The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)

The Ultimate Adventure
Adapted from:	The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Jason, Crystal
Main enemy:	The Daleks The Cybermen
Main setting:	Skaro London, 1988 Altair III The Bar Galactica Paris, 1789 The Dalek Emperor's ship
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Director:	Jason Haigh-Ellery
Producer:	Andy Hardwick and Matthew Cochrane
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	September 2008
Format:	Two CDs, Two episodes, 50 minutes each
Production code:	BFPDWSPCD01
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-373-6
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The Ultimate Adventure was a Big Finish Productions adaptation of the stage play of the same name.

Publisher's summary

A special audio adaptation of the Doctor Who stage-play from the 1980s.

The Daleks have allied themselves with the Cybermen and a deadly band of mercenaries. The future of Earth depends upon a vital peace conference. And Mrs T knows that only one Time Lord can save the world.

There are epic battles. There are betrayals. There is love, and there even songs.

Take your seat for... Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure!

Plot

Act I

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Act II

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Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Jason - Noel Sullivan
• Crystal - Claire Huckle
• Karl - David Banks
• Madame Delilah / Mrs T - Nadine Cox
• Envoy / Zog - Derek Carlyle
• Nightclub MC - Bryan Pilkington
• The Daleks / The Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs

References

• After meeting the British Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, the Doctor tells Jason that "that woman" terrifies him.
• Crystal is a singer at the Number Ten, a nightclub in Clarendon Square.
• Jason's full name is the Marquis de Saint Epiman de Sinee de la Tour. His mother was English and he was educated in England, not returning to his birthplace until shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
• The Doctor compares an attempted Dalek invasion of Altair III to humans causing global warming on Earth.

Notes

File:The Ultimate Adventure Potser.jpg

A poster for the Big Finish version of the play.

• This was an adaptation of the original stage play Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure. Colin Baker and David Banks are the only actors from the original play to reprise their roles for the audio version.
• This audio drama was recorded on 5 and 6 June 2008.
• Chronologically, this is the earliest story to feature the Daleks and the Cybermen alongside each other. It is not, however, the first story to feature them both - an honour instead held by TV: The Five Doctors (or more accurately the novelisation which was released first). It is also not the earliest story to be produced in which the Daleks and Cybermen appear side by side each other since, as it was released in 2008, it was beaten to that position by TV: Doomsday by two years. It would be followed by TV: The Pandorica Opens in 2010.
• Daleks are present in the TARDIS. Once more, The Ultimate Adventure is chronologically the earliest story in which this has happened. From a release standpoint however, it was beaten by PROSE: War of the Daleks in 1997 and TV: The Parting of the Ways in 2005.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Crystal that he's "had many, many companions in the TARDIS over the years - Susan, Jamie and Zoe, Leela, Peri and Evelyn." The original play, of course, makes no reference to Evelyn, who was introduced for the audio range.
• The Daleks have tried to sabotage a World Peace Conference before. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
• The Doctor finds his fourth incarnation's scarf in the TARDIS.
• The Doctor mentions that Daleks cannot stand the cold. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)
• The Doctor talks about a time when he spoke with Winston Churchill ("Winnie") after the Allied defeat at Dunkirk during World War II. He convinced a dispirited Churchill to keep Britain in the war in defiance of Hitler by quoting to him what would become Churchill's own "finest hour" speech. Victory of the Daleks would later paint the image of the relationship between Winston and the Doctor as one where they had bet many times, and he even understood his changing face.
• The Doctor, Jason and Crystal would later return to Bar Galactica to attend Madame Delilah's funeral, which was her final request. (AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure)

External links

• Official The Ultimate Adventure page at bigfinish.com
• The Ultimate Adventure at the Doctor Who Reference Guide