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Nekromanteia (Doctor Who Audio)
''Nekromanteia'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot The Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem attempt to discover the secret of the domain of the dead. Cast *The Doctor — Peter Davison *Peri — Nicola Bryant *Erimem — Caroline Morris *Tallis — Kate Brown *Jal Dor Kal — Gilly Cohen *Wendle Marr — Ivor Danvers *Yal Rom — Nigel Fairs *Salaysian — Andrew Fettes *Cmmdr Harlon — Glyn Owen * Thesanius — Gary Russell *Lt Cochrane — Kerry Skinner *Paul Addison — Simon Williams Reception ''Nekromanteia'' was met with almost universally negative reviews. Particular criticism was directed at the depiction of Harlon's attempted rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ag ... ... [...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] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent. The term ''rape'' is sometimes used interchangeably with the term ''sexual assault.'' The rate of reporting, prosecuting and convicting for rape varies between jurisdictions. Internationally, the incidence of rapes recorded by the police during 2008 ranged, per 100,000 people, from 0.2 in Azerbaijan to 92.9 in Botswana with 6.3 in Lithuania as the median. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Williams (actor)
Simon Williams (born 16 June 1946) is a British actor known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Frequently playing upper middle class or aristocratic upper class roles, he is also known for playing Charles Cartwright in the sitcom '' Don't Wait Up'' and Charles Merrick in medical drama ''Holby City''. Since 2014, he has played the character of Justin Elliott in the long-running BBC Radio 4 series ''The Archers''. Early life and education Simon Williams was born in Windsor in 1946; his parents were actor Hugh Williams and actress and model Margaret Vyner. His sister Polly married his ''Don't Wait Up'' co-star and friend Nigel Havers. His brother is the poet Hugo Williams. Williams was educated at Harrow School. He trained in repertory at Worthing, Birmingham and Bath, and later joined the Theatre Workshop. Career Williams has appeared on stage in many productions, and has also directed a number of plays. He first appeared on television in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crystal Of Cantus
''The Crystal of Cantus'' is a Big Finish Productions List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish, audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot Bernice, Jason and Irving Braxiatel visit the planet of Cantus to locate its fabled Crystal. There, they unearth what seems to be a The Tomb of the Cybermen, tomb of Cyberman, Cybermen. When even that isn't what it first appears to be, Bernice discovers that she can no longer trust one of her oldest friends. Cast *Professor Bernice Summerfield, Bernice Summerfield — Lisa Bowerman *Jason Kane (Doctor Who), Jason Kane — Stephen Fewell *List of Bernice Summerfield characters#M, Ronan McGinley — Nicholas Briggs *Irving Braxiatel — Miles Richardson *List of Bernice Summerfield characters#J, Joseph — Steven Wickham *List of Bernice Summerfield characters#S, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyn Owen
Glyn Griffith Owen (6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004) was a Welsh stage, television and film actor, perhaps best known to British TV viewers for three roles: that of Dr Patrick O'Meara in ''Emergency Ward 10'' (ITV, 1957–61), Edward Hammond in '' The Brothers'' (BBC, 1972), and Jack Rolfe in ''Howards' Way'' (BBC, 1985–90). Biography Born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of a Welsh railway guard, Glyn Owen left school aged 14 and worked in a telegraph office. He completed his national service in 1946-48 during which time he acted in the War Office's amateur dramatic company. For the next five years he was a police officer in London's Paddington district, and as a traffic officer he unofficially escorted Richard Attenborough under blue lights to a BBC recording. He continued in amateur dramatics and received acting training at the Actors' Studio in St John's Wood. where agent, Lew Grade signed him as a client. By 1955 he was performing with the George Mitchell Singers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Fairs
Nigel Fairs is a British actor and writer. He trained at Bretton Hall College and his theatre credits include stage production of ''Translations'' at The National Theatre, Inspector Morse in the UK tour of ''House of Ghosts'', Dr Watson in ''To Kill a Canary'' at the Kenton Theatre, Henley), Nurse Ratched in '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' at The English Theatre Frankfurt, Christopher Wren in The Mousetrap in the West End, John Haigh in his own award-winning play ''In Conversation with an Acid Bath Murderer'' and Gavin in another award-winner, ''My Gay Best Friend'' (which he co-wrote with Louise Jameson. Television credits include '' EastEnders'', ''Emmerdale'', '' Silent Witness'' and ''Unforgotten''. Film credits include ''Angels on the Ceiling'', ''In From The Side'', '' Ashens and the Polybius Heist'' and ''Do You Have A License To Save This Planet?''. He has also worked for Big Finish Productions, as an actor, writer, director and composer, and was the produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Danvers
Ivor Colin Danvers (14 July 1932 – 13 March 2020) was an English actor, best known for his role as Gerald Urquhart in the 1980s BBC drama ''Howards' Way''. He was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Other TV credits include: ''Z-Cars'', '' Softly, Softly'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''Juliet Bravo'', '' Tenko'', ''Minder'', ''Terry and June'' and ''Keeping Up Appearances ''Keeping Up Appearances'' is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It originally aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995 with two specials airing in 1997 and 2008 on PBS. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish middle class s ...''. In 2003, he guest starred in the '' Doctor Who'' audio drama '' Nekromanteia''. Danvers died in March 2020 at the age of 87. References External links * 1932 births 2020 deaths English male television actors Male actors from Essex People from Westcliff-on-Sea {{UK-tv-actor-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Morris
Caroline Morris (born 1974) is a British actress who played the part of the companion Erimem in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series '' Doctor Who''. As well as playing Erimem, Morris also appeared in ''Zagreus'' as Mary Elson, the Bernice Summerfield adventure '' The Kingdom of the Blind'' as 26 and the ''Sapphire and Steel'' story '' Perfect Day'' as Jennifer. Erimem *''The Eye of the Scorpion'' (2001) *'' The Church and the Crown'' (2002) *'' No Place Like Home'' (2002), a one-episode '' Doctor Who'' audio story given away free with an issue of '' Doctor Who Magazine'' *'' Nekromanteia'' (2003) *'' The Axis of Insanity'' (2004) *''The Roof of the World'' (2004) *''Three's A Crowd'' (2005) *'' The Council Of Nicaea'' (2005) *''The Veiled Leopard'' (2006) *'' The Kingmaker'' (2006) *'' Son of the Dragon'' (2007) *''The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans ''The Mind's Eye'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Bryant
Nicola Jane Bryant (born 11 October 1960)England & Wales Birth Index Ancestry.co.uk. is an English known for her roles as , a companion to both the Fifth and s in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Davison
Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He made his television acting debut in 1975 and became famous in 1978 as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's '' All Creatures Great and Small'' stories. Davison's subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms '' Holding the Fort'' (1980–1982) and '' Sink or Swim'' (1980–1982), the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in '' Doctor Who'' (1981–1984), Dr. Stephen Daker in ''A Very Peculiar Practice'' (1986–1988) and Albert Campion in '' Campion'' (1989–1990). He also played David Braithwaite in ''At Home with the Braithwaites'' (2000–2003), "Dangerous" Davies in ''The Last Detective'' (2003–2007) and Henry Sharpe in '' Law & Order: UK'' (2011–2014). Early life Davison was born to Claude and Sheila Moffett in Streatham, London. Claude was originally from British Guiana (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who''. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a millennia-old humanoid alien, a Time Lord who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of "regeneration", a biological function of the Time Lord race that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a fatal injury. A number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. The Doctor has been well-received by the public, with an enduring popularity leading ''The Daily Telegraph'' to dub the character "Britain's favourite alien", while abroad the character has come to be seen as a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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