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|range = Novel Adaptations | |||
|number in range = 11 | |||
|series = [[Novel Adaptations|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' Novel Adaptations]] | |series = [[Novel Adaptations|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' Novel Adaptations]] | ||
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|doctor = Fifth Doctor | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] | |companions = [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = Seventh Doctor | ||
|featuring2 = Chris Cwej{{!}}Chris | |||
|featuring3 = Roz Forrester | |||
|enemy = The [[Ferutu]] | |enemy = The [[Ferutu]] | ||
|setting = Human colony, [[27th century|27th]]-[[28th century|28th centuries]] | |setting = [[Planet (Cold Fusion)|Human colony]], [[27th century|27th]]-[[28th century|28th centuries]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Lance Parkin | ||
|director = [[Jamie Anderson]] | |director = [[Jamie Anderson]] | ||
|music = [[Fool Circle Productions]] | |music = [[Fool Circle Productions]] | ||
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|cover = [[Tom Newsom]] | |cover = [[Tom Newsom]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 15 December 2016 | ||
|format = | |format = 3 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-707-6 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-707-6 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78178-708-3 (digital) | ||
|prev = Original Sin (audio story) | |prev = Original Sin (audio story) | ||
|next = | |next = Goth Opera (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the eleventh story in [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[Novel Adaptations]]'' range. It was adapted from [[Cold Fusion (novel)|the novel of the same name]] by [[Lance Parkin]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
A newly regenerated [[Fifth Doctor]] arrives on an occupied | A newly regenerated [[Fifth Doctor]] arrives on [[planet (Cold Fusion)|an occupied ice planet]] – where the [[Seventh Doctor]] is investigating dangerous energy experiments conducted by the [[Earth Empire]]. But events spin out of control when a [[refugee]] from the distant past arrives - [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]], the Doctor's Wife! | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | === Part one === | ||
The [[Seventh Doctor]] travels to [[Pryanishnikov Waystation|a waystation]] and meets with [[Ziyou Wanle]], a former [[prospector]] who recounts how he and his [[team]] came across [[the Machine|a machine]] buried in a [[cavern]] and a [[ghost]] emerged from it before killing Ziyou's teammates. A similar ghost appears and they run, but they are separated after the Doctor is confronted by a [[wardroid]] which he manages to shut down and the Doctor leaves by [[transmat]] when the [[Adjudicator]]s arrive and [[execution|execute]] Ziyou for spreading [[treason]]ous [[propaganda]]. | |||
[[Nyssa]] finds the newly-[[regeneration|regenerated]] [[Fifth Doctor]] in the [[Cloister Room|Cloisters]] and they hurry to [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Adric]] in the [[TARDIS control room|control room]] when [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] hits an [[air pocket]]. The ship lands itself on [[Planet (Cold Fusion)|a human colony]] and locks itself behind the travellers, who split into two groups, with Nyssa and Tegan booking rooms at a nearby [[hotel]] and seeing the Seventh Doctor speaking with [[Chris Cwej]], whom Tegan quickly realises is pretending to be [[Australia]]n. | |||
The Doctor and Adric go to look for disturbances in the [[time field]] and stop at a [[skitrain station]] so that the Doctor can repair his [[time sensor]]. They meet [[Roz Forrester]], who throws the Doctor in front of an approaching [[skitrain]] to make it automatically stop and then looks around the carriages with a time sensor of her own, followed by Adric. Two Adjudicators arrive and Roz defeats them before escaping the others by transmat. The Doctor sees ghosts and [[blood]] on his hands, leading the Adjudicators to accuse of spreading treasonous propaganda and find him guilty. | |||
=== Part two === | |||
[[Tertullian Medford|Adjudicator Provost-General Medford]] notices that the Doctor is taller and younger than the description he has and instead takes him and Adric to the [[Scientifica]] to make a statement. The Doctor volunteers his services as [[scientific advisor]] to [[Juno Whitfield|Chief Scientist Juno Whitfield]] and learns about how [[terrorism|terrorists]] led by [[Adam (Cold Fusion)|Adam]] have been targeting areas frequented by the Adjudicators to protest against their presence on the planet. Later, the Doctor and Adric leave their room using [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|the sonic screwdriver]] | |||
Offended by "Bruce Jovanka", Tegan pretends to be Chris's wife to get a [[key]] to his hotel room and Nyssa goes in to investigate, but she quickly leaves upon seeing him naked. Chris later goes downstairs and asks a robot about the two of them, learning their names and identities. | |||
The Doctor and Adric enter a room with a [[cryo-sleep]] tube inside of which a physically-degenerating person referred to only as "the Patient" is frozen. The Patient searches the Doctor's mind [[telepathy|telepathically]] and learns of his birth, how he left [[Gallifrey]] with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and has since been travelling, but his accounts contradict one another. In a faint [[memory]], the Doctor remembers wearing the Patient's husband's ring and promising to take her granddaughter away, but he keeps her from looking further back. The Patient [[regeneration|regenerates]]. | |||
=== Part three === | |||
Chris approaches Tegan at dinner and she demands an [[apology]] for his [[stereotype|stereotyping]], getting him to admit his real name and that he is undercover. He offends her again by offering his [[DNA]] to prove that he is telling the truth and then contacts Roz, who is breaking into the Scientifica, before inviting Nyssa to his room. Tegan is [[arrest]]ed for associating with [[alien]]s and Nyssa and Chris escape. | |||
The Doctor and Adric are arrested as [[spy|spies]], but they escape Medford after five ghosts appear and kill Adjudicators with their touch. They find the Patient in the [[medbay]] and Adric surrenders to allow her and the Doctor to get away from a pursuer who turns out to be Roz, who arms him after learning that they both know [[the Doctor]] and transmats with him to the cavern. The Doctor releases Tegan from her cell and Patience, as Tegan names her, makes [[Contact]] with him, allowing him to learn about [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|her pioneer husband]] and thirteen children. The trio escape the Scientifica on a skitrain, which the Doctor believes was arranged by a dangerous person whom he needs to stop. | |||
=== Part four === | |||
Chris takes Nyssa to his safe house and, after telling her about the surviving [[Trakenite]]s on [[Serenity (Cold Fusion)|Serenity]], explains that he and Roz are fighting against corrupt Adjudicators. They travel to [[Skybase]] and sneak into a [[space freighter]], the unloading of which is worthy of the special attention of Medford, and find [[box]]es containing two dozen fusion devices. | |||
The skitrain is followed by a [[hovercopter]] and the Adjudicators demand the Doctor's surrender before triggering an [[avalanche]], burying the train. The Doctor and Patience enter a [[trance]] to save [[oxygen]] and make Contact again, sharing a memory of the [[House of Blyledge]] being raided as [[Susan Foreman's father|their son]]'s daughter is being born. Tegan wakes the Doctor up when [[Quint]], a [[Shliman]], comes in search of a [[medallion]] that the Doctor took from his brother's body so that proper [[funeral]] customs could be observed and takes them aboard Adam's [[snowship]]. | |||
Adric and Roz observe the examination of the Machine and are approached by the Seventh Doctor, who goes with Adric to a ledge and sends Roz to activate the Machine, which is one of the oldest [[TARDIS]]es. She pulls a lever and the planet becomes filled with ghosts, from which the Doctor and Adric protect themselves with a [[chalk]] circle. | |||
=== Part five === | |||
The Seventh Doctor tells one of the ghosts, a [[Ferutu]], that he wishes to learn more about them and exits the circle, disappearing. Roz deactivates the Machine and intends to reactivate it in fifteen minutes, but Whitfield cuts off the [[air supply]] in her [[armour]] until she is unconscious and captures her and Adric. They examine the Machine, parts of which are familiar to Adric, and later manage to get free. | |||
Nyssa and Chris steal the space freighter and use it to scan for a double [[heart]]beat. Upon tracking the Doctor down, they land the freighter and Chris shoots the [[ice]] beneath a pursuing [[robot]] to stop it, but he is wounded and the box containing the fusion bombs falls down the resulting crevasse. It lands in Adam's base where the Doctor disarms them before going to the surface with Tegan and Patience and getting Chris to the [[Nightingale Facility]]. The Adjudicators attack. | |||
=== Part six === | |||
The Doctor and Patience are taken to the Machine and Medford tasks them with returning it to where it came from, intending on sending the fusion bombs with it to destroy the Ferutu. They succeed, knowing that the bombs are disarmed, but Medford shoots Patience in the head to keep her from regenerating and her body disappears. The Doctor shoots him out of the room and realises, thanks to the newly-arrived Seventh Doctor, that Adam has stolen one of the fusion bombs but that both Doctors [[reverse the polarity of the neutron flow|reversed the polarity of the neutron flow]], meaning that Adam's bomb is defused whilst those in the Machine are not. | |||
The Seventh Doctor explains to the Fifth that the Ferutu are all-powerful and come from a [[timeline]] in which [[Gallifrey]] was destroyed in the ancient past; to ensure this timeline, the Ferutu wipe out the [[Unitatus]] fleet above the planet. The Doctors use a shortcut through the [[Time Vortex]] to bring the Machine back along its path, attracting the attention of a Ferutu whom they trap in a circle and ask him to freeze it in the Vortex and allow both versions of history to exist. The Ferutu agrees and does so, but versions of the Machine from both timelines collide and the Ferutu's universe is destroyed, leaving only the Ferutu in the circle. | |||
