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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was an audio series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] as a continuation of the 1970s television show ''[[The Tomorrow People]]''. The series is of note to this wiki because of its influence on contemporaneous Big Finish ranges, with development for recurring aliens the [[Slarvian]]s influencing their appearances in ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' and ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''.  
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was an audio series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] as a continuation of the 1970s television show ''[[The Tomorrow People]]''. The series is of note to this wiki because of both its influence on contemporaneous Big Finish ranges and its two appearances of [[Slarvian]]s, an alien species first mentioned in a ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short story.


Starting in 2001, the series ran for five seasons until 2007, after which, due to a breakdown in communication and {{W|The Tomorrow People (American TV series)|plans for a ''Tomorrow People'' revival TV series}}, the license to ''The Tomorrow People'' was unexpectedly not renewed to Big Finish. [[Mark Wright]] and [[Cavan Scott]] had been chosen to produce seasons 7 and 8 of the audio series, and the loss led to them producing ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' instead. In tribute to this, ''[[The Two Irises (audio story)|The Two Irises]]'' namedrops the [[Sorson]]s.  ([[REF]]: ''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2]]'')
Starting in 2001, the series ran for five seasons until 2007, after which, due to a breakdown in communication and {{W|The Tomorrow People (American TV series)|plans for a ''Tomorrow People'' revival TV series}}, the license to ''The Tomorrow People'' was unexpectedly not renewed to Big Finish. [[Mark Wright]] and [[Cavan Scott]] had been chosen to produce seasons 7 and 8 of the audio series, and the loss led to them producing ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' instead. In tribute to this, ''[[The Two Irises (audio story)|The Two Irises]]'' namedrops the [[Sorson]]s.  ([[REF]]: ''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2]]'')


== Stories ==
==Stories==
=== Series 1 ===
===Series 1===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Released || Notes
!#||Title||Author|| Released||Notes
|-
|-
|1.1
|1.1
|''The New Gods''  
|''The New Gods''
| [[Rebecca Levene]] and [[Gareth Roberts]]
|[[Rebecca Levene]] and [[Gareth Roberts]]
| April 2001
| April 2001
| Characters from this story later appeared in [[Iain McLaughlin]]'s contribution to the 2004 ''Dandy Annual''.
|Characters from this story later appeared in [[Iain McLaughlin]]'s contribution to the 2004 ''Dandy Annual''.
|-
|-
|1.2
|1.2  
|''The Deadliest Species''
|''The Deadliest Species''
|[[Gary Russell]]
|[[Gary Russell]]
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|-
|-
|1.3
|1.3
| ''The Ghosts of Mendez''
|''The Ghosts of Mendez''
| [[Austen Atkinson]]
|
| January 2002
[[Austen Atkinson]]
|January 2002
|
|
|-
|-
|1.4
|1.4
| ''The Sign of Diolyx''
|
|[[Mike Tucker]] and [[Robert Perry]]  
''The Sign of Diolyx''
| May 2002
|[[Mike Tucker]] and [[Robert Perry]]
|May 2002
|
|
|}
|}


=== Series 2 ===
===Series 2===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Released || Notes
!#
! Title|| Author|| Released|| Notes
|-
|-
|2.1
|2.1
|''A New Atlantis''
|''A New Atlantis''
| [[Nigel Fairs]]
|[[Nigel Fairs]]
| April 2003
|April 2003
|
|
|-
|-
|2.2
|2.2
|''The Power of Fear''  
|''The Power of Fear''
| [[Steve Lyons]]
|[[Steve Lyons]]
| June 2003
| June 2003
|
|
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|2.3
|2.3
|''The Curse of Kaavan''
|''The Curse of Kaavan''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
| August 2003
|August 2003
|
|
|-
|-
|2.4
|2.4
|''Alone''  
|''Alone''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
| June 2004
|June 2004
|
|
|}
|}


=== Series 3 ===
===Series 3===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Released || Notes
!#||Title ||Author|| Released||Notes
|-
|-
|3.1
|3.1
|''The Slarvian Menace''
|''[[The Slarvian Menace (audio story)|The Slarvian Menace]]''
| [[Mark Wright]]
| [[Mark Wright]]
|October 2004
|October 2004
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|-
|-
|3.2
|3.2
|''The Warlock's Dance''  
|''The Warlock's Dance''
| [[Cavan Scott]]
|[[Cavan Scott]]
| October 2004
|October 2004
|
|
|-
|-
|3.3
|3.3
| ''A Living Hell''  
|''A Living Hell''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|February 2005
| February 2005
|
|
|-
|-
|3.4
|3.4
|''Trigonometry''
|''Trigonometry''
| Gary Russell
|Gary Russell
| March 2005
|March 2005
|
|
|}
|}


