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|series number in range = 2 | |series number in range = 2 | ||
|number in series = 1 | |number in series = 1 | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Stranded 2 | ||
|number | |number = 2.1 | ||
|doctor | |doctor = Eighth Doctor | ||
|companions | |companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]], [[Tania Bell|Tania]], [[Andy Davidson|Andy]], [[Robin Bright-Thompson|Robin]] | ||
|featuring = [[Tony Clare|Tony]], [[Ron Winters|Ron]], [[Aisha Akhtar|Aisha]], [[Zakia Akhtar|Zakia]] | |||
|enemy | |enemy = [[Sentinels]] | ||
|setting | |setting = [[London]], [[far future]] | ||
|writer | |writer = Matt Fitton | ||
|director | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|producer | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
|music | |music = [[Jamie Robertson]] | ||
|sound | |sound = [[Benji Clifford]] | ||
|cover | |cover = | ||
|publisher | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|epcount | |epcount = 1 | ||
|release date | |release date = 10 March 2021 | ||
|format | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>1st of 4 stories | ||
|production code = BFPDWCDMG049 | |production code = BFPDWCDMG049 | ||
|isbn | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-167-8 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-83868-168-5 (digital) | ||
|series | |series = ''[[Stranded (audio series)|Stranded]]'' | ||
|prev | |prev = Divine Intervention (audio story) | ||
|next | |next = UNIT Dating (audio story) | ||
| | |4 art = stranded 2 | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the audio anthology ''[[Stranded 2]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]], [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]], [[Rebecca Root]] as [[Tania Bell]] | }}{{You may|Dead Time (short story)|n1=the short story}} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the audio anthology ''[[Stranded 2]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]], [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]], [[Rebecca Root]] as [[Tania Bell]], [[Tom Price]] as [[Andy Davidson]] and [[Joel James Davison]] as [[Robin Bright-Thompson]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] wants to take [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] on a test flight. But he has rather more passengers than | [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] wants to take [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] on a test flight. But he has rather more passengers than he'd like. Soon, the crew are stranded once again in an uncertain future. One where planet [[Earth]] appears to be dead. And very soon, so will any visitors... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | In the still-restoring [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] finds [[The Doctor's psychic paper|his psychic paper]] in an old jacket and [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] is unable to locate [[Helen Sinclair's TARDIS bedroom|her bedroom]]. After receiving a [[text message]] from an annoyed [[Tania Bell|Tania]], the pair go to see her at a nearby [[pub]] where [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] is explaining the truth about herself and her companions to her and [[Robin Bright-Thompson|Robin]]. | ||
[[Tony Clare|Tony]], [[Ron Winters|Ron]], [[Aisha Akhtar|Aisha]] and [[Zakia Akhtar|Zakia]] return home to [[107 Baker Street]], discussing the [[Rarkelian]]s' attack. When alone, Tony and Ron talk about whether or not they should tell the sisters about their pasts and wonder what [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brig]] would think. | |||
The Doctor offers to take Tania on a trip in the TARDIS with him, Liv and Helen, promising Robin that he could come next time. Before the TARDIS can set off, however, [[police]] cars blockade the [[street]] and [[Andy Davidson|Andy]] insists that he join them in the ship, something that the Doctor is unhappy with. The Doctor sets the coordinates for [[Rarkelia]] to find answers, but finds that the TARDIS is only capable of moving in time and instead arrives in the same spot several million years later. Robin emerges after landing, having stowed himself away in a [[cupboard]]. | |||
Helen and Robin stay inside the TARDIS whilst, on the surface of a desolate [[Earth]], the Doctor and Tania explore and Liv takes care of a shocked Andy. When Robin goes missing, Helen searches for him without success and finds that he has left the ship. | |||
Liv tries to get answers from Andy about his connection with Tania and learns about [[Torchwood Three|the group]] that he belongs to. The two find and enter [[Earth Endstation 6|a bunker]] which seems to scan Andy. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Tania overlook the former location of [[London]] and Tania admits to being part of the group, also asking about [[regeneration]]. Liv and Andy find a control hub and are flee from an armed robot, unaware that they are being watched by Robin. Helen reaches the Doctor and Tania and tells them about Robin's disappearance. | |||
Robin enters the machine and communicates with the [[holo-system interface]], which has taken the form of Andy and identifies itself as Earth Endstation 6 and the time as the [[Third Glorious Empire]]. The station has a record of Robin in a [[database]] containing information of people of significance and tells him about [[Deus Ex]]'s mission to prepare Earth for a new age of the [[Human Empire]]. | |||
Liv and Andy reach the Doctor, Helen and Tania and tell them about the robot. To stop it, they fan out to distract it before the Doctor and Tania hit it with [[rock]]s. Meanwhile, the interface tells Robin that he is already part of Deus Ex and that he is part of "the [[template]]" before locking him in the [[medical bay]] to be scanned and "made well" through enhancement. | |||
The Doctor takes apart the robot and Helen and Tania discuss Liv, Helen saying that she was happy for the pair and welcoming Tania to the family. Tania then notices Robin's footprints. The Doctor identifies the robot, stamped with the words "Deus Ex", as one of several primitive maintenance bots containing [[Deus Ex nanobot|poison nanobots]] which will soon be released to decontaminate the planet. Faced with an army of them, the Doctor and Liv head to the station to check the countdown whilst Helen, Tania and Andy try to enter the TARDIS, finding that it has locked them out. | |||
The Doctor bypasses the station's [[entry filter]] and [[antirad wash]] and is refused information by the interface due to his species. When the Doctor asks when the new humans and Deus Ex will be arriving for their decontaminated world, the interface seems to malfunction, saying "gone" and "no contact". | |||
Andy confesses to Tania that Torchwood had shut down months previously and that he had arrested [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|his own girlfriend]]. | |||
The Doctor learns that the human race has somehow been wiped out and that the station has been awaiting orders for six million years. Robin approaches them, his scan having been completed, and the three head for the TARDIS with part of the station's [[hard drive]]. When they arrive, the TARDIS doors open, the Doctor explaining that it had refused to open whilst Robin was missing as it wanted them all to be together. The Doctor connects the hard drive to the TARDIS and performs life scans before dematerialising. | |||
Back in 2020, Robin tells Liv and Tania that the TARDIS had hoovered up all of the radiation energy. Whilst the others head home, Andy stays in the TARDIS with the Doctor and learns that the TARDIS's ability to [[time travel]] is now functional, although it will not be able to move in space, and offers to assist in supplying any technology that the Doctor might need. At Baker Street, Helen hears Robin shout at [[Ken Bright-Thompson|his father]] and learns that they are moving to [[Scotland]] because of Ken's work. Robin asks if the Doctor will say goodbye, but Helen says that he is busy. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Tony Clare]] - [[Jeremy Clyde]] | * [[Tony Clare]] - [[Jeremy Clyde]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
=== Food and drink === | |||
* Liv buys [[lemonade]] for Robin and [[tea]] for Tania. | |||
=== History === | === History === | ||
* The Doctor believes that they have travelled between six million and six-and-a-half million years into the future. | |||
* Liv guesses that they are a few million years after [[Kaldor]]. | |||
=== Locations === | |||
* Tania mentions [[Epping Forest]]. | |||
* Helen mentions [[Helen Sinclair's TARDIS bedroom|her bedroom]], [[Liv Chenka's TARDIS bedroom|Liv's bedroom]], the [[TARDIS swimming pool|swimming pool]] and [[TARDIS games arcade|a games arcade]] in which she and Liv once had a dance-off. | |||
* The Doctor last wore a particular jacket at [[La Scala]] in [[1831]] or [[1832]]. | |||
* | === People === | ||
* | * Robin claims that he called [[Ken Bright-Thompson|his father]]. | ||
* Helen was supposedly "winging it" when teaching Robin about [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] and [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]]. | |||
=== Torchwood === | === Torchwood === | ||
* Andy alludes to the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s involvement in the creation of [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]]. | |||
* According to Andy, Torchwood has been gone for several months, since the Cardiff Bay Incident. | |||
* | === Other === | ||
* Helen has [[Helen Sinclair's TARDIS key|a TARDIS key]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor says that the TARDIS is not yet up to making him a new [[sonic screwdriver]]. It would later produce ones for his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh]] and [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnations]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}}, {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}) | |||