The Fifth Doctor apologises to the Ferutu for what his future self has done, although the Ferutu says that he would have done the same, and learns that he will one day meet Patience again as "love endures". When the Doctors and their companions are reunited, the Seventh Doctor says that some of the [[equation]]s they have had to calculate when they save Gallifrey with their eleven other selves and the Fifth Doctor wonders if his future self has remembered everything that has happened. Roz, misunderstanding her Doctor, knocks the Fifth Doctor out with a punch. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* | * [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]] | ||
* | * [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | ||
* [[Adric]] - [[Matthew Waterhouse]] | * [[Adric]] - [[Matthew Waterhouse]] | ||
* [[Nyssa]] - [[Sarah Sutton]] | * [[Nyssa]] - [[Sarah Sutton]] | ||
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* [[Roz Forrester]] - [[Yasmin Bannerman]] | * [[Roz Forrester]] - [[Yasmin Bannerman]] | ||
* [[Chris Cwej]] - [[Travis Oliver]] | * [[Chris Cwej]] - [[Travis Oliver]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Patience]] - [[Christine Kavanagh]] | ||
* [[Tertullian Medford|Medford]]/[[Quint]]/[[Quant]]/[[Ziyou Wanle]]/[[Ferutu]] - [[Jeremy Hitchen]] | * [[Tertullian Medford|Medford]] / [[Quint]] / [[Quant]] / [[Ziyou Wanle]] / [[Ferutu]] - [[Jeremy Hitchen]] | ||
* [[Whitfield]] - [[Sharon Maughan]] | * [[Juno Whitfield|Whitfield]] - [[Sharon Maughan]] | ||
* [[Adam (Cold Fusion)|Adam]]/[[Falconstock]]/[[SAM drone|Sam]]/[[Concierge (Cold Fusion)|Concierge]]/[[Robot (Cold Fusion)|Robot Voices]] - [[Peter Caulfield]] | * [[Adam (Cold Fusion)|Adam]] / [[Falconstock]] / [[SAM drone|Sam]] / [[Concierge (Cold Fusion)|Concierge]] / [[Robot (Cold Fusion)|Robot Voices]] - [[Peter Caulfield]] | ||
== Crew == | |||
* Cover Art - [[Tom Newsom]] | |||
* Producer & Director - [[Jamie Anderson]] | |||
* Executive Producer - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music - [[Fool Circle Productions]] | |||
* Script Editor - [[John Dorney]] | |||
* Sound Design - [[Kelly Ellis]] @ Fool Circle Productions | |||
* Written - [[Lance Parkin]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
'' | * [[Serenity (Cold Fusion)|Serenity]] is located in the [[Silver Devastation]]. | ||
== Gallery == | |||
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Cold Fusion (audio story).jpg|Original CD cover | |||
Cold Fusion (audio story) textless.jpg|Textless cover | |||
Cold Fusion (audio story) textless sidebar.jpg|Textless cover with sidebar | |||
Cold Fusion DWM 598 promo cover.jpg|[[DWM 598]] digital promo cover | |||
Cold Fusion (DWM 509 illustration).jpg|Illustration by [[Jamie Lenman]] for the joint review of ''Cold Fusion'' and ''[[Original Sin (audio story)|Original Sin]]'' in [[DWM 509]] | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded on [[24 May (production)|24]], [[25 May (production)|25]], and [[26 May (production)|26 May]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[The Moat Studios]]. | * This story was recorded on [[24 May (production)|24]], [[25 May (production)|25]], and [[26 May (production)|26 May]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[The Moat Studios]]. | ||
* After [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Theatre of War (audio story)|Theatre of War]]'', this was the second novel adaptation to be adapted by its original author. | |||
* From the Fifth Doctor's perspective, this story is set between ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' and ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]''. From the Seventh Doctor's perspective, it's between ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'' and ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]''. | |||
* This story was originally released on CD and download. | |||
=== Deviations from the original novel === | |||
* No reference is made to the Scientifica using slave labour. | |||
* In the novel, the Doctor is unsure about how he was born, whereas in the audio he states that he was "unambiguously" Loom-born. | |||
* When the Fifth and Seventh Doctors are discussing past multi-Doctor events, they omit reference to how the [[Terrible Zodin]] used mind-rubbers, but mention the [[Knights of Velyshaa]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'') which hasn't happened for the Fifth Doctor yet, and how their recent equations will be helpful when all thirteen Doctors have to work together to save Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') They also make reference to having "shorted out the time differential", ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'') the Fifth Doctor asking if he sounds older. | |||
