The Children of Seth (audio story)

The Children of Seth
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Tegan Jovanka Nyssa
Main enemy:	Byzan Albis
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writers:	Christopher Bailey and Marc Platt
Director:	Ken Bentley
Release details
Release number:	3.03
Release date:	December 2011
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-575-4
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Publisher's summary

During one of Nyssa’s experiments, the TARDIS’s temporal scanner picks up a message: ‘Idra’. Just one word, but enough to draw the Doctor to the Archipelago of Sirius.

There, the Autarch is about to announce a new crusade. A mighty war against Seth, Prince of the Dark...

But who is Seth? What is the secret of Queen Anahita, Mistress of the Poisons? And what terror awaits on Level 14?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Queen Anahita - Honor Blackman
• Byzan - Adrian Lukis
• Autarch Siris - David Warner
• Shamur - Vernon Dobtcheff
• Albis - Matt Addis
• Mira - Emerald O'Hanrahan
• Radulf Varidi - John Banks

References

• Tegan describes herself as "a fully paid up Aussie republican" and "downright Bolshie."
• The Doctor previously visited Sirius during one of his first four incarnations. On that occasion, he met Queen Anahita, who was then a student activist using her real name Idra. This encounter occurred forty-three years earlier in Anahita's personal timeline.
• Per the Doctor's instructions, Shamur uses the Fast Return Switch to return the TARDIS to Sirius. It is clearly labelled on the TARDIS console in pencil.

Notes

• Honor Blackman (Queen Anahita) previously played Professor Lasky in DW: Terror of the Vervoids.
• David Warner (Autarch Siris) previously played the Doctor in BFDWU: Sympathy for the Devil and BFDWU: Masters of War, Sir Isaac Newton in BFA: Summer, Coordinator Angell in CC: Empathy Games, Mycroft Holmes in BFBS: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel, Lord Azlok in DW: Dreamland and Professor Boston Schooner in BFA: Deimos.
• Vernon Dobtcheff (Shamur) previously played the War Lord scientist in DW: The War Games, Dadda Desaka in BFA: The Crade of the Snake and Dr. Sibelius Crow in JAL: The Necropolis Express. He would later play Professor Heinrich Schumann in CM: Threshold.
• Adrian Lukis (Byzan) previously played Enforcement Officer Bragg in BFA: Cobwebs and Professor Jeffrey Broderick in CM: Artificial Intelligence.
• The images of Honor Blackman and David Warner used on the CD cover do not accurately reflect the descriptions of their characters' appearances as given in the audio drama. Queen Anahita is said to have been noticeably disfigured by fire many years earlier whereas Autarch Siris makes several references to his beard.
• This audio drama was recorded on 10 and 11 January 2011.

Continuity

• The Doctor believes that the TARDIS team's recent visit to Luparis had a therapeutic effect on Nyssa (BFA: Hexagora) following her brainwashing at the hands of the Elite on Florana (BFA: The Elite).
• Tegan does not regret her decision to remain in the TARDIS as opposed to returning to Brisbane, Australia in 1983 with her former boyfriend Mike Bretherton. (BFA: Hexagora)

Timeline

• The Children of Seth takes place after BFA: Hexagora.
• The Children of Seth takes place before DW: Snakedance.

External links

• Official The Children of Seth page at bigfinish.com