Thicker Than Water (audio story)

Thicker Than Water (audio story)

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	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor (cameo)]]
	Melanie Bush Evelyn Smythe (guest)
	Világ
	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
	Paul Sutton
	Edward Salt
	73
	September 2005
	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
	7C/U
	ISBN 1-84435-159-9

Publisher's summary

Three years after Világ was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back alongside a different companion. And a lot has changed.

Now elected Principle Triumvir, head of a tripartite government, Rossiter is working to secure a peaceful future for the planet by researching the technology the Killorans left behind. But he has to contend with opposition from his daughter, Sofia, who heads a public campaign demanding the destruction of all alien artefacts.

Politics has caused a rift between father and daughter, and as if that weren't enough, Sofia doesn't approve of her new stepmother either. Emotions soon boil over into violence -- violence that seems to have gripped the entire city.

Friendships bind people close, but they say that blood is...

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
• Principal Triumvir Rossiter - Gabriel Woolf
• Dr Sofia Rossiter - Rachel Pickup
• Dr Andrew Szabó - Patrick Romer
• Dr Sebastian Lawrence - Simon Watts
• Jenner - Matt Dineen
• TV Interviewer - James Parsons

References

• Killoran genetics are used on Evelyn.

Notes

• This account of Mel's first meeting with Evelyn, along with Evelyn's post-TARDIS life, seems to be in conflict with that offered in PDA: Instruments of Darkness.
• As in BFA: The Wormery, Sylvester McCoy makes an uncredited cameo appearance as the Seventh Doctor in the final episode.
• Along with BFA: The Sirens of Time, BFA: Zagreus, BFA: The Wormery, BFA: Project: Lazarus and BFA: The Four Doctors, this is one of six Big Finish audio dramas in which both Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy appear.

Continuity

• This is a sequel to BFA: Arrangements for War.
• Evelyn tells Mel about her encounters with the Daleks. (BFA: The Apocalypse Element, BFA: Jubilee)
• The Sixth Doctor mentions his aggressive post-regenerative phase. (DW: The Twin Dilemma)
• Whereas Evelyn saw the Seventh Doctor from a distance in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor, she does not appear to recognise him in this story, though she correctly guesses that he is a future incarnation of the Doctor. They would meet for the second and final time in BFA: A Death in the Family.
• The Seventh Doctor informs Evelyn that his companion Hex is in actuality "Little Tommy", the son of Cassie Scholefield, whom they previously met in BFA: Project: Twilight and BFA: Project: Lazarus. Having seen him from afar in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor, Evelyn would later meet Hex formally in BFA: A Death in the Family.
• The Seventh Doctor tells Evelyn that he stumbled across Hex, who chose to travel with him on his volition. (BFA: The Harvest)
• Shortly before the events of this story from his perspective, the Seventh Doctor dropped Ace and Hex off in Monte Carlo in 1966 and instructed them to steal the Veiled Leopard while the Fifth Doctor's companions Peri Brown and Erimem were simultaneously trying to prevent it from being stolen. (BFA: The Veiled Leopard)

Timeline

For the Doctor and Evelyn (flashback)

• Thicker than Water occurs after CC: A Town Called Fortune
• Thicker than Water occurs before ST: She Won't Be Home

For the Doctor and Mel

• Thicker than Water occurs after PDA: Instruments of Darkness
• Thicker than Water occurs before BFA: The Wishing Beast

For the Seventh Doctor

• Thicker than Water occurs after BFA: Night Thoughts
• Thicker than Water occurs before BFA: The Settling

For Evelyn

• Thicker than Water occurs after BFA: Industrial Evolution
• Thicker than Water occurs before BFA: A Death in the Family

External links

• Official Thicker than Water page at bigfinish.com
• Thicker than Water at the Doctor Who Reference Guide