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 ...
audio drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine t ...
based on the long-running British
science fiction television
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series ''
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 u ...
''.
Plot
The Doctor leaves Nyssa on Earth, not knowing that she's in
Rhodes
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during the
Crusades
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, then ends up in the
American Civil War
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. 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
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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"?
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 ...
*Nyssa —
Sarah Sutton
Sarah Sutton (born 12 December 1961) is a British actress. She played the role of Nyssa in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''.
Early life
Sutton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Sutton studied ballet as ...
Stewart Alexander
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*Wilton —
Jon Weinberg
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*Floyd — Richie Campbell
*Alice — Regina Reagan
*Dalek Voices —
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 Dal ...
Continuity
*The pocket
interocitor
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used by Nyssa in this story is later given to
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 co ...
*Christopher H. Bidmead felt that changes made during the script-editing process were significant enough that he could not claim to be the story's sole writer. Hence, the "from a story by" credit.