Excelis Decays (audio story)

Excelis Decays
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Main enemy:	Grayvorn
Main setting:	Excelis, Artaris
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Craig Hinton
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Gary Russell and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music:	David Darlington
Sound:	David Darlington
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	3
Release date:	1 July 2002
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDWCDEX3
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-90365-465-1
Excelis Saga
← Previous	Excelis Rising
Next →	Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis

Excelis Decays was the third story in the Excelis Saga.

Publisher's summary

When the Doctor last visited the city of Excelis, its citizens were about to enter an age of enlightenment and reason. But some centuries later, he discovers a vicious totalitarian regime at war with the rest of Artaris, living off the efforts of a drugged and broken underclass.

Who is the mysterious Lord Sutton, and what hold does he have over the ruling classes? What are the Meat Puppets, and what role do they play in the eternal war? And why is the Doctor's arrival the final piece in a plan that has been centuries in the making?

Throughout his lives, the Doctor has fought many legends. But some legends refuse to die.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Lord Vaughan Sutton - Anthony Head
• Commissar Erco Sallis - Ian Collier
• Major Jal Brant - Yee Jee Tso
• Mattias - Stuart Piper
• Reeve Cless - Alistair Lock
• Deputy Warden Baris - Mark Gatiss
• Jancis - Penelope McDonald
• Mother Superior - Patricia Leventon

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• This is the third part of the Excelis Saga.
• This story concludes the Doctor and Grayvorn's participation in the events on Artaris, though the Relic would reappear in The Plague Herds of Excelis.
• This audio drama was recorded on 18 March 2002 at the Moat Studios.
• Originally released on CD, this story was made available for download on 26 August 2021 alongside The Plague Herds of Excelis.
• This story is set before the 1996 TV Movie.
• The story was reissued in the audio anthology Excelis Collection.

Continuity

• The Doctor has built a new console room for the TARDIS. (TV: Doctor Who)
• The Doctor previously visited Artaris 1,300 years earlier during his fifth incarnation (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns) and 300 years earlier during his sixth incarnation. (AUDIO: Excelis Rising)
• The Doctor would later use the name "Vaughan Sutton" as a pseudonym. (AUDIO: Master)

External links

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