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|number in range = 179 | |number in range = 179 | ||
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|enemy = [[Laika]] | |enemy = [[Laika]] | ||
|setting = [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] and [[the Moon]], [[10 November|10]]-[[23 November|23]] [[November]] [[1963]] | |setting = [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] and [[the Moon]], [[10 November|10]]-[[23 November|23]] [[November]] [[1963]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Jonathan Morris | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|epcount = 4 | |epcount = 4 | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 29 October 2013 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|production code = 6Z/AB | |production code = 6Z/AB | ||
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|prev = 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story) | |prev = 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story) | ||
|next = 1963: The Assassination Games (audio story) | |next = 1963: The Assassination Games (audio story) | ||
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'''''1963: The Space Race''''' was the one hundred and seventy-ninth story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]]. | '''''1963: The Space Race''''' was the one hundred and seventy-ninth story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]]. | ||
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[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] materialises in a [[desert]] and is unable to leave because of the broken [[temperature circuit]], upon which the [[navigational circuit]]s depend. [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] investigate a crashed [[Jeep]] a mile away and find the bodies of three [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] with [[gun]]shot wounds inside; their [[ID]] papers identify two of them as [[physician]] [[Khristina Pushkin]] and [[astrophysicist]] [[Grigori Kalashnikov]] of [[Moscow University]], but the third, a woman, does not have any papers. The Doctor takes two of their [[coat]]s and he and Peri avoid the explosion of a [[bomb]] hidden beneath one of the seats, apparently put there to cover up the shootings. | [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] materialises in a [[desert]] and is unable to leave because of the broken [[temperature circuit]], upon which the [[navigational circuit]]s depend. [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] investigate a crashed [[Jeep]] a mile away and find the bodies of three [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] with [[gun]]shot wounds inside; their [[ID]] papers identify two of them as [[physician]] [[Khristina Pushkin]] and [[astrophysicist]] [[Grigori Kalashnikov]] of [[Moscow University]], but the third, a woman, does not have any papers. The Doctor takes two of their [[coat]]s and he and Peri avoid the explosion of a [[bomb]] hidden beneath one of the seats, apparently put there to cover up the shootings. | ||
When [[Leonid Kurakin|Sergeant Leonid Kurakin]] finds the Doctor and Peri and mistakes them for Pushkin and Kalashnikov, whom [[Alexei Kozlov|Captain Kozlov]] is expecting, the two travellers take on their identities and claim that they were the only two in the Jeep when it caught [[fire]]. The Doctor realises that they are in [[1960s]] [[Kazakhstan]] when he learns of their destination, the secret [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], where [[Mikhail Leonov|General Leonov]] and [[Larisa Petrov|Miss Petrov]] have lost contact with [[Marinka Talanov]] since ''[[Vostok 7]]'''s [[orbit]] took it to the dark side of [[the Moon]]. | When [[Leonid Kurakin|Sergeant Leonid Kurakin]] finds the Doctor and Peri and mistakes them for Pushkin and Kalashnikov, whom [[Alexei Kozlov|Captain Kozlov]] is expecting, the two travellers take on their identities and claim that they were the only two in the Jeep when it caught [[fire]]. The Doctor realises that they are in [[1960s]] [[Kazakhstan]] when he learns of their destination, the secret [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], where [[Mikhail-Leonov|General Leonov]] and [[Larisa Petrov|Miss Petrov]] have lost contact with [[Marinka Talanov]] since ''[[Vostok 7]]'''s [[orbit]] took it to the dark side of [[the Moon]]. | ||
Baikonur is receiving transceiver feedback, however, so the Doctor has them send high-pitched feedback to stir Talanov from unconsciousness and they find that she has no [[memory]] of her identity or where she is. The Doctor believes that she is suffering from a [[stress]]-related [[dissociative disorder]] and manages to calm her down before demanding her return to [[Earth]], which he spends the next three days helping with whilst using the facilities to make a new temperature circuit. The process of bringing Talanov back, however, is complicated by her having lost her autobiographical memories and having difficulty remembering [[colour]]s. | Baikonur is receiving transceiver feedback, however, so the Doctor has them send high-pitched feedback to stir Talanov from unconsciousness and they find that she has no [[memory]] of her identity or where she is. The Doctor believes that she is suffering from a [[stress]]-related [[dissociative disorder]] and manages to calm her down before demanding her return to [[Earth]], which he spends the next three days helping with whilst using the facilities to make a new temperature circuit. The process of bringing Talanov back, however, is complicated by her having lost her autobiographical memories and having difficulty remembering [[colour]]s. | ||
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The animals surround the cosmodrome and return with Laika through the vents to make a nest in the laboratory. Peri and Leonid are caught watching them from the [[observation room]] by Laika, who captures them and reveals that her plan for humanity is for them to be farmed for organ harvesting to augment animals. Kozlov attacks and allows them to escape to General Leonov, but Laika captures him instead and removes his larynx and brain. | The animals surround the cosmodrome and return with Laika through the vents to make a nest in the laboratory. Peri and Leonid are caught watching them from the [[observation room]] by Laika, who captures them and reveals that her plan for humanity is for them to be farmed for organ harvesting to augment animals. Kozlov attacks and allows them to escape to General Leonov, but Laika captures him instead and removes his larynx and brain. | ||