* Where the novel ended with Roz knocking out the Fifth Doctor and the Seventh, Roz, and Chris departing for their TARDIS via transmat, the audio story adds an extra few moments where Adric, Nyssa and Tegan arrive while debating why the future Doctor doesn't recall these events only to find the Fifth Doctor unconscious. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
*The [[Seventh Doctor]] remembers | * Nyssa mentions [[Trodos]] and the robot uprising there in [[2066]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Trodos Tyranny (comic story)|The Trodos Tyranny]]'') | ||
* The [[Seventh Doctor]] remembers joining his other twelve incarnations to save Gallifrey during [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''. | |||
* When Roz, having mistakenly believed the Fifth Doctor to the Seventh Doctor's next incarnation, questions why the Seventh hasn't regenerated, she states "You became all...." to which the Seventh Doctor replies "[[Eighth Doctor|Frock-coat and youthful appeal]]?". This implies the Seventh Doctor is aware of or remembers what his next incarnation will look like. This also mirrors a similar conversation between [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and the [[Third Doctor]] in ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The'' ''Five'' ''Doctors]]'') | |||
''to | * The Seventh Doctor starts to mention an incident in which he and the Fifth Doctor encountered each other involving the [[Knights of Velyshaa]], but the Fifth Doctor quickly stops him from talking, as he hasn't experienced that event yet. In [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'', the Fifth Doctor was travelling with Tegan and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] but neither was present for that event. The Fifth and Seventh Doctors also met shortly before [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Veiled Leopard (audio story)|The Veiled Leopard]]'' while dropping off their respective companions [[Peri Brown]], [[Erimem]], [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] in [[Monte Carlo]] in [[1966]]. They encountered each other again in the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'' and in [[The Factory (The Light at the End)|the Factory]] during [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'', but neither retains any memory of those meetings. | ||
* When the Fifth Doctor stops the Seventh Doctor from mentioning the [[Knights of Velyshaa]] incident, he notes that they could've shorted out the [[time differential]]. He then notices that his voice sounds older than it should, much like [[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', where the Fifth Doctor looked older when interacting with his tenth incarnation. | |||
* Both the Fifth and Seventh Doctors remember meeting [[Omega]] during [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]''. The Seventh Doctor remembers meeting Omega on four separate occasions, which include [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Omega (audio story)|Omega]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]''. | |||
* When asked about the nature of his birth by Patience, the Fifth Doctor reveals that he was "unambiguously" [[loom]]-born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') | |||
* While in [[telepathic contact]] with Patience, first seen in [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', they reenact his memories the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II]] about how was on around his 130th lives out of 90, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') the [[Third Doctor]] telling [[Kettering]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'' has been a scientist for several "thousands y--" before being interrupted, the [[Second Doctor]] telling Jamie and Zoe he left Gallifrey because he was bored during [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', the [[First Doctor]] reminiscing about Gallifrey when meeting Ian and Barbara, ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]") the [[First Doctor]] rescuing Patience which is also seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'' and Morbius in his [[mindbending]] against the [[Fourth Doctor]] during [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]].'' | |||
* The Doctors both agree that if ever two of them meet again, they don't both try to reverse the polarity. Ultimately, this agreement is meaningless as the Fifth Doctor doesn't remember these events, and later the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors attempt the exact same thing on a time window in [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''. | |||
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Cold Fusion was the eleventh story in Big Finish Productions' Novel Adaptations range. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Lance Parkin and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
A newly regenerated Fifth Doctor arrives on an occupied ice planet – where the Seventh Doctor is investigating dangerous energy experiments conducted by the Earth Empire. But events spin out of control when a refugee from the distant past arrives - Patience, the Doctor's Wife!
