Island of Lost Souls (audio story)

Island of Lost Souls
Adapted from:	Fathoms of Doom
Main character(s):	The Professor
Companion(s):	Ace
Main setting:	Greenland, World War II
Key crew
Publisher:	BBV Productions
Writer:	Mark Gatiss
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Bill Baggs
Release details
Release number:	2
Release date:	May 1998
Format:	1 CD
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Island of Lost Souls was the second audio in BBV Productions' Audio Adventures in Time & Space anthology series and the second episode of the subseries The Time Travellers. It continued to star Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred as the Professor and Ace, close analogues of their BBC characters the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary

It is the time of the Second World War, and all is not well at a top secret research base in Greenland. The British have been testing a new device which could bring about a swift end to the war with Germany — but the trials have gone disastrously wrong. When the Professor and Ace arrive, they encounter an isolated community not only under threat from its human enemies, but stalked by a horrifying menace with a voracious appetite for survival.

Plot

to be written

Cast

• The Professor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Gudrun - Julia Righton
• Hendrix - Nicholas Briggs
• Connor - John Wadmore
• Oluffson - David Bracken
• Kell - Mark Gatiss
• Hauser - Anthony Butler

Crew

• Writer - Mark Gatiss
• Director - Nicholas Briggs
• Post-Production and Music - Alistair Lock

Worldbuilding

to be written

Notes

Alternative 2021 cover.

• Mark Gatiss had pitched three BBC Past Doctor Adventures when in need of quick cash, including Fathoms of Doom, The Roundheads and Cromwell's Dust. After only The Roundheads was produced, he kept the other two pitches in reserve, and ultimately adapted them into two BBV stories, with Fathoms of Doom being renamed first Lords of Silence and then Island of Lost Souls (with Cromwell's Dust becoming Republica). Island had a large number of rewrites by director Nick Briggs, with the ending being completely changed.
• This story was one of several to receive an alternative cover on the renewed BBV Productions website in 2021.

External links

• Official Island of Lost Souls page at bbvproductions.co.uk