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|range = Peladon (audio anthology) | |range = Peladon (audio anthology) | ||
|number in range = 3 | |number in range = 3 | ||
|series = | |series = Peladon (audio anthology) | ||
|number = 3 | |number = 3 | ||
|doctor = Sixth Doctor | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
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|featuring = [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] | |featuring = [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] | ||
|featuring2 = | |featuring2 = | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Isabelda]] | ||
|setting = [[Peladon]] | |setting = [[Peladon]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Mark Wright | ||
|director = [[Barnaby Kay]] | |director = [[Barnaby Kay]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|sound = Howard Carter | |sound = Howard Carter | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 28 January 2022 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>3rd of 4 stories | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>3rd of 4 stories | ||
|production code = BFPDWPELADON50 | |production code = BFPDWPELADON50 | ||
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|next = The Truth of Peladon (audio story) | |next = The Truth of Peladon (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
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'''''The Death of Peladon''''' was the third story in the ''[[Peladon (audio anthology)|Peladon]]'' audio anthology, produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Mark Wright]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Jane Goddard]] as [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]]. | '''''The Death of Peladon''''' was the third story in the ''[[Peladon (audio anthology)|Peladon]]'' audio anthology, produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Mark Wright]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Jane Goddard]] as [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]]. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Helais]]' [[ | [[Helais]]' [[Helais' grandmother (The Death of Peladon)|grandmother]] expresses concern for the men in the [[mine]]s and says [[Aggedor]]'s name before dying. | ||
[[Minaris|Queen Minaris]], who's suffering from a [[headache]], is trying to make [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]]'s [[music box]] work before her daughter, [[Isabelda|Princess Isabelda]], tells her to make herself presentable for the [[Galactic Federation]] liaison. | [[Minaris|Queen Minaris]], who's suffering from a [[headache]], is trying to make [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]]'s [[music box]] work before her daughter, [[Isabelda|Princess Isabelda]], tells her to make herself presentable for the [[Galactic Federation]] liaison. | ||
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Mel, Minaris, Isabelda and Alpha Centauri travel to the village in the royal carriage. | Mel, Minaris, Isabelda and Alpha Centauri travel to the village in the royal carriage. | ||
The Doctor gives a Pel a medical examination and diagnoses him with acute trisilicate poisoning. He says that they need to find a source of clean water urgently and bemoans the loss of the TARDIS, which could have helped in the short term. | The Doctor gives a Pel a medical examination and diagnoses him with acute trisilicate poisoning. He says that they need to find a source of clean water urgently and bemoans the loss of the TARDIS, which could have helped in the short term. The royal carriage arrives and Minaris gives a speech before being interrupted by the Doctor's reunions with Mel and Alpha Centauri. The Doctor introduces Helais to Minaris, but Isabelda is dismissive and has the Captain push people aside so that Minaris can get to the site of the tragedy. The Doctor remarks that he usually gets on so well with royalty. | ||
''to be | At the sinkhole, Helais presents the seal of Aggedor which he inherited from her ancestor, [[Hepesh]], and demands Minaris' attention; she tells her that she must embrace Peladonian spirituality to begin the healing process of the world. The Doctor says that Minaris must ask for the Federation's help, which Alpha Centauri supports, but Isabelda refuses and Helais attacks her. Mel, Minaris, Helais, Alpha Centauri and the Captain return to the Citadel. | ||
Minaris having turned her back, Helais supplies the people with [[energy weapon]]s for an assault on the Citadel in the name of Aggedor. She asks for the Doctor's support, but he refuses. He examines one of the weapons, a focused phase-rifle with a crystalline power regulator, and determines that it certainly is not of Peladonian origin. | |||
Mel and Alpha Centauri try to convince Minaris to help the people, but she is more concerned about trying to get the music box to work. Isabelda refuses to help Mel and Alpha Centauri, not trusting what the Doctor has said, and tells Minaris that she has to cut ties with the Federation. Minaris cannot think straight because of her headache and does nothing when Isabelda, who does not appreciate a Federation ambassador attempting to influence a sovereign, has Mel and Alpha Centauri confined to the ambassador's quarters. Minaris says only that she needs quiet to think. | |||
The Doctor catches up with Helais and pleads with her to stop and turn back. She does not listen and fires her weapon. | |||
Alpha Centauri asks Mel what [[Earth]] is like; they had always intended to visit more planets when they retired, but instead dedicated their life to a greater purpose which now seems to have failed. Mel tries to comfort them and they agree that there are no lost causes. Mel suggests that they find a way to separate Minaris from Isabelda and, after Alpha Centauri lures the guard in, Mel knocks him out and they escape. | |||
As the Captain talks to one of the guards, the villagers begin their attack on the Citadel. She orders the gates sealed and the alarm sounded. Mel and Alpha Centauri spy Isabelda emerge from a hidden door and, once she has gone, go through the secret passageway. Meanwhile, the Captain informs Minaris of the attack and Isabelda says to do whatever must be done to stop them. Isabelda tells her sister that the people clearly demand change and that Minaris must appease Aggedor. | |||
The Doctor convinces the villagers to stop firing and asks both sides to come together and negotiate, but Helais continues the attack. The Captain has her men draw their weapons and meet the villagers in battle. | |||
Mel and Alpha Centauri enter the [[Temple of Aggedor]], which Alpha Centauri begins to remember, and find crates filled with advanced weapons including thermic detonators. Mel tells Alpha Centauri of the detonator and the murdered man that she and the Doctor found in the mine and hear an [[Arcturan]] attempting to make contact with Isabelda using a communications console. The Arcturan says that their ship has arrived. | |||
