Wave of Destruction (audio story)

Wave of Destruction
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Romana II, K9
Main enemy:	The Vardans
Main setting:	London, June, 1964
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Justin Richards
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music:	Alistair Lock
Sound:	Alistair Lock
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Release number:	5.01
Release date:	12 January 2016
Format:	2 parts, 1 CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-727-4
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Wave of Destruction was the first story in the fifth series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary

A modulated frequency wave cancellation signal isn't something that the Doctor and Romana expect to detect in 1960s London. But then they don't expect to find Professor Lanchester, the man who invented it, lying unconscious. Or MI5 investigating.

With the help of MI5 Agent Miller, Lanchester's daughter Jill, and his nephew a pirate radio DJ called Mark, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 investigate. They soon discover that there is more at risk than they imagined, and an alien invasion is about to begin.

Can the Doctor identify and defeat the aliens in time? Will Romana manage to find a recombinant transducer before it's too late? And how will K-9 cope with his new job?

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Romana - Lalla Ward
• K9 - John Leeson
• Mark Lanchaster - Karl Theobald
• Barnaby Miller - Phil Mulryne
• Jill - Alix Wilton Regan
• Derek Fretus - John Banks

References

• Romana and the Doctor wait while K9 takes the TARDIS to 112 different locations and temporal periods to distract the Black Guardian. The Doctor doesn't care for his parking.
• Miller asks the Doctor and Romana for P-17 identity papers.
• Radio Frantic and other pirate radios make money from advertising.
• New Music Express, or NME.
• Miller mentions the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Radio Frantic's jingle is a carrier wave, allowing the Vardans to transmit anywhere it plays.
• The Vardans reference different forms of wave broadcasts including radio, television, radar, and quartz emissions.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Tenth Doctor would later visit a Sixties pirate radio station. (AUDIO: Dead Air)
• K9 previously piloted the TARDIS to lead the Black Guardian on a chase. (AUDIO: The Auntie Matter)
• The Doctor still has his etheric beam locator. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• The Doctor previously encountered the Vardans. (AUDIO: The First Wave, TV: The Invasion of Time)
• Miller's never heard of UNIT, but the Doctor says he will. (TV: The Web of Fear, The Invasion)

External links

• Official Wave of Destruction page at bigfinish.com