Auld Mortality (audio story)

Auld Mortality
Main character(s):	The Doctor (Unbound 1)
Featuring:	Susan (Unbound)
Main enemy:	Ordinal-General Quences
Main setting:	Gallifrey (Unbound)
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Marc Platt
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Alistair Lock
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	May 2003
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	DWUN01
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-012-6
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Publisher's summary

Whatever happened to the Doctor? He could be Gallifrey’s favourite author. Or a bad-tempered recluse. Or crossing the Alps with Hannibal. Or all three.

But an adventurer in Time and Space? Hardly... The family would never approve of that... they had other plans for the Doctor and the awesome power of the Time Lords.

Cast

• The Doctor - Geoffrey Bayldon
• Susan - Carole Ann Ford
• Ordinal-General Quences - Derren Nesbitt
• Badger - Toby Longworth
• Hannibal - Matthew Brenher
• Surus - Ian Brooker
• Gold Usher - Nicholas Briggs

References

All references occur within an alternative timeline

• Half of Mutter's Spiral has fallen to the Thalek Empire, whose war cry is "Annihilate!". Unlike the Daleks from the proper timeline, they had morals and emotions. Their casing is made from the metal that would have been used by the Thals to make the neutronic missile in the proper timeline. They also are capable of teleportation due to transmat systems wired in their casings. Some of them are even capable of falling in love, as one Thalek was devoted to a woman who resembled a Thal.
• A Supreme Council (rather than High Council) rules Gallifrey.
• Transmats are commonly used around Gallifrey.
• The Doctor has created a Possibility Generator, allowing him to explore virtual worlds and ideas.
• Ordinal-General Quences is the Doctor's great-granduncle and consequently Susan's great-great-great-granduncle.
• The Doctor's birthday is on Othermass.
• Susan has two grandchildren of her own, a boy and a girl.
• After the Doctor leaves Gallifrey, his TARDIS takes on the forms of an old tree stump, an old minaret, a wardrobe, a revolving door and a black sarcophagus using its fully operational chameleon circuit. On his travels, he meets Winston Churchill.

Notes

• References are made to other alternative realities including a reference to Barnes Common from DWN: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks.
• Geoffrey Bayldon (The Doctor) was considered for the roles of both the First and Second Doctors in the 1960s. He played Organon in DW: The Creature from the Pit.
• Derren Nesbitt (Quences) previously played Tegana in DW: Marco Polo and Thomas Dodd in BFA: Spare Parts.
• This audio drama was recorded on 9 February 2003.

Continuity

• Ordinal-General Quences and Badger appeared in NA: Lungbarrow in the proper timeline.

Timeline

• Auld Mortality occurs before ST: The Innocents

External links

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