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|image = | |image = | ||
|series = [[ | |series = ''[[Main Range]]'' | ||
|anthology | |audio anthology = Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories | ||
|range = Main Range | |||
|number in range = 188a | |||
|number = 188a | |number = 188a | ||
|doctor = Sixth Doctor | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Peri Brown]] | |companions = [[Peri Brown|Peri]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Safira Valtris]] | ||
|setting = | |setting = [[Prison ship (Breaking Bubbles)|Prison ship]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = LM Myles | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |||
|music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | |music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | |sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|epcount = 1 | |||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 11 July 2014 | ||
|format = 1 | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>1st of 4 stories | ||
|production code = | |production code = 6Z/AC | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-329-0 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-329-0 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-735-8 (digital) | ||
|prev | |prev = Masquerade (audio story) | ||
|next | |next = Of Chaos Time The (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the audio anthology, ''[[Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories]]'', which comprised the one hundred and eighty-eighth release in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[LM Myles]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
The Doctor and Peri find themselves in the palatial gardens of the deposed Empress [[Safira Valtris]] where nothing is ever quite what it seems. | [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] find themselves in the palatial gardens of the deposed [[Empress]] [[Safira Valtris]] where nothing is ever quite what it seems. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | In a [[garden]] on a [[spaceship]], [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] meet [[Safira Valtris]], who invites them to [[tea]] and explains that she has been imprisoned after her cousin the [[Emperor (Breaking Bubbles)|Emperor]], whom she herself deposed, supplanted her following ten years of rule. She is being transported from one [[prison]] to another as [[execution|executing]] her is unthinkable on account of the Emperor wanting to avoid setting a precedent for members of the imperial family being killed. The ship's systems are frozen thanks to her [[sabotage]] and [[Laris|Officers Laris]] and [[Tondra]] come down to the garden, assuming that the Doctor and Peri are stowaways until Valtris claims that they are from [[Imperial Intelligence]]. | ||
After Valtris uses a [[short-range teleport]] to disappear with Peri to a [[hologram|holographic]] replica of her [[library]], the Doctor convinces Laris to take him to the bridge so that he can get the [[computer]]s working again and perform an internal scan to locate his [[companion]]. He realises, upon supposedly arriving on the bridge, that Valtris has tricked them with a hologram and that they have not actually managed to leave the massive prison cell, but he manages to get to the real one where Laris detects a spaceship coming to rescue Valtris. Laris sends a call for [[military]] assistance and tracks Valtris, who is holding Peri hostage and knocks Tondra out when she arrives to get revenge for the [[bomb]]ing of her home [[planet]] in Valtris's [[war]]. | |||
[[Akros|General Akros]]'s ship docks and Valtris heads to the [[airlock]] with Peri, only to find that the Doctor has used holograms to trick her. Learning that the [[Imperial Flotilla]] is approaching and that there will likely be significant loss of life, Peri manages to persuade Valtris to abandon her plan and avoid the inevitable [[death]]s. Valtris sends Akros away and surrenders to Laris, who imprisons Tondra to await [[trial]] for attempted [[murder]] and is offered help against becoming the [[scapegoat]] for the day's events in return for Valtris's freedom. The Doctor and Peri head back to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] whilst Laris thinks about the offer. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] | * [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] | ||
* [[Peri Brown]] - [[Nicola Bryant]] | * [[Peri Brown]] - [[Nicola Bryant]] | ||
* [[Safira Valtris]] - [[Jemma Churchill]] | |||
* [[Laris]] / [[Akros|General Akros]] - [[Andy Secombe]] | |||
* [[Tondra]] - [[Allison McKenzie]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Peri once visited [[garden]]s at a [[chateau]] in [[France]]. | |||
* The Doctor and Peri drink [[tea]] with Safira. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * Peri has been collecting [[plant]]s during her adventures. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'', etc.) | ||
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