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|doctor = Sixth Doctor
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|companions = [[Flip Jackson|Flip]]
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|enemy = Lord [[Krarn]]<br />The Warmongers<br />Chimbly<br />The Porcians
|enemy = Lord [[Krarn]]<br />The [[Warmonger]]s<br />[[Chimbly]]<br />The [[Porcian]]s
|setting = [[Transmission (planetoid)|Transmission]]
|setting = [[Transmission (planetoid)|Transmission]]
|writer = [[John Dorney]]
|writer = [[John Dorney]]
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== Publishers summary ==
== Publishers summary ==
Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul Augustus Scullop, whose Trans-Gal empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show… is Laser.
Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul [[Augustus Scullop]], whose [[Trans-Gal]] empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show… is Laser.


Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the Doctor is interested only in watching Test Match cricket… but finds himself drawn into Scullop’s world when his new travelling companion, Flip, is snatched from inside the TARDIS.
Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the [[Sixth Doctor|Doctor]] is interested only in watching Test Match [[cricket]]… but finds himself drawn into Scullop’s world when his new travelling companion, [[Flip Jackson|Flip]], is snatched from inside [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].


So, while the Doctor uncovers the terrible secret of Trans-Gal’s new tech, Flip battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord Krarn and his pig-like servants, the Warmongers. And the name of that wilderness… is "Stevenage".
So, while the Doctor uncovers the terrible secret of Trans-Gal’s new tech, Flip battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord [[Krarn]] and his pig-like servants, the [[Warmonger]]s. And the name of that wilderness… is "[[Stevenage]]".


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* The Doctor tells Flip that he is not as interested in [[cricket]] as his [[Fifth Doctor|previous incarnation]] and notes that many of his other incarnations are "astonishingly irritating."
* The Doctor tells Flip that he is not as interested in [[cricket]] as his [[Fifth Doctor|previous incarnation]] and notes that many of his other incarnations are "astonishingly irritating."
* The Doctor is impressed by a [[reverse sweep]] in the match.
* The Doctor is impressed by a [[reverse sweep]] in the match.
* The Doctor previously encountered Chimbly on Ballastron VII as well as several other planets.
* The Doctor previously encountered Chimbly on [[Ballastron VII]] as well as several other planets.
* Xander Drexel was Augustus Scullop's business partner before he left Trans-Gal and created his own company, which proved to be considerably more successful.
* [[Xander Drexel]] was Augustus Scullop's business partner before he left Trans-Gal and created his own company, which proved to be considerably more successful.


=== Foods and beverages ===
=== Foods and beverages ===

Revision as of 23:25, 28 March 2015

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The Fourth Wall is the second story in the 2012 Sixth Doctor audio trilogy.

Publishers summary

Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul Augustus Scullop, whose Trans-Gal empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show… is Laser.

Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the Doctor is interested only in watching Test Match cricket… but finds himself drawn into Scullop’s world when his new travelling companion, Flip, is snatched from inside the TARDIS.

So, while the Doctor uncovers the terrible secret of Trans-Gal’s new tech, Flip battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord Krarn and his pig-like servants, the Warmongers. And the name of that wilderness… is "Stevenage".

Plot

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Cast

References

Individuals

  • The Doctor tells Flip that he is not as interested in cricket as his previous incarnation and notes that many of his other incarnations are "astonishingly irritating."
  • The Doctor is impressed by a reverse sweep in the match.
  • The Doctor previously encountered Chimbly on Ballastron VII as well as several other planets.
  • Xander Drexel was Augustus Scullop's business partner before he left Trans-Gal and created his own company, which proved to be considerably more successful.

Foods and beverages

Planets

Cultural references from the real world

  • Flip compares Transmission to the Death Star from Star Wars. The Doctor expresses the hope that it is "not quite so ominous."
  • Flip refers to the James Bond film franchise and describes Lord Krarn as being "like every Bond villain you've ever seen."
  • Flip states that the Warmongers are not exactly crack shots, comparing them to "terrorists trying to attack Bruce Willis" from the Die Hard film series.
  • Flip tells Lord Krarn that she has seen more realistic looking weapons than the Warmongers' on Blue Peter.
  • Flip states that Jancey's description of Earth's fate since the Warmonger invasion five years earlier sounds as if she was reading a summary of the plot on Wikipedia.
  • What the Doctor calls the "fifth One Day International between Australia and South Africa 2006" is a real world cricket match that the Doctor enjoys on the Time-Space Visualiser.

Time technology

  • The Doctor watches the 2006 cricket Test Match between Australia and South Africa on the Time-Space Visualiser. Flip describes it as a "manky old thing" and criticises it for being in black and white.
  • Trans-Gal's reality generator utilises dimensional transcendentalism to create the dimensional bubble. The Doctor derides the use of the technology for the purposes of "mere entertainment." The reality generator was created by the Dream Spinners of Dashra, a long extinct species who inhabited the ninth galaxy. It was acquired by Dr. Helen Shepherd, who told Augustus Scullop that it was her own invention.
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Notes

  • This audio drama was recorded on 14 and 15 June 2011.

Continuity

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