Isabelda tells Minaris that she has a ship which they can use to leave Peladon permanently. The villagers breach the Citadel and kill the Captain, prompting Minaris to accept that Isabelda might be right. However, Helais arrives in the throne room and tells them that the Citadel is under their control. The Doctor asks Helais what she wants; she says that she wants fair treatment and prepares to kill the Queen before the Doctor stands in the way. The Doctor reveals that he has taken a [[power cell]] from a rifle and that it will soon overload unless Helais drops her gun, in which case he will deactivate it. | |||
Mel and Alpha Centauri enter the throne room. Helais drops her gun, asking her grandmother to forgive her, and the Doctor reveals that the power cell was not really active. Mel presents one of the weapons from the Temple of Aggedor and Minaris demands an explanation from Isabelda, who admits being behind the explosion and planning to sell Peladon to the Arcturans to save her mother from withering and dying on the throne as [[Isabelda's father]] had. Isabelda holds a gun to her mother as she escapes, wounding Alpha Centauri first. Mel remains with the ambassador whilst the Doctor and Helais go after Isabelda. | |||
The Doctor and Helais confront Isabelda at the waterfall, which the Doctor points out is red with poison. He says that Isabelda could be part of the healing process, but she wants only to be free of a life of servitude and watching her mother age prematurely as she tries to keep a dead world alive. Helais says that she will not fight and Minaris tells Isabelda to give up, but Isabelda goes to kill her. Helais shoots Isabelda first and she falls over the cliff. | |||
Federation aid arrives on Peladon and the TARDIS is dug up. Having stayed for Isabelda's funeral, the Doctor says that it is time for him and Mel to go. Minaris and Helais, who is offered the post of [[chancellor]], thank them and agree to work together to heal Peladon whilst Alpha Centauri now feels able to continue as special ambassador to Peladon rather than retire. A full environmental health campaign is to be instigated thanks to the Doctor's influence with the Federation. The Doctor hands Minaris the music box, which he has repaired and which plays a [[Venusian lullaby]] as the TARDIS dematerialises. | |||
Alpha Centauri says that the Doctor may return. In the meantime, Minaris says, perhaps they will save Peladon together. | |||
Unbeknownst to everybody, Isabelda has survived and returns, badly wounded, to the Temple of Aggedor. She attempts to contact the Arcturans, but they do not answer. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] | * [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] | ||
* [[Melanie Bush]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] | * [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] | ||
* [[Helais]] - [[Liz White]] | |||
* [[Minaris|Queen Minaris]] - [[Sara Powell]] | * [[Minaris|Queen Minaris]] - [[Sara Powell]] | ||
* [[Isabelda]] - [[Remmie Milner]] | * [[Isabelda]] - [[Remmie Milner]] | ||
* [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] / [[Guard Captain (The Death of Peladon)|Guard Captain]] / [[Helais' grandmother (The Death of Peladon)|Grandma]] - [[Jane Goddard]] | |||
== Crew == | |||
* Writer - [[Mark Wright]] | |||
* Assistant Producer - [[Dominic Martin]] | |||
* Cover Art - [[Oliver Chenery]] | |||
* Director - [[Barnaby Kay]] | |||
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Designer - [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | |||
* Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
* Script Editor - [[Robert Valentine]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The Doctor quotes ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''. | * The Doctor quotes ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''. | ||
* The Doctor once had adventures in [[Foy]] with [[Kenneth Grahame]] in [[1906]]. He says that it is a magical place and that they encountered talking [[mole]]s and [[badger]]s. | * The Doctor once had adventures in [[Foy]] with [[Kenneth Grahame]] in [[1906]]. He says that it is a magical place and that they encountered talking [[mole]]s and [[badger]]s. | ||
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* Queen Minaris mentions [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]] playing the music box to [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. | * Queen Minaris mentions [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]] playing the music box to [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. | ||
* [[Erimem|Queen Erimem]] reigned during a golden age. | * [[Erimem|Queen Erimem]] reigned during a golden age. | ||
* [[Isabelda's father]] "withered and died" on the throne. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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* Alpha Centauri refers to their first visit to Peladon during the reign of [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') | * Alpha Centauri refers to their first visit to Peladon during the reign of [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') | ||
* The Doctor refers to having a complicated history with Peladon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'' and ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Prisoner of Peladon (audio story)|The Prisoner of Peladon]]'' and ''[[The Bride of Peladon (audio story)|The Bride of Peladon]]'') | * The Doctor refers to having a complicated history with Peladon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'' and ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Prisoner of Peladon (audio story)|The Prisoner of Peladon]]'' and ''[[The Bride of Peladon (audio story)|The Bride of Peladon]]'') | ||
* The Doctor recalls [[Erimem]]'s departure. ([[AUDIO]]: [[The Bride of Peladon (audio story)| | * The Doctor recalls [[Erimem]]'s departure. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bride of Peladon (audio story)|The Bride of Peladon]]'') | ||
* Alpha observes that the Doctor has regenerated once again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') | * Alpha observes that the Doctor has regenerated once again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') | ||
* Helias is a descendant of King Peladon's high priest [[Hepesh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') | * Helias is a descendant of King Peladon's high priest [[Hepesh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') | ||
* Alpha recalls the [[Third Doctor]] being sentenced to death for entering the Temple of Aggedor. ([[TV]]: [[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)| | * Alpha recalls the [[Third Doctor]] being sentenced to death for entering the Temple of Aggedor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') | ||
* The Doctor recalls his meeting with [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'') | * The Doctor recalls his meeting with [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'') | ||
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