Slipback (audio story)
Slipback by Eric Saward was the first original Doctor Who serial to be produced for radio. It was first broadcast by BBC Radio during the summer of 1985, during a period when the televised series was on hiatus for a year. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant reprised their TV roles for the production, with also included a number of other cast members. It, along with the earlier Doctor Who and the Pescatons, is considered a forerunner of the later Big Finish Productions audio dramas. It followed nearly a decade later by two more radio dramas starring Jon Pertwee and in 2007 by a new made-for-radio series for BBC7 (produced by Big Finish) starring Paul McGann.
Slipback was released to cassette tape by BBC Audio, and later to CD by Silva Screen Records.
Summary
Six part radio play starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant detailing the Sixth Doctor and Peri's adventure on board a starship taken over by its dual personality computer who attempts to take the ship back to the dawn of the universe and start life again. Along the way the Doctor and Peri meet a couple of comedy policemen, an art thief and a captain who wants to infect his crew with one of his diseases...
Cast & Characters
- The Doctor - Colin Baker
- Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
- Computer / Inner Voice - Jane Carr
- Grant - John Glover
- Bates / Snatch - Nick Revell
- Mutant / Stewart - Alan Thompson
- Slarn - Valentine Dyall
- Seedle - Ron Pember
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Novelisation
Novelised as Slipback by Eric Saward in 1986
