An Ideal World (audio story)

An Ideal World
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companion(s):	Vicki, Steven
Main enemy:	Samsara
Main setting:	SS Ferdinand Magellan and T19
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Ian Potter
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Sound:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	5.2
Release date:	17 October 2018
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	BFPDWEA18
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-962-9 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78178-963-6 (digital)
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An Ideal World was the second story of the fifth series of The Early Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Ian Potter, narrated by Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves and featured the First Doctor, Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor.

Publisher's summary

Light years from Earth, a vast human spaceship hangs in orbit over a cloudy alien planet. The crew have been travelling in cryosleep for many years, looking for a habitable world to settle, and have at last located one with potential.

However, they're not the only people to have arrived in this place. The TARDIS has landed on the planet's surface. The Doctor, Steven and Vicki explore and quickly find themselves separated.

But it isn't merely the hostile environment and rogue terraforming drones they'll have to deal with. Something else is living on this world. Something deadly and waiting to consume.

It's an ideal world. But ideal for whom?

Plot

The Weather Makers (1)

to be added

The Life Below (2)

to be added

A World in Revolt (3)

to be added

A Fight for the Future (4)

to be added

Cast

• Vicki/Narrator - Maureen O'Brien
• Steven/The Doctor/Narrator - Peter Purves
• Kay/Christophe - Angela McHale
• Heathcote - Alex Jordan
• Factotum/Fitzgerald/Samsara - Tom Stourton
• Traherne - Carolyn Pickles
• Grant/Danuka - Oliver Mason
• Elias - Lisa Bowerman

Crew

• Cover Art - Tom Webster
• Director - Lisa Bowerman
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - John Dorney
• Writer - Ian Potter

Worldbuilding

• Vicki and Steven have similar nanomachines in their blood to fight pathogens, with Vicki describing them as 'space medicine' and Steven as technocytes, although it is left unclear whether Vicki or Steven's nanocites are more advanced than the other.
• KJ अपवग (Hindi characters pronounced apa vaga) is a Diaspora Class colony ship which left Earth 17 years before the events of the story with a crew of 2000.
• The SS Ferdinand Magellan is a Mayflower Class colony ship and left Earth 12 years ago

Notes

• This story was recorded on 22 and 23 January 2018 at the Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Steven identifies himself as a pilot with the identifier Flight Red 50. (AUDIO: Mother Russia)
• The Doctor mentions visiting the Himalayas, although he appears to forget that neither Vicki nor Steven were there when he travelled through the mountains (TV: Marco Polo)
• The Doctor's blood is not any recognisable blood type. (TV: Spearhead from Space, PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor)
• Neither Steven nor Vicki have a TARDIS key. (AUDIO: The Secret History)

Cover gallery

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  Alternate cover

External links

• Official An Ideal World page at bigfinish.com