Main Range

The Main Range, also known as the Monthly Range and more recently The Monthly Adventures, was a Doctor Who audio series produced by Big Finish Productions. It featured the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors. With each Doctor receiving their own series, by March 2021, the Monthly Adventures were concluded.

The Main Ranges were pivotal for introducing numerous characters that spun off and hosted their own Big Finish ranges, casually referred to as being parts of the Worlds of Big Finish. Such characters included the Wicked Sisters, who were introduced in the Key 2 Time trilogy and went to forge the Graceless series. Another character, known as Vienna Salvatori, was introduced in the final chapter of a multi-Doctor trilogy. Vienna was then given a pilot episode, entitled The Memory Box, which was so well received that the character was also given her own series. This series, however, was deemed at the time to take place "outside of the DWU", hence being one of the "Worlds of Big Finish" but not of "Doctor Who".

The Monthly Range was best known for taking classic Doctors and companions and for filling their gaps with much more meatier stories that would never have made it to air, addressing much more groundbreaking topics such as slavery and assault. It also introduced brand new companions for the Doctors, including Erimem, Evelyn Smythe, Hex and Charley Pollard, among others. It also saw the reappearance of companions from other non-televised media, such as Frobisher, Maxwell Edison and Izzy Sinclair from the comics, as well as Bernice Summerfield and Fitz Kreiner from the numerous novel series.