Red Dawn (audio story)
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Publisher's Summary
Ares One: NASA's first manned mission to the dead planet Mars. But is Mars as dead as it seems?
While the NASA team investigate an 'anomaly' on the planet's surface, the Doctor and Peri find themselves inside a strange alien building. What is its purpose? And what is frozen inside the blocks of ice that guard the doorways? If the Doctor has a sense of deja-vu, it's because he's about to meet some old adversaries, as well as some new ones...
Cast & Characters
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Peri - Nicola Bryant
- Commander Forbes - Robert Jezek
- Susan Roberts - Maureen Oakeley
- Tanya Webster - Georgia Moffett
- Paul Webster - Stephen Fewell
- Commander Zzarl - Matthew Brenher
- Sub Commander Sstast - Hylton Collins
References
- The British missions to Mars are mention, however this is the first American Mars mission.
- Paul Webster and the Doctor cite the Brookings Report, created in 1958 upon NASA's inception.
- The 'red dawn' is facing the ultraviolet radiation that penetrate's Mars' atmosphere.
Continuity
- The British Mars missions are mentioned are either from: DW: The Ambassadors of Death or NA: The Dying Days.
- The Ice Warriors first appeared in DW: The Ice Warriors.
Timeline
According to Big Finish, the events portrayed in this story take place after DW: Planet of Fire and before The Caves of Androzani.
- Red Dawn occurs before: The Eye of the Scorpion
