The First Wave (audio story)

The First Wave
Doctor:	[[doctor::First Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Steven Taylor Oliver Harper
Main enemy:	The Vardans
Main setting:	Grace Alone, 23rd century
Key crew
Writer:	Simon Guerrier
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Release details
Release number:	6.05
Release date:	8 November 2011
Format:	1 disc
Production code:	BFPDWCC49
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-584-6

Synopsis

Caught in the inevitable path of its own history, the TARDIS arrives on the planetoid Grace Alone, where the Doctor, Steven and Oliver expect to face their fate. What they don’t expect to find is a massacred crew – and a race of alien invaders known as the Vardans.

Cast

• Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
• Oliver Harper - Tom Allen
• The Vardans - Lisa Bowerman

References

• Oliver sacrifices his life to save the Doctor and Steven.
• There is a human city on Sedna.

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 26 May 2011.
• This story marks the first appearance of the Vardans in an audio story.

Continuity

• The Fourth Doctor would later encounter the Vardans in DW: The Invasion of Time as would the Seventh Doctor in NA: No Future and NA: Return of the Living Dad.
• Steven references the danger of changing history, mentioning someone "changing what happened at the Battle of Hastings" (DW: The Time Meddler) or "mucking around when the pyramids were being built" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan).
• Oliver mentions seeing the Doctor when he was frail and walking through the snow and telling him that this is not the end. This would seem to imply that this takes place when the Doctor heads to the TARDIS after defeating the Cybermen on the Snowcap in December 1986 but before Ben Jackson and Polly Wright catch up with him to witness his regeneration into his second incarnation. (DW: The Tenth Planet)

Timeline

• This story is set after CC: The Cold Equations
• This story is set before DWM: Roses

External links

• Official The First Wave page at bigfinish.com