The Defectors (audio story)
The Defectors was the 198th story in Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who monthly range. The beginning of the "Locum Doctors" trilogy, it partnered the Seventh Doctor with Third Doctor companion Jo Grant.
Publisher's summary
Jo Grant is shocked to find most of her colleagues are missing. Then she discovers that the Doctor has inexplicably changed.
But there’s little time to worry about it all, as she and her misplaced Time Lord friend are whisked to the mysterious Delphin Isle on a matter of national security. There, they encounter a disturbingly odd form of local hospitality and learn of a highly classified incident that took place during the Cold War.
Why exactly have they been brought here? And what is the truth concerning the bodies in the harbour and the vast project being undertaken under a cloak of secrecy?
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Jo Grant - Katy Manning
- Captain Yates - Richard Franklin
- Captain Cornelius - Neil Roberts
- Commander Wingford - Barnaby Edwards
- Shedgerton - David Graham
- Europan Leader - Rachel Bavidge
- Europan - Jez Fielder
Uncredited
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney (archive recording)
References
- Jo mentions Peladon and meeting the Doctor's other incarnations. (TV: The Curse of Peladon, The Three Doctors)
- Jo mentions the Time Lords fixing the TARDIS. (TV: The Claws of Axos)
Notes
- This story was recorded on 11 and 12 November 2014 at The Moat Studios.
- The Doctor's cream coloured costume on the cover suggests this story takes place during Season 24 or Season 25.
- The Third Doctor theme tune is used, keeping with the era of the companion rather than the era of the Doctor.
Continuity
- The aliens arrived in 1951, which was "nearly 30 years ago" according to Jo, dating this story to around the late 1970s. (See: UNIT dating controversy)
- Captain Yates is temporarily standing in for the Brigadier whilst he is in Geneva.
- Jo is surprised to learn there are 7 incarnations of the Doctor rather than 3. Jo tests the Doctor by asking him why his first three incarnations were brought together. (TV: The Three Doctors) She also tests him by asking him which planet did she pretend to be a princess on. (TV: The Curse of Peladon)
External links
- Official The Defectors page at bigfinish.com
