Deadline (audio story)

Deadline
Main character(s):	Martin Bannister
Featuring:	Barbara Wright, Philip Bannister
Main setting:	A nursing home, England, 2003
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Robert Shearman
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Post production:	Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Clayton Hickman
Release details
Release number:	5
Release date:	October 2003
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	DWUN05
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-017-7
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You may be looking for the unproduced Torchwood story.

Deadline was the fourth Doctor Who Unbound audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. Unlike the previous Unbound stories this story does not strictly attempt to portray a "real" alternate version of the Doctor. Instead it blurs the lines between a version of the "real world" and a version of the Doctor Who universe. Elements and alternate versions of key sequences from An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Masters of Luxor are presented and acted out throughout the story.

Publisher's summary

It's been forty years since Martin Bannister encountered the Doctor. They were different men back then. Martin was young and talented and the Times' seventh Most Promising Writer To Watch Out For. The Doctor was mysterious, crotchety, and possibly Oriental.

It was an encounter that destroyed both their lives.

Pity poor Martin now. His career is in ruins, all forgotten. His estranged wives keep dying in the wrong order. And there's a nasty green stain by the wardrobe that could be an alien footprint. Or possibly just mould.

Martin's life is about to change unexpectedly. Impromptu poetry readings, elephant expeditions, an obligatory Bug-Eyed Monster. And a last desperate chance for love, before it's too late.

Sounds like it's time for the Doctor to come into Martin's life again, and sort him out. Permanently.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Martin Bannister / Doctor Who - Derek Jacobi
• Amy / Susan Foreman - Genevieve Swallow
• Philip Bannister / Ian Chesterton - Peter Forbes
• Barbara Wright - Jacqueline King
• Sydney - Ian Brooker
• Tom Bannister - Adam Manning

References

• Martin was named one of the Ten Writers to Watch in The Times in 1961. He was number seven.
• Martin cannot remember if Sydney Newman was Canadian or Australian.
• Martin's version of the TARDIS stands for Time and Random Destinations in Space.

Notes

• There are references to the elements of the television stories An Unearthly Child and The Daleks as well as The Masters of Luxor, an unmade serial from Season 1 which was later produced in audio drama form by Big Finish Productions as The Masters of Luxor.
• This audio drama was recorded on 12 and 13 June 2003 at The Moat Studios.

External links

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