Bloodtide (audio story)

Bloodtide was an audio drama released by Big Finish Productions featuring the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe. A pseudo-historical story, it dramatised a portion of the studies made by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands. It also marked the first appearance of the Silurians on audio.

Publisher's summary

The prehistoric Earth is dying. Thunderclouds roll across the skies, cloaking the land in darkness. The seas crash and boil as the rain turns to acid. The remnants of the Silurian race place themselves in suspended animation, deep below the surface.

One day they will awaken and reclaim their world...

The TARDIS has landed on the Galapagos Islands, a desolate outcrop of rocks shrouded in mist and fear.

In the settlement of Baquerizo Moreno, there are rumours that prisoners have been mysteriously disappearing from the gaolhouse. A fisherman has been driven insane by something he saw in the caves. And the Sixth Doctor and Eveyln are not the only new arrivals; there is also a young natural philosopher by the name of Charles Darwin...

Plot

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Cast

References

Scientists

Illustration by Lee Sullivan from DWM 305.

The Doctor goes by the pseudonym "Albert Einstein".

Ships

The Doctor and Evelyn meet Darwin while he is on the HMS Beagle.

Species

The Silurians have a Myrka.

Theories and concepts

Monkton's Theorem states that no intelligent species is likely to leave behind fossils.

Notes

This story marks the first appearance of the Silurians and the Myrka in an audio drama.
Clayton Hickman's CD cover won the Doctor Who Magazine Best Cover Poll in 2001.
This audio drama was recorded on 31 March and 1 April 2001.
An illustrated preview featured in DWM 305 illustrated by Lee Sullivan.
Alistair Lock's score to this story and Project: Twilight, alongside the score to The One Doctor, was released on the CD Music from the Sixth Doctor Audio Adventures.

Continuity

The Silurians first appeared on screen in TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians.
The Myrka previously appeared in TV: Warriors of the Deep and PROSE: The Scales of Injustice.
The Third Doctor previously claimed to have met Darwin. (PROSE: Island of Death)
Many years later, the Seventh Doctor and Evelyn would reminisce about meeting Darwin. (AUDIO: A Death in the Family)
The Eighth Doctor later told his companion Charley Pollard that this experience "put [Darwin] off reptiles for life. Well, almost." (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon)

External links

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

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Homo Reptilia stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Homo Reptilian story" is one in which one living, authentic Silurian or Sea Devil plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. Stories like Frontier in Space, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song are also not included due to Homo Reptilians' cameos being of little consequence to the plot of the story. Stories featuring Madam Vastra of the Paternoster Gang are only included on the Paternoster Gang story template.

Silurians

Television	Doctor Who and the Silurians • Warriors of the Deep • The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

Prose	Blood Heat • The Scales of Injustice • Cold War • The Little Planet • The Silurian Gift • Dr. Eighth • The Red-Eyed League • The Master and Margarita

Comics	Final Genesis • Twilight of the Silurians • City of Devils • As Time Goes By • Faster Than Light • Surfshock • Supremacy of the Cybermen • Untitled • The Lost Dimension

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors • Evacuation Earth • The Mazes of Time • Dalek Supremacy • The Eternity Clock • Lost in Time

Audio	Bloodtide • The Coup • Call to Arms • Retrieval • United • The Silurian Candidate

Complete list of appearances

Sea Devils

Television	The Sea Devils • Warriors of the Deep • Legend of the Sea Devils

Webcasts	Defenders of Earth

Comics	Devil of the Deep • The Bit After the Last Bit • Under Pressure • City of Devils • Clara Oswald and the School of Death • Surfshock • Alternating Current

Prose	Blood Heat • Dr. Eighth • The Heist • A brief lowdown on the Sea Devils

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors • Lost in Time

Audio	The Poison Seas • Tidal Wave • The Seas of Titan • Storm of the Sea Devils

Complete list of appearances

Mondasian Silurians
and Sea Devils

Comics

The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

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