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Renaissance Of The Daleks
''Renaissance of the Daleks'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot The Doctor leaves Nyssa on Earth, not knowing that she's in Rhodes during the Crusades, then ends up in the American Civil War. The Doctor meets General Tillington, an American general that has been spying on the TARDIS with actinoids. The Doctor finds out that The Dalek Invasion of Earth hasn't happened and a new Dalek invasion is coming very soon. The Doctor must try to put history right, but how can he convince General Tillington? The Doctor heads to the TARDIS. With the help of Tillington's nephew Wilton, can he save Nyssa and her friends Mulberry and Floyd from getting blown up? And can he escape the deadly "Toy Daleks"? Cast * The Doctor — Peter Davison *Nyssa — Sarah Sutton *General Tillington — William Hope *Sergeant — Stewart Alexander *Wilton — Jon Weinberg *Mulberry — Nicholas Deal *Floyd — Ri ... [...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] |
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] |
2007 Audio Plays
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Miller / To The Death (audio Drama)
This is a list of audio productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' produced by Big Finish Productions. Overview These are the season and episode counts for all seasons and series released , ordered by the date that they were initially released. Cast The dramas feature both former actors who portrayed the Doctor and his companions, and new continuing characters as well as elements from other spin-off media. The canonicity of the audio dramas, as with other ''Doctor Who'' spin-off media, is unclear. To date, productions have featured the Fourth (Tom Baker), Fifth (Peter Davison), Sixth (Colin Baker), Seventh (Sylvester McCoy), Eighth (Paul McGann), War ( Sir John Hurt), Ninth (Christopher Eccleston) and Tenth (David Tennant) Doctors portrayed by their original actors. In April 2022, it was confirmed Jo Martin would reprise her role as the Fugitive Doctor in a series of audio adventures. Big Finish's current licence f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Miller
Lucie Miller is a character in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions for BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC7 based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. She is a companion (Doctor Who), companion of the Eighth Doctor, and is voiced by Sheridan Smith. The Eighth Doctor mentions her, as well as other audio companions, in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor", leading many fans to consider them to be Canon (fiction), canonically part of the Whoniverse. Character history The character's first appearance is in ''Blood of the Daleks.'' She is described as being a "strong willed Northern England, northern lass," and is initially an unwilling passenger in the TARDIS, having seemingly been placed with The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor as part of a Time Lord Witness protection, witness protection programme. Lucie tells the Doctor that the Time Lords have placed her in his care because she has seen so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interocitor
''This Island Earth'' is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writer Raymond F. Jones. It was first published in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' magazine as a serialized set of three novelettes by Jones: "The Alien Machine" in the June 1949 issue, "The Shroud of Secrecy" in the December 1949 issue, and "The Greater Conflict" in the February 1950 issue. These three stories were later combined into the 1952 novel ''This Island Earth''. It became the basis for the 1955 Universal-International science fiction film also titled ''This Island Earth''. The story revolves around a race of aliens who, in recruiting humans for a group called "Peace Engineers", are actually using Earth as a pawn in an intergalactic war. Both the novel and the film contain some intriguing concepts that had not previously been considered by most science fiction of the era. While the film starts out in a very similar manner to the novel, the film's storyline quickly goes its own way. Plot At Ryberg Instrumen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. He is associated with the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen in the 21st century series. He is also the executive producer of Big Finish Productions, for which he has produced, directed and written several audio plays, as well as acting in many of them. Education Briggs went to Rose Bruford College with Barry Killerby, who is better known as Mr Blobby. Career ''Doctor Who'' Some of Briggs' earliest ''Doctor Who''-related work was as host of ''The Myth Makers'', a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors, writers and directors involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with '' Wartime'', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Reagan
Regina (Latin for "queen") may refer to: Places Canada * Regina, Saskatchewan, the capital city of the province ** Regina (electoral district) ** Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina France * Régina, French Guiana, a commune United States * Regina, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood * Regina, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Regina, New Mexico, a census-designated place * Regina, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Regina, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Persons *Regina (name) *Regina (concubine), 8th century French concubine of Charlemagne *Regina (martyr), 3rd century French martyr *Regina (American singer), American singer *Regina (Slovenian singer) (born 1965), Slovenian singer *Regina King, (born 1971), American actress and director *Regina "Queen" Saraiva (born 1968), Eurodance singer with stage name of Regina Arts, entertainment, and media Groups *Regina (Bosnia and Herzegovina band), a Bosnian rock band *Regina (Finnish band). a Finnish synth- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Campbell (actor)
Richard Campbell (born 8 February 1982) is a British actor. Career He is best known for his comedic turn as local bully "Tyrone" in British film '' Anuvahood'' and his role of Ndale Kayuni in '' Waterloo Road''. Campbell has won a Screen Nation Award for his portrayal of Dominic Hardy in TV show ''The Bill''. His work has included '' Breathless'', '' Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge'', and recurring roles in '' The Silence'' and Channel 4 drama ''Top Boy''. As a film actor, Campbell has appeared in ''Wilderness'', '' The Plague'', '' The Firm'', ''Victim'', '' Fast Girls'', and '' Get Lucky''. In addition, Campbell has done extensive work in West End theatre including, '' Dirty Butterfly'' at Young Vic Theatre, ''Lower Ninth'' at the Donmar Warehouse, '' Truth and Reconciliation'' at Royal Court Theatre and in 2013 playing Tom Robinson alongside Robert Sean Leonard as Atticus Fitch in ''To Kill A Mockingbird ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a novel by the American a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Deal
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (''Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspiratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Weinberg
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned". Behind the Name. Retrieved on 2013-09-06. The name is spelled in and on the . In the Nordic countries, it is derived from |
Stewart Alexander (actor)
Stewart Alexis Alexander (born October 1, 1951) is an American democratic socialist politician, presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA in the 2012 election, and former SPUSA nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election. A resident of California, Alexander was the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006. He received 43,319 votes, 0.5% of the total. In August 2010, Alexander declared his candidacy for the President of the United States with the Socialist Party and Green Party. In January 2011, Alexander also declared his candidacy for the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party. Early life Stewart Alexis Alexander was born to Stewart Alexander, a brick mason and minister, and Ann E. McClenney, a nurse and housewife, in the Mary Immaculate Hospital on the banks of the James River, near the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company, in Newport News, Virginia. Because the facility was then a segregat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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