Time Reef (audio story)

Time Reef
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Nyssa, Brewster
Main enemy:	Ruhk
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Marc Platt
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Simon Robinson
Sound:	Simon Robinson
Cover by:	Grant Kempster
Release details
Number of parts:	3
Release number:	113a
Release date:	September 2008
Format:	2 CDs Download 1st of 2 stories
Production code:	6C/M
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-322-4 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-660-3 (digital)
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Time Reef was the three-part story comprising part of the 113th release in Big Finish's The Monthly Adventures. It was written by Marc Platt and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, and John Pickard as Thomas Brewster.

Publisher's summary

A curse on this damned reef — and curse the Doctor who brought us here!

Drawn by the siren call of a distress beacon, the TARDIS crash-lands on an uncharted time reef. However, the Doctor, Nyssa and Brewster are not the only mariners marooned on this barren rock. Commander Gammades and his crew of returning war heroes have been similarly shipwrecked, as has the beautiful but mysterious Lady Vuyoki.

But there's something else here, too. A thing of darkness which crawls blindly across the surface of the reef hunting for prey: the Ruhk.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
• Commander Gammades - Nicholas Farrell
• Lady Vuyoki - Beth Chalmers
• The Ruhk - Sean Biggerstaff
• Lucor - Sean Connolly

Worldbuilding

Individuals

• While the TARDIS was in his possession, Brewster passed himself off as the Doctor.
• The Ruhk is a blind avian lifeform from another dimension which the crew of the Gamma believes feeds on carrion.
• Brewster sold the crew of the Gamma the TARDIS's fault locator, conceptual geometer and power lens unit.
• The food machine was given to Lady Vuyoki by Brewster in an effort to gain her favour.
• The Doctor uses baler twine to help make his way through the TARDIS.

Gallery

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  Original cover art

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  Illustrated preview from DWM 400 by Rob Davis

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 29 and 30 May 2008 at The Moat Studios.
• An illustrated preview of this story by Rob Davis was published in DWM 400.

Continuity

• From the Doctor and Nyssa's perspective, five months have passed since Brewster stole the TARDIS and marooned them in 1867, at the end of AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster ^[+]Loading...["The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"]
• The Doctor notes that the TARDIS's food machine, first featured in TV: The Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"]; its fault locator, first seen in TV: The Edge of Destruction ^[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"]; and its conceptual geometer, first mentioned in TV: The Horns of Nimon ^[+]Loading...["The Horns of Nimon (TV story)"], are all missing.
• Gammades has fought Gug-Truckers, which featured in a number of previous stories, including PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ^[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"], The Duke of Dominoes ^[+]Loading...["The Duke of Dominoes (short story)"], and Outsourcing ^[+]Loading...["Outsourcing (short story)"].

External links

• Official Time Reef page at bigfinish.com
• Time Reef at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Time Reef at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide