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{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story SMW | ||
|image = Wrong Doctors cover.jpg | |image = Wrong Doctors cover.jpg | ||
|range = Main Range | |range = Main Range | ||
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|featuring = [[Christine Bush|Christine]] | |featuring = [[Christine Bush|Christine]] | ||
|enemy = [[Time demon]] | |enemy = [[Time demon]] | ||
|setting = [[Pease Pottage]], [[1987]] | |setting = [[Pease Pottage]], [[summer]] [[1987]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Matt Fitton | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|epcount = 4 | |epcount = 4 | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 14 January 2013 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-051-0 (physical) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-051-0 (physical)<br/MISBN 978-1-78575-716-7 (digital) | ||
|production code = BFPDWCD169 | |production code = BFPDWCD169 | ||
|prev = Smuggling Tales (audio story) | |prev = Smuggling Tales (audio story) | ||
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|next2 = Spaceport Fear (audio story) | |next2 = Spaceport Fear (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-the-wrong-doctors-trailer | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-the-wrong-doctors-trailer | ||
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'''''The Wrong Doctors''''' was the one hundred and sixty-ninth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]]. | '''''The Wrong Doctors''''' was the one hundred and sixty-ninth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]]. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Part one === | === Part one === | ||
Having finished the last slice of [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]]'s [[chocolate]] [[sponge cake]], [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] heads to [[Pease Pottage]] to meet [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] whilst his younger self is dropping an older Mel home following [[The Doctor's trial (The Mysterious Planet)|his trial]], albeit at an earlier [[time]] than intended. The older Doctor hurries off after meeting the older Mel and the younger Doctor meets the younger Mel on her way to work at the [[Pease Pottage Radar Station|radar station]] as he investigates a [[car]] wrecked by an ''[[Iguanodon]]''. The wreck is ignored by Mel and disappears entirely when [[Muriel Wilberforce|Mrs Wilberforce]] orders the Doctor to leave the village. | Having finished the last slice of [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]]'s [[chocolate]] [[sponge cake]], [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] heads to [[Pease Pottage]] to meet [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] whilst his younger self is dropping an older Mel home following [[The Doctor's trial (The Mysterious Planet)|his trial]], albeit at an earlier [[time]] than intended. The older Doctor hurries off after meeting the older Mel and the younger Doctor meets the younger Mel on her way to work at the [[Pease Pottage Radar Station|radar station]] as he investigates a [[car]] wrecked by an ''[[Iguanodon]]''. The wreck is ignored by Mel and disappears entirely when [[Muriel Wilberforce|Mrs Wilberforce]] orders the Doctor to leave the village. | ||
The younger Doctor overhears [[Time demon|Mr Petherbridge]] ordering [[Jedediah Thurwell|Jed]], who is wearing old-fashioned [[clothes]], to hold up a [[carriage]] and sneaks into the radar station as the younger Mel is [[hoovering]], finding that Mr Petherbridge has been communicating with a [[spaceship]] in the woods. He goes to investigate what Mel casually refers to as a [[time explosion]] and encounters his older self, whom he saves from a trap on [[Horsham Road]] and makes [[contact]] with. They find that [[the Doctor's TARDIS|their TARDISes]] have disappeared. | The younger Doctor overhears [[Time demon|Mr Petherbridge]] ordering [[Jedediah Thurwell|Jed]], who is wearing old-fashioned [[clothes]], to hold up a [[carriage]] and sneaks into the radar station as the younger Mel is [[hoovering]], finding that Mr Petherbridge has been communicating with a [[spaceship]] in the woods. He goes to investigate what Mel casually refers to as a [[time explosion]] and encounters his older self, whom he saves from a trap on [[Horsham Road]] and makes [[contact]] with. They find that [[the Doctor's TARDIS|their TARDISes]] have disappeared. | ||
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=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
The older Mel and Mrs Wilberforce take refuge in [[Beresford (The Wrong Doctors)|Mr Beresford]]'s [[bungalow]] with Jedediah and watch as the younger Doctor uses [[K9]]'s [[dog whistle]] to distract the ''Baryonyx'' until it fades away. He learns that Jed, who goes to hold up a carriage carrying [[gunpowder]], died in | The older Mel and Mrs Wilberforce take refuge in [[Beresford (The Wrong Doctors)|Mr Beresford]]'s [[bungalow]] with Jedediah and watch as the younger Doctor uses [[K9]]'s [[dog whistle]] to distract the ''Baryonyx'' until it fades away. He learns that Jed, who goes to hold up a carriage carrying [[gunpowder]], died in [[1884]] and goes with the older Mel to meet up with their other selves in the woods. The older Doctor suspects that the younger Mel is under [[mind control]] given that she claims to have no knowledge of [[computer]]s when he meets her at the radar station and tempts her into coming after him once she calls Mr Petherbridge. | ||
The two Doctors, deducing that they are within [[cauterised time]], keep the younger Mel from seeing her older self and decide to split up. The younger pair find that the spaceship belongs to a group of [[Mardak]]s led by | The two Doctors, deducing that they are within [[cauterised time]], keep the younger Mel from seeing her older self and decide to split up. The younger pair find that the spaceship belongs to a group of [[Mardak]]s led by [[Vaneesh]], who provide services by transporting goods through the [[Time Vortex]] with unstable [[valanxium]] channels. The Doctor threatens Vaneesh into leaving the [[planet]] but, when she identifies him as a higher life form, she assumes that he is a competitor and orders [[Ksllak]] to incinerate him. | ||
