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Thomas Brewster (Doctor Who)
Thomas Brewster is a fictional character played by John Pickard in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. An orphan and street urchin from 19th-century London, he is a companion of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors. Character history The character first appears in ''The Haunting of Thomas Brewster'', where he met the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa on 1867 while he was being haunted by what he thought was the ghost of his mother, who had died in 1851. It turned out that he was under the control of an alien pretending to be his mother. After the Doctor helped him, he stowed away in the Doctor's TARDIS and accidentally set it on a solo flight. Brewster gained limited control over the TARDIS. On one of his stops, the TARDIS was taken from him for ransom and he was forced to work for Gerry Lenz, who had met the Doctor in previous incarnations. At this time, Brewster met the Doctor's old f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly (Doctor Who)
Polly, sometimes called Polly Wright in spin-off material, is a fictional character played by Anneke Wills in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. She is a young woman from the year 1966 and was a companion of the First and Second Doctors. Polly was a regular in the television program from 1966 to 1967. Polly appeared in 9 stories (36 episodes). The only serial featuring Polly which is currently complete in the BBC archive is her first, ''The War Machines''. Appearances Television Polly first appeared in the First Doctor serial, ''The War Machines'', where she plays the role of Professor Brett's secretary. Brett develops the artificial intelligence known as WOTAN, and Polly meets the Doctor (William Hartnell) and Dodo ( Jackie Lane) when they come to investigate it. Polly befriends Dodo and takes her to a London nightclub called the Inferno, where they meet Ben Jackson (Michael Craze) and try to cheer up the Royal Navy sailor. When Poll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Characters Introduced In 2008
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Feast Of Axos
''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finish Productions and starring one of the original actors to play The Doctor on television in the classic era of the programme. The main audio series currently feature the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and have since developed the pattern of thirteen releases per year, one every month with two in September or December. In May 2020, Big Finish announced that the Main Range would conclude with its 275th release in March 2021, to be replaced with regular releases of each Doctor in their own boxsets throughout the year from January 2022. With 275 releases over 22 years, in 2021 the series received the Guinness World Record for longest running science fiction audio play series. Big Finish Productions began producing audio dramas featuring the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crimes Of Thomas Brewster
''The Crimes of Thomas Brewster'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra from 28 May – 4 June 2016. Plot In modern-day London, Detective Inspector Patricia Menzies is investigating a strange new mob boss known as the Doctor. Meanwhile, the real Doctor is being chased by giant robot mosquitoes and Evelyn Smythe is taking the tube to an alien world. Cast * The Doctor – Colin Baker *Evelyn Smythe – Maggie Stables * Thomas Brewster – John Pickard *DI Menzies – Anna Hope *Sergeant Bradshaw – Duncan Wisbey *Raymond Gallagher – David Troughton *Jared – Ashley Kumar *Flip Jackson – Lisa Greenwood *Terravores – Helen Goldwyn Continuity *Brewster, a Victorian era urchin, stole the TARDIS from the Fifth Doctor in ''The Haunting of Thomas Brewster''. After reuniting, they briefly travelled together, until Brewster chose to stay in modern-day En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Perfect World (audio Drama)
''A Perfect World'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is a one part story which was released along with '' Time Reef'', the story which precedes it. Plot Thomas Brewster requests a trip to the year 2008 and the Doctor obliges, little knowing that Brewster has been there before during the time he had "borrowed" the Doctor's TARDIS. Brewster's prior encounter with a young woman called Connie seems to have had a strange effect on the world, causing perfection to be the norm. Now the Doctor and his companions must discover what has caused this to happen and how can they put things right. Cast * The Doctor — Peter Davison * Nyssa — Sarah Sutton * Thomas Brewster – John Pickard *Connie – Rebecca Callard *Phil – Nicholas Farrell *Taz – Beth Chalmers *Trev – Sean Connolly Continuity *Brewster decides to leave the TARDIS at the end of this adventure, wanting to experience real life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Reef
''Time Reef'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is a three part adventure, released with the single episode story that follows it, ''A Perfect World''. Plot The Doctor and Nyssa have returned to the TARDIS to find it missing various pieces of equipment and its dimensions unstable. Thomas Brewster refuses to explain where he has been since he "borrowed" the TARDIS and what has happened to it. Drawn by a distress beacon, the TARDIS crash lands on a time reef where the interior subsequently implodes, leaving the companions stranded. They need to find their way back to normal space. Brewster originally stole the TARDIS in ''The Haunting of Thomas Brewster'', leaving the Doctor and Nyssa stranded in Victorian London. They regain the TARDIS in the following story, '' The Boy That Time Forgot''. Cast * The Doctor — Peter Davison * Nyssa — Sarah Sutton *Thomas Brewster – John Pickard *Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy That Time Forgot
''The Boy That Time Forgot'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot The Doctor's past comes back to haunt him, when in a prehistoric jungle, inhabited by impossible creatures, an old friend of the Doctor awaits him. Cast * The Doctor — Peter Davison * Nyssa — Sarah Sutton *The Scorpion King — Andrew Sachs *Mrs Beatrice Mapp — Harriet Walter *Rupert Von Thal — Adrian Scarborough *Kranlee — Oliver Senton *Madam Teegarna — Claire Wyatt Continuity *This play follows on directly from the events of ''The Haunting of Thomas Brewster''. *Many elements of Adric's first and last TV stories are referenced. The Spiders seen in '' Full Circle'' are indirectly mentioned and the events at the end of ''Earthshock'' are directly mentioned. *Beatrice Mapp and Rupert Von Thal return in Magrs' non-Doctor Who novel '' The Bride That Time Forgot''. Cast notes *Adric is not played by Matthew Wate ... [...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] |
Evelyn Smythe
Dr Evelyn Smythe is a fictional character played by Maggie Stables in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. A professor of history from the 20th century with a fondness for chocolate, she is a companion of the Sixth Doctor and encounters the Seventh Doctor as well. Character history Evelyn first appeared in the play ''The Marian Conspiracy'' (2000), when the Sixth Doctor found her while searching for a temporal nexus point. Travelling with the Doctor back to 1554, she became involved with the turmoil surrounding the reign of Queen Mary, which soon gave way to that of her half-sister Elizabeth. At the end of that adventure, Evelyn insisted on accompanying the Doctor further, because as a historian, she saw the chance to travel in a time machine as irresistible. Evelyn was fifty-five when she began her travels with the Doctor. Being more mature than most of the Doctor's ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent ceremonial counties of England, counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway. Opened on 10 January 1863, it is now part of the Circle line (London Underground), Circle, District line, District, Hammersmith & City line, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. The first line to operate underground electric locomotive, electric traction trains, the City & South London Railway in 1890, is now part of the Northern line. The network has expanded to 11 lines, and in 2020/21 was used for 296 million passenger journeys, making it List of metro systems, one of the world's busiest metro systems. The 11 lines collectively handle up to 5 million passenger journeys a day and serve 272 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aztec
The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl, Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (''altepetl''), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Aztec Empire was a confederation of three city-states established in 1427: Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica or Tenochca; Texcoco (altepetl), Texcoco; and Tlacopan, previously part of the Tepanec empire, whose dominant power was Azcapotzalco (altepetl), Azcapotzalco. Although the term Aztecs is often narrowly restricted to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, it is also broadly used to refer to Nahuas, Nahua polities or peoples of central Pre-Columbian Mexico, Mexico in the preh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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