Antidote to Oblivion (audio story)

Antidote to Oblivion
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Flip
Main enemy:	Sil, Velandari
Main setting:	Tranquility London, 2382
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Philip Martin
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Fool Circle Productions
Sound:	Fool Circle Productions
Cover by:	Damien May
Release details
Release number:	182
Release date:	14 January 2014
Format:	4 Parts, 2 CD
Production code:	7C/NAD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-298-9
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Antidote to Oblivion was the one hundred and eighty-second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Philip Martin and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Lisa Greenwood as Flip Jackson.

Publisher's summary

Future Britain is bankrupt, its corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the Universal Monetary Fund, and its slimy representative Sil, are willing to give its President a multi-billion credit bail-out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts.

Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and his companion Flip land in a London whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at ConCorp HQ, where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability.

Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing...

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Flip Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
• Sil - Nabil Shaban
• Cordelia - Dawn Murphy
• Pan Connell/Lord Mav - David Dobson
• Cerise Davies - Mary-Ann Cafferkey
• President Boscoe/Voda/Knight Marshal - Scott Joseph
• Kristal/Mistress Na/Velena - Mandy Weston
• Bob / Director - Nicholas Briggs

References

• The Doctor cannot remember much about the 24th century.
• Democracy ended in the United Kingdom in 2268.
• Flip refers to the mutated Anzor as resembling "a pink potato with eyes on sticks."
• Sil describes the Doctor as "revoltingly humane."

Notes

• This story was recorded on 11 and 12 June 2013.
• This was the first time Nabil Shaban had portrayed Sil in an original story since 1986's Mindwarp. His previous audio appearance, Mission to Magnus, was an adaptation of a story originally intended for the TV series.
• This story was originally released on CD and download.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Flip that there are several Atlantises. (TV: The Underwater Menace, The Dæmons, The Time Monster)
• Flip recalls that she first met the Doctor in the London Underground in 2010. (AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster)
• The Doctor tells Flip that he spent time as a rat catcher in Hamelin in 1284, where he met the Pied Piper. (COMIC: Challenge of the Piper)
• Flip refers to Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. (PROSE: The Plotters; GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)
• Sil refers to Peri Brown's departure from the TARDIS. (TV: Mindwarp)
• The Doctor mentions that Anzor was sent back in time to the Antediluvian past after their encounter on Magnus. (AUDIO: Mission to Magnus)
• Miss Cordelia is the daughter of Crozier. She blames the Doctor for her father's death on Thoros-Beta in 2379. (TV: Mindwarp)
• The Doctor laments the destruction of his sonic screwdriver by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
• Flip mentions that she once worked at the supermarket Fresh Goods. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros)
• The Doctor tells Flip that multiple versions of Peri exist. (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox)
• The Doctor refers to the Garazone Bazaar. During his eighth incarnation, he and Charley Pollard would visit the bazaar in the 26th century. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion)

External links

• Official Antidote to Oblivion page at bigfinish.com