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|image            = Other Lives cover.jpg
name= Other Lives |
|range            = Main Range
image=Other_Lives_cover.jpg |
|number in range  = 77
series=[[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]] |
|series           = ''[[Main Range]]''
number= 77 |
|number           = 77  
doctor= [[Eighth Doctor]]|
|doctor           = Eighth Doctor
companions= [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[C'rizz]]|  
|companions       = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[C'rizz]]
enemy= [[Jacob Crackles]]|
|enemy             = [[Christian Griswold]], [[Jacob Crackles]]
year= [[London]], [[1851]]|
|setting          = [[London]], [[1851]]
writer= [[Gary Hopkins]] |
|writer           = Gary Hopkins
director= [[Gary Russell]] |
|director         = [[Gary Russell]]
post production= [[David Darlington]]|
|music            = [[David Darlington]]
music=[[David Darlington]]|
|sound            = [[David Darlington]]
cover=[[Lee Binding]]|
|cover             = [[Lee Binding]]
publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]] |
|publisher         = Big Finish Productions
release date= [[December]] [[2005]] |
|release date     = 13 December 2005
format= 4 Episodes on 2 CDs |
|format           = 2 CDs<br/>Download
production code= [[List of production codes|8Y]] |
|production code   = [[List of production codes|8Y]]
isbn= ISBN 1-84435-162-9 |
|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-84435-162-6 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78178-983-4 (digital)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventy-seventh [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio story]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]].
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|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-other-lives-trailer
|producer = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]|epcount=4
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventy-seventh story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Gary Hopkins]] 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 ==
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While the [[Eighth Doctor|Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] are drawn into the murky world of [[19th century|nineteenth-century]] politics, C'rizz struggles to maintain his dignity against growing odds.
While the [[Eighth Doctor|Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] are drawn into the murky world of [[19th century|nineteenth-century]] politics, C'rizz struggles to maintain his dignity against growing odds.


What begins as an attempt to prevent murder quickly becomes a desperate race to avert revolution. Separated from the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], the travellers are left to wonder if they'll get their own lives back or be forever entangled with the lives of others.
What begins as an attempt to prevent murder quickly becomes a desperate race to avert revolution. Separated from [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], the travellers are left to wonder if they'll get their own lives back or be forever entangled with the lives of others.


And who is Mrs Georgina Marlowe? What need does she feel the Doctor can satisfy?
And who is Mrs Georgina Marlowe? What need does she feel the Doctor can satisfy?


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
The Doctor took his companions to the great exhibition in 1851. While Charley met the Duke of Westhampton, C’rizz became kidnapped by a local street thug and put on display as a freak; the Doctor saved a French couple from assassination by letting them into his TARDIS, but got mistaken for their assailant when the TARDIS dematerialised all of a sudden. In prison he met the real assassin and inadvertently helped him escape. The next morning a woman claiming to be his wife posted his bail. The woman kept trying to convince him that he was her husband but after another incident with the assassin, he is told that she already knew. She needed his likeness to fool her husband’s uncle so that she and her children would be able to keep their home. The Doctor decided to play along with the charade and returned to the Crystal Palace afterwards, where he found C’rizz and Charley and the TARDIS.
==== Part one ====
''to be added''
 
==== Part two ====
''to be added''
 
==== Part three ====
''to be added''
 
==== Part four ====
''to be added''


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]]/[[Edward Marlow]] - [[Paul McGann]]
* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] - [[India Fisher]]
* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]]/[[Madeline de Roche|Madame de Roche]] - [[India Fisher]]
* [[C'rizz]] - [[Conrad Westmaas]]
* [[C'rizz]] / [[Christian de Roche|Monsieur de Roche]] - [[Conrad Westmaas]]
* [[Christian Griswold]] - [[Gary Bakewell]]
* The [[Arthur Wellesley|Duke of Wellington]] - [[Ron Moody]]
* The [[Arthur Wellesley|Duke of Wellington]] - [[Ron Moody]]
* [[Mr.. Fazackerly]] - [[Michael Hobbs]]
* [[Fazackerly|Mr. Fazackerly]] - [[Michael Hobbs]]
* [[Jacob Crackles]] - [[Mike Holloway]]
* [[Jacob Crackles]] - [[Mike Holoway]]
* [[Maxi]] - [[Peter Howe]]
* [[Maxi]] - [[Peter Howe]]
* [[Georgina Marlow]] - [[Francesca Hunt]]
* [[Georgina Marlow]] - [[Francesca Hunt]]
* [[Rufus Dimplesqueeze]] - [[Maitland Chandler]]
* [[Rufus Dimplesqueeze]] - [[Maitland Chandler]]


== References ==
== Crew ==
''To Be Added''
 
