Excelis Dawns (audio story)

Excelis Dawns
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Iris Wildthyme
Main enemy:	Lord Grayvorn
Main setting:	Artaris, the 10th century
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Gary Russell
Music:	David Darlington
Sound:	David Darlington
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	February 2002
Format:	1 Episode on 2 CDs
Production code:	EX/01
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903654-63-7
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Excelis Dawns is the first audio story in the Excelis Saga. It featured the first audio appearance of Iris Wildthyme played by Katy Manning. She acted as the Fifth Doctor's companion.

Publisher's summary

That terrible old reprobate and transdimensional adventuress Iris Wildthyme has gone and locked herself up in a nunnery on the savage world of Artaris.

Here she is discovered by the Doctor and the reasonably brutal warlord Grayvorn. Together — with a peculiar nun they pick up en route — they must travel the forests and swamps of this ghastly world in Iris's double decker bus in order to tussle — to the death — with a horde of flesh-eating zombies for a mysterious and holy relic of unfathomable value and questionable pedigree.

But what is the Mother Superior's part in all this?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
• Warlord Grayvorn - Anthony Head
• Sister Jolene - Posy Miller
• Mother Superior - Patricia Leventon
• The Zombie King - Billy Miller

References

Individuals

• The Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and "that shrill Australian woman" spent Christmas with Iris on occasion.

Art by Roger Langridge from DWM 316

Notes

• This is the first part of the Excelis Saga.
• This story marks the first appearance of Iris Wildthyme in an audio drama.
• This audio drama was recorded on 21 November 2001.

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions Adric's death. (TV: Earthshock)
• The Doctor gives an alternate explanation of the appearance of his five incarnations in TV: The Five Doctors.
• Iris claims to have been present at the Great Fire of London in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
• Iris got her handbag on Hyspero, a planet she visited in PROSE: The Scarlet Empress.
• The Doctor would later return to Artaris in the 20th century during his sixth incarnation (AUDIO: Excelis Rising) and in 2301 during his seventh incarnation. (AUDIO: Excelis Decays)

External links

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