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|image=B080 timeworks big.jpeg
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|series=[[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]]
|range          = Main Range
|number= 80  
|number in range = 80
|doctor= Eighth Doctor
|series         = ''[[Main Range]]''
|companions= [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[C'rizz]]  
|number         = 80
|enemy= [[The Figurehead]]
|doctor         = Eighth Doctor
|setting= [[Industry (planet)|Industry]]
|companions     = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[C'rizz]]
|writer= [[Steve Lyons]]
|enemy           = [[The Figurehead]], [[Clockwork man (Time Works)|Clockwork Men]]
|director= [[Edward Salt]]  
|setting         = [[Industry (planet)|Industry]]
|music=[[Andy Hardwick]]
|writer         = Steve Lyons
|post production= [[Gareth Jenkins]]
|director       = [[Edward Salt]]
|cover=[[Lee Binding]]
|producer        = [[Gary Russell]], [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
|publisher= Big Finish Productions  
|music           = [[Andy Hardwick]]
|release date= [[March (releases)|March]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]
|sound          = [[Gareth Jenkins (sound designer)|Gareth Jenkins]]
|format= 4 Episodes on 2 CDs  
|cover           = [[Lee Binding]]
|production code= [[List of production codes|8Y/A]]  
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|isbn= ISBN 1-84435-168-8  
|release date   = 15 March 2006
|prev= Night Thoughts (audio story)  
|format         = 2 CDs<br/>Download
|next= The Kingmaker (audio story)}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the eightieth [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio story]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]].
|production code = [[List of production codes|8Y/A]]
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-168-8 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-80240-231-5 (digital)
|prev           = Night Thoughts (audio story)
|next           = The Kingmaker (audio story)
|made prev      = Something Inside (audio story)
|made next      = Memory Lane (audio story)
|epcount = 4
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the eightieth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Steve Lyons]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[India Fisher]] as [[Charlotte Pollard]] and [[Conrad Westmaas]] as [[C'rizz]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
'You want to know about the Clockwork Men?
'You want to know about the [[Clockwork man (Time Works)|Clockwork Men]]?


'We work in their shadow, every tick and tock of our lives. We hear them in the workings of the Great Clock. We work hard, turn our hands — but we all wind down in time, and that is when they come for us: when our time is up.'
'We work in their shadow, every tick and tock of our lives. We hear them in the workings of the Great Clock. We work hard, turn our hands — but we all wind down in time, and that is when they come for us: when our time is up.'
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
The Eighth Doctor, Charley and C'rizz arrive on an uncharted planet where the entire population of the medieval-looking city-state is frozen in time. The Doctor strongly warns his companions not to interfere. Charley would very much> like to interfere, and gets her chance when the Doctor ends up just over an hour into the past while Charley and C'rizz are stuck at around 5pm. Charley wraps her scarf around the legs of a soldier chasing a young woman, hoping that it'll allow the woman to escape when time starts to tick again. They soon notice the Schizo Tech of the place: the medieval technology is paired with radios and cellphones
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The Doctor soon befriends a young shopkeeper named Vannet, who explains the way the civilisation is structured. Every moment of the people's lives is dictated by the massive clock tower at the core of the palace. The work is for the next generation, since the citizens fully expect to die before the project is complete. Every second needs to be productive for Industry: time-wasters are caught between the tick and the tock by the faceless Clockwork Men. Vannet's own husband was taken from her not long ago. Since she now won't ever be able to have children, she considers her life meaningless, as none of her work would benefit her family.
 
The Doctor decides to go take a look in the palace and its clock tower — a very strong, culturally ingrained taboo in Industry — and ends up imprisoned by the prince. He pilfers a cellphone and calls Vannet, who rushes to the TARDIS to fetch a time gadget for the Doctor. On her way back, she's almost captured by some soldiers, but a scarf twisted around a soldier's legs — mysteriously appearing between the tick and the tock — helps her reach the Doctor.
 
Meanwhile, in the Future..., C'rizz and Charley, still in frozen time, enter the palace throne room and see the Doctor — on his knees before some soldiers, with his head about to be cut off. In the shadows, just out of sight, the Clockwork Men whispers at the less industrious soldiers and imprint things into their minds. Charley, a quick learner as usual, first wraps her jacket around the executioner's eyes, then whispers into the King's ears, hoping to change his mind about killing the Doctor.
 
The Doctor escapes a beheading when a jacket appears around his executioner's eyes and the King has a sudden, if difficult, change of heart. He discovers that the entire project of Industry is the result of a disaster that wiped out its population. The bio-data stored in case of mass genocide was activated by the central computer (The Figurehead) when the planet became viable again, and the people unknowingly work towards completion of the Industry in the hopes of saving their future children from having to live through the same thing again. The Doctor ingratiates himself to the King (to the supreme annoyance of the prince, who would very much like to sit on the throne by now) and vows to make a difference. By the time he reaches 5pm, though, Charley and C'rizz have been captured and subjected to tests. Charley intentionally fails it just out of stubbornness, while C'rizz is just <em>extremely</em> confused about the whole thing (having only recently gotten used to the concept of time in the first place). They're both confronted with the Clockwork Men's ability to punish them based on the probability of possible future actions. They do, however, encounter Vannet's husband, who's not dead at all. He was only removed from society because he was sterile and would be much more useful in the high-tech clock tower. In the middle of all that, Vannet's brother very reluctantly tries to lead La Résistance, but is slaughtered.
 
The Clockwork Men eventually do slip out of the moment between the tick and the tock. The people are horrified, but soon realise that they <em>can</em> have the upper hand. Because there are only two possibilities: either La Résistance wins, or the uprising fails, lending the people even more strength due to the Broken Masquerade. The central computer is soon defeated, and in the epilogue, a much older Vannet fondly looks back on the revolution.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Revnon]] - [[Merryn Owen]]
* [[Revnon]] - [[Merryn Owen]]


== References ==
== Crew ==
 
* Cover Art - [[Lee Binding]]
* Director - [[Edward Salt]]
* Music - [[Andy Hardwick]]
* Producers - [[Gary Russell]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Sound Design - [[Gareth Jenkins (sound designer)|Gareth Jenkins]]
* Writer - [[Steve Lyons]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Spacecraft ===
=== Spacecraft ===
* Charley tells C'rizz that she and the Doctor once visited a [[Bandril]] spaceship.
* Charley tells C'rizz that she and the Doctor once visited a [[Bandril]] spaceship.
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* The Doctor at first thinks that the TARDIS has jumped a [[time track]].
* The Doctor at first thinks that the TARDIS has jumped a [[time track]].
* A [[Vortex Shield Resonator]] protects engineers working in the [[Time Vortex]].
* A [[Vortex Shield Resonator]] protects engineers working in the [[Time Vortex]].
== Gallery ==
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250">
B080 timeworks big.jpeg|Original cover art
Time Works comic preview.jpg|Illustrated preview from [[DWM 367]] by [[Martin Geraghty]]
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[File:Time Works comic preview.jpg|thumb|Illustrated preview from [[DWM 367]] by [[Martin Geraghty]].]]
* An illustrated preview for this story appeared in [[DWM 367]] illustrated by [[Martin Geraghty]].
* An illustrated preview for this story appeared in [[DWM 367]] illustrated by [[Martin Geraghty]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[16 November (production)|16]] and [[17 November (production)|17 November]] 2005 at [[The Moat Studios]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[16 November (production)|16]] and [[17 November (production)|17 November]] [[2005 (production)|2005]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* This story had the working title of ''Clockworks''. Writer [[Steve Lyons]] submitted the idea to Big Finish not stipulating a particular Doctor, but specifying two companions. Producer [[Gary Russell]]'s original intention was to place it within the [[Divergent Universe]] story arc.
* This story had the working title of ''Clockworks''. Writer [[Steve Lyons]] submitted the idea to Big Finish not stipulating a particular Doctor, but specifying two companions. Producer [[Gary Russell]]'s original intention was to place it within the [[Divergent Universe]] story arc.
* This story was originally released on CD and download. It is now available as a download only.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] previously encountered the Bandrils during their visit to [[Karfel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] previously encountered the [[Bandril]]s during their visit to [[Karfel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
* The Doctor once again reckons that [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] has jumped a time track. ([[The Space Museum (TV story)|TV: ''The Space Museum'']], [[Festival of Death (novel)|PROSE: ''Festival of Death'']])


== External links ==
== External links ==
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Time Works was the eightieth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Steve Lyons and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard and Conrad Westmaas as C'rizz.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

'You want to know about the Clockwork Men?

'We work in their shadow, every tick and tock of our lives. We hear them in the workings of the Great Clock. We work hard, turn our hands — but we all wind down in time, and that is when they come for us: when our time is up.'

The TARDIS lands in between times, in a time where this is no time. A time in which nothing can possibly be. But something is...

The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz are rats in the wheelwork, a threat to the schedule of a world where timing is everything. And the seconds are counting down to a fateful future that has already happened. Unless they can beat the clock.

Tick, tock.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Spacecraft[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Charley tells C'rizz that she and the Doctor once visited a Bandril spaceship.

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time Manipulation[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • An illustrated preview for this story appeared in DWM 367 illustrated by Martin Geraghty.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 16 and 17 November 2005 at the Moat Studios.
  • This story had the working title of Clockworks. Writer Steve Lyons submitted the idea to Big Finish not stipulating a particular Doctor, but specifying two companions. Producer Gary Russell's original intention was to place it within the Divergent Universe story arc.
  • This story was originally released on CD and download. It is now available as a download only.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]