As the younger Mel seems enthralled by Mr Petherbridge, the older pair locate him in the village hall and demand to know where the TARDISes are. He demonstrates his powers by showing them [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]]'s [[1837]] visit to Pease Pottage and the transportation of prisoners, including Jed, to [[Lewes Naval Prison]]. He frees the younger Jed, [[Pete (The Wrong Doctors)|Pete]] and other prisoners and has them capture Mel and tie the Doctor to a cart full of gunpowder, handing Jed a flint to light the fuse. Not believing that he has any choice, Jed sets the rope attached to the cart alight. | As the younger Mel seems enthralled by Mr Petherbridge, the older pair locate him in the village hall and demand to know where the TARDISes are. He demonstrates his powers by showing them [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]]'s [[1837]] visit to Pease Pottage and the transportation of prisoners, including Jed, to [[Lewes Naval Prison]]. He frees the younger Jed, [[Pete (The Wrong Doctors)|Pete]] and other prisoners and has them capture Mel and tie the Doctor to a cart full of gunpowder, handing Jed a flint to light the fuse. Not believing that he has any choice, Jed sets the rope attached to the cart alight. | ||
=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
''to be | Discovering that she is somehow able to alter causality, the older Mel suggests that Jed might have tied a [[slipknot]] and makes it so, allowing the older Doctor to get free and stop the explosion. They head to the radar station, which Mel has no memory of ever working at, and the Doctor deduces that the younger Mel is being used by Mr Petherbridge for her [[eidetic memory]] to control [[alternate timeline]]s and manipulate [[reality]]. The older Mel leaves and the Doctor is confronted by Mr Petherbridge, a time demon from the vortex. | ||
Ksllak reminds Vaneesh that [[Mardak Home Corp]] approval is required for the incineration of competitors and the younger Doctor allows them to believe that he has been sent by the Home Corp to test them. The Doctor sends the younger Mel, who is [[invisibility|invisible]] to the Mardak, to tell the older Doctor about the valanxium channel whilst he goes with Vaneesh to the spaceship where he programmes the channel to shut down. Mel forgets about her mission and meets the older Mel, who questions why she is not at [[university]] and goes with her to the village hall to rehearse for Mr Petherbridge's heritage celebration. The Doctor is shown the Mardaks' mine at the [[golf course]], which is full of gunpowder planted there by Mr Petherbridge and the [[Women's Institute]]. | |||
Mr Petherbridge reveals to the older Doctor that his plan is to kill the younger Doctor and feed off of the chaos that his death will cause to the timelines, namely the erasure of his adventures with Evelyn, [[Thomas Brewster|Brewster]] and future [[companion]]s. The older Doctor will remain as an [[anachronism]] to be consumed by the creatures of the vortex. He runs and finds the two Mels in the village hall, singing a song and counting down. | |||
=== Part four === | === Part four === | ||
''to be | The older Doctor arrives at the village hall and Mel knocks her younger self out with a punch to keep the Doctor's past from being erased. He gets Mel to have gunpowder taken to the radio station by Jed and deduces thanks to her and Mrs Wilberforce that Mr Petherbridge has put together a temporal [[daisy chain]] of people stretching from the death of the real [[Stapleton Petherbridge]] in the late [[18th century]] to Mel. With Mrs Wilberforce's blessing, the older Mel returns her to her death, but the Doctor refuses to allow her to further strain herself by doing the same for Jed and Mr Petherbridge and sends her to tell the younger Doctor that he knows where his TARDIS is. | ||
The younger Doctor realises that the Maraks have detected the trace of a future valanxium deposit which will only come to be thanks to them being buried and attempts to persuade Vaneesh not to accept Mr Petherbridge's offer of [[human]] [[slave]]s to assist them in mining it. The older Doctor sends both Mr Petherbridge and Jed to their proper places in time to die by taking Mel's place, but Mr Petherbridge refuses to go gently and the younger Mel helps by forcing him into a [[temporal cul-de-sac]]. The younger Doctor makes Ksllak an [[assessor]], tasking him with filling the pit dug at the golf course with the Mardak's supply of valanxium, and the younger Mel dies in the older Doctor's arms. | |||
The older Doctor decides that he will return to wearing his patchwork coat as it was the one that the younger Mel preferred. The two TARDISes, used to anchor the pocket dimension, are recovered and the younger Doctor departs with Mel, advised by his older self to visit [[Sheffield Hallam University]]. The older Doctor realises that the younger Mel has been removed from time by the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] and reconstructs her as the older Mel using his TARDIS and the radio station. In 36 Downview Crescent, Mel wakes up and is berated by her mother for napping. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Ksllak]] - [[John Banks]] | * [[Ksllak]] - [[John Banks]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
* Cover Art - [[Mark Plastow]] | |||
* Director - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |||
* Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Simon Robinson]] | |||
* Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
* Script Editor - [[Alan Barnes]] | |||
* Writer - [[Matt Fitton]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* When the older Doctor realises that he has crossed his timestream, he is relieved that it is not another incarnation with their [[Fourth Doctor|scarves]], [[Third Doctor|frills]] or [[Fifth Doctor|celery]]. | * When the older Doctor realises that he has crossed his timestream, he is relieved that it is not another incarnation with their [[Fourth Doctor|scarves]], [[Third Doctor|frills]] or [[Fifth Doctor|celery]]. | ||
* When she first met the younger Doctor, the younger Mel believed that he was going to audition for ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''. | * When she first met the younger Doctor, the younger Mel believed that he was going to audition for ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''. |