The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)

The Ultimate Adventure
Adapted from:	The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Jason, Crystal, Zog
Main enemy:	Daleks, Cybermen
Main setting:	Skaro London, 1980s Altair III Bar Galactica Paris, 1789 Dalek Emperor's ship
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Director:	Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music:	Andy Hardwick
Sound:	Thea Cochrane
Cover by:	Grant Kempster
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	September 2008
Format:	Two CDs, Two episodes, 50 minutes each
Production code:	BFPDWSPCD01
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-373-6
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The Ultimate Adventure was a Big Finish Productions adaptation of the stage play of the same name.

Publisher's summary

A special audio adaptation of the Doctor Who stage-play from the 1980s.

The Daleks have allied themselves with the Cybermen and a deadly band of mercenaries. The future of Earth depends upon a vital peace conference. And Mrs T knows that only one Time Lord can save the world.

There are epic battles. There are betrayals. There is love, and there even songs.

Take your seat for... Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure!

Plot

Act I

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Act II

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Jason - Noel Sullivan
• Crystal - Claire Huckle
• Karl - David Banks
• Madame Delilah / Mrs T - Nadine Cox
• Envoy / Zog - Derek Carlyle
• Nightclub MC - Bryan Pilkington
• The Daleks / The Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs

References

• After meeting the British Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, the Doctor tells Jason that "that woman" terrifies him.
• Crystal is a singer at the Number Ten, a nightclub in Clarendon Square.
• Jason was educated in England, not returning to his birthplace until shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
• The Doctor compares an attempted Dalek invasion of Altair III to humans causing global warming on Earth.

Notes

File:The Ultimate Adventure Potser.jpg

A poster for the Big Finish version of the play.

• This was an adaptation of the original stage play The Ultimate Adventure. Colin Baker and David Banks are the only actors from the original play to reprise their roles for the audio version.
• This audio drama was recorded on 5 and 6 June 2008.
• Chronologically, this is the earliest story to feature the Daleks and the Cybermen alongside each other. It is not, however, the first story to feature them both — an honour instead held by the television story The Five Doctors (or more accurately the novelisation which was released first). It is also not the earliest story to be produced in which the Daleks and Cybermen appear side by side each other since, as it was released in 2008, it was beaten to that position by the television story Doomsday by two years.
• Daleks are present in the TARDIS. Once more, The Ultimate Adventure is chronologically the earliest story in which this has happened. From a release standpoint however, it was beaten by the novel War of the Daleks in 1997 and the television story The Parting of the Ways in 2005.
• This story sees a very rare instance where the Sixth Doctor has a sonic screwdriver in his possession, though it does not explain when or where he obtained another one to replace his predecessor's after it was destroyed in the television story The Visitation.

Continuity

• The Daleks have tried to sabotage a World Peace Conference before. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
• The Doctor mentions that Daleks cannot stand the cold. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)
• The Doctor, Jason and Crystal later returned to Bar Galactica to attend Madame Delilah's funeral, which was her final request. (AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure)

External links

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