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Brotherhood Of The Daleks
''Brotherhood of the Daleks'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was released in late 2008. Plot The Doctor and Charley land in an alien jungle filled with a brotherhood of socialist Daleks. In the fourth episode the Daleks sing a Dalek version of "The Red Flag" sung to the tune of "O Tannenbaum." Cast * The Doctor — Colin Baker *Charley Pollard — India Fisher *Mugrat — Michael Cochrane *Tamarus — Harriet Kershaw *Valion — Derek Carlyle *Nyaiad — Jo Castleton *Jesic — Alison Thea-Skot *Septal — Steve Hansell *The Daleks — Nicholas Briggs Cast notes *Derek Carlyle has previously appeared in '' The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow''. Continuity *Charley has met the Daleks twice before with the Eighth Doctor in ''The Time of the Daleks'' and at Folkestone in ''Terror Firma''. In the latter story she met Davros as well. *The memory recalled in this story is Charley and C' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Dark Shadows'', '' Dracula'', ''Terrahawks'', ''Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', '' Stargate'', '' The Avengers'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Timeslip'' and ''Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story ''The Sirens of Time''. ''Docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Baker
Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series '' The Brothers'' from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' from 1984 to 1986. Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be a controversial era for the series, which included a hiatus in production and his subsequent replacement on the orders of BBC executive Michael Grade. Early life Colin Baker was born in Waterloo, London, England. He moved north to Rochdale with his family when he was three years old. He was educated at St Bede's College, Manchester, where he passed A' Levels in French, Latin and Greek. Particularly strong in Latin and Greek, Baker achieved 2 A grades. He studied law at a London college and subsequently trained to become a solicitor. At the age of 23, Baker enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Career Early work in television Baker's numer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Audio Plays
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The Chase (Doctor Who)
''The Chase'' is the eighth serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Written by Terry Nation and directed by Richard Martin, the serial was broadcast on BBC in six weekly parts from 22 May to 26 June 1965. Set in multiple time periods on several different planets, including Aridius, Earth, and Mechanus, the serial features the Dalek race travelling through time while pursuing the time machine the TARDIS and its occupants—the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Ian Chesterton ( William Russell), Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien)—to kill them and seize the TARDIS for themselves. The Doctor and companions encounter several characters, including monsters Dracula (Malcolm Rogers) and Frankenstein's monster (John Maxim), human astronaut Steven Taylor (Peter Purves), and an android replica of the Doctor (Edmund Warwick). Nation was commissioned to write the serial by story ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mind's Eye & Mission Of The Viyrans
''The Mind's Eye'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is a three-part story written by Colin Brake and was released alongside a one-part story, ''Mission of the Viyrans''. Plot The Doctor, Erimem and Peri have gone their separate ways. The Doctor is wandering on a nameless paradise planet filled with murderous primates (but only at night) and carnivorous plants. Erimem is the Queen of a space colony empire, New Cairo, and is suffering a rebellion, while Peri's stepson and new husband are causing problems to her domestic bliss. Cast * The Doctor — Peter Davison *Peri — Nicola Bryant *Erimem — Caroline Morris *Hayton — Owen Teale *Major Takol — Rebecca Front *Kyle — Thomas Brodie-Sangster *Ukarme — Richard Laing *Andree — Nicola Weeks Behind-the-scenes This story leads directly into the audio drama ''The Bride of Peladon''. The hallucinogenic plants in this story reappear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet Of The Daleks
''Planet of the Daleks'' is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 7 April to 12 May 1973. Continuing from the events of the serial ''Frontier in Space'', the story involves a small team of Daleks plotting to revive an army of Daleks which are being kept in suspended animation on the planet Spiridon. Plot The Third Doctor has been wounded after being shot by the Master. Jo helps the Doctor into the TARDIS, where he sends a message to the Time Lords before he collapses then falls into a coma. Jo dictates into the TARDIS log that she has seen this healing state before (''The Dæmons''), and that the TARDIS is moving, being controlled remotely by the Time Lords. When the TARDIS stops Jo activates the external scanners to see some plants outside block the viewer by spraying a thick sap-like liquid at it. With the Doctor still catatonic, Jo leaves to explore th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davros
