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The Kingdom Of The Blind
''The Kingdom of the Blind'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot While asleep, Bernice hears a voice in her head which leads her to a strange planet where a race of one-eyed monsters keep a slave race subdued by mutilating them. Cast *Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman * Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell *Monoid Voices - Richard Unwin *44 - Paul Clayton *26 - Caroline Morris Trivia *This story features the Monoids from the ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Ark''. *This story also has a similar name to a short story by H. G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind "The Country of the Blind" is a short story by English writer H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of ''The Strand Magazine'' and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, ''The Country of the Blind and Ot ... [...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] |
Professor Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length '' Doctor Who'' novels, the ''New Adventures''. The ''New Adventures'' were authorised novels carrying on from where the ''Doctor Who'' television series had left off, and Summerfield was introduced in Cornell's novel '' Love and War'' in 1992. History A 26th century archeologist, Summerfield became a hugely popular character amongst fans of the books, and was present right up until their end in 1997. She officially stopped travelling with the Doctor in '' Happy Endings'' but returned a few times thereafter, including the last Virgin New Adventure, ''The Dying Days''. That year, Virgin had lost the licence to publish ''Doctor Who'' fiction, which was not renewed by the BBC. However, range editors Peter Darvill-Evans and Rebecca Levene decided to cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Country Of The Blind
"The Country of the Blind" is a short story by English writer H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of ''The Strand Magazine'' and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, ''The Country of the Blind and Other Stories''. It is one of Wells's best known short stories, and features prominently in literature dealing with blindness. Wells later revised the story, with the expanded version first published by an English private printer, Golden Cockerel Press, in 1939. Plot summary While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope in the mountain's shadow, he finds a valley, cut off from the rest of the world on all sides by steep precipices. Unknown to Nuñez, he has discovered the fabled "Country of the Blind". The valley had been a haven for settlers fleeing the tyranny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ark (Doctor Who)
''The Ark'' is the fifth serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 March 1966. The serial is set at least ten million years in the far distant future. In the first two episodes the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet ( Jackie Lane) arrive on a generation ship that Dodo names "the Ark". The Doctor searches for a cure for a fever that has spread across the human and Monoid races on board the ship, who have no immunity to it. The last two episodes are set 700 years later, and involve the Doctor, Steven and Dodo working with the Refusian race to stop the Monoids from wiping out the last of humanity with a bomb. The story constitutes Dodo's first journey as a companion to the Doctor. It is also the earliest serial of the third season to exist in its entirety. Plot At least ten ... [...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] |
Paul Clayton (actor)
Paul Clayton (born 8 March 1957) is an English actor, director and author. Career Clayton played Ian Chapman in award-winning Channel 4 sitcom ''Peep Show''. for five series. In 2011, Clayton portrayed Sam Foster, father of Frank Foster in ''Coronation Street''. Clayton also appears in the BBC Three sitcom ''Him & Her'' where he plays Graham. In 2013 and 2014, he played Superintendent Marlow in ''Hollyoaks'', until his character was murdered on 21 April. Clayton has made other notable television appearances in ''Doctor Who'', ''My Family'', ''Doctors'' and ''Wire in the Blood'', as well as films such as ''Ali G Indahouse''. He also features in the British crime thriller '' The Rise''. Clayton filmed "Danny Boy" for Expectation films in November 2020. He appeared in the film ''Greed'' released in February 2020 and in Sky One original ''Breeders'' He also appears in an episode of Cursed for Netflix as Ladislas. He has also directed Joe Orton's ''The Ruffian on the Stair'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Unwin
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", "Rick", " Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
