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|companions = [[John Benton|Sgt. John Benton]] | |companions = [[John Benton|Sgt. John Benton]] | ||
|featuring = [[Margery Phipps]] | |featuring = [[Margery Phipps]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = The [[Blatherian]]s | ||
|setting = [[UNIT HQ]], [[London]] and [[Kettering (town)|Kettering]], [[Northamptonshire]], the [[1970s]] | |setting = [[UNIT HQ]], [[London]] and [[Kettering (town)|Kettering]], [[Northamptonshire]], the [[1970s]]<br>[[Kettering (planet)|Kettering]] | ||
|writer = [[Simon Barnard]] & [[Paul Morris]] | |writer = [[Simon Barnard]] & [[Paul Morris]] | ||
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | |director = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
* Sgt. Benton's dinner jacket is several sizes too big for him. | * Sgt. Benton's dinner jacket is several sizes too big for him. | ||
* Margery Phipps, a member of the [[Harmony Party]], was the first woman to elected to the Kettering Town Council. She is a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] and an environmentalist. | * Margery Phipps, a member of the [[Harmony Party]], was the first woman to elected to the Kettering Town Council. She is a [[feminism|feminist]], a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] and an environmentalist. | ||
* Overnight, the Doctor builds a time disturbance sensor for Benton to use to detect "[[ghost]]s" in Kettering. | * Overnight, the Doctor builds a time disturbance sensor for Benton to use to detect "[[ghost]]s" in Kettering. | ||
* Benton goes undercover as an independent councillor in the Burton Latimer Ward in investigate the disappearance of [[Beryl Umbridge]]. | * Benton goes undercover as an independent councillor in the Burton Latimer Ward in investigate the disappearance of [[Beryl Umbridge]]. | ||
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* Margery refers to [[Marks & Spencer]]. | * Margery refers to [[Marks & Spencer]]. | ||
* Margery's favourite flowers are [[gladioli]]. | * Margery's favourite flowers are [[gladioli]]. | ||
* In [[1992]], Margery became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] and negotiated a "deep and lasting" peace treaty between nations. Her book ''[[Love is All You Need]]'' was still a bestseller 500 years later. The people of [[Kettering (planet)|Valiador]] adopted her philosophy and renamed the planet "Kettering" in her honour. Kettering became renowned for its pacifism. However, this left the planet open to invasion by a species of strip miners called the [[Blatherian]]s, who sold much of the population into [[slavery]], ten years earlier. Margery was taken from her own time to be placed on trial for her role in leading to Kettering's devastation. | * In [[1992]], Margery became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] and negotiated a "deep and lasting" peace treaty between nations. Her book ''[[Love is All You Need]]'' was still a bestseller 500 years later. The people of [[Kettering (planet)|Valiador]] adopted her philosophy and renamed the planet "Kettering" in her honour. Kettering became renowned for its [[pacifism]]. However, this left the planet open to invasion by a species of strip miners called the [[Blatherian]]s, who sold much of the population into [[slavery]], ten years earlier. Margery was taken from her own time to be placed on trial for her role in leading to Kettering's devastation. Mr Sparks is her defence attorney. | ||
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Revision as of 22:43, 24 November 2013
Council of War was the sixty-eighth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the twelfth story of season 7. It was written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris and featured Sergeant Benton.
Publisher's summary
At the Doctor's request, Sergeant Benton is investigating ghosts and missing people in Kettering, while undercover as a local councillor
And that's how he comes to meet Margery Phipps.
An alien incursion in the town hall leads them on a journey to a terrible future — where Margery discovers how she changed a world, and the life of a whole civilisation hangs in the balance…
Plot
Part one
to be added
Part two
to be added
Cast
Uncredited cast
- Documentary narrator - Lisa Bowerman
References
- Sgt. Benton's dinner jacket is several sizes too big for him.
- Margery Phipps, a member of the Harmony Party, was the first woman to elected to the Kettering Town Council. She is a feminist, a vegetarian and an environmentalist.
- Overnight, the Doctor builds a time disturbance sensor for Benton to use to detect "ghosts" in Kettering.
- Benton goes undercover as an independent councillor in the Burton Latimer Ward in investigate the disappearance of Beryl Umbridge.
- Ted Fields is the Chairman of the Kettering Town Council. While dressed as Father Christmas and very drunk, he makes unwanted advances on Margery. Benton rescues Margery from him.
- Margery describes Benton as handsome in a "mail order catalogue sort of way" and claims that he resembles James Bond, "not the new one, the one before him but without the Australian accent."
- UNIT believes that the "ghosts" are time travellers from the future.
- Benton describes Margery as "a Bolshie women's libber."
- Margery refers to Marks & Spencer.
- Margery's favourite flowers are gladioli.
- In 1992, Margery became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and negotiated a "deep and lasting" peace treaty between nations. Her book Love is All You Need was still a bestseller 500 years later. The people of Valiador adopted her philosophy and renamed the planet "Kettering" in her honour. Kettering became renowned for its pacifism. However, this left the planet open to invasion by a species of strip miners called the Blatherians, who sold much of the population into slavery, ten years earlier. Margery was taken from her own time to be placed on trial for her role in leading to Kettering's devastation. Mr Sparks is her defence attorney.
Notes
- This marks the first time that John Levene has played Sgt. Benton since HOMEVID: Wartime in 1987.
- This audio drama was recorded on 10 August 2012.
Continuity
- Benton mentions that Captain Mike Yates was brainwashed by BOSS in Llanfairfach, Wales and that Jo Grant has left UNIT to travel up the Amazon with Professor Clifford Jones. (TV: The Green Death)
- Benton states that the Doctor does not believe in ghosts. (TV: Doctor Who)
- Benton mentions that he hasn't worn his dinner jacket since 1968, a reference to TV: The Invasion, when he and Corporal Jack Tracy went undercover to locate the Second Doctor.
- Benton refers to fighting the Cybermen (TV: The Invasion) and the Axons (TV: The Claws of Axos).
- Benton tells Margery that time travellers from the future have been mistaken for ghosts before. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
- Benton tells Margery that he will have to postpone his date because London is being attacked by dinosaurs. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
External links
- Official Council of War page at bigfinish.com
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