The Doctor and Miss Petrov find a small manufactured [[black hole]] being used as a [[probe]] and, after testing it, the Doctor jumps into it. A consciousness communicates that it received Earth's transmissions and came to help, but it decided that humanity was not worthy of its help after learning of the [[Nazi]]s and finding Laika in space. It agrees to allow the Doctor and Miss Petrov to return to Earth in an American [[rocket]] to give them a chance to prove that humanity is worth saving and they swiftly depart. | The Doctor and Miss Petrov find a small manufactured [[black hole]] being used as a [[probe]] and, after testing it, the Doctor jumps into it. A consciousness communicates that it received Earth's transmissions and came to help, but it decided that humanity was not worthy of its help after learning of the [[Nazi]]s and finding Laika in space. It agrees to allow the Doctor and Miss Petrov to return to Earth in an American [[rocket]], ''[[Lincoln (1963: The Space Race)|Lincoln]]'', to give them a chance to prove that humanity is worth saving and they swiftly depart. | ||
''to be | Three days later, [[Paterson (The Space Race)|General Paterson]] of the US fires the [[A119]] [[nuclear missile]] at ''Lincoln'' with the permission of the President. General Leonov informs the Doctor, who is unable to perform any evasive manoeuvres due to low fuel and asks that the [[Kremlin]] get in contact with the President to have the missile strike called off. However, the Doctor realises that it is [[22 November]] [[1963]] in the US and that the President will soon be [[assassination|assassinated]]. | ||
=== Part four === | === Part four === | ||
' | Kennedy is shot and the Doctor convinces Miss Petrov to reveal her identity as a spy for the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] to General Paterson to get him to detonate the A119 prematurely. After sharing a kiss with Leonid, Peri suggests to General Leonov that they put on spacesuits and release [[knockout gas]] into the air ducts to subdue the animals. The plan is enacted and Peri and Leonid leave the cosmodrome and collect the Doctor and Miss Petrov from the landed capsule, after which General Leonov sends them to a rocket silo on account of having learnt that Laika is awake and launching an attack there. | ||
The Doctor gets Leonid to drop him and Miss Petrov off at Mission Control and takes raw [[meat]] from the food store to lure the animals away. Peri and Leonid head to the rocket silo where Laika is preparing to use a nuclear warhead to wipe out the cosmodrome and put an end to the animal experimentation and weapons research. She has a [[rhesus monkey]] with the larynx of Captain Kozlov kill Leonid when he and Peri try to stop her and shoot General Leonov in the leg before going to finish him off, but they both fall. The warhead counts down and the Doctor arrives in the TARDIS, materialising it in mid-air to save himself from having to climb [[ladder]]s to reach Peri. | |||
Unable to stop the countdown because of a [[quadratic lock]], the Doctor gets Peri to jump with him into the TARDIS where he and Miss Petrov have lured all the animals. He materialises the TARDIS around the warhead and places it in a [[time dilation field]] in a storeroom to slow the countdown and give him time to take it to Moonbase Eisenhower. There, he jumps back into the black hole and uses the possibility of the animals' extinction to convince the intelligence to give them a new life with whomever sent it. The animals are taken away, including Pchyolka and Mushka, and Miss Petrov jumps into the black hole as well to avoid being executed by the KGB. | |||
The Doctor and Peri watch as Moonbase Eisenhower is destroyed by the warhead and then travel to [[July]] [[1969]] to watch [[Neil Armstrong]] land on the Moon. Whilst Peri sees it as a fake given that a number of other Americans had walked on the Moon before Armstrong, the Doctor points out that it is publicity stunt not only for mankind but for the rest of the universe as one never knows who might be listening. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Peri Brown]] - [[Nicola Bryant]] | * [[Peri Brown]] - [[Nicola Bryant]] | ||
* [[Larisa Petrov]] - [[Karen Henson]] | * [[Larisa Petrov]] - [[Karen Henson]] | ||
* [[Mikhail Leonov|General Mikhail Leonov]] / [[Paterson (The Space Race)|General Paterson]] - [[David Shaw-Parker]] | * [[Mikhail-Leonov|General Mikhail-Leonov]] / [[Paterson (1963: The Space Race)|General Paterson]] - [[David Shaw-Parker]] | ||
* [[Alexei Kozlov|Captain Alexei Kozlov]] / [[Andrews (The Space Race)| | * [[Alexei Kozlov|Captain Alexei Kozlov]] / [[Andrews (1963: The Space Race)|Lieutenant Andrews]] - [[Tom Alexander]] | ||
* [[Leonid Kurakin|Sergeant Leonid Kurakin]] / [[Scientist (The Space Race)|Scientist]] - [[Stuart Denman]] | * [[Leonid Kurakin|Sergeant Leonid Kurakin]] / [[Scientist (1963: The Space Race)|Scientist]] - [[Stuart Denman]] | ||
* [[Marinka Talanov]] / [[Female worker (The Space Race)|Female Worker]] / [[Laika]] - [[Sam Béart|Samantha Béart]] | * [[Marinka Talanov]] / [[Female worker (1963: The Space Race)|Female Worker]] / [[Laika]] - [[Sam Béart|Samantha Béart]] | ||
== Crew == | == Crew == | ||
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* The Doctor refers to [[Stephen Hawking]]. | * The Doctor refers to [[Stephen Hawking]]. | ||
* The Doctor considers the [[1960s]] to be one of Earth's "most turbulent periods." | * The Doctor considers the [[1960s]] to be one of Earth's "most turbulent periods." | ||
* The [[A119]] is a [[nuclear missile]] developed to be fired at the Moon as a sign of strength. | |||
* According to the history books, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] was responsible for [[John F. Kennedy]]'s [[assassination]]. | |||
* The Doctor likens himself to [[Noah]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
