Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)

Brotherhood of the Daleks
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Charley
Featuring:	Thals
Main enemy:	Thaleks
Main setting:	An unnamed planetoid, the Antares Galaxy
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Alan Barnes
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Steve Foxon
Sound:	Steve Foxon
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Number of parts:	5
Release number:	114
Release date:	October 2008
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	7C/PC
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-323-1 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78575-661-0 (digital)
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Brotherhood of the Daleks was the one hundred and fourteenth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Alan Barnes and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS makes a return trip to the jungle planet of Spiridon, when the Sixth Doctor and Charley fall in with a lost platoon of shellshocked Thal soldiers — victims of a sneak attack by their blood enemies, the Daleks.

Besieged by deadly flora, surrounded by invisible monsters, and with all hope of rescue gone, the Thals are the victims of a grim experiment in psychological warfare.

With the very nature of reality under threat, the Doctor and Charley need each other more than ever. But dark forces are conspiring to tear them apart...

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Part five

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Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• Murgat - Michael Cochrane
• Tamarus - Harriet Kershaw
• Valion - Derek Carlyle
• Nyaiad - Jo Castleton
• Jesic - Alison Thea-Skot
• Septal - Steve Hansell
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Crew

• Cover Art - Alex Mallinson
• Director - Nicholas Briggs
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Steve Foxon
• Producer - David Richardson
• Writer & Script Editor - Alan Barnes
• Daleks and Thals created by Terry Nation

Worldbuilding

Daleks

• In an hallucination/dream state, a Black Dalek makes an appearance.
• Dalekanium is mentioned as the alloy from which the Daleks' casing is constructed.
• Charley coins the phrase Thaleks — Daleks that believe they are Thals.
• There is a Red Dalek present amongst the Thaleks.
• Murgat's Brotherhood Daleks have the star of Lenin on their casings.
• Charley mentions the Supreme Dalek.

The Doctor

• The Doctor claims that he is a botanist named Doctor Brown.
• Charley mentions having seen her Doctor die in the year 500002.
• The Doctor has not met Sigmund Freud yet.
• The Doctor has met Karl Marx and Robert Peary.

Individuals

• Tamarus was a veteran of the Mechonoid Wars.

Planets

• The Doctor initially thinks that he and Charley have landed on the planet Spiridon, which is in the ninth system of "a far away galaxy," later called the "ninth galaxy" and later the "galaxy of Antares."
• The Thal homeworld is New Davius.

Science

• The Doctor encountered the kyropite in his fifth incarnation.

Species

• The Doctor and Charley encounter the Thals.

Theories and concepts

• Charley mentions the Web of Time while the replicant version of the Doctor mentions the Laws of Time.

Gallery

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  Original cover art

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  CD sleeve illustraion

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  Illustrated preview from DWM 401 by Brian Williamson

Notes

• The Daleks' movement throughout this audio has a noise similar to that used in the BBC Wales revived series.
• This audio drama was recorded on 23 and 24 June 2008 at The Moat Studios.
• An illustrated preview by Brian Williamson appeared in DWM 401.
• The Robot Doctor from The Chase is seemingly retconned into being a Dalek duplicate, which are presumably genetically engineered clones.
• This story also makes a definite distinction between the Supreme Dalek and the Black Dalek.
• This story is set between TV: The Trial of a Time Lord ^[+]Loading...["The Trial of a Time Lord (TV story)"] and Time and the Rani ^[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"].
• This story was originally released on CD and download.

Continuity

• Charley recalls that rosemary counteracted the effect of the Grel particles in England in 1738, in AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse ^[+]Loading...["The Doomwood Curse (audio story)"].
• The Doctor was previously on the real Spiridon in TV: Planet of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Planet of the Daleks (TV story)"], and returned to the planet in COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! ^[+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"] and AUDIO: Return of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Return of the Daleks (audio story)"]. The simulation also includes sponge-plants. Spiridons are mentioned.
• Nyaiad recalls meeting Charley in Folkestone, in AUDIO: Terror Firma ^[+]Loading...["Terror Firma (audio story)"].
• Charley mentions having seen her Doctor die in the year 500002, at the climax of AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was ^[+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"].
• The Thals/Thaleks refer to the Doctor as 'Doctor of TARDIS', a name used by the Tenth Doctor in TV: Tooth and Claw ^[+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"].
• The Doctor previously encountered the dream/mind altering kyropite plants and their symbiotic partners, the Jekylls, in AUDIO: The Mind's Eye ^[+]Loading...["The Mind's Eye (audio story)"].
• Charley recalls her first meeting with the Eighth Doctor in her personal timeline, which occurred on the British airship R101 on 5 October 1930 in AUDIO: Storm Warning ^[+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)"]; the Daleks, which she first met in AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Time of the Daleks (audio story)"]; and their creator Davros, whom she met in AUDIO: Terror Firma ^[+]Loading...["Terror Firma (audio story)"].
• Temmosus, Ganatus and Dyoni are considered great heroes of the Thal people. All of them appeared in TV: The Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"].
• The Doctor mentions the Krynoids, first seen in TV: The Seeds of Doom ^[+]Loading...["The Seeds of Doom (TV story)"]; and the Dalek duplicates, previously featured in TV: The Chase ^[+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"] and Resurrection of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)"].
• Charley mentions that the Doctor has met Sigmund Freud. When he denies this, she realises that this encounter has not yet happened in his personal timeline. The Eighth Doctor told Grace Holloway that he had met Freud in TV: Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"], and told Charley similar in AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was ^[+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"].
• Red Daleks appear. The Daleks in PROSE: The Mutation of Time ^[+]Loading...["The Mutation of Time (novelisation)"] are led by one such Red Dalek.
• Black Daleks appear. They appear in numerous other stories, starting with TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)","The Dalek Invasion of Earth"].
• Murgat tells the Doctor that the Thal-Daleks will become children of the revolution, a term used in another Dalek story, COMIC: Children of the Revolution ^[+]Loading...["Children of the Revolution (comic story)"].
• Charley is interrogated with the Truth assessment, a Dalek device first seen in TV: Destiny of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)"].
• In TV: Amy's Choice ^[+]Loading...["Amy's Choice (TV story)"], the Eleventh Doctor and his companions, Amy and Rory, would encounter dangerous pollen. Specifically, they were affected by psychic pollen, which caused them to hallucinate.

External links

• Official Brotherhood of the Daleks page at bigfinish.com
• Brotherhood of the Daleks at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Brotherhood of the Daleks at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide