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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the sixty-fifth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Scott Alan Woodard]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Terry Molloy]] as [[Davros]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the sixty-fifth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Scott Alan Woodard]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Terry Molloy]] as [[Davros]].


It was the first appearance of the [[Mechanoid|Mechonoid]]s in a performed story since ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' in 1965. This was Bonnie Langford's second audio story with Colin Baker, the first being ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]''.
It was the first appearance of the [[Mechanoid]]s in a performed story since ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' in 1965. This was Bonnie Langford's second audio story with Colin Baker, the first being ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]''.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
=== Part one ===
A [[Nazzian freighter]] carrying medical supplies in the [[Beta Orianus system]] comes under heavy fire and [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] sends [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] to safety in an [[escape module]] whilst he locates [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Mel crash-lands on [[Lethe (The Juggernauts)|Lethe]], sets up a [[homing beacon]] and waits for the Doctor for three months, spending her time repairing unearthed [[Mechonoid]]s for [[Davros|Professor Vaso]], a [[scientist]] who also survived a crash-landing and who takes an interest in the Doctor.
A [[Nazzian freighter]] carrying medical supplies in the [[Beta Orianus system]] comes under heavy fire and [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] sends [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] to safety in an [[escape module]] whilst he locates [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Mel crash-lands on [[Lethe (The Juggernauts)|Lethe]], sets up a [[homing beacon]] and waits for the Doctor for three months, spending her time repairing unearthed [[Mechanoid]]s for [[Davros|Professor Vaso]], a [[scientist]] who also survived a crash-landing and who takes an interest in the Doctor.


The Doctor is [[Time Scoop]]ed and held in a [[molecular disintegration cage]] by the [[Renegade Dalek]]s, who hold the TARDIS and intend to recruit him to stop the creation of a rival race on Lethe, a [[planet]] with an [[atmosphere]] that is potentially lethal to the Daleks. They inform him that Mel is on Lethe and use a [[visualiser]] to show her with Professor Vaso, whom she is telling stories about her adventures; the Doctor immediately recognises him as Davros.
The Doctor is [[Time Scoop]]ed and held in a [[molecular disintegration cage]] by the [[Renegade Dalek]]s, who hold the TARDIS and intend to recruit him to stop the creation of a rival race on Lethe, a [[planet]] with an [[atmosphere]] that is potentially lethal to the Daleks. They inform him that Mel is on Lethe and use a [[visualiser]] to show her with Professor Vaso, whom she is telling stories about her adventures; the Doctor immediately recognises him as Davros.


=== Part two ===
=== Part two ===
The [[Black Dalek]] explains that Davros crash-landed on Lethe en route to his [[trial]] on [[Skaro]] and agrees to give the Doctor and Mel their freedom following Davros's capture. After a successful demonstration of the [[Juggernaut]]s adapted from the Mechonoids for investors from [[Outreach Corporation|Outreach]], Mel returns to her [[bedroom]] and is reunited with the Doctor, who has been [[transmat]]ted down by the Daleks. Mel has difficulty believing the truth about Professor Vaso and rests whilst the Doctor looks around the [[colony]].  
The [[Black Dalek]] explains that Davros crash-landed on Lethe en route to his [[trial]] on [[Skaro]] and agrees to give the Doctor and Mel their freedom following Davros's capture. After a successful demonstration of the [[Juggernaut]]s adapted from the Mechanoids for investors from [[Outreach Corporation|Outreach]], Mel returns to her [[bedroom]] and is reunited with the Doctor, who has been [[transmat]]ted down by the Daleks. Mel has difficulty believing the truth about Professor Vaso and rests whilst the Doctor looks around the [[colony]].


In the morning, [[Henning Brauer|Mr Brauer]] informs the staff that work on the Juggernauts will be taken over by one of Outreach's own product development team for a month or two, angering Davros. He deduces that [[Kryson|Mr Kryson]] is an [[addiction|addict]] immune to the [[virus]] masking his true appearance and [[blackmail]]s him into recommending that his superiors suspend their plan. Afterwards, the Doctor enters and, as they discuss how Davros has taken a new identity and plans to leave a new legacy, three damaged [[Imperial Dalek]]s arrive.
In the morning, [[Henning Brauer|Mr Brauer]] informs the staff that work on the Juggernauts will be taken over by one of Outreach's own product development team for a month or two, angering Davros. He deduces that [[Kryson|Mr Kryson]] is an [[addiction|addict]] immune to the [[virus]] masking his true appearance and [[blackmail]]s him into recommending that his superiors suspend their plan. Afterwards, the Doctor enters and, as they discuss how Davros has taken a new identity and plans to leave a new legacy, three damaged [[Imperial Dalek]]s arrive.
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Davros summons his Daleks to [[extermination|exterminate]] Mr Brauer when he interrupts his demonstration of the Juggernauts to confront him about his blackmail of Kryson and orders a colony [[lockdown]]. He summons Mel, confirms that the Doctor is right about his true identity and explains that the Juggernauts are the perfect Dalek killers, but the Doctor does not believe that they are a valid solution. Giving the Doctor some time to reconsider, Davros has his Daleks kill Mr Brauer's colleagues and tells Kryson that they will claim that it was an accident.
Davros summons his Daleks to [[extermination|exterminate]] Mr Brauer when he interrupts his demonstration of the Juggernauts to confront him about his blackmail of Kryson and orders a colony [[lockdown]]. He summons Mel, confirms that the Doctor is right about his true identity and explains that the Juggernauts are the perfect Dalek killers, but the Doctor does not believe that they are a valid solution. Giving the Doctor some time to reconsider, Davros has his Daleks kill Mr Brauer's colleagues and tells Kryson that they will claim that it was an accident.


