
The great and the good gather to watch the Earth burn as it reaches the end of its existence.
THE UNQUIET DEAD
The Doctor and Rose meet the renowned Charles Dickens – and come up against some strange blue ‘ghosts’…
ALIENS OF LONDON/WORLD WAR THREE
Chaos breaks out when a UFO hits Big Ben before splashing down in the Thames…
DALEK
Locked away in a private museum, how dangerous can one metal monster be?
THE LONG GAME
Satellite 5 makes the headlines…
FATHER’S DAY
The Doctor and Rose visit the 1980s, and Rose’s long-dead dad.
THE EMPTY CHILD/THE DOCTOR DANCES
London during the Blitz, and something strange is stalking the ruined streets. Why does it seem to be looking for its mother?
BAD WOLF/THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
Will the Doctor please come to the Diary Room…
THE TENTH DOCTOR
This incredibly popular figure boasts the largest number of variants in Character’s Doctor Who range.
THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
A sinister spaceship appears above London – but is the Doctor in any shape to assist humanity?
THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES
Alongside her new young friends, the Doctor’s former companion discovers that life on Earth can be an adventure too…
NEW EARTH
There’s a familiar face lurking in the basement of a New Earth hospital…
TOOTH AND CLAW
Queen Victoria stops for the night at Torchwood House – where something is on the prowl!
SCHOOL REUNION
Journalist Sarah Jane Smith investigates strange goings-on at Deffry Vale High School.
THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
A ship drifting in deep space appears to have a strange connection with 18th-century France…
RISE OF THE CYBERMEN/ THE AGE OF STEEL
On an Earth parallel to our own, John Lumic has an ambitious plan for survival…
THE IDIOT’S LANTERN
Everyone’s getting a new-fangled television set in time to watch the coronation…
THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET / THE SATAN PIT
In the depths of space, humanity has stumbled across an ancient evil…
LOVE & MONSTERS
Elton Pope’s search for a man called the Doctor leads him to a group called LINDA…
ARMY OF GHOSTS/ DOOMSDAY
All over the world it seems the dead are on the verge of returning. The truth, however, is even more disturbing…
COMPANIONS: ROSE, MARTHA and DONNA
Rose Tyler first appeared in action-figure format in her ‘disco pose’ incarnation, as part of the 2005 Dalek Battle Pack.
THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
The TARDIS has an unexpected visitor – bride-to-be Donna Noble!
THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
Something wicked this way comes…
SMITH AND JONES
Martha Jones is having a strange day at work. And then it starts raining upside down…
GRIDLOCK
The motorways beneath the surface of New Earth are choked with seemingly endless traffic jams.
DALEKS IN MANHATTAN/ EVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS
The Daleks plot their restoration and revenge in old, old, New York.
42 “Burn with me!”
The Tenth Doctor once again donned a spacesuit
HUMAN NATURE / THE FAMILY OF BLOOD
An invisible spaceship lands in a quiet English village, where one of the schoolteachers bears an uncanny resemblance to the Doctor…
BLINK
With the Doctor and Martha trapped in 1969, can Sally Sparrow solve the mystery of Wester Drumlins?
UTOPIA/ THE SOUND OF DRUMS/ LAST OF THE TIME LORDS
At the end of the universe the Doctor and his friends meet a seemingly benevolent professor with a terrible secret…
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
The Doctor arrives on a spacefaring replica of the Titanic orbiting the Earth. What could possibly go wrong?
PARTNERS IN CRIME
The Doctor is investigating suspicious activity at Adipose Industries – but so is someone else…
PLANET OF THE OOD
On a visit to the Ood Sphere the Doctor and Donna uncover disturbing evidence of a slave trade.
THE FIRES OF POMPEII
It’s a fateful day in ancient Pompeii, but Vesuvius doesn’t seem destined to erupt…
THE DOCTOR’S DAUGHTER
On the planet Messaline the Doctor has his DNA sampled and is presented with… a daughter!
THE SONTARAN STR ATAGEM/ THE POISON SKY
Humans are in terrible danger when their own vehicles are turned against them.
THE UNICORN AND THE WASP
An encounter with the legendary crime writer Agatha Christie turns into a murder mystery all its own.
