The Key To Key To Time (audio story)

The Key To Key To Time
Doctor:	The Warrior
Companion(s):	Davros
Featuring:	White Guardian, Daleks
Main enemy:	President
Main setting:	Skaro, Crystal City of the Sevateem, Wilderness Beyond Time
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Tim Foley
Director:	Barnaby Kay
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Jack Townley
Release details
Release number:	2.3
Part of:	Destiny
Release date:	27 September 2022
Format:	1 CD Download (3rd of 3 stories)
Production code:	BFPDWUNCD10
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-845-5 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-846-2 (digital)
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The Key To Key To Time was the third and final story in the audio anthology Destiny, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Colin Baker as The Warrior and introduced Anna Savva as the White Guardian and Terry Molloy as Davros.

Publisher's summary

As battle continues to rage across the history of the cosmos, the White Guardian opts to provide the Warrior with a way out...located at the end of a dangerous quest, with an even more dangerous companion. But can a Time War ever truly end?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Warrior - Colin Baker
• Davros - Terry Molloy
• The Guardian - Anna Savva
• President - Justin Salinger
• Castellan - Remmie Milner
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
• Sarah - Sadie Miller
• Harry - Christopher Naylor

Uncredited

• The Pilgrim, The Wanderer, Colin, and unspecified Doctor - Colin Baker
• Director - Nicholas Briggs
• Splinx - TBD

Worldbuilding

• The Guardian states that at one point or another, everything in the universe has been a disguised segment of the Key to Time.
• At one point the Warrior is in a recording booth and referred to as "Colin."
• The Warrior believes one segment's awareness of being trapped forever once its converted is actually a defense mechanism.

Notes

• This is the second story in the Doctor Who Unbound series to feature an alternate version of Davros, the first being in AUDIO: Masters of War.

Continuity

• The Guardian stops the Warrior's TARDIS to speak with him about the Key to Time, and the Warrior comments on her wicker chair. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
• Davros is shown images of his life, including being a little boy in a mine field with a stranger, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) and encountering Movellans who try to put him in suspended animation. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
• The Time Lords destroy a Dalek base on Necros. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks)
• The Warrior is aware that the Old Ones come from the universe before his own, and that he has faced several in his lives. (PROSE: Millennial Rites, et al.)
• The Wanderer travels with Splinx. (GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror)
• In AUDIO: Davros, Davros's N-Space counterpart once told the Sixth Doctor an idea how they could've been friends in some other lifetime.
• Across realities, time wars lead to plans to destroy the universe. (AUDIO: Homecoming; TV: The End of Time)
• The Warrior's decision mirrors one of his N-Space counterpart's war, tenth and eleventh selves finding a different way to end the war in TV: The Day of the Doctor.

External links

• Official The Key To Key To Time page at bigfinish.com