Mel puts the Juggernaut escorting her and the Doctor into idle mode using a backdoor she included in its programming and they find a living organism inside. Hacking the colony's medical records, she finds evidence that Davros has been harvesting [[Organ (anatomy)|organs]] from dead colonists and proceeds to erase any information on the Juggernaut programme on the Doctor's orders. The Doctor calls for the Renegade Daleks to capture Davros and a battle breaks out. The Doctor and Mel run, but more Juggernauts emerge from the section of the base damaged by Davros's crash-landing.  
Mel puts the Juggernaut escorting her and the Doctor into idle mode using a backdoor she included in its programming and they find a living organism inside. Hacking the colony's medical records, she finds evidence that Davros has been harvesting [[Organ (anatomy)|organs]] from dead colonists and proceeds to erase any information on the Juggernaut programme on the Doctor's orders. The Doctor calls for the Renegade Daleks to capture Davros and a battle breaks out. The Doctor and Mel run, but more Juggernauts emerge from the section of the base damaged by Davros's crash-landing.


=== Part four ===
=== Part four ===
The Juggernauts are held back by a back-up [[energy barrier]], allowing the Doctor and Mel to get to an [[access panel]] and [[sabotage]] the Juggernaut manufactory in the damaged section of the base whilst Davros offers to upgrade the Renegade Daleks as he has the Mechonoids. The Black Dalek reveals to the Doctor that the [[Dalek Supreme (The Juggernauts)|Dalek Supreme]] has manoeuvred both him and Mel as part of his scheme to defeat Davros, with the supposedly lethal atmosphere being a fiction. The Doctor is to be taken to [[Skaro]] so that knowledge of how to fly his TARDIS can be extracted, but the Juggernauts destroy the Black Dalek and kill Kryson on Davros's orders.
The Juggernauts are held back by a back-up [[energy barrier]], allowing the Doctor and Mel to get to an [[access panel]] and [[sabotage]] the Juggernaut manufactory in the damaged section of the base whilst Davros offers to upgrade the Renegade Daleks as he has the Mechanoids. The Black Dalek reveals to the Doctor that the [[Dalek Supreme (The Juggernauts)|Dalek Supreme]] has manoeuvred both him and Mel as part of his scheme to defeat Davros, with the supposedly lethal atmosphere being a fiction. The Doctor is to be taken to [[Skaro]] so that knowledge of how to fly his TARDIS can be extracted, but the Juggernauts destroy the Black Dalek and kill Kryson on Davros's orders.


Mel's friend [[Geoffrey Gatlin|Geoff]] locks up Davros's Daleks as [[Sonali Akhtar|Sonali]] [[evacuation|evacuates]] their colleagues to the Outreach [[spaceship]] and sacrifices himself to kill him by opening the [[airlock]]. Having learnt that another colleague, [[Cassilly J. Loewen|Loewen]], was placed inside a Juggernaut, Mel takes control of the Juggernauts and has them attack Davros, an act which the Doctor disapproves of. Davros's [[self-destruct]] system has been activated by the attack and, after the Doctor and Mel use the transmat to escape to the TARDIS on the Dalek mothership, the resulting explosion destroys the base. Mel apologises for her actions and leaves a [[music box]] given to her by Geoff on the Dalek ship.
Mel's friend [[Geoffrey Gatlin|Geoff]] locks up Davros's Daleks as [[Sonali Akhtar|Sonali]] [[evacuation|evacuates]] their colleagues to the Outreach [[spaceship]] and sacrifices himself to kill him by opening the [[airlock]]. Having learnt that another colleague, [[Cassilly J. Loewen|Loewen]], was placed inside a Juggernaut, Mel takes control of the Juggernauts and has them attack Davros, an act which the Doctor disapproves of. Davros's [[self-destruct]] system has been activated by the attack and, after the Doctor and Mel use the transmat to escape to the TARDIS on the Dalek mothership, the resulting explosion destroys the base. Mel apologises for her actions and leaves a [[music box]] given to her by Geoff on the Dalek ship.
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* [[Henning Brauer|Brauer]] - [[Paul Grunert]]
* [[Henning Brauer|Brauer]] - [[Paul Grunert]]
* [[Cassilly J. Loewen|Loewen]] - [[Julia Houghton]]
* [[Cassilly J. Loewen|Loewen]] - [[Julia Houghton]]
* [[Dalek|The Daleks]] / [[Mechanoid|The Mechonoids]] / [[Computer (The Juggernauts)|Computer]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* [[Dalek|The Daleks]] / [[Mechanoid|The Mechanoids]] / [[Computer (The Juggernauts)|Computer]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]]


