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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
=== Part one ===
The [[Seventh Doctor]] travels to a [[waystation]] and meets with [[Ziyou Wanle]], a former [[prospector]] who recounts how he and his [[team]] came across [[the Machine|a machine]] buried in a [[cavern]] and a [[ghost]] emerged from it before killing Ziyou's teammates. A similar ghost appears and they run, but they are separated after the Doctor is confronted by a [[wardroid]] which he manages to shut down and the Doctor leaves by [[transmat]] when the [[Adjudicator]]s arrive and [[execution|execute]] Ziyou for spreading [[treason]]ous [[propaganda]].
The [[Seventh Doctor]] travels to [[Pryanishnikov Waystation|a waystation]] and meets with [[Ziyou Wanle]], a former [[prospector]] who recounts how he and his [[team]] came across [[the Machine|a machine]] buried in a [[cavern]] and a [[ghost]] emerged from it before killing Ziyou's teammates. A similar ghost appears and they run, but they are separated after the Doctor is confronted by a [[wardroid]] which he manages to shut down and the Doctor leaves by [[transmat]] when the [[Adjudicator]]s arrive and [[execution|execute]] Ziyou for spreading [[treason]]ous [[propaganda]].


[[Nyssa]] finds the newly-[[regeneration|regenerated]] [[Fifth Doctor]] in the [[Cloister Room|Cloisters]] and they hurry to [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Adric]] in the [[TARDIS control room|control room]] when [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] hits an [[air pocket]]. The ship lands itself on [[Planet (Cold Fusion)|a human colony]] and locks itself behind the travellers, who split into two groups, with Nyssa and Tegan booking rooms at a nearby [[hotel]] and seeing the Seventh Doctor speaking with [[Chris Cwej]], whom Tegan quickly realises is pretending to be [[Australia]]n.
[[Nyssa]] finds the newly-[[regeneration|regenerated]] [[Fifth Doctor]] in the [[Cloister Room|Cloisters]] and they hurry to [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Adric]] in the [[TARDIS control room|control room]] when [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] hits an [[air pocket]]. The ship lands itself on [[Planet (Cold Fusion)|a human colony]] and locks itself behind the travellers, who split into two groups, with Nyssa and Tegan booking rooms at a nearby [[hotel]] and seeing the Seventh Doctor speaking with [[Chris Cwej]], whom Tegan quickly realises is pretending to be [[Australia]]n.
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=== Part four ===
=== Part four ===
''to be added''
Chris takes Nyssa to his safe house and, after telling her about the surviving [[Trakenite]]s on [[Serenity (Cold Fusion)|Serenity]], explains that he and Roz are fighting against corrupt Adjudicators. They travel to [[Skybase]] and sneak into a [[space freighter]], the unloading of which is worthy of the special attention of Medford, and find [[box]]es containing two dozen fusion devices.
 
The skitrain is followed by a [[hovercopter]] and the Adjudicators demand the Doctor's surrender before triggering an [[avalanche]], burying the train. The Doctor and Patience enter a [[trance]] to save [[oxygen]] and make Contact again, sharing a memory of the [[House of Blyledge]] being raided as [[Susan Foreman's father|their son]]'s daughter is being born. Tegan wakes the Doctor up when [[Quint]], a [[Shliman]], comes in search of a [[medallion]] that the Doctor took from his brother's body so that proper [[funeral]] customs could be observed and takes them aboard Adam's [[snowship]].
 
Adric and Roz observe the examination of the Machine and are approached by the Seventh Doctor, who goes with Adric to a ledge and sends Roz to activate the Machine, which is one of the oldest [[TARDIS]]es. She pulls a lever and the planet becomes filled with ghosts, from which the Doctor and Adric protect themselves with a [[chalk]] circle.


=== Part five ===
=== Part five ===

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Cold Fusion was the eleventh and final story in Big Finish Productions' Novel Adaptations range. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Lance Parkin and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

Publisher's summary

A newly regenerated Fifth Doctor arrives on an occupied ice planet – where the Seventh Doctor is investigating dangerous energy experiments conducted by the Earth Empire. But events spin out of control when a refugee from the distant past arrives - Patience, the Doctor's Wife!

Plot

Part one

The Seventh Doctor travels to a waystation and meets with Ziyou Wanle, a former prospector who recounts how he and his team came across a machine buried in a cavern and a ghost emerged from it before killing Ziyou's teammates. A similar ghost appears and they run, but they are separated after the Doctor is confronted by a wardroid which he manages to shut down and the Doctor leaves by transmat when the Adjudicators arrive and execute Ziyou for spreading treasonous propaganda.

