The First Sontarans was the sixth release in the third series of The Lost Stories. It provided the Sontarans with an origin story, something which, unlike many of the Doctor's other recurring enemies, had not been provided before.
Publisher's summary
1872. After finding a strange signalling device on the moon, the Doctor and Peri travel to the depths of the English countryside to track down the source of its transmissions. But they're not the first aliens to arrive on the scene.
Old enemies of the Doctor are drawing their battle lines in the forest and the local humans will be lucky to escape the conflagration unscathed.
For hidden within this village is a deadly secret - a secret that could destroy the entire Sontaran race... and reveal the terrible mystery of their creation.
Plot
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Cast
References
- Meredith and Leandra Roth have been on Earth since the early 1860s.
- Peri refers to the fictional detective Nancy Drew.
- The Kaveetch were natives of Sontar. Thousands of years earlier, after the war with the Rutan Host had reached a stalemate, Meredith Roth proposed the creation of a clone army, namely the Sontarans. Within weeks, the clones were not only fighting on the battlefield but had turned the tide of the war firmly in the Kaveetch's favour. However, the Sontarans turned on their creators due to their supposedly inferior nature and unique knowledge of Sontaran physiology. The surviving Kaveetch, who numbered only in the hundreds, employed their rudimentary time travel and arrived in various locations throughout Mutter's Spiral in the early 1860s.
- When he erroneously believes that Peri has been killed by the Sontarans, the Doctor describes her as "the bravest of souls."
Notes
- This is the first Big Finish audio drama to feature both the Sontarans and the Rutan Host.
- Dan Starkey (Fleet Marshal Jaka) previously played numerous other Sontarans in the revived series, namely Commander Skorr and Lieutenant Skree in TV: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky, Commander Jask in TV: The End of Time and Commander Strax in TV: A Good Man Goes to War.
- Anthony Howell (Jacob Gilley / Meredith Roth) previously played Edward Perkins in AUDIO: The Valley of Death and Christopher Manners in AUDIO: The Renaissance Man.
- Lizzie Roper (Jane Ross / Leandra Roth) previously played Hoss in AUDIO: Kiss of Death and Dr. Nadia Červenka in AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence.
- Cameron Stewart (Major Thessinger) previously played Sir Francis Drake in NOTDWU: A Storm of Angels.
Continuity
- The Doctor refers to Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969. (TV: Blink, TV: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon)
- The Doctor and Peri would return to the Moon when they visited the Gogglebox in the far future. (AUDIO: The Reaping)
- The Doctor refers to the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste in 1872. The Doctor refers to the Daleks' involvement in the incident. The First Doctor and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister were indirectly involved in the crew's disappearance. (TV: The Chase) By his fifth incarnation, the Doctor was aware of his involvement as he told Alan Fitzgerald, a student summer intern at the Gogglebox, that he was "sort of" responsible. (AUDIO: The Gathering)
- Major Thessiger's father fought in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Both the Second Doctor and an older version of the Sixth Doctor were present at the battle. (PROSE: World Game, AUDIO: The Curse of Davros) Furthermore, Thessiger claims that he himself fought in the Battle of Inkerman in 1854 during the Crimean War. Mollie Dawson's uncle was killed in the battle. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
- The Doctor and Peri previously encountered the Sontarans in Seville, Spain in 1985. (TV: The Two Doctors)
- The Doctor refers to the Sontarans' sworn arch-enemies the Rutan Host. The two species have been at war for millennia. (TV: The Time Warrior, TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
- The Doctor tells Roth and Fleet Marshal Jaka that he is aware that the Sontarans possess rudimentary time travel technology as he once witnessed it in operation. (TV: The Time Warrior)
External links
- Official The First Sontarans page at bigfinish.com