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{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story SMW | ||
|image = Zaltys (audio story).jpg | |image = Zaltys (audio story).jpg | ||
|doctor = Fifth Doctor | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
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|number in range = 223 | |number in range = 223 | ||
|companions = [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] | |companions = [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] | ||
|enemy = [[Clarimonde]] | |enemy = [[Clarimonde]], [[Sable]] | ||
|setting = [[Zaltys]] and ''[[Exemplar]]'' | |setting = [[Zaltys]] and ''[[Exemplar]]'' | ||
|writer = | |writer = Matthew Elliott | ||
|director = [[Barnaby Edwards]] | |director = [[Barnaby Edwards]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|cover = [[Tom Webster]] | |cover = [[Tom Webster]] | ||
|number = 223 | |number = 223 | ||
|release date = | |release date = 21 March 2017 | ||
|series = ''[[Main Range]]'' | |series = ''[[Main Range]]'' | ||
|epcount = 4 | |epcount = 4 | ||
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|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-zaltys-trailer | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-zaltys-trailer | ||
|musicsuite = https://soundcloud.com/stevefoxon/31-zaltys-music-suite-2017 | |musicsuite = https://soundcloud.com/stevefoxon/31-zaltys-music-suite-2017 | ||
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'''''Zaltys''''' was the two hundred and twenty-third story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written [[Matthew Elliott]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Matthew Waterhouse]] as [[Adric]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]] and [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]]. | '''''Zaltys''''' was the two hundred and twenty-third story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written [[Matthew Elliott]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Matthew Waterhouse]] as [[Adric]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]] and [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]]. | ||
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=== Part four === | === Part four === | ||
Believing that he manipulated the people of Zaltys into making themselves vulnerable, the Doctor confronts Gevaudan, but Perrault reveals that he is responsible. He met the vampires whilst on a [[diplomacy|diplomatic]] excursion to [[Okinos]] and has been helping them with the promise that they would make him one of them, allowing him to explore the universe that his [[xenophobia|xenophobic]] species cut Zaltys off from. When the ship lands and the vampires emerge in [[sunlight-resistant suit]]s, Talia shoots Perrault for his [[treason]]. | Believing that he manipulated the people of Zaltys into making themselves vulnerable, the Doctor confronts Gevaudan, but Perrault reveals that he is responsible. He met the vampires whilst on a [[diplomacy|diplomatic]] excursion to [[Okinos]] and has been helping them with the promise that they would make him one of them, allowing him to explore the universe that his [[xenophobia|xenophobic]] species cut Zaltys off from. When the ship lands and the vampires emerge in [[sunlight-resistant suit]]s, Talia shoots and kills Perrault for his [[treason]]. | ||
''to | Nyssa feigns a twisted [[ankle]] and Sable leaves her to Gevaudan, with whom Nyssa shares a psychic connection, whilst she threatens Adric to continue going with her to the TARDIS to leave Zaltys. Gevaudan takes Nyssa to the command centre where the Doctor decides to sacrifice himself to send the ''Exemplar'' outside of [[spacetime]] through a wormhole, telling Nyssa and Gevaudan to find Adric. Nyssa disagrees with the Doctor's choice and Gevaudan uses her mind to amplify his own powers and get the vampires to expose themselves to the [[sunlight]], turning them all to [[ash]]. Gevaudan takes the full force of the psychic backlash and dies, sparing Nyssa's life by releasing her just in time. | ||
When Adric and Sable arrive at the TARDIS and find Tegan there, Sable threatens Tegan's life to force Adric to open the ship, and Lusca emerges from the water to [[drowning|drown]] Sable and save her friend, but she is shot and dies with her. The Doctor ensures that Lusca and Gevaudan's bodies are returned to their people and is reunited with his companions, saying that everything that comes in threes is perfect. Adric points out that this means that there are one too many travellers in the TARDIS. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Talia (Zaltys)|Talia]] / [[Computer (Zaltys)|Computer]] - [[Carol Sloman]] | * [[Talia (Zaltys)|Talia]] / [[Computer (Zaltys)|Computer]] - [[Carol Sloman]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Adric mentions that he has read every book on [[mathematics]] in the [[TARDIS library]]. | * Adric mentions that he has read every book on [[mathematics]] in the [[TARDIS library]]. | ||
* Adric speaks [[Alzarian (language)|Alzarian]]. | * Adric speaks [[Alzarian (language)|Alzarian]]. | ||
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* Clarimonde mistakes Tegan for [[Jo Grant]] as she accompanied the Doctor when he first encountered her people, the [[Necrobiological]]s, a race of [[vampire]]s, on [[Sekhmet (planet)|Sekhmet]] during his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]]. | * Clarimonde mistakes Tegan for [[Jo Grant]] as she accompanied the Doctor when he first encountered her people, the [[Necrobiological]]s, a race of [[vampire]]s, on [[Sekhmet (planet)|Sekhmet]] during his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]]. | ||
* Sable shoots Talia with [[helicon energy]]. | * Sable shoots Talia with [[helicon energy]]. | ||
* Zaltys makes Tegan think of a [[David Bowie]] music video. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* In Lithuanian mythology, {{w|Žaltys}} (literally, a grass snake) is a household spirit guarding one's home. | * In Lithuanian mythology, {{w|Žaltys}} (literally, a grass snake) is a household spirit guarding one's home. | ||
* Gevaudan is named after the {{w|Beast of Gévaudan}}, a man-eating wolf which terrorised the French province of Gévaudan in the 1760s. | * Gevaudan is named after the {{w|Beast of Gévaudan}}, a man-eating wolf which terrorised the French province of Gévaudan in the 1760s. | ||
*This story was recorded on [[16 June (production)|16th]] and [[17 June (production)|17th June]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[ | * This story was recorded on [[16 June (production)|16th]] and [[17 June (production)|17th June]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[the Moat Studios]]. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||