The Helm of Awe (audio story)
The Helm of Awe was the third release in Philip Hinchcliffe Presents and the fourth story overall.
Publisher's summary
The TARDIS arrives on the remote Shetland isle of Bothness and the Doctor and Leela find themselves threatened by Vikings! Only all is not as it seems. The locals are celebrating the old Norse fire festival of Up Helly Aa, so there’s nothing to be worried about. Or is there?
For, unknown to the islanders, the TARDIS crew are on the trail of an ancient artefact invested with mysterious powers that has recently been stolen and brought to this remote location.
Somewhere on this island lurks something ancient, and evil, and alien. The Doctor and Leela will have to stop it. Only on this occasion time might not be on their side.
Plot
Part one
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Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast
- The Doctor - Tom Baker
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Joanna Renwick - Joanna Vanderham
- Professor Angus Renwick - David Rintoul
- Peggy - Jane Slavin
- Davy McTavit - Ewan Bailey
- Murdo Jamieson - Kieran Bew
- Nardos - Chris Porter
- Young Angus Renwick - Fleur Hinchcliffe
References
- The Brigadier's messages are dated 23 and 24 January, 1977.
- The Doctor mentions rolling across the time tracks, and being lucky the TARDIS didn't shake apart.
- In the TARDIS gazetterr, the island of Bothness is marked as uninhabited.
- The Sevateem possessed a war canoe.
- The Aurora Borelis was caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with the earth's atmosphere.
- The interface/barrier is two incompatible time fields scrapping up against each other.
Notes
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Continuity
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart sends the Doctor messages via the space-time telegraph. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)
External links
- Official The Helm of Awe page at bigfinish.com
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