The Shadow Heart (audio story)
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The Shadow Heart was the third story in a 2012 multi-Doctor trilogy, beginning with the Fifth Doctor and ending with the Seventh Doctor.
Publisher's summary
One empire has fallen and another has taken its place. The race known as The Wrath are expanding into new territory. Only the Earth Empire stands in their way.
It's been fifty years since the Doctor last visited this sector of space. And one man in particular has been awaiting his return. As the mistakes of his past come back to haunt him, and with a price on his head and bounty hunters on his tail, the Doctor is heading for a last reckoning.
The pieces are finally coming together. Somewhere deep within The Shadow Heart.
Cast
- Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Tenebris - James Wilby
- Vienna Salvatori - Chase Masterson
- Talbar - Eve Karpf
- Horval - Alex Mallinson
- Captain Webster / Starbaff / Wrath Emperor - John Banks
- Lt. Dervish - Jaimi Barbakoff
- Aliona - Kirsty Besterman
References
- The Wrath War was fought approximately fifty years earlier, shortly after the Sixth Doctor's departure from Cawdor. As he programmed them to uphold the rule of law no matter what, the Wrath Justice Fleet attacked and invaded any planet which they considered unjust. It is rumoured that they have abducted thousands of people and transported them to the Wrath homeworld which is known as the Shadow Heart.
- According to the bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori, the Doctor is the "most wanted man in the twelve constellations."
- Earlier in his personal timeline, the Doctor met a future version of Vienna on the planet Thargos.
- Horval describes the Magros swamp as smelling like "an Ogron's armpit."
- The Wrath have offered a substantial reward for the capture of Kylo Sorsha.
- The Doctor comments that his voice sounds nothing like that of his sixth incarnation.
Notes
- Jaimi Barbakoff (Lt. Dervish) previously played Supreme Councillor Geflo in AUDIO: The Foe from the Future.
- Kirsty Besterman reprises her role as Princess Aliona from AUDIO: The Burning Prince. In the interim, she played her cousin Empress Cheni in AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse.
- Chase Masterson (Vienna Salvatori) would later play Peggy Brooks in AUDIO: Night of the Stormcrow.
- Even before the release of this story, a spin-off was announced featuring the character of Vienna Salvatori, appropriately titled Vienna, starting with AUDIO: The Memory Box in February 2013.
- This audio drama was recorded on 16 and 17 May 2012.
Continuity
- Talbar refers to Vortis. (TV: The Web Planet)
- It has been 80 years since the Fifth Doctor visited Sharnax (AUDIO: The Burning Prince) and 50 years since the Sixth Doctor visited Cawdor (AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse). Both planets were located in the Drashani Empire, which has since fallen to the Wrath. Vienna uses a memory sifter to ascertain his identity.
- The Doctor tells Talbar and Horval that he survived the crash-landing of another ship during his fifth incarnation. (AUDIO: The Burning Prince)
External links
- Official The Shadow Heart page at bigfinish.com
