Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|image          = Brotherhood of the Daleks cover.jpg

|range          = Main Range

|number in range = 114

|series           = ''[[Main Range]]'' stories

|prev            = A Perfect World (audio story)

|next            = False Gods (audio story)

|number         = 114

|doctor         = Sixth Doctor

|companions     = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]]

|featuring      = [[Thal]]s

|enemy          = [[Thalek (Brotherhood of the Daleks)|Thaleks]]

|setting        = An [[Planetoid (Brotherhood of the Daleks)|unnamed planetoid]], the [[Antares Galaxy]]

|writer         = Alan Barnes

|director       = [[Nicholas Briggs]]

|producer        = [[David Richardson]]

|music          = [[Steve Foxon]]

|sound          = Steve Foxon

|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]

|publisher      = Big Finish Productions

|release date   = October 2008

|format         = 2 CDs<br/>Download

|production code = [[List of production codes#Big Finish production codes|7C/PC]]

|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-323-1 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-661-0 (digital)

|prev2          = A Perfect World (audio story)

|made prev      = The Doomwood Curse (audio story)

|made next       = The Raincloud Man (audio story)

}}{{audio stub}}

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the one hundred and fourteenth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[India Fisher]] as [[Charlotte Pollard]].

[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] makes a return trip to the jungle planet of [[Spiridon]], when the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] fall in with a lost platoon of shellshocked [[Thal]] soldiers — victims of a sneak attack by their blood enemies, the [[Dalek]]s.

* The [[Dalek]]s - [[Nicholas Briggs]]

 

 

* Director - [[Nicholas Briggs]]

* Daleks and Thals created by [[Terry Nation]]

== Worldbuilding ==

 

=== The Doctor ===

* The Doctor claims that he is a [[Peri Brown|botanist named Doctor Brown]].

* Charley mentions having seen [[Eighth Doctor|her Doctor]] die in the year [[500002]].

 

 

* The Doctor initially thinks that he and Charley have landed on the planet [[Spiridon]], which is in the [[ninth system]] of "a far away galaxy," later called the "ninth galaxy" and later the "galaxy of [[Antares]]."

=== Species ===

* The Doctor and Charley encounter the [[Thal]]s.

 

* Charley mentions the [[Web of Time]] while the replicant version of the Doctor mentions the [[Laws of Time]].

 

File:Big Finish Productions Brotherhood of the Daleks Story Art.jpg|CD Booklet interior illustration.

File:Brotherhoodwilliamson.jpg|Illustrated preview from [[DWM 401]] by [[Brian Williamson]].

* The [[Robot Doctor]] from ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' is seemingly [[retroactive continuity|retconned]] into being a [[Dalek duplicate]], which are presumably genetically engineered [[clone]]s.

* This audio drama was recorded on [[23 June (production)|23]] and [[24 June (production)|24 June]] [[2008 (production)|2008]] at [[The Moat Studios]].<ref name=":0">'Backstage' tab of [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-brotherhood-of-the-daleks-280 the official ''Brotherhood of the Daleks'' page] at [https://www.bigfinish.com bigfinish.com].</ref>

* Charley recalls that rosemary counteracted the effect of the [[Grel]] particles in [[England]] in [[1738]], in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Doomwood Curse (audio story)}}.

* The Doctor was previously on the real Spiridon in [[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Daleks (TV story)}}, and returned to the planet in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)}} and [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Return of the Daleks (audio story)}}. The simulation also includes [[sponge-plant]]s. [[Spiridon (species)|Spiridons]] are mentioned.

* Nyaiad recalls meeting Charley in [[Folkestone]], in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Terror Firma (audio story)}}.

* Charley mentions having seen [[Eighth Doctor|her Doctor]] die in the year [[500002]], at the climax of [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)}}.

* The Thals/Thaleks refer to the Doctor as 'Doctor of TARDIS', a name used by the [[Tenth Doctor]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|Tooth and Claw (TV story)}}.

* The Doctor previously encountered the dream/mind altering [[kyropite]] plants and their [[symbiosis|symbiotic]] partners, the [[Jekyll (species)|Jekylls]], in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Mind's Eye (audio story)}}.

* Charley recalls her first meeting with the [[Eighth Doctor]] in her personal timeline, which occurred on the British airship ''[[R101]]'' on [[5 October]] [[1930]] in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Storm Warning (audio story)}}; the Daleks, which she first met in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Time of the Daleks (audio story)}}; and their creator [[Davros]], whom she met in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Terror Firma (audio story)}}.

* [[Temmosus]], [[Ganatus]] and [[Dyoni]] are considered great heroes of the Thal people. All of them appeared in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Daleks (TV story)}}.

* The Doctor mentions the [[Krynoid]]s, first seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Seeds of Doom (TV story)}}; and the [[Dalek duplicate]]s, previously featured in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Chase (TV story)}} and {{cs|Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)}}.

* In [[TV]]: {{cs|Amy's Choice (TV story)}}, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and his companions, [[Amy]] and [[Rory]], would encounter dangerous pollen. Specifically, they were affected by [[psychic pollen]], which caused them to hallucinate.

== External links ==

{{bigfinish|releases/v/brotherhood-of-the-daleks-280|Brotherhood of the Daleks}}

{{dwrefguide|who_bf114.htm|Brotherhood of the Daleks}}

* {{tetrap|6/brotherhood.html|Brotherhood of the Daleks}}

== Footnotes ==

<references />{{BFA monthly}}

{{Dalek audio stories}}

[[Category:Thal audio stories]]

[[Category:Charlotte Pollard audio stories]]

[[Category:Sixth Doctor Main Range audio stories]]

[[Category:2008 Main Range audio stories]]

[[Category:Five part audio stories]]