Doctor Who: The Genesis Chamber tenth anniversary

September 6 2026 marks ten years since the release of The Genesis Chamber from Big Finish.

Featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

It is the second release of Philip Hinchcliffe Presents.

Adapted by Marc Platt.

Of course the well known Fourth Doctor story with Genesis in the title produced by Hinchcliffe is Genesis of the Daleks.

The Genesis Chamber is a different kind of story to the aforementioned Genesis TV story.

The Genesis Chamber has the Doctor and Leela on a human colony world where the inhabitants relies on advanced technology to have children and coming in the midst of an arranged marriage in which one of the intended participants is not keen on.

Guest stars Jon Culshaw and Culshaw himself had played the Fourth Doctor in Dead Ringers and even voiced him briefly for Big Finish in the Fifth Doctor story The Kingmaker.

Other guest stars include Jemma Churchill who plays two roles including Inscape. Inscape is the supercomputer that looks over the colony and impressive how she delivered the eeriness of Inscape.

Churchill would later be in the TV series in Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels.

I had found The Genesis Chamber is a rather solid story on the society that the Doctor and Leela stumbled into and the menace they encounter here.

At the beginning of the story, the Doctor tells Leela about having a dream of 13 Doctors.

Undoubtedly a reference to the 12 numbered Doctors including the Fourth as well as the War Doctor and all thirteen of them were seen in The Day of the Doctor.