The Thousand Worlds (audio story)

The Thousand Worlds
Doctor:	War Doctor
Companion(s):	Rejoice
Main enemy:	Dalek Prime, Taalyens
Main setting:	Keska
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	1.2
Part of:	Only the Monstrous
Release date:	14 December 2015
Format:	1 X 1 hour
Production code:	BFPDWWAR01
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78575-187-5
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The Thousand Worlds was the second audio story in the anthology Only the Monstrous. It featured John Hurt as the War Doctor and Jacqueline Pearce as Cardinal Ollistra.

Publisher's summary

With the high-ranking Time Lord Seratrix behind enemy lines, the War Doctor finds himself assigned to a rescue mission. But any room for manoeuvre is severely restricted by an area of space known as the Null Zone.

Times have changed on Keska, and a countdown to destruction is beginning.

But who are the Taalyens and what is their part in the great and terrifying Dalek plan?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The War Doctor - John Hurt
• Cardinal Ollistra - Jacqueline Pearce
• The Nursemaid - Lucy Briggs-Owen
• The Slave - Carolyn Seymour
• Veklin - Beth Chalmers
• Seratrix - Alex Wyndham
• Bennus - Kieran Hodgson
• Arverton - Barnaby Edwards
• Traanus - Mark McDonnell
• Garv - John Banks
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

• When Ollistra says the Doctor will be sent behind enemy lines, he asks her if she watches a lot of war films.
• Seratrix traversed the Null Zone in his battle TARDIS.
• The Doctor has adjusted his sonic screwdriver so that it can materialise the TARDIS around him.
• The enslaved people of Keska believe the Daleks have enslaved a thousand worlds in order to build their machines.

Notes

• This story was recorded at The Moat Studios on 28 September 2015.

Continuity

• Rejoice discusses meeting the Doctor on Keska with her father. (AUDIO: The Innocent)
• The Doctor recalls setting off a Dalek Time Destructor at Omega One. (AUDIO: The Innocent)
• The Doctor states that the Time Lords have become Daleks. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
• Ollistra states that the Doctor has defeated the Daleks many times (TV: The Daleks et al.) and that they fear him. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)
• The Daleks have enslaved numerous worlds before. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks et al.)
• The Doctor once again uses the pseudonym of "John Smith". (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen et al.) He would later use it again towards the end of the life of his "War" incarnation. (PROSE: Engines of War)
• For the Doctor, he met the younger Rejoice very recently, but for her it has been decades. (AUDIO: The Innocent)
• The Doctor says one could feel the consequences of war for several lifetimes. (TV: Rose et al.)
• The Daleks are drilling through Keska's core in order to destroy the planet. The Doctor says the plan sounds depressingly familiar. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) The Doctor lost his great-grandson Alex Campbell and companions Lucie Miller and Tamsin Drew during one such undertaking on Earth in the 22nd century. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller/To the Death)

External links

• Official Only the Monstrous page at bigfinish.com