Buying Time (audio story)

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Buying Time
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Anya, Mark
Featuring:	The Newcomer
Main enemy:	Visians
Main setting:	Mira and Earth, 41st century
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	1.1
Release date:	14 April 2021
Format:	1 CDs Download
Production code:	BFPDW10THDALEKU1
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-356-6 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-357-3 (digital)
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Buying Time was the first story in the audio anthology Dalek Universe 1, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by John Dorney and featured David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Jane Slavin as Anya Kingdom and Joe Sims as Mark Seven.

It was the first of a two-part story, which concluded in The Wrong Woman.

Publisher's summary

The far future. Anya Kingdom of the Space Security Service is on a mission investigating an SSS ship crashing on a distant jungle planet. Unknown to her superiors, she’s searching for something very specific... but what she finds is completely unexpected. Her old friend, the Doctor. With a completely different face and no idea what he’s doing there.

The Time Lord soon finds himself drawn into a conspiracy involving voracious predators, time travel and a malevolent businessman. History itself is breaking down. If he makes a mistake, it could mean the end of everything...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Anya Kingdom - Jane Slavin
• Mark Seven - Joe Sims
• Esther Malkin - Juliet Aubrey
• The Newcomer - Gemma Whelan
• Vesht / The Pastor - Chris Jarman
• George Sheldrake - Mark Gatiss

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• While initially intended as a standalone novel, PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks can function as a prequel to Dalek Universe. A 2009 novel that also features the Tenth Doctor stranded in a period of history prior to the Last Great Time War. Distinctively, the audio series also depicts the Doctor's return to his post-War timestream, a detail which is left ambiguous in the novel.

Continuity

• The Doctor has encountered Visians on Mira before. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• The Doctor notes that if someone with teleportation technology was trying to kill him, they could dump him in an active volcano. (TV: Bad Wolf)
• The Doctor recalls previously encountering Mark on Exxilon and him trying to kill him. Mark claims the Dalek protocol responsible has been removed. (AUDIO: The Dalek Protocol)
• Anya reveals she was on Exxilon and the Doctor realises she was the masked woman who saved him. (AUDIO: The Dalek Protocol)
• Anya recalls that the Syndicate had been beaten by a Doctor with white hair. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• The Doctor previously jumped the time tracks to the Pre-Time War universe. (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks)

Cover gallery

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External links

• Official Buying Time page at bigfinish.com