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|companions = [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brig]] | |companions = [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brig]] | ||
|enemy = [[Rutan]]s | |enemy = [[Rutan]]s | ||
|setting = [[England]], [[21 February]]{{note|[[The Brigadier]]'s [[birthday]] is tomorrow, which | |setting = [[England]], [[21 February]]{{note|[[The Brigadier]]'s [[birthday]] is tomorrow, which {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}, {{cs|No Future (novel}} and {{cs|The Forgotten Son (novel)}} establish as [[22 February]], with nothing contradicting this in other [[DWU]] sources.}}, [[1970s]] | ||
|writer = Tim Foley | |writer = Tim Foley | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
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|next = | |next = | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in ''[[Sontarans vs Rutans]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Tim Foley]] and featured [[Tim Treloar]] as the [[Third Doctor]], [[Sadie Miller]] as [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Jon Culshaw]] as [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in ''[[Sontarans vs Rutans]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Tim Foley]] and featured [[Tim Treloar]] as the [[Third Doctor]], [[Sadie Miller]] as [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Jon Culshaw]] as [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]. | ||
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Return to the petrol station so that Sarah can call a friend at ''[[The Herald]]'', the Brigadier advises [[Stanley (The Children of the Future)|Stanley]], who works there, to stick with a friend he is afraid he is drifting away from as much as possible, seeing a similarity with his own relationship with the Doctor in his varying [[incarnation]]s. Sarah identifies an old copy of ''The Herald'' she saw at the castle and finds that the people there are all copies of people depicted in it, with Moss and Saint being copies of a pair of actors. They realise that they must be [[Rutan]]s, whom the Doctor mentioned to them, and Sarah suspects that the Doctor too might be an impostor given his strange behaviour. As Stanley was briefly in the [[army]], the Brigadier makes him an acting private. | Return to the petrol station so that Sarah can call a friend at ''[[The Herald]]'', the Brigadier advises [[Stanley (The Children of the Future)|Stanley]], who works there, to stick with a friend he is afraid he is drifting away from as much as possible, seeing a similarity with his own relationship with the Doctor in his varying [[incarnation]]s. Sarah identifies an old copy of ''The Herald'' she saw at the castle and finds that the people there are all copies of people depicted in it, with Moss and Saint being copies of a pair of actors. They realise that they must be [[Rutan]]s, whom the Doctor mentioned to them, and Sarah suspects that the Doctor too might be an impostor given his strange behaviour. As Stanley was briefly in the [[army]], the Brigadier makes him an acting private. | ||
Stanley pretends to be making a delivery to the castle and the Brigadier inside whilst Sarah gets herself captured by Moss in the nearby [[woods]] to distract the soldiers and is brought before the Doctor and Saint. The Doctor gets Sarah on her own and reveals that he knows that the soldiers are Rutans, that he has been trying to find out what they are up to and that he has been delaying the Cascade Project by making them believe that the crossings had to be gradual. When the Brigadier accidentally travels through the [[time tunnel]], he arrives on a [[spaceship]] orbiting another [[planet]]. | Stanley pretends to be making a delivery to the castle and the Brigadier inside whilst Sarah gets herself captured by Moss in the nearby [[woods]] to distract the soldiers and is brought before the Doctor and Saint. The Doctor gets Sarah on her own and reveals that he knows that the soldiers are Rutans, that he has been trying to find out what they are up to and that he has been delaying the Cascade Project by making them believe that the crossings had to be gradual. When the Brigadier accidentally travels through the [[time tunnel]], he arrives on a [[spaceship]] orbiting another [[planet]] and is followed by Saint and Moss, the latter of whom he shoots after he takes his form. The time tunnel starts to give way and the Doctor comes through to save him. | ||
''to | Saint takes the Doctor's form and the Brigadier is uncertain of which of the two Doctors is real until one of them calls him by his full name, after which he pushes him and leaves with the other. Sarah and Stanley get all of the Rutans through the tunnel to their spaceship so that they are not separated from the rest of their people and the tunnel closes. The Doctor explains that he felt that he had to complete this mission on his own as he is afraid of how he and UNIT will cope without one another and that they will never know the complete story of the time tunnel or the Rutans' interest in [[Ireland]]. Stanley admits that he is a Rutan and was being punished by Saint by acting as a lookout for leaving his brood and is given leave to remain on Earth. | ||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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=== Food === | === Food === | ||
* Sarah buys the Brigadier some [[gumdrop]]s. | * Sarah buys the Brigadier some [[gumdrop]]s. | ||
* [[Carol Bell|Corporal Bell]] makes a [[trifle]] for the Brigadier's [[birthday]]. | |||
=== History === | === History === | ||