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* Mentos asks the Doctor if he's going to use one of those "fox the computer conundrums...the last thing I said was false and all that". This alludes to a popular means of defeating misguided or evil [[computer]]s in ''[[Star Trek]]'' but also references [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]''. The [[Eighth Doctor]] would experience a similar failure in using such questions on the Brain in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Space Age (novel)|The Space Age]]'', but simply muses that at least it shows people are building the computers properly.
* Mentos asks the Doctor if he's going to use one of those "fox the computer conundrums...the last thing I said was false and all that". This alludes to a popular means of defeating misguided or evil [[computer]]s in ''[[Star Trek]]'' but also references [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]''. The [[Eighth Doctor]] would experience a similar failure in using such questions on the Brain in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Space Age (novel)|The Space Age]]'', but simply muses that at least it shows people are building the computers properly.
* The names that the Cylinder calls the Doctor hail from specific stories: [[Johann Schmidt]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'', ''[[Klein's Story]]'', ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', ''[[The Shadow in the Glass]]''), Doktor von Wer ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]''), Ka Faraq Gatri ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') Theta Sigma ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]'') and Snail ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'').
* The names that the Cylinder calls the Doctor hail from specific stories: [[Johann Schmidt]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'', ''[[Klein's Story]]'', ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', ''[[The Shadow in the Glass]]''), Doktor von Wer ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]''), Ka Faraq Gatri ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') Theta Sigma ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]'') and Snail ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'').
* The Doctor claims that he has very good eyesight in the dark due to drinking so much [[carrot juice]]. (Mel would have forced him to drink it.) ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')
* The Doctor claims that he has very good eyesight in the dark due to drinking so much [[carrot juice]]. (Mel would have forced him to drink it.) ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')
* Mel mentions the fact that she has "the memory of an [[elephant]]" is a running gag between herself and the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani]]'')
* Mel mentions the fact that she has "the memory of an [[elephant]]" is a running gag between herself and the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani]]'')

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The One Doctor was the twenty-seventh story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush.

This audio was released in December 2001 and was considered Big Finish's "Christmas release". It has a notably comic slant to the story. It is the first of two Christmas releases in the main range, the second being AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!. Both stories feature Mel.

Publisher's summary

When the evil Skelloids launch an attack upon the seventeen worlds of the Generios system, its peace-loving inhabitants face total destruction.

So it's lucky that the Doctor, that famous traveller in time and space, is in the area, and that he, along with his pretty young assistant, Sally-Anne, manages to defeat the deadly creatures and save the day.

But now it looks as though the Doctor's luck has run out.

Who is the mysterious, curly-haired stranger, intent on causing trouble? What role does the feisty redhead Melanie play in his scheme? And what have they to do with the sinister alien cylinder approaching Generios?

One thing is certain: for the Doctor and Sally-Anne, there's deadly danger ahead...

Plot

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Cast

References

The Doctor

Individuals

Locations

Species

Planets

Illustration by Lee Sullivan from DWM 312.

Objects

Three Great Treasures of Generios

  • UNIT ZX419, also known as the Shelves of Infinity, are infinite and therefore impossible to put up.

Media

  • The quiz show The Feeblest Contestant has been going on for 33,000 years.

Notes

Art by Roger Langridge from DWM 314
  • This is the first of Big Finish Productions' "Christmas releases" stories. They are a bit more light-hearted than other releases. The following year's Christmas release was Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, a story again parodying popular media-culture. In years following Bang-Bang-a-Boom!'s release, Big Finish offered subscriber only special releases, although those tended to cover all genres rather than the lighter-toned style that this story and Bang-Bang-a-Boom! use.
  • The title of this story is a reference towards the tendencies for Multi-Doctor stories to feature the number of Doctors in the story within the title (including such stories as The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors, The Eight Doctors, The Four Doctors, Four Doctors). In this case, the title jokingly hints that the extra Doctor included within the story will be revealed to be a fake, meaning that the Sixth Doctor is the one Doctor within the story.
  • The third episode features the alternative Delaware version of the Doctor Who theme tune, a nod to the overseas print of Carnival of Monsters.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 28 and 29 April 2001.
  • The second CD contains a bonus track containing two scenes. In the first of these, the Doctor and Mel attempt to use the Time-Space Visualiser to watch The Queen's Speech, but accidentally tune in to Elizabeth I. In the second, the Questioner asks Mentos a number of questions from throughout time and space. Both scenes end with the characters wishing Merry Christmas "to all of you at home". (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan) The bonus track was posted on Big Finish's official Soundcloud in December 2012. [1]
  • Jim Mortimore and Jane Elphinstone's score to this story, alongside the score to Bloodtide and Project: Twilight, was released on the CD Music from the Sixth Doctor Audio Adventures.

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