Auld Mortality (audio story)

Auld Mortality
Doctor:	The Doctor (Auld Mortality)
Companion(s):	Susan (Unbound)
Main enemy:	Ordinal-General Quences
Main setting:	Gallifrey
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Marc Platt
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Post production:	Alistair Lock
Cover by:	Clayton Hickman
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	May 2003
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	DWUN01
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-012-6
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Auld Mortality was the first Doctor Who Unbound audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It featured Geoffrey Bayldon playing an alternate version of the Doctor. Bayldon was considered for the roles of both the First and Second Doctors in the 1960s. Carole Ann Ford also performs in this audio story in the role of Susan albeit an alternate version to her TV role.

Publisher's summary

Whatever happened to the Doctor? He could be Gallifrey’s favourite author. Or a bad-tempered recluse. Or crossing the Alps with Hannibal. Or all three.

But an adventurer in Time and Space? Hardly... The family would never approve of that... they had other plans for the Doctor and the awesome power of the Time Lords.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Geoffrey Bayldon
• Susan - Carole Ann Ford
• Ordinal-General Quences - Derren Nesbitt
• Badger - Toby Longworth
• Hannibal - Matthew Brenher
• Surus - Ian Brooker
• Gold Usher - Nicholas Briggs

References

Gallifrey

• A Supreme Council rules Gallifrey.
• Transmats are commonly used around Gallifrey.
• The Doctor has created a Possibility Generator, allowing him to explore virtual worlds and ideas.
• Ordinal-General Quences is the Doctor's great-granduncle and consequently Susan's great-great-great-granduncle.
• The Doctor's birthday is on Othermass.
• The Doctor is Susan's maternal grandfather. By the time of her elevation to the presidency of Gallifrey, she has two grandchildren of her own, a boy and a girl.
• After the Doctor leaves Gallifrey, his TARDIS takes on the forms of an old tree stump, an old minaret, a wardrobe, a revolving door and a black sarcophagus using its fully operational chameleon circuit. On his travels, he meets Winston Churchill.

Species

• Half of Mutter's Spiral has fallen to the Thalek Empire, whose war cry is "Annihilate!". They also are capable of teleportation due to transmat systems wired in their casings. Some of them are even capable of falling in love, as one Thalek was devoted to a woman who resembled a Thal.

Notes

• References are made to other alternative realities including a reference to Barnes Common from PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks.
• Geoffrey Bayldon (The Doctor) was considered for the roles of both the First and Second Doctors in the 1960s. He played Organon in TV: The Creature from the Pit.
• Derren Nesbitt (Quences) previously played Tegana in TV: Marco Polo and Thomas Dodd in AUDIO: Spare Parts.
• Nicholas Briggs would play the Gold Usher in the main DWU continuity in AUDIO: Pandora and AUDIO: Imperiatrix.
• This audio drama was recorded on 9 February 2003 at The Moat Studios.

External links

• Official Auld Mortality page at bigfinish.com
• Auld Mortality at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Auld Mortality at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide