It’s the potato-headed Sontaran clone military vs the shape-changing jellyfish Rutan Host as Physician Who celebrates fifty years of battle. 

Audio producers Massive End do love an anniversary. Prior to now few years we’ve loved the Grasp’s fiftieth with Masterful and celebrated the planet of Peladon. Plus, in fact, Physician Who‘s sixtieth anniversary with this 12 months’s As soon as and Future mini-series.

For 2024, it’s the flip of the perpetual struggle between the Sontaran Empire and their mortal foes the Rutan Host.

Whereas a Rutan didn’t technically seem till 1977’s ‘The Horror of Fang Rock’, the shapeshifting creatures first bought a point out within the Sontaran debut in 1974’s ‘The Time Warrior’ – so it’s that fiftieth anniversary we’re celebrating. It appears like a stable thought for a field set, exploring a battle usually heard about however absolutely explored on display screen.

Right here’s the synopsis for Sontarans vs Rutans:

The struggle between the Sontarans and the Rutans has been happening for millennia. And is more likely to proceed for millennia extra.

A horrible battle with no take care of penalties or collateral harm. Billions have died with no sign of ending. Its attain can embody historical Eire and a forest world within the far future.

Encounters with UNIT and a Physician no extra. From the skin these battles could seem disconnected. However generally there’s a widespread thread. And unpicking that would destroy the whole lot.

Like As soon as and Future, Sontarans vs Rutans has a month-to-month launch sample. Every story will function a unique Physician, with the storyline weaving by the lives of the Third, Sixth, Eighth and Conflict Docs.

To date, the introduced solid contains these 4 Docs – Tim Treloar (BF’s Third Physician), Colin Baker, Paul McGann and Jonathon Carley (the younger Conflict Physician.) Plus, the veteran Sontaran actor Dan Starkey as quite a lot of totally different clones.

The 4 tales in Sontarans vs Rutans are:

January 2024: ‘The Battle for Big’s Causeway’ by Lizzie Hopley

February 2024: ‘The Kids of the Future’ by Tim Foley

March 2024: ‘Born To Die’ by Tiegan Byrne

April 2024: ‘In Identify Solely’ by John Dorney.

Producer David Richardson mentioned:

“I realised the fiftieth anniversary of The Time Warrior was approaching, and that we have been lengthy overdue an enormous, epic foray into the Sontaran/Rutan struggle. I pitched the idea to govt producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs and bought a fairly immediate inexperienced gentle to get underway with improvement.”

Additional solid and story particulars for the sequence are promised in the end.

You’ll be able to pre-order the 4 components of Sontarans vs Rutans from Massive End, both individually or in a money-saving bundle.