=== Series 4 ===
===Series 4===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Released || Notes
!#||Title||Author||Released||Notes
|-
|-
|4.1
|4.1
|''Saying Goodbye''  
|''Saying Goodbye''
|Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|August 2005
| August 2005  
|
|
|-
|-
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|-
|-
|4.3
|4.3
|''Queen of Slarvos''
|''[[Queen of Slarvos (audio story)|Queen of Slarvos]]''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|January 2006
| January 2006
|The [[Slarvian]]s return, now led by the [[Slarvian Queen]]. The Slarvian homeworld is introduced as [[Slarvos]], despite the aliens' creators intending it to be [[Slarvia]].
|The [[Slarvian]]s return, now led by the [[Slarvian Queen]]. The Slarvian homeworld is introduced as [[Slarvos]], despite the aliens' creators intending it to be [[Slarvia]].
|-
|-
|4.4
|4.4
|''A Plague of Dreams''  
|''A Plague of Dreams''
|[[Jim Mortimore]]
|[[Jim Mortimore]]
|April 2006
|April 2006
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|}
|}


=== Series 5 ===
===Series 5===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Released || Notes
!#||Title||Author||Released
!Notes
|-
|-
|5.1
| 5.1
|''A Broken Song''
|''A Broken Song''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|June 2006
|June 2006
|
|
|-
|-
|5.2
|5.2  
|''Aftermath''
|''Aftermath''
|[[Joseph Lidster]]
|[[Joseph Lidster]]
| August 2006
|August 2006
|
|
|-
|-
|5.3
|5.3
|''Spiritus Mundi''
|''Spiritus Mundi''
| Craig Hinton
|Craig Hinton
|October 2006
|October 2006
|
|
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|5.4
|5.4
|''Stemming the Tide''
|''Stemming the Tide''
| [[Helen Goldwyn]]
|[[Helen Goldwyn]]
| December 2006
|December 2006
|
|
|-
|-
|5.5
|5.5
|''End of Silence''  
|''End of Silence''
| Alex Crowe
| Alex Crowe
| February 2007
|February 2007
|
|
|-
|-
|5.6
| 5.6
|''Rachel''
|''Rachel''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|April 2007
|April 2007
|Ends on major setting-changing cliffhanger.
|Ends on major setting-changing cliffhanger.
|}
|}


=== Unproduced stories ===
===Unproduced stories ===
Unless otherwise stated, the following information is sourced from ''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2]]''.
Unless otherwise stated, the following information is sourced from ''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2]]''.
==== Series 6 ====
 
====Series 6====
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Notes
!# ||Title ||Author||Notes
|-
|-
|6.1
| 6.1
|''Saving the World  
|''Saving the World ''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|Originally set for release in August 2007
|Originally set for release in August 2007
|-
|-
|6.2
|6.2
|''Talking to God''  
|''Talking to God''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|
|
|-
|-
|6.3
|6.3
|''War of the Slarvians''
|''[[War of the Slarvians (audio story)|War of the Slarvians]]''
| Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
|Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
|The Slarvians were to return, with elements setting up the next season. [[Slarvia]] was to be introduced as the Slarvian homeworld, a sister planet at war with [[Slarvos]]. The [[Slarvian Emperor]] would be shown as Slarvia's ruler, in conflict with Slarvos' [[Slarvian Queen]].
|The Slarvians were to return, with elements setting up the next season. [[Slarvia]] was to be introduced as the Slarvian homeworld, a sister planet at war with [[Slarvos]] over the [[Pearl of Wisdom]]. The [[Slarvian Emperor]] would be shown as Slarvia's ruler, in conflict with Slarvos' [[Slarvian Queen]]. The plot was later adapted into the ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short story ''[[Benny and Louise (short story)|Benny and Louise]]''.
|-
|-
|6.4
|6.4
|''Tandem''
|''Tandem''
| Helen Goldwyn
|Helen Goldwyn
|
|
|-
|-
|6.5
|6.5
| ''Godwin's Law''
|''Godwin's Law''
| Joseph Lidster
|Joseph Lidster
|
|
|-
|-
|6.6
|6.6
|''Buartek''
|''Buartek''
| Nigel Fairs
|Nigel Fairs
|
|
|}
|}


==== Series 7 ====
====Series 7 ====
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!# || Title || Author || Notes
!#||Title|| Author||Notes
|-
|-
|7.1
|7.1  
|''The Next Stage''
|''The Next Stage''
| Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
| Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
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|
|
|-
|-
|7.3
|7.3  
|''The Modern Children''
|''[[The Modern Children (audio story)|The Modern Children]]''
|[[Paul Magrs]]
|[[Paul Magrs]]
|Magrs had "two big ideas" for this story, planning either on it having [[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Panda]] meeting the Tomorrow People or using "brilliant idea" which he didn't disclose in ''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2]]'' because he was going to use it in another project.
|Magrs had "two big ideas" for this story, planning either on it having [[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Panda]] meeting the Tomorrow People or using "brilliant idea" which he didn't disclose in ''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2]]'' because he was going to use it in another project.
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|7.4
|7.4
|''The Screaming Planet''
|''The Screaming Planet''
| [[Iain McLaughlin]] and [[Claire Bartlett]]
|[[Iain McLaughlin]] and [[Claire Bartlett]]
|
|
|-
|-
|7.5
|7.5
|''TIM''
|''TIM''
| Joseph Lidster
|Joseph Lidster
|
|
|-
|-
|7.6
|7.6
|''The Scream of Sogguth''
|''The Scream of Sogguth''
| Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
|Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
|
|
|}
|}


== Notes ==
==Notes==
''to be added''
''to be added''


== External links ==
==External links==
''to be added''
''to be added''
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
{{TitleSort}}
{{TitleSort}}
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[[Category:Audio overviews]]

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The Tomorrow People was an audio series produced by Big Finish Productions as a continuation of the 1970s television show The Tomorrow People. The series is of note to this wiki because of both its influence on contemporaneous Big Finish ranges and its two appearances of Slarvians, an alien species first mentioned in a Bernice Summerfield short story.

Starting in 2001, the series ran for five seasons until 2007, after which, due to a breakdown in communication and plans for a Tomorrow People revival TV series, the license to The Tomorrow People was unexpectedly not renewed to Big Finish. Mark Wright and Cavan Scott had been chosen to produce seasons 7 and 8 of the audio series, and the loss led to them producing Iris Wildthyme instead. In tribute to this, The Two Irises namedrops the Sorsons. (REF: The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2)

Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Series 1[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Released Notes
1.1 The New Gods Rebecca Levene and Gareth Roberts April 2001 Characters from this story later appeared in Iain McLaughlin's contribution to the 2004 Dandy Annual.
1.2 The Deadliest Species Gary Russell September 2001 Features the Sorsons from the final serial of the original The Tomorrow People.
1.3 The Ghosts of Mendez

Austen Atkinson

January 2002
1.4

The Sign of Diolyx

Mike Tucker and Robert Perry May 2002

Series 2[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Released Notes
2.1 A New Atlantis Nigel Fairs April 2003
2.2 The Power of Fear Steve Lyons June 2003
2.3 The Curse of Kaavan Nigel Fairs August 2003
2.4 Alone Nigel Fairs June 2004

Series 3[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Released Notes
3.1 The Slarvian Menace Mark Wright October 2004 First appearance of the Slarvians, which Mark Wright had earlier co-created with Cavan Scott for an abandoned Big Finish project and were previously referenced in The Feast of the Stone. The Slarvian Emperor appears. Wenley Moor from Doctor Who is mentioned.
3.2 The Warlock's Dance Cavan Scott October 2004
3.3 A Living Hell Nigel Fairs February 2005
3.4 Trigonometry Gary Russell March 2005

Series 4[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Released Notes
4.1 Saying Goodbye Nigel Fairs August 2005
4.2 The Lords of Forever Craig Hinton October 2005
4.3 Queen of Slarvos Nigel Fairs January 2006 The Slarvians return, now led by the Slarvian Queen. The Slarvian homeworld is introduced as Slarvos, despite the aliens' creators intending it to be Slarvia.
4.4 A Plague of Dreams Jim Mortimore April 2006

Series 5[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Released Notes
5.1 A Broken Song Nigel Fairs June 2006
5.2 Aftermath Joseph Lidster August 2006
5.3 Spiritus Mundi Craig Hinton October 2006
5.4 Stemming the Tide Helen Goldwyn December 2006
5.5 End of Silence Alex Crowe February 2007
5.6 Rachel Nigel Fairs April 2007 Ends on major setting-changing cliffhanger.

Unproduced stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Unless otherwise stated, the following information is sourced from The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2.

Series 6[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Notes
6.1 Saving the World Nigel Fairs Originally set for release in August 2007
6.2 Talking to God Nigel Fairs
6.3 War of the Slarvians Cavan Scott and Mark Wright The Slarvians were to return, with elements setting up the next season. Slarvia was to be introduced as the Slarvian homeworld, a sister planet at war with Slarvos over the Pearl of Wisdom. The Slarvian Emperor would be shown as Slarvia's ruler, in conflict with Slarvos' Slarvian Queen. The plot was later adapted into the Bernice Summerfield short story Benny and Louise.
6.4 Tandem Helen Goldwyn
6.5 Godwin's Law Joseph Lidster
6.6 Buartek Nigel Fairs

Series 7[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Notes
7.1 The Next Stage Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
7.2 Kalki Reborn Nigel Fairs
7.3 The Modern Children Paul Magrs Magrs had "two big ideas" for this story, planning either on it having Iris Wildthyme and Panda meeting the Tomorrow People or using "brilliant idea" which he didn't disclose in The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2 because he was going to use it in another project.
7.4 The Screaming Planet Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett
7.5 TIM Joseph Lidster
7.6 The Scream of Sogguth Cavan Scott and Mark Wright

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

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

to be added

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