=== Uncredited cast ===
=== Uncredited cast ===
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* Producers - Gary Russell and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Producers - Gary Russell and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Writer - [[Scott Alan Woodard]]
* Writer - [[Scott Alan Woodard]]
* [[Dalek|Daleks]], [[Davros]] and [[Mechanoid|Mechanoids]] created by [[Terry Nation]]
* [[Dalek]]s, [[Davros]] and [[Mechanoid]]s created by [[Terry Nation]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor has met [[Melvin Schwartz]], the co-discover of the [[muon]] [[neutrino]].
* The Doctor has met [[Melvin Schwartz]], the co-discover of the [[muon]] [[neutrino]].
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This story marks the first appearance of the [[Mechanoid|Mechonoid]]s in an audio drama.
* This story marks the first appearance of the [[Mechanoid]]s in an audio drama.
* Given his cameo appearance in ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'', this is the second consecutive audio drama in the main range to feature Davros.
* Given his cameo appearance in ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'', this is the second consecutive audio drama in the main range to feature Davros.
* This audio drama was recorded on [[20 April (production)|20]] and [[21 April (production)|21 April]] [[2004 (production)|2004]] at [[The Moat Studios|the Moat Studios]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[20 April (production)|20]] and [[21 April (production)|21 April]] [[2004 (production)|2004]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* The story was reissued in 2007 as part of ''[[The Complete Davros Collection]] ''DVD boxset.
* The story was reissued in 2007 as part of ''[[The Complete Davros Collection]] ''DVD boxset.
* Music from this story is available from composer [[Steve Foxon]]'s Soundcloud.
* Music from this story is available from composer [[Steve Foxon]]'s Soundcloud.
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* After regaining consciousness, the Doctor calls out for [[Evelyn Smythe]] before remembering that she has departed the TARDIS to marry [[Justice Rossiter]] on [[Világ]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water (audio story)|Thicker Than Water]]'')
* After regaining consciousness, the Doctor calls out for [[Evelyn Smythe]] before remembering that she has departed the TARDIS to marry [[Justice Rossiter]] on [[Világ]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water (audio story)|Thicker Than Water]]'')
* The [[Mechanoid|Mechonoid]]s were considered ancient when unearthed on the mining colony Lethe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')
* The [[Mechanoid]]s were considered ancient when unearthed on the mining colony Lethe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')
* The ship transporting Davros and the surviving Daleks, belonging to both the [[Imperial Dalek|Imperial]] and [[Renegade Dalek|Renegade]] factions, from [[Tranquil Repose]] on Necros crashed on Lethe during their return voyage to [[Skaro]] 716 days earlier. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
* The ship transporting Davros and the surviving Daleks, belonging to both the [[Imperial Dalek|Imperial]] and [[Renegade Dalek|Renegade]] factions, from [[Tranquil Repose]] on Necros crashed on Lethe during their return voyage to [[Skaro]] 716 days earlier. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
* This is Davros' fourth of five known encounters with the Sixth Doctor. The others took place on [[Skaro]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)|Emperor of the Daleks!]]'') an [[Planet (Davros)|unnamed planet]] at some point after the [[38th century]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'') on [[Necros]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'') and in [[Waterloo]], [[Belgium]] in [[June]] [[1815]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'')
* This is Davros' fourth of five known encounters with the Sixth Doctor. The others took place on [[Skaro]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)|Emperor of the Daleks!]]'') an [[Planet (Davros)|unnamed planet]] at some point after the [[38th century]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'') on [[Necros]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'') and in [[Waterloo]], [[Belgium]] in [[June]] [[1815]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'')

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The Juggernauts was the sixty-fifth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Scott Alan Woodard and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush and Terry Molloy as Davros.

It was the first appearance of the Mechanoids in a performed story since The Chase in 1965. This was Bonnie Langford's second audio story with Colin Baker, the first being The One Doctor.

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

In a small mining colony on the dark and distant planet of Lethe, strange events are occurring — the results of which could dramatically affect things on a universal scale. For within the dingy corridors of the artificial biosphere, the lone survivor of a devastating crash has expertly wormed his way into the lives of the colony's personnel.

A scientist known as Davros.

Separated from one another across space and time, the Doctor and Mel find themselves in very different predicaments: Mel has been employed on Lethe, while the Doctor has been imprisoned aboard an alien spacecraft. Both situations are inexorably linked, however, and at the apex of the two sits Davros and the terrifying possibility of a new threat even more powerful than the Daleks!

Rescuing Mel and stopping Davros should be the Doctor's primary goals, but could it be that this time, Mel does not wish to be rescued? And might Davros actually be working on something for the benefit of the civilised galaxies...?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

A Nazzian freighter carrying medical supplies in the Beta Orianus system comes under heavy fire and the Doctor sends Mel to safety in an escape module whilst he locates the TARDIS. Mel crash-lands on Lethe, sets up a homing beacon and waits for the Doctor for three months, spending her time repairing unearthed Mechanoids for Professor Vaso, a scientist who also survived a crash-landing and who takes an interest in the Doctor.

The Doctor is Time Scooped and held in a molecular disintegration cage by the Renegade Daleks, who hold the TARDIS and intend to recruit him to stop the creation of a rival race on Lethe, a planet with an atmosphere that is potentially lethal to the Daleks. They inform him that Mel is on Lethe and use a visualiser to show her with Professor Vaso, whom she is telling stories about her adventures; the Doctor immediately recognises him as Davros.

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

The Black Dalek explains that Davros crash-landed on Lethe en route to his trial on Skaro and agrees to give the Doctor and Mel their freedom following Davros's capture. After a successful demonstration of the Juggernauts adapted from the Mechanoids for investors from Outreach, Mel returns to her bedroom and is reunited with the Doctor, who has been transmatted down by the Daleks. Mel has difficulty believing the truth about Professor Vaso and rests whilst the Doctor looks around the colony.

In the morning, Mr Brauer informs the staff that work on the Juggernauts will be taken over by one of Outreach's own product development team for a month or two, angering Davros. He deduces that Mr Kryson is an addict immune to the virus masking his true appearance and blackmails him into recommending that his superiors suspend their plan. Afterwards, the Doctor enters and, as they discuss how Davros has taken a new identity and plans to leave a new legacy, three damaged Imperial Daleks arrive.

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

Davros summons his Daleks to exterminate Mr Brauer when he interrupts his demonstration of the Juggernauts to confront him about his blackmail of Kryson and orders a colony lockdown. He summons Mel, confirms that the Doctor is right about his true identity and explains that the Juggernauts are the perfect Dalek killers, but the Doctor does not believe that they are a valid solution. Giving the Doctor some time to reconsider, Davros has his Daleks kill Mr Brauer's colleagues and tells Kryson that they will claim that it was an accident.

Mel puts the Juggernaut escorting her and the Doctor into idle mode using a backdoor she included in its programming and they find a living organism inside. Hacking the colony's medical records, she finds evidence that Davros has been harvesting organs from dead colonists and proceeds to erase any information on the Juggernaut programme on the Doctor's orders. The Doctor calls for the Renegade Daleks to capture Davros and a battle breaks out. The Doctor and Mel run, but more Juggernauts emerge from the section of the base damaged by Davros's crash-landing.

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

The Juggernauts are held back by a back-up energy barrier, allowing the Doctor and Mel to get to an access panel and sabotage the Juggernaut manufactory in the damaged section of the base whilst Davros offers to upgrade the Renegade Daleks as he has the Mechanoids. The Black Dalek reveals to the Doctor that the Dalek Supreme has manoeuvred both him and Mel as part of his scheme to defeat Davros, with the supposedly lethal atmosphere being a fiction. The Doctor is to be taken to Skaro so that knowledge of how to fly his TARDIS can be extracted, but the Juggernauts destroy the Black Dalek and kill Kryson on Davros's orders.

Mel's friend Geoff locks up Davros's Daleks as Sonali evacuates their colleagues to the Outreach spaceship and sacrifices himself to kill him by opening the airlock. Having learnt that another colleague, Loewen, was placed inside a Juggernaut, Mel takes control of the Juggernauts and has them attack Davros, an act which the Doctor disapproves of. Davros's self-destruct system has been activated by the attack and, after the Doctor and Mel use the transmat to escape to the TARDIS on the Dalek mothership, the resulting explosion destroys the base. Mel apologises for her actions and leaves a music box given to her by Geoff on the Dalek ship.

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The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

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The Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • A Supreme Dalek is in charge of the Daleks who inform the Doctor of Davros' presence.

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