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series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Big Finish - Doctor Who Audio Dramas | Big Finish Audio Dramas]] |
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|number in range = 113b
companions= [[Nyssa]] |
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|number         = 113b  
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|doctor         = Fifth Doctor
writer= [[Marc Platt]] |
|companions     = [[Nyssa]], [[Thomas Brewster|Brewster]]
director= [[Barnaby Edwards]] |
|enemy           =  
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|setting        = [[London]], [[2008]]
publisher= [[Big Finish]] |
|writer          = Jonathan Morris
release date= [[September]] [[2008]] |
|director       = [[Barnaby Edwards]]
format= 1 Episode on 1 CD |
|producer        = [[David Richardson]]
production code= 6C/M |
|music          = [[Simon Robinson]]
isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-322-4|
|sound          = Simon Robinson
previous story= [[Time Reef]] |
|epcount        = 1
next story= [[Brotherhood of the Daleks]]
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
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|audio anthology = Time Reef (audio story)
|release date   = September 2008
|format         = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 2 stories
|production code = [[List of production codes#Big Finish production codes|6C/M]]
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-322-4 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-660-3 (digital)
|prev            = Time Reef (audio story)
|next           = Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the following one-part story comprising part of the one hundred and thirteenth release in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Sixth Doctor|Fifth Doctor]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]] and [[John Pickard]] as [[Thomas Brewster]].


==Publisher's Summary==
Brewster returned in the 2011 story ''[[The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Crimes of Thomas Brewster]]'' alongside the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]].


== Publisher's summary ==
Who wouldn't want a perfect world? [[Thomas Brewster]] for one.
Who wouldn't want a perfect world? [[Thomas Brewster]] for one.


==Cast==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
 
== Cast ==
* [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]]
* [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]]
* [[Nyssa]] - [[Sarah Sutton]]
* [[Nyssa]] - [[Sarah Sutton]]
* [[Thomas Brewster]] - [[John Pickard]]
* [[Thomas Brewster]] - [[John Pickard]]
* [[Phil]] - [[Nicholas Farrell]]
* [[Phil (A Perfect World)|Phil]] - [[Nicholas Farrell]]
* [[Taz]] - [[Beth Chalmers]]  
* [[Taz]] / [[Connie Winter's mother|Connie's mother]] - [[Beth Chalmers]]
* [[Trev]] - [[Sean Connolly]]  
* [[Trev]] - [[Sean Connolly]]
* [[Connie]] - [[Rebecca Callard]]
* [[Connie Winter|Connie]] - [[Rebecca Callard]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
=== Culture ===
* Connie describes the inhabitants of the alternative timeline as [[Pod people]], referring to the [[1956]] [[science fiction]] film ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', and later compares them to characters from a [[Richard Curtis]] film.
* Connie says that the [[Jubilee line]] was like ''[[Dawn of the Dead]]''.
 
=== Conflicts ===
* Connie mentions the [[Iraq War]], referring to it as "a war which shouldn't have happened."
 
=== History ===
* Brewster is amazed by how clean the air is in 2008 when compared to [[1867]].
 
=== Individuals ===
* Taz is Connie's unemployed flatmate, whom Connie describes as being built like a "brick privy." In the [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]], she refers to herself by her full name of Tasmin and works as a management consultant, having spent three years at university.
* When she first meets the Doctor, Connie assumes that he is going to a fancy dress party dressed as [[Bertie Wooster]], referring to the "idle rich" English gentleman from [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s ''Jeeves'' novels.
 
=== Locations ===
* The Doctor left strict instructions to his solicitor that his house, [[107 Baker Street]], was not to be sold or let, and it has thus lain undisturbed since 1867. The inside of the house is covered in cobwebs and much of the furniture has rotted due to woodworm.
 
=== Music ===
* Connie had tickets to a [[Kaiser Chiefs]] concert in [[2004]], but accidentally went to the wrong [[Newcastle]].


==Notes==
=== Politics ===
* The Health Minister resigned due to the spread of hospital-based infections. In the alternative timeline, he announces that such infections had been completely eradicated in Britain.
* In the alternative timeline, a peace treaty has been signed in [[Palestine]], inflation has fallen and [[Pakistan]] has avoided widespread flooding.


Thomas Brewster leaves [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] at the end of A Perfect World with the Doctor leaving him his Baker Street House which he aquired it [[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]]
=== Sports ===
* In the "perfect" version of [[2008]], [[cricket]]er [[Graeme Swann]] was "100 [[not out]]" — which proved to the [[Fifth Doctor]] that something was "off" with the world.


==Continuity==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* This audio story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]].


==Timeline==
== Continuity ==
* A Perfect World occurs after: [[Time Reef]]
* Brewster tells Connie that he used to work as a [[mudlark]] near [[London Bridge]] and that he has visited the [[2008]] of an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]]. This all took place in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)}}.
* A Perfect World occurs before: TBA
* Brewster refers to the Time Reef, where the TARDIS crew were in the previous story, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Time Reef (audio story)}}.
* Brewster leaves [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] at 107 Baker Street. Brewster had stolen the TARDIS in [[1866]] at the end of [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)}}. He would later be reunited with the Doctor in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]] in [[2010]], in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)}}.
* It is later revealed in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)}} that, prior to 2010, Connie was killed in a hit-and-run.


==External Links==
== External links ==
{{bigfinish|releases/v/time-reef-279|A Perfect World}}
{{dwrefguide|who_bf113.htm#aperfectworld|A Perfect World}}
* {{tetrap|5/aperfectworld.html|A Perfect World}}


* [http://www.bigfinish.com/113-Doctor-Who-Time-Reef Big Finish '''A Perfect World''' page]
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A Perfect World was the following one-part story comprising part of the one hundred and thirteenth release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and John Pickard as Thomas Brewster.

Brewster returned in the 2011 story The Crimes of Thomas Brewster alongside the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe.

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

Who wouldn't want a perfect world? Thomas Brewster for one.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Conflicts[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Connie mentions the Iraq War, referring to it as "a war which shouldn't have happened."

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Brewster is amazed by how clean the air is in 2008 when compared to 1867.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Taz is Connie's unemployed flatmate, whom Connie describes as being built like a "brick privy." In the alternative timeline, she refers to herself by her full name of Tasmin and works as a management consultant, having spent three years at university.
  • When she first meets the Doctor, Connie assumes that he is going to a fancy dress party dressed as Bertie Wooster, referring to the "idle rich" English gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels.

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor left strict instructions to his solicitor that his house, 107 Baker Street, was not to be sold or let, and it has thus lain undisturbed since 1867. The inside of the house is covered in cobwebs and much of the furniture has rotted due to woodworm.

Music[[edit] | [edit source]]

Politics[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Health Minister resigned due to the spread of hospital-based infections. In the alternative timeline, he announces that such infections had been completely eradicated in Britain.
  • In the alternative timeline, a peace treaty has been signed in Palestine, inflation has fallen and Pakistan has avoided widespread flooding.

Sports[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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