The Firstborn (audio story)

The Firstborn
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Peri, Herbert, Flip, Constance, Mel
Featuring:	Zeta, Lynette, Alonza, Byron, Clarent, Dellan, Ervis, Otho, Boyle, Marcus, Gladstone
Main setting:	Arunopal
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jacqueline Rayner
Director:	Sam Clemens
Producer:	Jacqueline Rayner
Music:	Steve Foxon
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Part of:	The Quin Dilemma
Release date:	22 March 2024
Format:	1 CD Download 6th of 6 stories
Production code:	BFPDWDR0605
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-80240-175-2 (physical) ISBN 978-1-80240-176-9 (digital)
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You may be looking for the novel First Born or the short story First Born.

The Firstborn was the sixth and final story in the audio anthology The Quin Dilemma, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jacqueline Rayner and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown, Philip Labey as Herbert G. Wells, Lisa Greenwood as Flip Ramon, Miranda Raison as Constance Clarke, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush and Jonnie Broadbent as Alonza, Byron, Clarent, Dellan and Ervis.

This story and the rest of the anthology marked the 40th anniversary of Baker's debut as the Sixth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

The Quins have succeeded in their quest - a little too well. Multiple Doctors congregate on Arunopal, bringing with them a terrible threat to reality...

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor / The Doctor / The Doctor / The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Peri / Peri - Nicola Bryant
• Mel - Bonnie Langford
• Constance - Miranda Raison
• Flip - Lisa Greenwood
• Alonza / Byron / Clarent / Dellan / Ervis - Jonnie Broadbent
• Otho - Andrew Dunn
• Zeta / Nan - Carrie Quinlan
• Madge - Nikki Kelly
• Herbert - Philip Labey
• Herald - David Monteath
• Quins' computers - Lara Lemon

Crew

to be added

Worldbuilding

• The latest Doctor lists his companions thus far as "Peri, Frobisher, Peri and Frobisher, Peri, Grant, Peri again, Mathew Sharpe, Evelyn, Frobisher; Frobisher, Peri, Actis and Carf; Jamie and Zoe, Evelyn, Evelyn and Brewster, Evelyn, Mel, Jago and Litefoot, Mila, Jamie, Flip, Peri; Jason, Crystal and Zog; Constance, Constance and Flip, Mari, Mel, Mel and Evelyn, and Mel [again]".
• The Doctors devise to create a paradox lock, using the Blinovitch Limitation Effect from two Peris touching as a power source.

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor echoes his future eleventh incarnation, saying to Peri, "The first face this face saw. My companions are the best of me, and you have proved that over and over again." (TV: The Power of Three ^[+]Loading...["The Power of Three (TV story)"], The Time of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]; The Wedding of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Wedding of River Song (TV story)"])
• The Doctor says to Peri, "I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not." (TV: The Twin Dilemma ^[+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"])

External links

• Official The Firstborn page at bigfinish.com