* Andy tells Liv that a [[Tenth Doctor|future incarnation]] of the Doctor would cause the creation of an [[Torchwood Institute|organisation]] he is a part of ([[TV]]: | * The Doctor finds [[psychic paper]] in his old jacket pocket. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}, et al.) | ||
* Liv tells Andy that she met the Doctor's [[River Song|wife]] ([[AUDIO]]: | * [[Ron Winters]] and [[Tony Clare]] refer to their days at [[UNIT]] and wonder what the [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brig]] would make of all this. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|UNIT Dating (audio story)}}) | ||
* Andy | * Andy tells Liv that a [[Tenth Doctor|future incarnation]] of the Doctor would cause the creation of an [[Torchwood Institute|organisation]] he is a part of. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Tooth and Claw (TV story)}}) | ||
* [[ | * Liv tells Andy that she met the Doctor's [[River Song|wife]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Sonomancer (audio story)}}, et al.) | ||
* Liv thinks they're a few million years after [[Kaldor]] ([[TV]]: | * Andy recalls having travelled in time before. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Goodbye Piccadilly (audio story)}}, {{cs|Parasite (audio story)}}) | ||
* | * Liv says that [[Tula Chenka|her sister]] is the robotics expert. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Escape from Kaldor (audio story)}}, et al.) | ||
* Liv thinks they're a few million years after [[Kaldor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Robots of Death (TV story)}}) | |||
* Andy confesses to Tania that [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] has been gone for months since the “trouble in the bay” and that he had to arrest his [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|girlfriend]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Thoughts and Prayers (audio story)}}) | |||
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Dead Time was the first story in the audio anthology Stranded 2, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka, Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair, Rebecca Root as Tania Bell, Tom Price as Andy Davidson and Joel James Davison as Robin Bright-Thompson.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor wants to take the TARDIS on a test flight. But he has rather more passengers than he'd like. Soon, the crew are stranded once again in an uncertain future. One where planet Earth appears to be dead. And very soon, so will any visitors...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the still-restoring TARDIS, the Doctor finds his psychic paper in an old jacket and Helen is unable to locate her bedroom. After receiving a text message from an annoyed Tania, the pair go to see her at a nearby pub where Liv is explaining the truth about herself and her companions to her and Robin.
Tony, Ron, Aisha and Zakia return home to 107 Baker Street, discussing the Rarkelians' attack. When alone, Tony and Ron talk about whether or not they should tell the sisters about their pasts and wonder what the Brig would think.
The Doctor offers to take Tania on a trip in the TARDIS with him, Liv and Helen, promising Robin that he could come next time. Before the TARDIS can set off, however, police cars blockade the street and Andy insists that he join them in the ship, something that the Doctor is unhappy with. The Doctor sets the coordinates for Rarkelia to find answers, but finds that the TARDIS is only capable of moving in time and instead arrives in the same spot several million years later. Robin emerges after landing, having stowed himself away in a cupboard.
Helen and Robin stay inside the TARDIS whilst, on the surface of a desolate Earth, the Doctor and Tania explore and Liv takes care of a shocked Andy. When Robin goes missing, Helen searches for him without success and finds that he has left the ship.
Liv tries to get answers from Andy about his connection with Tania and learns about the group that he belongs to. The two find and enter a bunker which seems to scan Andy. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Tania overlook the former location of London and Tania admits to being part of the group, also asking about regeneration. Liv and Andy find a control hub and are flee from an armed robot, unaware that they are being watched by Robin. Helen reaches the Doctor and Tania and tells them about Robin's disappearance.
Robin enters the machine and communicates with the holo-system interface, which has taken the form of Andy and identifies itself as Earth Endstation 6 and the time as the Third Glorious Empire. The station has a record of Robin in a database containing information of people of significance and tells him about Deus Ex's mission to prepare Earth for a new age of the Human Empire.
Liv and Andy reach the Doctor, Helen and Tania and tell them about the robot. To stop it, they fan out to distract it before the Doctor and Tania hit it with rocks. Meanwhile, the interface tells Robin that he is already part of Deus Ex and that he is part of "the template" before locking him in the medical bay to be scanned and "made well" through enhancement.
The Doctor takes apart the robot and Helen and Tania discuss Liv, Helen saying that she was happy for the pair and welcoming Tania to the family. Tania then notices Robin's footprints. The Doctor identifies the robot, stamped with the words "Deus Ex", as one of several primitive maintenance bots containing poison nanobots which will soon be released to decontaminate the planet. Faced with an army of them, the Doctor and Liv head to the station to check the countdown whilst Helen, Tania and Andy try to enter the TARDIS, finding that it has locked them out.
The Doctor bypasses the station's entry filter and antirad wash and is refused information by the interface due to his species. When the Doctor asks when the new humans and Deus Ex will be arriving for their decontaminated world, the interface seems to malfunction, saying "gone" and "no contact".
Andy confesses to Tania that Torchwood had shut down months previously and that he had arrested his own girlfriend.
The Doctor learns that the human race has somehow been wiped out and that the station has been awaiting orders for six million years. Robin approaches them, his scan having been completed, and the three head for the TARDIS with part of the station's hard drive. When they arrive, the TARDIS doors open, the Doctor explaining that it had refused to open whilst Robin was missing as it wanted them all to be together. The Doctor connects the hard drive to the TARDIS and performs life scans before dematerialising.
Back in 2020, Robin tells Liv and Tania that the TARDIS had hoovered up all of the radiation energy. Whilst the others head home, Andy stays in the TARDIS with the Doctor and learns that the TARDIS's ability to time travel is now functional, although it will not be able to move in space, and offers to assist in supplying any technology that the Doctor might need. At Baker Street, Helen hears Robin shout at his father and learns that they are moving to Scotland because of Ken's work. Robin asks if the Doctor will say goodbye, but Helen says that he is busy.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
- Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
- Tania Bell - Rebecca Root
- Sergeant Andy Davidson - Tom Price
- Robin Bright-Thompson - Joel James Davison
- Aisha Akhtar - Amina Zia
- Zakia Akhtar - Avita Jay
- Ron Winters - David Shaw-Parker
- Tony Clare - Jeremy Clyde
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
Food and drink[[edit] | [edit source]]
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor believes that they have travelled between six million and six-and-a-half million years into the future.
- Liv guesses that they are a few million years after Kaldor.
Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Tania mentions Epping Forest.
- Helen mentions her bedroom, Liv's bedroom, the swimming pool and a games arcade in which she and Liv once had a dance-off.
- The Doctor last wore a particular jacket at La Scala in 1831 or 1832.
People[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Robin claims that he called his father.
- Helen was supposedly "winging it" when teaching Robin about Reagan and Gorbachev.
Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Andy alludes to the Tenth Doctor's involvement in the creation of Torchwood.
- According to Andy, Torchwood has been gone for several months, since the Cardiff Bay Incident.
Other[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Helen has a TARDIS key.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor says that the TARDIS is not yet up to making him a new sonic screwdriver. It would later produce ones for his eleventh and twelfth incarnations. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"], Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
- The Doctor finds psychic paper in his old jacket pocket. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"], et al.)
- Ron Winters and Tony Clare refer to their days at UNIT and wonder what the Brig would make of all this. (AUDIO: UNIT Dating [+]Loading...["UNIT Dating (audio story)"])
- Andy tells Liv that a future incarnation of the Doctor would cause the creation of an organisation he is a part of. (TV: Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"])
- Liv tells Andy that she met the Doctor's wife. (AUDIO: The Sonomancer [+]Loading...["The Sonomancer (audio story)"], et al.)
- Andy recalls having travelled in time before. (AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly [+]Loading...["Goodbye Piccadilly (audio story)"], Parasite [+]Loading...["Parasite (audio story)"])
- Liv says that her sister is the robotics expert. (AUDIO: Escape from Kaldor [+]Loading...["Escape from Kaldor (audio story)"], et al.)
- Liv thinks they're a few million years after Kaldor. (TV: The Robots of Death [+]Loading...["The Robots of Death (TV story)"])
- Andy confesses to Tania that Torchwood has been gone for months since the “trouble in the bay” and that he had to arrest his girlfriend. (AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers [+]Loading...["Thoughts and Prayers (audio story)"])
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Dead Time page at bigfinish.com
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