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After experimenting with audio for a few years, BBV began regularly releasing audio dramas in [[1998]] under the umbrella title "[[Audio Adventures in time and Space]]". One line of adventures was ''[[The Time Travellers (series)|The Time Travellers]]'', starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred as "[[Seventh Doctor|the Professor]]" and "[[Ace]];" the two so closely resembled their ''Doctor Who'' characters that, by the seventh story, the BBC had stepped in and demanded changes to not infringe copyrights – the main change was that the main characters were now called "the Dominie" and "Alice." | After experimenting with audio for a few years, BBV began regularly releasing audio dramas in [[1998]] under the umbrella title "[[Audio Adventures in time and Space]]". One line of adventures was ''[[The Time Travellers (series)|The Time Travellers]]'', starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred as "[[Seventh Doctor|the Professor]]" and "[[Ace]];" the two so closely resembled their ''Doctor Who'' characters that, by the seventh story, the BBC had stepped in and demanded changes to not infringe copyrights – the main change was that the main characters were now called "the Dominie" and "Alice." | ||
The first of the Audio Adventures that didn't feature McCoy and Aldred was a two-story series called ''The Wanderer'', which featured [[Nicholas Briggs]] as an amnesiac space-traveller who one of the other characters dubs "Fred". Briggs had previously played the Doctor for unlicensed fan audios made by [[Audio Visuals]]; the ''Wanderer'' stories were a deliberate continuation of that series in all but name. | The first of the Audio Adventures that didn't feature McCoy and Aldred was a two-story series called ''The Wanderer'', which featured [[Nicholas Briggs]] as an amnesiac space-traveller who one of the other characters dubs "Fred". Briggs had previously played the Doctor for unlicensed fan audios made by [[Audio Visuals]]; the ''Wanderer'' stories were a deliberate continuation of that series in all but name.<ref>[http://www.justyce.org/nick-briggs-03-april-2000.html Nick Briggs interview, justyce.org, April 2000]</ref> | ||
BBV moved away from audio stories about characters that could be the Doctor after the establishment of [[Big Finish Productions]]' officially-licensed line of ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas, instead moving on to audios featuring other characters from the ''Who'' universe such as [[The Rani]] (licensed from her creators [[Pip and Jane Baker]]) as well as a thinly-veiled post-''[[Warriors' Gate]]'' [[Romana II]] (referred to only as "The Mistress" to avoid infringement) and [[K9 Mark II]] (fully licensed from his creators [[Bob Baker]] and [[Dave Martin]].) | BBV moved away from audio stories about characters that could be the Doctor after the establishment of [[Big Finish Productions]]' officially-licensed line of ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas, instead moving on to audios featuring other characters from the ''Who'' universe such as [[The Rani]] (licensed from her creators [[Pip and Jane Baker]]) as well as a thinly-veiled post-''[[Warriors' Gate]]'' [[Romana II]] (referred to only as "The Mistress" to avoid infringement) and [[K9 Mark II]] (fully licensed from his creators [[Bob Baker]] and [[Dave Martin]].) |
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