Excelis Rising (audio story)

Excelis Rising
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Main enemy:	Reeve Maupassant
Main setting:	Artaris
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	David A. McIntee
Director:	Edward Salt
Producer:	Gary Russell and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music:	David Darlington
Sound:	David Darlington
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	1
Release date:	8 April 2002
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	EX2
ISBN:	ISBN 1 903654 64 5
Excelis Saga
← Previous	Excelis Dawns
Next →	Excelis Decays

Excelis Rising was the second story in the Excelis Saga.

Publisher's summary

A thousand years after his first visit to the planet Artaris, the Doctor returns. The city of Excelis has grown, spreading a vast Empire throughout the globe. Science and engineering have provided a new Age of Reason.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same, and once again death follows the mysterious Relic through the halls of the Imperial Museum.

When the Doctor finds himself helping the Curator and the local authorities with this mystery, he finds himself crossing paths with a familiar face from Excelis' history —- but no-one lives for a thousand years, do they?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Reeve Maupassant - Anthony Head
• The Curator - Charles Kay
• Minister Pryce - James Lailey
• Inquisitor Danby - Nicky Goldie
• Mother Superior - Patricia Leventon
• Solomon - Rupert Laight
• Thief - Toby Walton
• Whispering Voice - David Darlington

References

• Lord Grayvorn has been officially declared a myth, though a few know the truth of his existence. It is said that he shall return at the time of Excelis' greatest need.

Notes

• This is the second part of the Excelis Saga.
• Solomon is named after Colin Baker's character in BBV's The Stranger series, Minister Pryce after actor Jonathan Pryce, Danby after ghost anthology editor Mary Danby, and Maupassant after French writer Guy de Maupassant.
• This audio drama was recorded on 14 November 2001 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor previously visited Artaris 1,000 years earlier during his fifth incarnation (AUDIO: Excelis) and would later do so again 300 years later during his seventh incarnation. (AUDIO: Excelis Decays)
• The Doctor comments that interference in other people's business had landed him in trouble lately. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)

External links

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