The Four Doctors (audio story)

The Four Doctors
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor Eighth Doctor]]
Main enemy:	Daleks
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish]]
Writer:	Peter Anghelides
Release details
Release date:	December 2010

The Four Doctors was Big Finish's subscriber-free release for 2010.

Publisher's summary

The Fifth incarnation of the Doctor has been allowed access to the Vault of Stellar Curios, where the biomechanoid Jariden are at least prepared to consider his warnings about dangerous temporal leakage. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the Daleks attack, unleashing a temporal maelstrom that will not only threaten the Jariden race, but will have dire consequences for the history of the Doctor himself.

Cast

• Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
• Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
• Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
• Professor Kalinda/Lady Cowen - Ellie Burrow
• Colonel Ulrik/Whitmore - David Bamber
• Professor Michael Faraday/Magran - Nigel Lambert
• Roboman/Jariden Device - Alex Mallinson

References

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Notes

• This is a special release given away to Big Finish subscribers who have BFA: The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories as part of their subscription.
• Unlike past subscriber-exclusive releases, Big Finish has announced they do not plan to offer this audio for sale in future. Big Finish will only ever make it available as a free bonus audio for current or future subscribers to their main Doctor Who range. It will however be available free with a 12 month subscription if it is the chosen title.
• The audio is accompanied by a commemorative 16-page booklet.
• The character names "Lady Cowen" and "Whitmore" are references to two friends of the author, Laura Cowen and Tony Whitmore

Continuity

• A Special Weapons Dalek and Dalek Prime feature.
• The Eighth Doctor comments on his sixth incarnation's taste and style when the latter comments on his TARDIS interior redesign, a likely reference to the Sixth Doctor's coat.
• The first performed multi-Doctor story to feature the Daleks, apart from one scene in The Five Doctors.

Timeline

Fifth Doctor

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Sixth Doctor

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Seventh Doctor

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Eighth Doctor

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External links

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