* Cover Art - [[Lee Binding]]
* Director - [[Gary Russell]]
* Music & Sound Design - [[David Darlington]]
* Producers - Gary Russell and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Writer - [[Gary Hopkins]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor adjusts the [[isomorphic controls]] of the TARDIS to allow C'rizz to open the doors.
* The Doctor mentions the [[Montgolfier brothers]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* To date, this is the only pure historical story in performed ''Doctor Who'' to feature the Eighth Doctor.
[[File:Other Lives textless.png|thumb|right|Textless cover printed in [[DWM 364]].]]
* This is the first of two audio dramas released in the main range to feature the Duke of Wellington as a character. The other is [[BFA]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'' in [[January]] [[2012]], in which the Duke was played by [[Granville Saxton]]. He does not actually meet the Doctor in either story.
* To date, this is the only [[pure historical]] story in performed ''Doctor Who'' to feature the Eighth Doctor.
* [[Francesca Hunt]] (Georgiana Marlow) is the elder sister of [[India Fisher]] (Charley Pollard) in real life.
* This is the first of two audio dramas released in the [[Main Range]] to feature the [[Duke of Wellington]] as a character. The other is ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'' in January 2012, in which the Duke was played by [[Granville Saxton]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[29 April|29]] and [[30 April]] [[2005]].
* [[Paul McGann]], [[India Fisher]] and [[Conrad Westmaas]] all play dual roles in this story.
* This audio drama was recorded on [[29 April (production)|29]] and [[30 April (production)|30 April]] [[2005 (production)|2005]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* A textless version of the cover was printed in [[DWM 364]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The [[Second Doctor]] previously met the Duke of Wellington in [[September]] [[1805]] and [[May]] and [[June]] [[1815]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') Later in his personal timeline, the Doctor visited the Duke in [[1816]] and they went on a trip to [[Brighton]], where they met the Prince Regent. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'') As was the case with his second incarnation, the [[Sixth Doctor]] was present at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] on [[18 June]] [[1815]]. The same was true of [[Davros]] and the [[Dalek]]s. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'')
* The [[Second Doctor]] previously met the Duke of Wellington in [[September]] [[1805]] and [[May]] and [[June]] [[1815]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') Later in his personal timeline, the Doctor visited the Duke in [[1816]] and they went on a trip to [[Brighton]], where they met the Prince Regent. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'') As was the case with his second incarnation, the [[Sixth Doctor]] was present at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] on [[18 June]] [[1815]]. The same was true of [[Davros]] and the [[Dalek]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'')
* The [[Fifth Doctor]] once attempted to take his companions [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] to the Great Exhibition as "a treat" in the wake of [[Adric]]'s death but the TARDIS instead arrived at [[Heathrow Airport]] in [[1982]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
* The [[Fifth Doctor]] once attempted to take his companions [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] to the Great Exhibition as "a treat" in the wake of [[Adric]]'s death but the TARDIS instead [[materialise]]d on the tarmac at [[Heathrow Airport]] in [[1982]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
* The Doctor once again observes that "sleep is for tortoises." ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
* The Doctor once again observes that "sleep is for tortoises." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
* Charley previously visited the [[Crystal Palace]] as a child. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
* Charley previously visited the [[Crystal Palace]] as a child in the [[1910s]] or [[1920s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
 
* C'rizz is forced to perform in Jacob Crackles' freakshow in the same manner as [[Captain]] [[Kybo]] in [[Jonathan Jaggers]]' [[circus]] in [[1884]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judoon in Chains (audio story)|Judoon in Chains]]'') and the alien creatures in [[Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer]]'s freakshow in [[Buzzard Creek]], [[Arizona]] in [[1905]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freakshow (audio story)|Freakshow]]'')
* During his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], the Doctor would later return to the Great Exhibition in the company of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] and encounter the [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]. On that occasion, he mentioned that he had to be careful not to run into himself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hypothetical Gentleman (comic story)|Hypothetical Gentleman]]'')
* The Doctor and his companions agree to meet at [[Oslers Crystal Fountain]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] previously dealt with an incident involving the fountain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Claws of the Klathi! (comic story)|Claws of the Klathi!]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Bigfinish|77-Doctor-Who-Other-Lives|Other Lives}}
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* {{Dwrefguide|who_bf77.htm|Other Lives}}
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Other Lives was the seventy-seventh story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Gary Hopkins 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]]

London, 1851.

Scene of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations.

Scene also of a plot to unseat the government, dethrone the monarch and start a republic.

If the Duke of Wellington himself is to be believed...

While the Doctor and Charley are drawn into the murky world of nineteenth-century politics, C'rizz struggles to maintain his dignity against growing odds.

What begins as an attempt to prevent murder quickly becomes a desperate race to avert revolution. Separated from the TARDIS, the travellers are left to wonder if they'll get their own lives back or be forever entangled with the lives of others.

And who is Mrs Georgina Marlowe? What need does she feel the Doctor can satisfy?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Textless cover printed in DWM 364.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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