The Trials of a Time Lord (audio story)

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The Trials of a Time Lord was a single story in three sections in the anthology of the same name released on 30 August 2024[1] by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Rochana Patel, Katharine Armitage and Stewart Pringle, and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, David Banks as the Cyber Leader, Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks and the Cybermen and Terry Molloy as Davros.

This story/anthology continued the 40th anniversary of Baker's debut as the Sixth Doctor, started in The Quin Dilemma.

Publisher's summary

The Sixth Doctor's fortieth anniversary celebrations continue, courtesy of LudoSphere Incorporated, with the greatest adventure ever streamed...

Responding to a distress call from an old friend, the Doctor and Mel find themselves in 'Cyberia', a prison camp run by an even older foe. But this time, the Cyber Leader's machinations are just the tip of one very sinister iceberg, one that will test the Doctor to his very limit, and beyond...

We hope you're hiding behind the sofa, because 'The Trials of a Time Lord' are about to begin!

The Trials of a Time Lord Parts 1 and 2 by Rochana Patel
The Trials of a Time Lord Parts 3 and 4 by Katherine Armitage
The Trials of a Time Lord Parts 5 and 6 by Stewart Pringle

Plot

Part one

On the snowy Juvenile Prime in the 99th century, Tiff sends out a distress call for the Doctor, asking him to repay her favour and rescue her and Voss from the Cybermen. The TARDIS picks up the degraded message and the Doctor and Mel respond, despite the Doctor's initial concern that it could be a trap, and the ship's arrival in Cyberia Prison Camp is detected by the Cybermen, prompting the Cyber Leader to alert his guards and capture the pair. As the Cyber Leader awaits instruction from the Controller, Mel is evaluated for her usefulness and the Doctor taken to Tiff and Voss to be inducted on procedures in the camp, his compliance ensured by threatening the lives of fellow prisoners. Whilst Voss is left to educate the Doctor, Tiff is taken for conversion as a punishment for sending the distress call.

Voss explains that most of the 150 prisoners, himself not included, are from 20th century Earth and shows the Doctor a map so that they can rescue Tiff and liberate a significant portion of the prison population, which is managed by a total of only thirteen Cybermen. The Doctor is surprised by the small number of guards, as well as the rate of conversion being only one a day and several escape plans having been successful already. He uses his umbrella to connect the electrified fence to an earthing rod and kills a Cyber Sentry by getting him to shoot the fence, attracting the attention of the Cyber Leader who leaves the conversion area with the Cyber Lieutenant. Tiff, assessed as a candidate for Cyber Leader, is left in a state of partial-conversion.

to be completed

Part two

to be added

Part three

to be added

Part four

to be added

Part five

to be added

Part six

to be added

Cast

Stories

# Title Author Director Featuring Released
1 Parts 1 and 2 Rochana Patel Jonathan S Powell Peri, Mel, Cyber Leader, Davros, the Tremas Master 30 August 2024
2 Parts 3 and 4 Katharine Armitage
3 Parts 5 and 6 Stewart Pringle

Crew

to be added

Worldbuilding

Notes

  • Davros (Early Imperial) closer look.
    This story was said to be "following later in the year" with the announcement of The Quin Dilemma on 31 January 2024, but was untitled.[2] It was mentioned again in the article announcing the release of The Quin Dilemma on 22 March 2024, though remained untitled.[3]
    • It was on 23 April 2024 that the title, release month, and cast and story details were revealed.[4]
  • This story was recorded on 27 and 29 February, and on 1 March 2024 at the Soundhouse.[5]
  • The cover for this story was revealed on 28 May 2024.[6]
  • The Dalek renders were provided by James Johnson.[7]
    • Both Sean Longmore and Johnson make a distinct connection between Davros' chair featured on this release to the one featured on the cover of 2005's The Juggernauts, even so far as to mention that this new chair has been reconstructed from the remains of the one used on Lethe. Whilst the chair seen in The Juggernauts was intended to be a regular Dalek base, this iteration is styled more like his original chair, whilst taking design cues from the Necros Daleks featured in Revelation of the Daleks, including the lower black base and cream colours, whilst also incorporation two small interface discs to the front, reminiscent of the ones featured on Davros' Emperor Dalek chair as seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. Davros is also featured with a new robotic hand, similar in design to the one see in The Juggernauts.[8]
    • Corgi die cast release with Imperial Davros toy.
      Davros in a white and gold chair is also reminiscent of a toy created by Corgi in 2004, which featured Davros in Imperial Dalek colours opposed to his traditional black and silver.
  • This release comes with Behind the Scenes Interviews extras. They are after every two parts of this story on both the CDs and in the Big Finish app.

Continuity

Cover gallery

  • Textless cover

    Textless cover

  • Alternate cover

    Alternate cover

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Master was not in the credits on the Big Finish website or app, presumably to keep his appearance a surprise.
  1. ↑ The Sixth Doctor’s Time Trials
  2. ↑ Celebrating 40 years of the Sixth Doctor
  3. ↑ The four Sixth Doctors
  4. ↑ The Trials of a Time Lord
  5. ↑ 'Backstage' tab of the official The Trials of a Time Lord page at bigfinish.com.
  6. ↑ The Sixth Doctor’s monster mash
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/ThatTallGinger/status/1795479917599293889
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/ThePrydonian/status/1795472755413954914
v • e
The Sixth Doctor Adventures
Single releases
The Sixth Doctor:
The Last Adventure
The Sixth Doctor and Peri:
Volume One
The Eleven
Water Worlds
Purity Undreamed
Purity Unleashed
Purity Unbound
The Quin Dilemma
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