Dead Time (audio story)
Dead Time was the first story in the audio anthology Stranded 2, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka, Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair, Rebecca Root as Tania Bell and Tom Price as Andy Davidson.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor wants to take the TARDIS on a test flight. But he has rather more passengers than he'd like. Soon, the crew are stranded once again in an uncertain future. One where planet Earth appears to be dead. And very soon, so will any visitors...
Plot
In the still-restoring TARDIS, the Doctor finds his psychic paper in an old jacket and Helen is unable to locate her bedroom. After receiving a text message from an annoyed Tania, the pair go to see her at a nearby pub where Liv is explaining the truth about herself and her companions to her and Robin.
Tony, Ron, Aisha and Zakia return home to 107 Baker Street, discussing the Rakilians' attack. When alone, Tony and Ron talk about whether or not they should tell the sisters about their pasts and wonder what the Brig would think.
The Doctor offers to take Tania on a trip in the TARDIS with him, Liv and Helen, promising Robin that he could come next time. Before the TARDIS can set off, however, police cars blockade the street and Andy insists that he join them in the ship, something that the Doctor is unhappy with. The Doctor sets the coordinates for the Rakilian homeworld to find answers, but finds that the TARDIS is only capable of moving in time and instead arrives in the same spot several million years later. Robin emerges after landing, having stowed himself away.
To be completed.
Cast
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
- Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
- Tania Bell - Rebecca Root
- Sergeant Andy Davidson - Tom Price
- Robin Bright-Thompson - Joel James Davison
- Aisha Akhtar - Amina Zia
- Zakia Akhtar - Avita Jay
- Ron Winters - David Shaw-Parker
- Tony Clare - Jeremy Clyde
References
Food and drink
History
- The Doctor believes that they have travelled between six million and six-and-a-half million years into the future.
- Liv guesses that they are a few million years after Kaldor.
Locations
- Tania mentions Epping Forest.
People
- Robin claims that he called his father.
- Helen was supposedly "winging it" when teaching Robin about Reagan and Gorbachev.
Torchwood
- Andy alludes to the Tenth Doctor's involvement in the creation of Torchwood.
- According to Andy, Torchwood has been gone for several months, since the Cardiff Bay Incident.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- The Doctor says that the TARDIS is not yet up to making him a new sonic screwdriver. It would later make one for his twelfth incarnation. (TV: Hell Bent)
- Andy tells Liv that a future incarnation of the Doctor would cause the creation of an organisation he is a part of. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
- Liv tells Andy that she met the Doctor's wife. (AUDIO: The Sonomancer, et al.)
- Andy confesses to Tania that since the Cardiff Bay Incident Torchwood has shut down and that he had to arrest his girlfriend. (AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers)
- Ron Winters and Tony Clare refer to their days at UNIT and wonder what the Brig would make of all this. (AUDIO: UNIT Dating)
- Liv thinks they're a few million years after Kaldor. (TV: The Robots of Death)
- Liv says that her sister, Tula Chenka, is the robotics expert. (AUDIO: Escape from Kaldor, et al.)
External links
- Official Dead Time page at bigfinish.com
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