The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)
The Crash of the UK-201 was the fourth and final story of the fifth series of The Early Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Morris, narrated by Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves and featured the First Doctor, Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor.
Publisher's summary
You can't change the past, every time traveller knows that. What's done is done and cannot be unwritten. But what if it isn't the past any more? What if it's now the present?
The spaceship called the UK-201 was intended to fly to the Earth colony of Astra. But it never made it. Crashing on the planet Dido, a tragic chain of events was set in motion leading to the death of almost all of its crew and a massacre of the indigenous population.
The only survivor of these events was a young girl called Vicki. Rescued by the time traveller known as the Doctor, she's been travelling in his ship for some time.
So when she suddenly wakes up in her cabin on the UK-201 again, without her friends, a few days before the accident, she's faced with a stark choice... Can she stop the crash from happening? And if she can, should she?
Plot
Return to Yesterday (1)
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The Road Not Taken (2)
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Bid Time Return (3)
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The Crash (4)
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Cast
- Vicki / Narrator - Maureen O'Brien
- Steven Taylor / The Doctor / Narrator - Peter Purves
- Newton Pallister - Michael Lumsden
- Captain Odessa Grey - Carol Starks
- Carmen Scheffler - Jemma Churchill
- Lieutenant Thorpe - Arthur Hughes
- Jeran Dalton - Stephen Fewell
- Carla / Maria Dalton - Eve Webster
- Additional Voices - David Cooke
Crew
- Cover Art - Tom Webster
- Director - Lisa Bowerman
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - John Dorney
- Writer - Jonathan Morris
Worldbuilding
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Notes
- Two of Vicki's retelling of her travels with the Doctor are titled Vicki and the Crusaders and Vicki and the Zarbi in the same style as the Target novelisations, Doctor Who and the Crusaders and Doctor Who and the Zarbi. She also writes Vicki and the Space Museum, but the novelisation is simply called The Space Museum like its televised counterpart.
- The story gives Vicki's family name as Pallister, first used in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Byzantium! and again in The Eleventh Tiger in reference to her father. This story also reveals her father's first name, Newton.
- This story was recorded on 12 and 13 October 2016 at the Moat Studios.
- This story serves as both a sequel and a prequel to The Rescue.
Continuity
- Vicki mentions that a man called Bennett killed everyone on the ship. (TV: The Rescue)
- Vicki mentions her travels to ancient Rome, (TV: The Romans) Vortis, (TV: The Web Planet) Jobis, (AUDIO: The Rocket Men) the Holy Land, (TV: The Crusade) and her encounter with Geoffrey Chaucer, (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale) as well as her first encounter with Steven. (TV: The Chase)
- In the alternate timeline, Vicki writes down her adventures with the Doctor. Three of them were published as Vicki and the Crusaders (TV: The Crusade) Vicki and the Zarbi, (TV: The Web Planet) and Vicki and the Space Museum. (TV: The Space Museum) She also wrote one about the time she and Steven first met. (TV: The Chase)
- Jeran playfully mentions the Mire Beast and, in another timeline, the Fungoids. (TV: The Chase)
- The Doctor speaks of creatures that live outside time and feed on paradoxes. (TV: Father's Day)
- The Doctor explains that Vicki can choose to remember her family if she wants to. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
External links
- Official The Crash of the UK-201 page at bigfinish.com