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Seventh Doctor travels to a waystation and meets with Ziyou Wanle, a former prospector who recounts how he and his team came across a machine buried in a cavern and a ghost emerged from it before killing Ziyou's teammates. A similar ghost appears and they run, but they are separated after the Doctor is confronted by a wardroid which he manages to shut down and the Doctor leaves by transmat when the Adjudicators arrive and execute Ziyou for spreading treasonous propaganda.
Nyssa finds the newly-regenerated Fifth Doctor in the Cloisters and they hurry to Tegan and Adric in the control room when the TARDIS hits an air pocket. The ship lands itself on a human colony and locks itself behind the travellers, who split into two groups, with Nyssa and Tegan booking rooms at a nearby hotel and seeing the Seventh Doctor speaking with Chris Cwej, whom Tegan quickly realises is pretending to be Australian.
The Doctor and Adric go to look for disturbances in the time field and stop at a skitrain station so that the Doctor can repair his time sensor. They meet Roz Forrester, who throws the Doctor in front of an approaching skitrain to make it automatically stop and then looks around the carriages with a time sensor of her own, followed by Adric. Two Adjudicators arrive and Roz defeats them before escaping the others by transmat. The Doctor sees ghosts and blood on his hands, leading the Adjudicators to accuse of spreading treasonous propaganda and find him guilty.
Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]
Adjudicator Provost-General Medford notices that the Doctor is taller and younger than the description he has and instead takes him and Adric to the Scientifica to make a statement. The Doctor volunteers his services as scientific advisor to Chief Scientist Juno Whitfield and learns about how terrorists led by Adam have been targeting areas frequented by the Adjudicators to protest against their presence on the planet. Later, the Doctor and Adric leave their room using the sonic screwdriver
Offended by "Bruce Jovanka", Tegan pretends to be Chris's wife to get a key to his hotel room and Nyssa goes in to investigate, but she quickly leaves upon seeing him naked. Chris later goes downstairs and asks a robot about the two of them, learning their names and identities.
The Doctor and Adric enter a room with a cryo-sleep tube inside of which a physically-degenerating person referred to only as "the Patient" is frozen. The Patient searches the Doctor's mind telepathically and learns of his birth, how he left Gallifrey with Susan and has since been travelling, but his accounts contradict one another. In a faint memory, the Doctor remembers wearing the Patient's husband's ring and promising to take her granddaughter away, but he keeps her from looking further back. The Patient regenerates.
Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]
Chris approaches Tegan at dinner and she demands an apology for his stereotyping, getting him to admit his real name and that he is undercover. He offends her again by offering his DNA to prove that he is telling the truth and then contacts Roz, who is breaking into the Scientifica, before inviting Nyssa to his room. Tegan is arrested for associating with aliens and Nyssa and Chris escape.
The Doctor and Adric are arrested as spies, but they escape Medford after five ghosts appear and kill Adjudicators with their touch. They find the Patient in the medbay and Adric surrenders to allow her and the Doctor to get away from a pursuer who turns out to be Roz, who arms him after learning that they both know the Doctor and transmats with him to the cavern. The Doctor releases Tegan from her cell and Patience, as Tegan names her, makes Contact with him, allowing him to learn about her pioneer husband and thirteen children. The trio escape the Scientifica on a skitrain, which the Doctor believes was arranged by a dangerous person whom he needs to stop.
Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]
Chris takes Nyssa to his safe house and, after telling her about the surviving Trakenites on Serenity, explains that he and Roz are fighting against corrupt Adjudicators. They travel to Skybase and sneak into a space freighter, the unloading of which is worthy of the special attention of Medford, and find boxes containing two dozen fusion devices.
The skitrain is followed by a hovercopter and the Adjudicators demand the Doctor's surrender before triggering an avalanche, burying the train. The Doctor and Patience enter a trance to save oxygen and make Contact again, sharing a memory of the House of Blyledge being raided as their son's daughter is being born. Tegan wakes the Doctor up when Quint, a Shliman, comes in search of a medallion that the Doctor took from his brother's body so that proper funeral customs could be observed and takes them aboard Adam's snowship.
Adric and Roz observe the examination of the Machine and are approached by the Seventh Doctor, who goes with Adric to a ledge and sends Roz to activate the Machine, which is one of the oldest TARDISes. She pulls a lever and the planet becomes filled with ghosts, from which the Doctor and Adric protect themselves with a chalk circle.
Part five[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Seventh Doctor tells one of the ghosts, a Ferutu, that he wishes to learn more about them and exits the circle, disappearing. Roz deactivates the Machine and intends to reactivate it in fifteen minutes, but Whitfield cuts off the air supply in her armour until she is unconscious and captures her and Adric. They examine the Machine, parts of which are familiar to Adric, and later manage to get free.
Nyssa and Chris steal the space freighter and use it to scan for a double heartbeat. Upon tracking the Doctor down, they land the freighter and Chris shoots the ice beneath a pursuing robot to stop it, but he is wounded and the box containing the fusion bombs falls down the resulting crevasse. It lands in Adam's base where the Doctor disarms them before going to the surface with Tegan and Patience and getting Chris to the Nightingale Facility. The Adjudicators attack.
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The Doctor and Patience are taken to the Machine and Medford tasks them with returning it to where it came from, intending on sending the fusion bombs with it to destroy the Ferutu. They succeed, knowing that the bombs are disarmed, but Medford shoots Patience in the head to keep her from regenerating and her body disappears. The Doctor shoots him out of the room and realises, thanks to the newly-arrived Seventh Doctor, that Adam has stolen one of the fusion bombs but that both Doctors reversed the polarity of the neutron flow, meaning that Adam's bomb is defused whilst those in the Machine are not.
The Seventh Doctor explains to the Fifth that the Ferutu are all-powerful and come from a timeline in which Gallifrey was destroyed in the ancient past; to ensure this timeline, the Ferutu wipe out the Unitatus fleet above the planet. The Doctors use a shortcut through the Time Vortex to bring the Machine back along its path, attracting the attention of a Ferutu whom they trap in a circle and ask him to freeze it in the Vortex and allow both versions of history to exist. The Ferutu agrees and does so, but versions of the Machine from both timelines collide and the Ferutu's universe is destroyed, leaving only the Ferutu in the circle.
The Fifth Doctor apologises to the Ferutu for what his future self has done, although the Ferutu says that he would have done the same, and learns that he will one day meet Patience again as "love endures". When the Doctors and their companions are reunited, the Seventh Doctor says that some of the equations they have had to calculate when they save Gallifrey with their eleven other selves and the Fifth Doctor wonders if his future self has remembered everything that has happened. Roz, misunderstanding her Doctor, knocks the Fifth Doctor out with a punch.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Adric - Matthew Waterhouse
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Tegan - Janet Fielding
- Roz Forrester - Yasmin Bannerman
- Chris Cwej - Travis Oliver
- Patience - Christine Kavanagh
- Medford / Quint / Quant / Ziyou Wanle / Ferutu - Jeremy Hitchen
- Whitfield - Sharon Maughan
- Adam / Falconstock / Sam / Concierge / Robot Voices - Peter Caulfield
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Cover Art - Tom Newsom
- Producer & Director - Jamie Anderson
- Executive Producer - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music - Fool Circle Productions
- Script Editor - John Dorney
- Sound Design - Kelly Ellis @ Fool Circle Productions
- Written - Lance Parkin
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Serenity is located in the Silver Devastation.
Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]
Original CD cover
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Textless cover with sidebar
DWM 598 digital promo cover
Illustration by Jamie Lenman for the joint review of Cold Fusion and Original Sin in DWM 509
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Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story was recorded on 24, 25, and 26 May 2016 at The Moat Studios.
- After AUDIO: Theatre of War, this was the second novel adaptation to be adapted by its original author.
- From the Fifth Doctor's perspective, this story is set between Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday. From the Seventh Doctor's perspective, it's between Return of the Living Dad and The Death of Art.
- This story was originally released on CD and download.
Deviations from the original novel[[edit] | [edit source]]
- No reference is made to the Scientifica using slave labour.
- In the novel, the Doctor is unsure about how he was born, whereas in the audio he states that he was "unambiguously" Loom-born.
- When the Fifth and Seventh Doctors are discussing past multi-Doctor events, they omit reference to how the Terrible Zodin used mind-rubbers, but mention the Knights of Velyshaa, (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time) which hasn't happened for the Fifth Doctor yet, and how their recent equations will be helpful when all thirteen Doctors have to work together to save Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) They also make reference to having "shorted out the time differential", (TV: Time Crash) the Fifth Doctor asking if he sounds older.
- Where the novel ended with Roz knocking out the Fifth Doctor and the Seventh, Roz, and Chris departing for their TARDIS via transmat, the audio story adds an extra few moments where Adric, Nyssa and Tegan arrive while debating why the future Doctor doesn't recall these events only to find the Fifth Doctor unconscious.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Nyssa mentions Trodos and the robot uprising there in 2066. (COMIC: The Trodos Tyranny)
- The Seventh Doctor remembers joining his other twelve incarnations to save Gallifrey during TV: The Day of the Doctor.
- When Roz, having mistakenly believed the Fifth Doctor to the Seventh Doctor's next incarnation, questions why the Seventh hasn't regenerated, she states "You became all...." to which the Seventh Doctor replies "Frock-coat and youthful appeal?". This implies the Seventh Doctor is aware of or remembers what his next incarnation will look like. This also mirrors a similar conversation between Sarah Jane Smith and the Third Doctor in (TV: The Five Doctors)
- The Seventh Doctor starts to mention an incident in which he and the Fifth Doctor encountered each other involving the Knights of Velyshaa, but the Fifth Doctor quickly stops him from talking, as he hasn't experienced that event yet. In AUDIO: The Sirens of Time, the Fifth Doctor was travelling with Tegan and Turlough but neither was present for that event. The Fifth and Seventh Doctors also met shortly before AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard while dropping off their respective companions Peri Brown, Erimem, Ace and Hex in Monte Carlo in 1966. They encountered each other again in the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS in AUDIO: The Four Doctors and in the Factory during AUDIO: The Light at the End, but neither retains any memory of those meetings.
- When the Fifth Doctor stops the Seventh Doctor from mentioning the Knights of Velyshaa incident, he notes that they could've shorted out the time differential. He then notices that his voice sounds older than it should, much like TV: Time Crash, where the Fifth Doctor looked older when interacting with his tenth incarnation.
- Both the Fifth and Seventh Doctors remember meeting Omega during TV: The Three Doctors. The Seventh Doctor remembers meeting Omega on four separate occasions, which include TV: Arc of Infinity, AUDIO: Omega and PROSE: The Infinity Doctors.
- When asked about the nature of his birth by Patience, the Fifth Doctor reveals that he was "unambiguously" loom-born. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
- While in telepathic contact with Patience, first seen in TV: The Three Doctors, they reenact his memories the Fourth Doctor and Romana II about how was on around his 130th lives out of 90, (TV: The Creature from the Pit) the Third Doctor telling Kettering in TV: The Mind of Evil has been a scientist for several "thousands y--" before being interrupted, the Second Doctor telling Jamie and Zoe he left Gallifrey because he was bored during TV: The War Games, the First Doctor reminiscing about Gallifrey when meeting Ian and Barbara, (TV: "An Unearthly Child") the First Doctor rescuing Patience which is also seen in PROSE: Lungbarrow and Morbius in his mindbending against the Fourth Doctor during TV: The Brain of Morbius.
- The Doctors both agree that if ever two of them meet again, they don't both try to reverse the polarity. Ultimately, this agreement is meaningless as the Fifth Doctor doesn't remember these events, and later the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors attempt the exact same thing on a time window in TV: The Day of the Doctor.
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Cold Fusion page at bigfinish.com
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