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The Condemned (Doctor Who Audio)
''The Condemned'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot In Manchester, 2008, the Doctor and his new companion Charley become embroiled in a murder mystery at Ackley House. Cast * The Doctor — Colin Baker *Charley Pollard – India Fisher *D.I. Patricia Menzies – Anna Hope *Sam – Will Ash *Maxine – Sara De Freitas *Dr Joseph Aldrich – Lennox Greaves *Slater – James George *Antonia Bailey – Diana Morrison *Jane – Diana Morrison *D.C.I. Turnbull – Stephen Aintree *P.C. Blackstock – Steve Hansell Cast notes *Anna Hope previously appeared as Novice Hame in the television episodes " New Earth" and "Gridlock". * Will Ash previously appeared in the television episode " 42" as Riley. Continuity *Charley Pollard previously left the Eighth Doctor at the end of ''The Girl Who Never Was''. *D.I. Menzies reappears in ''The Raincloud Man'' and ''The Crimes of Thomas Brewster''. *T ... [...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] |
James George (actor)
James George may refer to: * James Z. George (1826–1897), American military officer, lawyer, writer, and politician * James George (academic) (1801–1870), acting Principal of Queen's University, 1853–1857 * James George (diplomat) (1918–2020), Canadian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates * James George (weightlifter), American weightlifter * James George (colonel), commander of the 2nd Minnesota Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War * James George (writer) (born 1962), New Zealand writer See also * Jim George (other) * Jimmy George (other) * Jamie George Jamie Edward George (born 20 October 1990) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a hooker for Premiership Rugby club Saracens and the England national team. Early life George played for local team Hertford Rugby Foo ... (born 1990), English rugby union player * George James (other) * {{hndis, George, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Audio Plays
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The Mind Of Evil
''The Mind of Evil'' is the second serial of the Doctor Who (season 8), eighth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 January to 6 March 1971. In the serial, the alien Time travel in fiction, time traveller The Master (Doctor Who), the Master (Roger Delgado) is plotting to start World War III by destroying a peace conference between the United States and China in London by using a nerve gas missile he hijacked from the organisation UNIT. All six episodes of the serial exist as black and white telerecordings after the original colour video tapes were wiped. For the serial's DVD release in 2013, a mixture of hand-colourised key-frames in conjunction with manual and automated colour interpolation for episode one, and the decoding of Chroma dots, chroma dot signals recorded in the monochrome film for episodes 2–6, were employed to Colour recovery, recolourise it. Plot The Third Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates. Consequently, both the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes. Pertwee portrays the Third Doctor as a dapper man of action in stark contrast to his wily but less action-orientated predecessors. While previous Doctors' stories had all involved time and space travel, for production reasons Pertwee's stories initially depicted the Doctor stranded on Earth in exile, where he worked as a scientific advisor to the international military group UNIT. Within the story, the Third Doctor came into existence as part of a punishment from his own race, the Time Lords, who forced him to regener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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] |
The Raincloud Man
''The Raincloud Man'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot The Doctor and Charley return to Manchester and discover its complicated link to transient aliens. Cast * The Doctor — Colin Baker *Charley Pollard – India Fisher *D.I. Patricia Menzies – Anna Hope *Brooks – Michael Fenton Stevens *Lish – Aidan J David *Carmen – Octavia Walters *Kelsa – Simon Sherlock *Tabbalac Leader – Jeremy James *The Bouncers – Steven Hansell *The Cyrox – Andrew Dickens Notes *Anna Hope previously appeared as Novice Hame in the television episodes " New Earth" and "Gridlock". *Writer Douglas Adams (a former script editor of the classic TV series) has his most famous story ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' directly mentioned in this play. The phrase "interconnectedness of all things" spoken in this audio story is a quote repeatedly used in Adams' ''Dirk Gently'' novels. The charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Never Was
''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 F ... [...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] |
42 (Doctor Who)
"42" is the seventh episode of the third series of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 19 May 2007. It was the first episode written by Chris Chibnall, the showrunner and lead writer of ''Doctor Who'' from the 11th series to the 2022 specials. In the episode, the cargo spaceship SS ''Pentallian'' is on a crash course with the living sun its crew ripped out a part of for cheap fuel. On board the ship, the sun possesses and attacks the ''Pentallian'' crewmembers one by one for doing this. According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.41 million viewers and was the third most popular non-soap-opera broadcast on British television in that week. Plot The Tenth Doctor and Martha receive a distress signal from the SS ''Pentallian'', a human spacecraft that is hurtling towards the sun of the Torajii system. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS towards it to help, but after arriving they are separated from the TARDIS by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridlock (Doctor Who)
"Gridlock" is the third episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast on BBC One on 14 April 2007. It was written by Russell T Davies and directed by Richard Clark. The episode is set five billion years in the future on the planet New Earth, a planet humanity settled on following the destruction of the Earth in the 2005 episode " The End of the World". In the episode, alien time traveller The Doctor (David Tennant) and his new travelling companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) discover the remainder of humanity on the planet live in perpetual gridlock within the Motorway, a highway system beneath the city state of New New York. When Martha is kidnapped, the Doctor races to find her before she enters the dangerous "fast lane". "Gridlock" completes a loose trilogy that began with "The End of the World" and " New Earth" (2006), and contains hints at the series' story arc. The story is designed to show how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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