Davros () is a character from the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He was created by screenwriter Terry Nation, originally for the 1975 serial ''Genesis of the Daleks''. Davros is a major enemy of the series' protagonist, The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor, and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks. Davros is a genius who has mastered many areas of science, but also a wiktionary:megalomaniac, megalomaniac who believes that through his creations he can become the supreme being and ruler of the Universe. The character has been compared to the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler several times, including by the actor Terry Molloy, while Julian Bleach defined him as a cross between Hitler and the renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. Davros is from the planet Skaro, whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year Attrition warfare, war of attrition with their enemies, the Thal (Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terror Firma
''Terror Firma'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The story follows on directly from the previous Eighth Doctor audio drama '' The Next Life'' and flashes back to scenes that take place before (and lead into) the first Eighth Doctor audio story ''Storm Warning''. ''Terror Firma'' was voted ''Doctor Who Magazine'' readers' favourite of the previous year's ''Doctor Who'' audio plays in the annual poll held in 2006. Plot After returning from the Divergent Universe, the Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard and C'rizz land in a corridor and are captured by Davros and several Daleks. Charley and C'rizz are taken into a cell, but Davros wants to talk to the Doctor. In Davros's lab, the Doctor notices Davros is suffering from mood swings and sometimes talks in a different voice. Davros needs the Doctor's help for something, but cannot explain what. Charley and C'rizz are freed by a woman called Gemma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Of The Daleks
''The Time of the Daleks'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with ''The Genocide Machine'' and continued in ''The Apocalypse Element'' and ''The Mutant Phase''. Plot The Doctor is confused enough when he finds that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare. But when he travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with watching Shakespeare's plays — and the Daleks wanting to help her — the mystery grows more sinister. Can the Daleks really claim to be the 'Masters of Time'? Cast *The Doctor — Paul McGann *Charley Pollard — India Fisher *The Orator — Don Warrington *Dalek Voices — Nicholas Briggs *General Mariah Learman — Dot Smith *Viola — Nicola Boyce *Major Ferdinand — Julian Harries *Kitchen Boy — Jem Bassett *Priestly — Mark McDonnell *Hart — Lee Moone *Professor Osric — I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Paul McGann. The character was introduced in the 1996 TV film ''Doctor Who'', a back-door pilot produced in an unsuccessful attempt to relaunch the series following its 1989 cancellation. While the Eighth Doctor initially had only one on-screen appearance, his adventures were portrayed extensively in subsequent spin-off media, including more than 70 audio dramas starring McGann. In 2013, the actor reprised the role in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor", which depicts the Eighth Doctor's final adventure and his regeneration into the War Doctor (played by John Hurt). In 2022, he appeared alongside other past incarnations in "The Power of the Doctor", the final adventure of the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), marking the Eighth Doctor's first-ever appearance in a regular episode of ''Doctor Who'' 26 years after McGann fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow
''The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It contains a three-part story and a one-part story as well. ''The Death Collectors'' Plot Death envelopes the planet of Antikon. And it is sought after by the Dar Traders. Cast * The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy *Professor Mors Alexandryn — Alastair Cording *Danika Meanwhile, — Katherine Parkinson *Smith Ridley/Dar Traders — Derek Carlyle *Nancy — Katarina Olsson ''Spider's Shadow'' Plot At a royal ball on an alien world, time is out of joint. And the spiders are breaking through. Cast * The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy *Guard — Alastair Cording *Colonel — Derek Carlyle *Martial Princess Alison Keldafrian — Katarina Olsson *Martial Princess Louisa Keldafrian — Carol Fitzpatrick *Henry — Kevin McNally *Opera singer — Rebecca Bottone Continuity * The end of the Seventh Doctor's life in the TV m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daleks
''The Daleks'' (also known as ''The Mutants'' and ''The Dead Planet'') is the second serial in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast on BBC TV in seven weekly parts from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964. Written by Terry Nation and directed by Christopher Barry and Richard Martin, this story marks the first appearance of the show's most popular villains, the Daleks, and the recurring Skaro people, the Thals. In the serial, the First Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and her teachers Ian Chesterton ( William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) land in an alien jungle and are captured by the Daleks, a race of mutated creatures who survive off the radiation that remains in the atmosphere after a nuclear war with their enemies. As the group attempt to escape the Daleks, they discover more about the planet and the ensuing war, and attempt to broker a peace. ''The Daleks'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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