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|featuring = [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] | |featuring = [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] | ||
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|enemy = | |enemy = [[Isabelda]] | ||
|setting = [[Peladon]] | |setting = [[Peladon]] | ||
|writer = [[Mark Wright]] | |writer = [[Mark Wright]] | ||
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'''''The Death of Peladon''''' was the third story in the ''[[Peladon (audio anthology)|Peladon]]'' audio anthology, produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Mark Wright]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Jane Goddard]] as [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]]. | '''''The Death of Peladon''''' was the third story in the ''[[Peladon (audio anthology)|Peladon]]'' audio anthology, produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Mark Wright]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Jane Goddard]] as [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]]. | ||
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Mel and Alpha Centauri enter the [[Temple of Aggedor]], which Alpha Centauri begins to remember, and find crates filled with advanced weapons including thermic detonators. Mel tells Alpha Centauri of the detonator and the murdered man that she and the Doctor found in the mine and hear an [[Arcturan]] attempting to make contact with Isabelda using a communications console. The Arcturan says that their ship has arrived. | Mel and Alpha Centauri enter the [[Temple of Aggedor]], which Alpha Centauri begins to remember, and find crates filled with advanced weapons including thermic detonators. Mel tells Alpha Centauri of the detonator and the murdered man that she and the Doctor found in the mine and hear an [[Arcturan]] attempting to make contact with Isabelda using a communications console. The Arcturan says that their ship has arrived. | ||
Isabelda tells Minaris that she has a ship which they can use to leave Peladon permanently. The villagers breach the Citadel and kill the Captain, prompting Minaris to accept that Isabelda might be right. However, Helais arrives and tells them that the Citadel is under their control. | Isabelda tells Minaris that she has a ship which they can use to leave Peladon permanently. The villagers breach the Citadel and kill the Captain, prompting Minaris to accept that Isabelda might be right. However, Helais arrives in the throne room and tells them that the Citadel is under their control. The Doctor asks Helais what she wants; she says that she wants fair treatment and prepares to kill the Queen before the Doctor stands in the way. The Doctor reveals that he has taken a [[power cell]] from a rifle and that it will soon overload unless Helais drops her gun, in which case he will deactivate it. | ||
''to be | Mel and Alpha Centauri enter the throne room. Helais drops her gun, asking her grandmother to forgive her, and the Doctor reveals that the power cell was not really active. Mel presents one of the weapons from the Temple of Aggedor and Minaris demands an explanation from Isabelda, who admits being behind the explosion and planning to sell Peladon to the Arcturans to save her mother from withering and dying on the throne as [[Isabelda's father]] had. Isabelda holds a gun to her mother as she escapes, wounding Alpha Centauri first. Mel remains with the ambassador whilst the Doctor and Helais go after Isabelda. | ||
The Doctor and Helais confront Isabelda at the waterfall, which the Doctor points out is red with poison. He says that Isabelda could be part of the healing process, but she wants only to be free of a life of servitude and watching her mother age prematurely as she tries to keep a dead world alive. Helais says that she will not fight and Minaris tells Isabelda to give up, but Isabelda goes to kill her. Helais shoots Isabelda first and she falls over the cliff. | |||
Federation aid arrives on Peladon and the TARDIS is dug up. Having stayed for Isabelda's funeral, the Doctor says that it is time for him and Mel to go. Minaris and Helais, who is offered the post of [[chancellor]], thank them and agree to work together to heal Peladon whilst Alpha Centauri now feels able to continue as special ambassador to Peladon rather than retire. A full environmental health campaign is to be instigated thanks to the Doctor's influence with the Federation. The Doctor hands Minaris the music box, which he has repaired and which plays a [[Venusian lullaby]] as the TARDIS dematerialises. | |||
Alpha Centauri says that the Doctor may return. In the meantime, Minaris says, perhaps they will save Peladon together. | |||
Unbeknownst to everybody, Isabelda has survived and returns, badly wounded, to the Temple of Aggedor. She attempts to contact the Arcturans, but they do not answer. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* Queen Minaris mentions [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]] playing the music box to [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. | * Queen Minaris mentions [[Peladon of Peladon|King Peladon]] playing the music box to [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. | ||
* [[Erimem|Queen Erimem]] reigned during a golden age. | * [[Erimem|Queen Erimem]] reigned during a golden age. | ||
* [[Isabelda's father]] "withered and died" on the throne. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
