Watchers (audio story)

Watchers
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Adric
Main enemy:	Grey Daleks
Key crew
Writer:	Matthew Waterhouse
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Nigel Fairs
Sound:	Nigel Fairs
Read by:	Matthew Waterhouse, Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Claudia Gironi
Release details
Number of parts:	6
Release date:	12 January 2022
Format:	MP3 Download
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-641-3
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Watchers was the second release in The Audio Novels. It was written by Matthew Waterhouse and featured the Fourth Doctor, Adric and the Daleks.

Summary

When the TARDIS is trapped in the Vortex, the Doctor and Adric realise that there is something immensely powerful that is draining time itself from the universe.

The wrecks of other time ships - the products of countless experiments in time - exist in a fused cluster in the Vortex. None of them can escape and many of their crews are dead. As the Doctor tries to free the TARDIS, he and Adric encounter threats from other groups, desperate to escape, including a hostile reptile species, mechanically enhanced cyborgs - and Daleks!

But there is someone from the Doctor's own world who is watching. Someone who will prove useful when this Doctor reaches the end of his life...

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Adric
• Milady
• Marcel Chaudhry
• The Nalgren
• The Mechanic
• Daleks

Crew

• Cover Art - Claudia Gironi
• Music, Sound Design & Director - Nigel Fairs
• Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Writer & Narrator - Matthew Waterhouse
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - Roland Moore
• Daleks created by Terry Nation
• Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• The story was recorded remotely on 12, 14 and 19 April 2021.
• Written by Adric's actor Matthew Waterhouse, this was one of the few DWU stories to be written by a Doctor Who regular.
• This story is set between The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis.

Continuity

• Adric reminisces about Romana's recent departure and meeting Nyssa. (TV: Warriors' Gate, The Keeper of Traken)
• The Daleks have records of the Doctor's previous regenerations, as well as highlighting his encounters with their creator Davros. (TV: The Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks et al.)
• This story provides some further explanation for the circumstances surrounding the Fourth Doctor's regeneration. When deciding to investigate the God TARDIS, the Doctor passes through a field of dense time, which causes him to age rapidly and become significantly weaker. Once he's brought back to his TARDIS, he is restored back to full strength without having to undergo a regeneration, much to his surprise. However, the process still leaves him greatly weakened and it is doubtful that he will be able to regenerate again should the need arise. This prompts Milady to put in a request with the Department of the Watchers to help prepare for the moment of his regeneration. (TV: Logopolis)
• The Doctor's being weakened due to his passage through dense time could be the reason behind why he needed to regenerate after falling from the radio telescope shortly after the events of this story while his tenth incarnation was able to fall from a similar height from a speeding spaceship and through a skylight while only sustaining superficial injuries. (TV: Logopolis, The End of Time)
• Marcel was supposed to die during the 22nd century Dalek invasion of Earth on the 8th of April 2164, but was saved by Milady. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
• Gren's form after his pseudo-regeneration bares a similarity to the Tenth Doctor after The Master suspended his ability to regenerate. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
• Milady and Gren met at a diplomatic event on Peladon. (TV: The Monster of Peladon, The Curse of Peladon, et al.)
• White Daleks and a Gold Dalek are present.

Cover gallery

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  Original cover with previous Big Finish slogan, We Love Stories

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  Textless cover

External links

• Official Watchers page at bigfinish.com