Nyssa finds the newly-regenerated Fifth Doctor in the Cloisters and they hurry to Tegan and Adric in the control room when the TARDIS hits an air pocket. The ship lands itself on a human colony and locks itself behind the travellers, who split into two groups, with Nyssa and Tegan booking rooms at a nearby hotel and seeing the Seventh Doctor speaking with Chris Cwej, whom Tegan quickly realises is pretending to be Australian.

The Doctor and Adric go to look for disturbances in the time field and stop at a skitrain station so that the Doctor can repair his time sensor. They meet Roz Forrester, who throws the Doctor in front of an approaching skitrain to make it automatically stop and then looks around the carriages with a time sensor of her own, followed by Adric. Two Adjudicators arrive and Roz defeats them before escaping the others by transmat. The Doctor sees ghosts and blood on his hands, leading the Adjudicators to accuse of spreading treasonous propaganda and find him guilty.

Part two

Adjudicator Provost-General Medford notices that the Doctor is taller and younger than the description he has and instead takes him and Adric to the Scientifica to make a statement. The Doctor volunteers his services as scientific advisor to Chief Scientist Juno Whitfield and learns about how terrorists led by Adam have been targeting areas frequented by the Adjudicators to protest against their presence on the planet. Later, the Doctor and Adric leave their room using the sonic screwdriver

Offended by "Bruce Jovanka", Tegan pretends to be Chris's wife to get a key to his hotel room and Nyssa goes in to investigate, but she quickly leaves upon seeing him naked. Chris later goes downstairs and asks a robot about the two of them, learning their names and identities.

The Doctor and Adric enter a room with a cryo-sleep tube inside of which a physically-degenerating person referred to only as "the Patient" is frozen. The Patient searches the Doctor's mind telepathically and learns of his birth, how he left Gallifrey with Susan and has since been travelling, but his accounts contradict one another. In a faint memory, the Doctor remembers wearing the Patient's husband's ring and promising to take her granddaughter away, but he keeps her from looking further back. The Patient regenerates.

Part three

Chris approaches Tegan at dinner and she demands an apology for his stereotyping, getting him to admit his real name and that he is undercover. He offends her again by offering his DNA to prove that he is telling the truth and then contacts Roz, who is breaking into the Scientifica, before inviting Nyssa to his room. Tegan is arrested for associating with aliens and Nyssa and Chris escape.

The Doctor and Adric are arrested as spies, but they escape Medford after five ghosts appear and kill Adjudicators with their touch. They find the Patient in the medbay and Adric surrenders to allow her and the Doctor to get away from a pursuer who turns out to be Roz, who arms him after learning that they both know the Doctor and transmats with him to the cavern. The Doctor releases Tegan from her cell and Patience, as Tegan names her, makes Contact with him, allowing him to learn about her pioneer husband and thirteen children. The trio escape the Scientifica on a skitrain, which the Doctor believes was arranged by a dangerous person whom he needs to stop.

Part four

Chris takes Nyssa to his safe house and, after telling her about the surviving Trakenites on Serenity, explains that he and Roz are fighting against corrupt Adjudicators. They travel to Skybase and sneak into a space freighter, the unloading of which is worthy of the special attention of Medford, and find boxes containing two dozen fusion devices.

The skitrain is followed by a hovercopter and the Adjudicators demand the Doctor's surrender before triggering an avalanche, burying the train. The Doctor and Patience enter a trance to save oxygen and make Contact again, sharing a memory of the House of Blyledge being raided as their son's daughter is being born. Tegan wakes the Doctor up when Quint, a Shliman, comes in search of a medallion that the Doctor took from his brother's body so that proper funeral customs could be observed and takes them aboard Adam's snowship.

Adric and Roz observe the examination of the Machine and are approached by the Seventh Doctor, who goes with Adric to a ledge and sends Roz to activate the Machine, which is one of the oldest TARDISes. She pulls a lever and the planet becomes filled with ghosts, from which the Doctor and Adric protect themselves with a chalk circle.

Part five

to be added

Part six

to be added

Cast

References

Notes

Deviations from the original novel

  • No reference is made to the Scientifica using slave labour.
  • In the novel, the Doctor is unsure about how he was born, whereas in the audio he states that he was "unambiguously" Loom-born.
  • When the Fifth and Seventh Doctors are discussing past multi-Doctor events, they omit reference to how the Terrible Zodin used mind-rubbers, but mention the Knights of Velyshaa, (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time) which hasn't happened for the Fifth Doctor yet, and how their recent equations will be helpful when all thirteen Doctors have to work together to save Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) They also make reference to having "shorted out the time differential", (TV: Time Crash) the Fifth Doctor asking if he sounds older.
  • Where the novel ended with Roz knocking out the Fifth Doctor and the Seventh, Roz, and Chris departing for their TARDIS via transmat, the audio story adds an extra few moments where Adric, Nyssa and Tegan arrive while debating why the future Doctor doesn't recall these events only to find the Fifth Doctor unconscious.

Continuity

External links

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