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.
Most notably, it was the Fugitive Doctor's first appearance on audio, played by Jo Martin. It also wrapped up the War Doctor's storyline from the preceding stories, concluding the degeneration saga. This final chapter was written by Tim Foley.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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.
- After the Fugitive Doctor leaves the ram in question with Vienna Salvatori, the latter names him "Jexie", presumably after Jexie Reagan.
- The War Doctor uses a Time Ring to escape Vienna's.
- The Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS has an armoury, much to Benny's surprise.
- The Fugitive Doctor uses Venusian opera glasses to look for her target, which Benny describes as "flamboyant binoculars".
- The Fugitive Doctor gives Benny a beer mat from Vienna's bar, claiming it's an "important disc".
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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)"].
- Queen Elizabeth I remembers the Doctor from TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]. She previously attempted to capture the Tenth Doctor in TV: The Shakespeare Code [+]Loading...["The Shakespeare Code (TV story)"], angered by having been spurred, but now, in her final years, she has begun to mellow.
- 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)"])
- The Second Doctor's TARDIS was previously established to have an armoury in two 1960s TV Comic stories, Space War Two [+]Loading...["Space War Two (comic story)"] and Ice Cap Terror [+]Loading...["Ice Cap Terror (comic story)"], despite Benny's objections.
Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]
Standard Edition cover
Standard Edition alternate cover
Standard Edition textless cover
Limited Edition cover
- Coda - The Final Act Limited textless.jpg
Limited Edition textless cover
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Coda - The Final Act page at bigfinish.com
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