False Gods (audio story)

False Gods (audio story)

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False Gods
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace, Hex
Main enemy:	Neutralisation Robots
Main setting:	Earth, Egypt significant time in the TARDIS
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Mark Morris
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Richard Fox Lauren Yason
Sound:	Richard Fox Lauren Yason
Release details
Release number:	115a
Part of:	Forty-five
Release date:	November 2008
Format:	1 X 25 min.
Production code:	7W/H
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-324-8

False Gods (audio story) was a 2008 Big Finish full-cast audio short story, featuring the seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex.

It was notable for featuring Benedict Cumberbatch's first appearance in performed Doctor Who, and for showing a Time Lord other than the Doctor confronting the legal ramifications of breaking the Laws of Time.

Publisher's summary

In the blistering heat of the Egyptian desert Howard Carter and his team search for the lost tomb of Userhat, a servant of the god Amun. What they discover sheds new light on the history of the world as we know it.

Cast

• Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Howard Carter - Benedict Cumberbatch
• Jane Templeton - Lucy Adams
• Robert Charles/Robot - Paul Lincoln
• Creodont - Jon Glover

References

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Notes

• Plans were in place for The Daily Telegraph to release this story as a free standalone download to accompany a feature article about the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories. These plans were later postponed.

Continuity

• Jane is a Time Lord, a Time Lord Academy student in "Year 45". At the time the Doctor meets her, she is in her 13th life, having used up her regenerations whilst stranded on Earth for thousands of years.
• The story enumerates two specific criminal offenses under Gallifreyan law. Jane says the punishment for interference is vaporisation. A "Class Two Intervention" is when a Time Lord sets her or himself up as a god in another culture. Its penalty is vaporization. A "Class One Intervention" is materially affecting the physical properties of a planet, such as its axial rotation.
• The story further claims that the way to kill a TARDIS is to pilot it into the heart of a star.
• Hex, according to False Gods, is good at making tea, and doesn't like basements.

Timeline

All stories on Forty-five are assumed to take place between BFA: The Dark Husband and The Magic Mousetrap, though their placement relative to each other is less clear.

External links

• Forty-five at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Forty-five at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide