The Valley of Death (audio story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox CD|

cd name= The Valley of Death|

image= [[File:Valleyofdeath-01-forweb.jpg|250px|The Valley of Death]]|

series=[[The Lost Stories]] |

number= |

doctor=[[Fourth Doctor]] |

companions= [[Leela]] |

enemy= |

year= The [[Amazon|Amazon rainforest]], [[1 May]] [[1873]]<br>[[London]] and the [[Amazon|Amazon rainforest]], [[1977]]<br>[[London]], [[1979]]|

writer= [[Philip Hinchcliffe]], adapted by [[Jonathan Morris]] |

director= [[Ken Bentley]] |

producer= |

publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]] |

release date= [[January]] [[2012]] |

format= 4 Episodes on 2 CDs |

isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-608-9 |

previous story= [[The Foe from the Future]]|

next story=[[The Guardians of Prophecy]]}}{{audio stub}}

A century after his great-grandfather Cornelius vanished in the Amazon rainforest, Edward Perkins is journeying to the depths of the jungle to find out what became of his ancestor’s lost expedition. Intrigued by what appears to be a description of a crashed spacecraft in the diaries of that first voyage, the Doctor and Leela join him on his quest. But when their plane runs into trouble and ends up crash landing, everyone gets more than they bargained for.

* [[Fourth Doctor]] - [[Tom Baker]]

* Emissary [[Godrin]] / Dr. [[Summersby]] / [[Announcer]] - [[Nigel Carrington]]

* Overlord [[Saldor]] / [[Newsreader (The Valley of Death)|Newsreader]] - [[Delia Lindsay]]

* Professor [[Cornelius Perkins]] - [[David Killick]]

* General [[Hemmings]] / [[Valcon]] / [[Taxi Driver (The Valley of Death)|Taxi Driver]] - [[Richard Bremmer]]

== References ==

* According to his diary, Professor Cornelius Perkins and his expedition discovered "a [[frog]] the size of a [[rhinoceros]]" with the leg of one of the natives in its mouth while searching for the city of the Maygor tribe, the legendary Lost City of Gold, in the Amazon on [[1 May]] [[1873]].

* The Doctor is still officially [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]'s scientific adviser. At the insistence of UNIT, he and Leela join Edward Perkins' expedition to the Amazon to learn the fate of his great-grandfather as scientific observers. From the evidence presented in his diary, [[UNIT HQ]] believes that Professor Perkins discovered a crashed alien spaceship in 1873.

* The area in which Edward Perkins' plane crash-lands is known as the Second [[Bermuda Triangle]] as planes passing over it frequently experience problems with their equipment and occasionally even crash.

* The Doctor, Leela, Edward Perkins and Valerie find the remnants of a Ford Trimotor airplane known as a Tin Goose from the [[1930s]] and a Douglas D-C4 from the [[1950s]] in the rainforest.

* In the confines of the Second Bermuda Triangle, time passes at a considerably slower rate than elsewhere on [[Earth]] and throughout the universe as it exists within a [[time bubble]]. Although 104 years have passed in the outside world, only a month has gone by from Professor Perkins' perspective since he discovered the alien spacecraft.

* The [[Luron]] spacecraft is powered by a gravity inversion drive.

* The Doctor accuses Godrin as "doing the ''Wizard of Oz'' number" as he pretends to the god of the Maygor tribe.

* The Luron mothership is in orbit of [[Jupiter]] in [[1979]].

* The taxi driver brings Godrin to the [[BBC Television Centre]]. Given his yellow skin and pointed ears, he believes that Gordin is a method actor in a [[science fiction]] television series who is wearing prosthetic make-up.

* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] is in [[Olso]] fishing during the Luron invasion of [[Earth]].

* Godrin interrupts the third episode of a serial being broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] in order to contact the Luron mothership.

* When the Luron mothership is detected approaching Earth, the [[Russia|Soviet Union]] places its complete [[nuclear weapon|nuclear weapons' arsenal]] at UNIT's disposal.

* After [[BFA]]: ''[[Hexagora]]'' and [[BFA]]: ''[[The Foe from the Future]]'', this is the third Lost Story to feature scenes set in [[1977]].

* This audio drama was recorded on [[5 September|5]], [[6 September|6]], [[7 September|7]], [[8 September|8]] and [[9 September]] [[2011]].

* The Doctor previously encountered giant spiders, namely the [[Eight Legs]], on their home planet of [[Metebelis III]] towards the end of his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'') During his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], he encountered the Eight Legs once again in [[London]] in [[2015]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Eight Truths]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[Worldwide Web]]'')

* Leela and Edward Perkins are incapacitated through the use of a poison dart tipped with a paralysing agent which she erroneously believes to be a [[janis thorn]]. After regaining consciousness, she tells Edward that the face of [[Xoanon]] was carved into a mountain on her [[Unnamed planet (The Face of Evil)|native planet]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Face of Evil]]'')

* Leela mentions that she is easily at home in a jungle as she comes from one. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Face of Evil]]'')

 

* The story takes place after [[ST]]: ''[[Dear Great Uncle Peter]]''.

* The story takes place before [[DW]]: ''[[The Invisible Enemy]]''.

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