Coda - The Final Act (audio story)
Coda - The Final Act, also known as The Final Act, was the eighth story in the Once and Future audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions and a coda in the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
It was written by Tim Foley and featured Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor and Jonathon Carley as the War Doctor.
Publisher's summary
Dealing with the repercussions of degeneration, the Doctor has a limited window of time to evade capture, recruit old allies, wage a war, and find out what's really going on.
A warrior is being hunted by a mysterious stranger in a TARDIS. A rogue agent has been assigned a mission to eliminate a dangerous foe. This is a fight between a war criminal and a fugitive. A fight between Doctors.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Fugitive Doctor - Jo Martin
- The War Doctor - Jonathon Carley
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- Queen Elizabeth I - Imogen Stubbs
- Shalvar - Nicholas Khan
- Shadowy Voice / Dint / Voord Trooper / Guard Captain - Richard Reed
- Vienna Salvatori - Chase Masterson
Crew
- Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
- Cover Art - Lee Johnson
- Director - Ken Bentley
- Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
- Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - Matt Fitton
- Writer - Tim Foley
Worldbuilding
- The War Doctor has set up a precaution against time rams, which teleports a live ram from the TARDIS boot cupboard onto the Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS, using a trans-temporal teleport.
- The War Doctor uses a Time Ring to escape Vienna's.
Notes
- This story was recorded on 1 February 2023 at the Soundhouse.
- This story marks the first appearance of Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor in an audio drama.
Continuity
- The degeneration has a fifteen hour cooldown, as regenerations are established to have in TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"].
- During the fifteen hours after a regeneration, Time Lords subtly and uncontrollably alter the reality around them, as established in PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"].
- Benny initially thinks that the Fugitive Doctor is from another universe, and mentions that she met another alternative Doctor already. (AUDIO: The Library in the Body [+]Loading...["The Library in the Body (audio story)"] et al.) The Thirteenth Doctor will also have the same hypothesis. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"])
Cover gallery
Standard Edition cover
Standard Edition alternate cover
Standard Edition textless cover
Limited Edition cover
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Limited Edition textless cover
External links
- Official Coda - The Final Act page at bigfinish.com
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