SILENCE IN THE LIBR ARY/ FOREST OF THE DEAD
“Hey! Who turned out the lights?”
THE STOLEN EARTH /JOURNEY’S END
Planets have been going missing across the universe – and now Earth has vanished too…
THE NEXT DOCTOR
Now travelling alone, the Doctor arrives in Victorian London, only to encounter… the Doctor?
THE END OF TIME
The Doctor’s song is coming to an end… 
THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR
Matt Smith’s Doctor inspired a large number of action-figure variants.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
The TARDIS comes crashing down in young Amelia Pond’s back garden…
THE BEAST BELOW
The Starship UK has made the decision to go its own way…
VICTORY OF THE DALEKS
Winston Churchill unveils a secret weapon in the war against the Nazis.
THE TIME OF ANGELS / FLESH AND STONE
A forest in a bottle on a spaceship in a maze…
THE VAMPIRES OF VENICE
Something fishy is lurking in the canals of 16th-century Venice.
THE HUNGRY EARTH COLD BLOOD
Deep beneath a small Welsh mining village, the original masters of Earth awake from their slumber.
THE PANDORICA OPENS / THE BIG BANG
An elaborate trap for the Doctor leads to the complete destruction of the universe…
THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT/ DAY OF THE MOON
The Doctor and his friends receive mysterious envelopes summoning them to Lake Silencio…
THE DOCTOR'S WIFE
The TARDIS takes on human (and action-figure) form.
THE REBEL FLESH / THE ALMOST PEOPLE
Artificial people take on a life of their own.
NIGHT TERRORS
An eight-year-old boy needs the Doctor’s help to
CLOSING TIME
The Doctor gets a job – selling toys!
COMPANIONS: AMY, RORY AND CLARA
Amy was first released in figure form in 2010, with the outfit she was seen wearing in that year’s Victory of the Daleks.
ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS
Even the most evil creatures in the universe need a place to send their deranged subjects.
THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN
Amy and Rory take their final trip with the Doctor.
COLD WAR
Near the North Pole, a Soviet submarine receives an unwelcome Martian visitor…
HIDE
The Doctor and Clara visit Caliburn House and join a ghost hunt… 
NIGHTMARE IN SILVER
Hedgewick’s World of Wonders in the largest amusement park in the galaxy – and possibly the most dangerous.
THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
Sealed orders from Queen Elizabeth I summon the Doctor to London’s National Gallery.
THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
The Eleventh Doctor faces a final reckoning on the planet Trenzalore.
THE TWELFTH DOCTOR
Peter Capaldi’s Doctor was especially partial to a change of clothes, so he has numerous action-figure variants wearing different outfits.
COMPANIONS: BILL
By the time of Bill’s debut at the beginning of Series 10, the action-figure range had been reduced in scope, no longer producing whole new waves of items based on each episode of the series.
INTO THE DALEK
The Doctor and Bill are shrunk to miniscule proportions for this fantastic voyage.
THE CARETAKER
The Doctor takes on a new role at the school where the whole adventure began…
KILL THE MOON
Humanity makes a last-ditch attempt to stop the Moon falling from the sky…
MUMMY ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Anyone who sees the bandaged horror has precisely 66 seconds to live…
THE MAGICIAN’S APPRENTICE / THE WITCH’S FAMILIAR
Missy gets an almost instant rematch with the Doctor – making her something of a fast return witch…
EXTREMIS
Missy is put to death – by the Doctor…?
THE THIRTEENTH DOCTOR
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor had a fairly uniform look throughout the majority of her run; as such, action figures of the character only feature minor variations.
COMPANIONS: YAZ, RYAN and GRAHAM
Compared to some previous companions, the Thirteenth Doctor’s ‘fam’ were served very well by the toy line.
RESOLUTION
The Daleks return, with an unconventional new appearance.
FUGITIVE OF THE JUDOON
The space police are in pursuit of someone with a surprising link to the Doctor…
VILLAGE OF THE ANGELS
The Weeping Angels have taken control of the TARDIS!
THE FOURTEENTH DOCTOR
“I know these teeth!”
Adventures in Toys and Space
EastEnders, Casualty and Big Finish writer PHILIP LAWRENCE describes his passion for the Doctor Who range of action figures.
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