List of recast actors at Big Finish

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The following actors have been cast in Big Finish Productions audio stories in roles from the TV series, where the characters were played by different actors.

The Doctor

Character	TV actor	TV years	BF actor	BF years	Notes
First Doctor	William Hartnell	1963-1966	William Russell	2010-2016	Mainly in The Early Adventures and The Lost Stories but also in many Companion Chronicles, where they voiced the Doctor but in most cases weren't credited as playing them.
			Peter Purves	2014-present
Second Doctor	Patrick Troughton	1966-1969	Frazer Hines	2010-present
Third Doctor	Jon Pertwee	1970-1974	Tim Treloar	2013-present	Mainly in The Third Doctor Adventures.
Fourth Doctor	Tom Baker	1974-1981	Jon Culshaw	2006	Voiced the Doctor in pre-recorded scenes played back by the Fifth Doctor in The Kingmaker. Tom Baker eventually returned to the role from 2012 onwards.
Ninth Doctor	Christopher Eccleston	2005	Nicholas Briggs	2013; 2017	The actor narrated the story and voiced the Doctor, with one other actor playing opposite him. David Tennant returned to the role in the full cast stories from 2016 onwards.
Tenth Doctor	David Tennant	2005-2010	Kieran Hodgson	2018
			Jacob Dudman	2018
Eleventh Doctor	Matt Smith	2010-2013		2018

Other characters

Character	TV actor	TV years	BF actor	BF years	Notes
Barbara Wright	Jacqueline Hill	1963-1965	Jemma Powell	2016-present	In The Early Adventures and The First Doctor Adventures. Originally played Jacqueline Hill in An Adventure in Space and Time.
Ian Chesterton	William Russell		Jamie Glover	2017-present	In The First Doctor Adventures. Originally played Carole Ann Ford and William Russell in An Adventure in Space and Time.
Susan Foreman	Carole Ann Ford	1963-1964	Claudia Grant
Katarina	Adrienne Hill	1965	Ajjaz Awad	2019	In Companion Piece.
Celestial Toymaker	Michael Gough	1966	David Bailie	2009-2010	In The Nightmare Fair and Solitaire.
Ben Jackson	Michael Craze	1966-1967	Elliot Chapman	2015-present	In The Early Adventures and The Companion Chronicles.
Edward Travers	Jack Watling	1967-1968	Tim Bentinck	2017	In Time of the Intelligence.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	Nicholas Courtney	1968-2009	Jon Culshaw	2019	In The Third Doctor Adventures.
Liz Shaw	Caroline John	1970-2012	Daisy Ashford	2019	In Primord.
Alpha Centauri	Ysanne Churchman	1972-1974; 2017	Jane Goddard	2008	In The Bride of Peladon.
Valyes	John Franklyn-Robbins	1975	Steven Wickham	2005-2013	In Gallifrey. Character's identity as the Time Lord from Genesis of the Daleks was revealed in Ascension.
Magnus Greel	Michael Spice	1977	Angus Wright	2012	In The Butcher of Brisbane.
Mr Sin	Deep Roy		Alex Mallinson
Patsy	Patsy Smart		Flaminia Cinque	2014	In Jago & Litefoot.
White Guardian	Cyril Luckham	1978; 1983	Jason Watkins	2009	In The Destroyer of Delights / The Chaos Pool.
			Jez Fielder	2016	In The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time.
Black Guardian	Valentine Dyall	1979; 1983	David Troughton	2009-2016
Adric	Matthew Waterhouse	1980-1982	Andrew Sachs	2008	In The Boy That Time Forgot. Matthew Waterhouse returned to the role from 2014 onwards.
Kamelion	Gerald Flood	1983-1984	Sunny Ormonde	2007	In Winter.
			Jon Culshaw	2019	In the Main Range trilogy.
Kandyman	David John Pope	1988	Nicholas Rowe	2018	In World of Damnation and Sweet Salvation.
Queen Victoria	Pauline Collins	2006	Lizzie Roper	2014	In The Wax Princess.
			Rowena Cooper	2016-2018	Mainly in Torchwood.

New incarnations of known Time Lords

Character	Actor	BF years	Notes
Rassilon	Don Warrington	2001-2004	In the Main Range.
The Doctor	Geoffrey Bayldon	2003; 2005	Incarnations from alternative universes.
The Doctor	David Warner	2003; 2008; 2016-present
The Master	Sam Kisgart	2003; 2016-2017
The Doctor	David Collings	2003
The Doctor	Ian Brooker
Doctor Who	Derek Jacobi	2003
The Doctor	Arabella Weir	2003
The Doctor	Nicholas Briggs
Andred	Andy Coleman	2004-2013	In Gallifrey.
The Doctor	Trevor Martin	2008	In an audio adaptation of the 1974 stage play, where he also played the Doctor.
The Monk	Graeme Garden	2009-2011; 2015	Mainly in the Eighth Doctor Adventures.
Borusa	Katy Manning	2011	Incarnation from an alternative universe.
The Reborn Master	Alex Macqueen	2012-2016	In UNIT: Dominion, Dark Eyes, et al.
Romana III	Juliet Landau	2013-2015	Mainly in Gallifrey.
The Rani	Siobhan Redmond	2014-2015	In The Rani Elite and Planet of the Rani.
The Monk	Rufus Hound	2015-present	In The Black Hole, The Blame Game, et al.
Rassilon	Terrence Hardiman	2019	In Time War: Volume Two.

Young versions of known characters

Character	Main actor	Years	Young actor	Notes
First Doctor	William Hartnell	1963-1966	Joe Bassett	Cameo in Master (2003).
Henry Gordon Jago	Christopher Benjamin	1977; 2009-present	Alex Lowe	In The Year of the Bat (2015).
George Litefoot	Trevor Baxter	1977; 2009-2017	Blake Ritson
Winston Churchill	Ian McNeice	2010-2011; 2016-2018	Iain Batchelor	In Young Winston (2018).

Other information

• Tom Baker and Matthew Waterhouse are the only actors to reprise their roles at Big Finish, after they were briefly recast for one story in the past.
• Nicholas Courtney and Caroline John are the only actors to reprise their roles at Big Finish, before they were recast in 2019, following their death in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Daisy Ashford, Caroline's daughter, took over the role of Liz Shaw.
• Jon Culshaw was cast as three major Doctor Who characters: briefly as the Fourth Doctor in 2006, and also as Kamelion and as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in 2019.
• Carole Ann Ford and Claudia Grant both appeared as Susan Foreman in Tick-Tock World (2019).