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=== 1998-2000: Doctor Who pastiches on audio === | === 1998-2000: Doctor Who pastiches on audio === | ||
[[File:Cyberon.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Cyberon]]s, among BBV's most enduring "original" creations, but clearly pasticheing the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], debuted in Season 1 of the ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space]]'' before making the jump to live-action a few years down the line]]After the success of the ''[[Auton Trilogy]]'', BBV attempted to secure the rights to the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and began production on ''[[Cyberwar (unproduced home video)|Cyberwar]]'', a film which would prospectively feature Cybermen hunting characters on a remote island. Some drafts of the story also featured the [[Ice Warrior]]s. Although the film had already been announced, negotiations for the rights to the Cybermen ultimately fell through. While continuing to develop video material, Baggs set [[Nigel Fairs]] to the task of developing a line of audio dramas under the BBV brand, taking the team back to their ''[[Audio Visuals]]'' roots. The first season of BBV's all-purpose audio range, the ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space]]'', was mostly given over to ''The Time Travellers'', a series of ''Doctor Who'' pastiches starring [[Sylvester McCoy]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] — who had yet to reprise their actual DWU roles as the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] with [[Big Finish Productions]]. | [[File:Cyberon.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Cyberon]]s, among BBV's most enduring "original" creations, but clearly pasticheing the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], debuted in Season 1 of the ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space]]'' before making the jump to live-action a few years down the line]]After the success of the ''[[Auton Trilogy]]'', BBV attempted to secure the rights to the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and began production on ''[[Cyberwar (unproduced home video)|Cyberwar]]'', a film which would prospectively feature Cybermen hunting characters on a remote island. Some drafts of the story also featured the [[Ice Warrior]]s. Although the film had already been announced, negotiations for the rights to the Cybermen ultimately fell through. While continuing to develop video material, Baggs set [[Nigel Fairs]] to the task of developing a line of audio dramas under the BBV brand, taking the team back to their ''[[Audio Visuals]]'' roots. The first season of BBV's all-purpose audio range, the ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space]]'', was mostly given over to ''[[The Time Travellers (series)|The Time Travellers]]'', a series of ''Doctor Who'' pastiches starring [[Sylvester McCoy]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] — who had yet to reprise their actual DWU roles as the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] with [[Big Finish Productions]]. | ||
However, ''Cyber-Hunt'', the seventh and final release in the season, broke the mould. Advertised as the start of a new series entitled ''The Wanderer'', it salvaged story elements from the cancelled ''Cyberwar'' project and starred [[Nicholas Briggs]] as the amnesiac traveller [[Fred]] (who was never referred to as "the Wanderer" in-story). Briggs had previously played the Doctor for unlicenced fan audios made by [[Audio Visuals]]; the ''Wanderer'' stories were a deliberate continuation of that series in all but name, with Fred being written as an amnesiac version of the ''Audio Visuals'' Doctor, with the BBC-copyrighted elements of the "Doctor" character stripped away via the amnesia plot device.<ref name="justyce-briggs">[http://www.justyce.org/nick-briggs-03-april-2000.html Nick Briggs interview, justyce.org, April 2000]</ref> | However, ''Cyber-Hunt'', the seventh and final release in the season, broke the mould. Advertised as the start of a new series entitled ''The Wanderer'', it salvaged story elements from the cancelled ''Cyberwar'' project and starred [[Nicholas Briggs]] as the amnesiac traveller [[Fred]] (who was never referred to as "the Wanderer" in-story). Briggs had previously played the Doctor for unlicenced fan audios made by [[Audio Visuals]]; the ''Wanderer'' stories were a deliberate continuation of that series in all but name, with Fred being written as an amnesiac version of the ''Audio Visuals'' Doctor, with the BBC-copyrighted elements of the "Doctor" character stripped away via the amnesia plot device.<ref name="justyce-briggs">[http://www.justyce.org/nick-briggs-03-april-2000.html Nick Briggs interview, justyce.org, April 2000]</ref> |