Frozen Time (audio story)

Frozen Time
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Main enemy:	Arakssor
Main setting:	Antarctica, 2012
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Music:	Steve Foxon
Post production:	Steve Foxon
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	98
Release date:	August 2007
Format:	2 CDs - 4 Episodes
Production code:	7Z/B
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-285-2
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Frozen Time was the ninety-eighth monthly Doctor Who audio release produced by Big Finish Productions. This was the second solo Seventh Doctor story to feature him travelling without any companions. This is the first time that the Seventh Doctor and Ice Warriors have appeared in an audio together, although not the first time chronologically for the Seventh Doctor to encounter them in an audio medium — Thin Ice was the first chronological encounter between the Ice Warriors and the Seventh Doctor.

Publisher's summary

In 1929, Lord Barset's expedition to the Antarctic is lost without trace. Or so it seems...

Nearly a century later, his grandson funds a much-publicised return to the icy wastes. His mission: to discover what happened to the original expedition. But what he finds instead is an enigma — a battered London police box frozen in ice millennia old.

But something else lies in wait in this awful place, something from an era before humankind set foot on the continent's cold soil. A menace frozen in time.

Until now.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Lord Barset - Anthony Calf
• Genevieve - Maryam d'Abo
• Professor McIntyre/Bailey/Geldar - Tony Millan
• Harman/Commander - Gwynn Beech
• Ben/Driver/Ssrongar - Gregg Newton
• Arakssor/Kelly/Pilot/First Officer - Nicholas Briggs

Credits

• Recording by - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
• Sound design, CD mastering, and music by - Steve Foxon
• Series theme by - Ron Grainer
• Arranged by - Keff McCulloch
• Theme remastered by - David Darlington
• Script editor - Alan Barnes
• BFP Administration - Brenda Smith, Miles Haigh-Ellery, and Gary Atterton
• Cover & booklet design - Alex Mallinson
• Marketing Director - John Ainsworth
• Casting Director - Barnaby Edwards
• Producer - Sharon Gosling
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor mutters the names of his previous companions Melanie Bush, Ace and Hex.
• If the unspecified "millions of years," the comatose Doctor spends frozen in a block of ice are taken into account, the Doctor's age becomes entirely incalculable from this point onward, as does the age of his TARDIS.

Species

• Lord Barset thinks he is searching for 'lizard men' or Silurians (Earth Reptiles).
• The Antarctic actually holds a Martian prison facility for war criminals.

Notes

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Illustrated preview by Martin Geraghty from DWM 385

• This release is the first ever to include a music suite.
• A preview of this story was shown in Doctor Who Magazine issue 385 with an illustration by Martin Geraghty.
• Frozen Time acts as a partial sequel to the events of the AudioVisuals audio drama Endurance, also written and starring Briggs himself. It featured the exploits of the original 1929 Antarctic expedition, ranging from the Rochester crew's investigation of the missing expedition's base camp to the discovery and destruction of an advanced Silurian metropolis nestled beneath the ice. The obliteration of the city in the original story would seem to be the main reason Lord Barset was unable to uncover any trace of his grandfather's lost working party.
• This audio drama was recorded on 24 and 25 April 2007 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor previously visited Antarctica towards the end of his first incarnation in December 1986 (TV: The Tenth Planet), in the 1970s during his fourth incarnation (TV: The Seeds of Doom) and, earlier in his seventh incarnation, in 2006 (PROSE: Iceberg) and 2045 (AUDIO: The Word Lord).
• On 12 April 1929, The Daily Telegraph reported that Lord Barset's expedition to Antarctica was lost following their claim to have found a lost city of intelligent reptiles. A similar city was uncovered by Dr. Martyn and Townsend through an archaeological dig in Egypt. (COMIC: City of Devils)
• The TARDIS would later be frozen in a similar manner in PROSE: Time Zero.
• With this story taken into account, there are at least six incarnations of the Doctor visiting 2012: the Sixth Doctor and/or one of his first five incarnations (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man), the Seventh Doctor on this occasion, the Eighth Doctor in Wiltshire (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon), the Ninth Doctor in Utah (TV: Dalek), the Tenth Doctor in London (TV: Fear Her) and the Eleventh Doctor (TV: Good as Gold). Both the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were accompanied by Rose Tyler.
• The Sixth Doctor previously flew a helicopter in AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet.
• The 2012 Olympic Games are mentioned. During his tenth incarnation, the Doctor would attend the games in the company of Rose Tyler (TV: Fear Her) whereas he would later do so once again during his eleventh incarnation in the company of Amy Pond (TV: Good as Gold). In the far future, radio and television broadcasts concerning the 2012 Olympic Games could be accessed via the Gogglebox inside the Moon. (AUDIO: The Reaping, AUDIO: The Gathering)

External links

• Official Frozen Time page at bigfinish.com
• Frozen Time at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Frozen Time at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide