Red Dawn (audio story)

Red Dawn (audio story)

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Red Dawn
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Peri
Main enemy:	Ice Warrior
Main setting:	Mars
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Justin Richards
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	8
Release date:	May 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	6Q/A
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-070-3

Publisher's summary

Ares One: NASA's first manned mission to the dead planet Mars. But is Mars as dead as it seems?

While the NASA team investigate an 'anomaly' on the planet's surface, the Doctor and Peri find themselves inside a strange alien building. What is its purpose? And what is frozen inside the blocks of ice that guard the doorways? If the Doctor has a sense of deja-vu, it's because he's about to meet some old adversaries, as well as some new ones...

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Peri - Nicola Bryant
• Commander Forbes - Robert Jezek
• Susan Roberts - Maureen Oakeley
• Tanya Webster - Georgia Moffett
• Paul Webster - Stephen Fewell
• Commander Zzaal - Matthew Brenher
• Sub Commander Sstast - Hylton Collins

References

• Paul Webster and the Doctor cite the Brookings Report, created in 1958 upon NASA's inception.

Spacecraft

• The NASA mission is only viable due to the Webster Corporation's funding.
• The NASA space craft is called the Argosy.

Mars

• The British missions to Mars are mentioned, however this is the first American Mars mission.
• The 'red dawn' is facing the ultraviolet radiation that penetrate Mars' atmosphere.

Notes

• Georgia Moffett is Peter Davison's real-life daughter. She later went on to play Jenny in the David Tennant episode The Doctor's Daughter, as well as an unrelated character, Cassie Rice, in the animated serial, Dreamland.
• This story marks the first appearance of the Ice Warriors in an audio play.

Continuity

• The British Mars missions mentioned are either from: DW: The Ambassadors of Death or NA: The Dying Days. An unmanned mission, described as being the UK's first (despite the earlier missions depicted) is featured in DW: The Christmas Invasion.
• The Ice Warriors first appeared in DW: The Ice Warriors.

Timeline

• This story occurs after ST: Hot Ice
• This story occurs before BFA: Exotron

External links

• Official Red Dawn page at bigfinish.com
• Red Dawn at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Red Dawn at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide