The Selachian Gambit (audio story)

The Selachian Gambit
Main character(s):	Polly, Jamie
Featuring:	Second Doctor, Ben
Main enemy:	Selachians
Main setting:	The Galacti-Bank
Key crew
Writer:	Steve Lyons
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Alistair Lock
Sound:	Alistair Lock
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Number of parts:	2
Release number:	6.08
Release date:	10 February 2012
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDWCC52
ISBN:	978-1-84335-619-5
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The Selachian Gambit was the eighth story of the sixth series in The Companion Chronicles. It was produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Steve Lyons and featured Jamie McCrimmon and Polly Wright.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor doesn't normally need money, but when the TARDIS is immobilised and a fine has to be paid, a loan from a bank in the sky seems the solution to his problem.

But then the Selachians arrive, and the Doctor and his companions find themselves hostages in the middle of a heist.

Death seems an absolute certainty. But the Doctor, Jamie, Polly and Ben have outwitted death before...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
• Polly Wright - Anneke Wills

References

• The Galacti-Bank vault utilises dimensional transcendentalism. The contents of the vault are contained in a pocket universe which can only be accessed by using the correct combination, which changes four times per day.
• The security for the Galacti-Bank Corporation is supplied by Tartarus Security.
• Selachians have an embassy on Pluto.
• The TARDIS is clamped with a force field around it preventing the travellers access to it until a 10 credit fee is paid.
• Ben and Polly make "glue bombs" from glue that Ben finds in a ventilation shaft used to secure the bank's structure from space-based strikes.
• Polly makes everyone tea.

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 21 October 2011 at The Moat Studios.
• It was released on 10 February 2012.
• For the benefit of listeners without knowledge of the BBC Past Doctor Adventures, no direct references are made to The Murder Game, the novel in which the Doctor, Ben and Polly first encountered the Selachians. Any necessary information about the Selachians is delivered to the audience through Jamie, who has not met them before.
• This story was known as "The Vault" but changed due to Tales from the Vault being commissioned.
• This story was told from Jamie's perspective, with Polly providing additional dialogue.

Continuity

• Jamie refers to the Battle of Culloden. (TV: The Highlanders)
• The Doctor, Ben and Polly previously encountered the Selachians aboard the Hotel Galaxian spacecraft in 2136 (PROSE: The Murder Game) whereas the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe Heriot would later do so on Ockora and Kalaya in 2204 (PROSE: The Final Sanction). Many years later in his personal timeline, the Seventh Doctor encountered them on the Moonbase in 2044 in an alternative timeline. (AUDIO: The Architects of History)
• Jamie and Ben refer to their escape from the Milice in Vichy France in February 1944. (AUDIO: Resistance)
• The Doctor claims that the forms to apply for a bank account are impossible to fill out, as they require a name and an address (which he supposedly doesn't have). (TV: An Unearthly Child et al.)

External links

• Official The Selachian Gambit page at bigfinish.com