The Artist at the End of Time (audio story)

The Artist at the End of Time
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Featuring:	Jenny, the Curator
Main setting:	The Final Gallery, End of time, Eye of Orion
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	James Goss
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Lee Johnson
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	2
Release date:	14 June 2023
Format:	1 CD Download 2nd of 8 stories
Production code:	BFPDW60OAFCD02
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-80240-078-6 (physical) ISBN 978-1-80240-079-3 (digital)
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The Artist at the End of Time was the second story in the Once and Future audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who.

It was written by James Goss and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Georgia Tennant as Jenny and Colin Baker as The Curator.

Publisher's summary

Suffering the effects of degeneration, the Doctor heads towards the end of the universe in search of answers. Instead, he finds his daughter – Jenny – and an Artist whose works appear to mark the end of every world they touch.

The Doctor stabilises into his Fifth form to join forces with Jenny and the Curator to solve the mystery of the Final Gallery and the art it has collected.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Jenny - Georgia Tennant
• The Curator / The Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
• Roboguide - Abi Harris
• The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• The First Doctor - Stephen Noonan
• Floom - John Telfer
• The Third Doctor - Tim Treloar
• The Second Doctor - Michael Troughton

Uncredited cast

• Thief / Stallholder - Abi Harris
• Guide / Robopolice / Roboguards - John Telfer

References

• No one knew (or cared) who won the Rutan-Sontaran War.
• Jenny has just bounced off the Time War, although she has never been to Gallifrey.
• Jenny offers to travel with the Doctor, but he refuses.

Notes

• The standard cover was replaced with a different cover on 31 May 2023 before the story was released.
• The story suggests that Gallifrey Falls No More was painted by the Curator.
• As the Doctor begins to degenerate again at the end of the story, sound effects are heard from the First Doctor's regeneration in TV: The Tenth Planet.

Continuity

• The Braxiatel Collection has lasted to the end of the universe. (AUDIO: Escaping the Future)
• A Metabilis VII crystal, (TV: Planet of the Spiders) a Monoid (TV: The Ark) and a Sontaran flag from the last battle of the Rutan-Sontaran War (TV: The Time Warrior) are part of the collection in the final gallery.
• The Doctor and Jenny find the Curator in the Eye of Orion. (TV: The Five Doctors)
• The Fifth Doctor and Jenny had met before. (AUDIO: Relative Time)
• The Doctor carried a bag of liquice allsorts. (TV: The Sun Makers)
• The Doctor states that he is good at skimming stones. (TV: Legend of the Sea Devils)
• The Doctor takes the Curator to the Final Gallery to see his work on display. The Eleventh Doctor would do the same for Vincent van Gogh in TV: Vincent and the Doctor.
• The Curator carries an Ion bonder. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
• The Third Doctor refers to the Cloister Bell. (TV: Logopolis, et al)

External links

• Official The Artist at the End of Time page at bigfinish.com