Thicker Than Water (audio story)

Thicker Than Water (audio story)

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Thicker Than Water
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Melanie Bush Evelyn Smythe (guest)
Main setting:	Világ
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Paul Sutton
Director:	Edward Salt
Release details
Release number:	73
Release date:	September 2005
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7C/U
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-159-9

Publisher's summary

Three years after Világ was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back alongside a different companion. And a lot has changed.

Now elected Principle Triumvir, head of a tripartite government, Rossiter is working to secure a peaceful future for the planet by researching the technology the Killorans left behind. But he has to contend with opposition from his daughter, Sofia, who heads a public campaign demanding the destruction of all alien artefacts.

Politics has caused a rift between father and daughter, and as if that weren't enough, Sofia doesn't approve of her new stepmother either. Emotions soon boil over into violence -- violence that seems to have gripped the entire city.

Friendships bind people close, but they say that blood is...

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
• Principal Triumvir Rossiter - Gabriel Woolf
• Dr Sofia Rossiter - Rachel Pickup
• Dr Andrew Szabó - Patrick Romer
• Dr Sebastian Lawrence - Simon Watts
• Jenner - Matt Dineen
• TV Interviewer - James Parsons

References

• Killoran genetics are used on Evelyn.

Notes

• This account of Mel's first meeting with Evelyn, along with Evelyn's post-TARDIS life, seems to be in conflict with that offered in PDA: Instruments of Darkness.
• As in BFA: The Wormery, Sylvester McCoy makes an uncredited cameo appearance as the Seventh Doctor in the final episode.
• Along with BFA: The Sirens of Time, BFA: Zagreus, BFA: The Wormery, BFA: Project: Lazarus and BFA: The Four Doctors, this is one of six Big Finish audio dramas in which both Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy appear.

Continuity

• This is a sequel to BFA: Arrangements for War.
• The Seventh Doctor informs Evelyn that his companion Hex is in actuality "Little Tommy", the son of Cassie Scholefield, whom they previously met in BFA: Project: Twilight and BFA: Project: Lazarus. Having seen him from afar in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor, Evelyn would later meet Hex formally in BFA: A Death in the Family.
• Whereas Evelyn saw the Seventh Doctor from a distance in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor, she does not appear to recognise him in this story, though she correctly guesses that he is a future incarnation of the Doctor. They would meet for the second and final time in BFA: A Death in the Family.

Timeline

For the Doctor and Mel (flashback)

• Thicker than Water occurs after: CC: A Town Called Fortune

Thicker than Water occurs before: ST: She Won't Be Home

For the Doctor and Mel

• Thicker than Water occurs after: PDA: Instruments of Darkness
• Thicker than Water occurs before: BFA: The Wishing Beast

For Evelyn

• Thicker than Water occurs after: BFA: Industrial Evolution
• Thicker than Water occurs before: BFA: A Death in the Family

External links

• Official Thicker than Water page at bigfinish.com
• Thicker than Water at the Doctor Who Reference Guide