The Death Collectors was the three-part story comprising part of the one hundred and ninth release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Stewart Sheargold and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
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Released in June 2008, it was the third monthly story to feature the Seventh Doctor without any travelling companions. It was the first performed 3-part Seventh Doctor story since 1989's Survival.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
There is only death.
A virulent disease that killed millions. A missing scientist. An ancient race of salvagers who collect and preserve the dead. The quarantined planet Antikon connects them all.
When the Doctor arrives on a sky station above Antikon, a single accident has already set in motion a chain of events that will mean the death of every living thing.
And the only way he can stop it is to die. Again.
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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor says that he is a personal friend of Death.
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- The Doctor is depicted with a green paisley hatband and tie, and bright blue eyes on the cover, as opposed to his usual red paisley and darker blue/grey eyes.
- This audio drama was recorded on 17 and 18 March 2008 at the Moat Studios.[1]
- This story is set between Survival and the 1996 TV Movie, and after Frozen Time.[1]
- This story was previewed in DWM 396 with an illustration from Cliff Robinson.
- The reference book AHistory arbitrarily places this story in 4300, as it seems to feature humans in the far future.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka and Adric encountered the Dar Traders for the first time in the later-released story, AUDIO: The Darkening Eye [+]Loading...["The Darkening Eye (audio story)"].
- The Doctor mentions being the Lord President in a previous life, referring to the Fourth Doctor's short tenure in the post in TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"]. The Fifth Doctor would later be appointed by the High Council in TV: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"] to take up the post once more, although he left in his TARDIS to avoid it. However, he was eventually brought to Gallifrey to serve as Lord President in AUDIO: Time in Office [+]Loading...["Time in Office (audio story)"].
- The Doctor refers to the fact that he can survive in the vacuum of space for a brief period of time. He did so in TV: Nightmare of Eden [+]Loading...["Nightmare of Eden (TV story)"], TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"], TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe [+]Loading...["The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)"], TV: Oxygen [+]Loading...["Oxygen (TV story)"]; AUDIO: Unregenerate! [+]Loading...["Unregenerate! (audio story)"]; PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"], and PROSE: Imperial Moon [+]Loading...["Imperial Moon (novel)"].
- The Doctor refuses to die to the sound of Madame Butterfly, which he calls "elevator music". He later died in surgery to the sound of that very opera in TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"].
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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Backstage' tab of the official The Death Collectors page at bigfinish.com.