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The
Destroyer of Delights
(Jonathan Clements)
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February 2009:
The second
part of the 'Key 2 Time' season, is released in February.
Titled "The Destroyer of Delights" this story
is written by Jonathan Clements and takes the Fifth
Doctor and Amy into the distant past, where they realise that
a missing segment doesn't seem to exist anywhere in space
and time.
This
story has been directed by Lisa Bowerman who played
the New Adventures companion Bernice Summerfield
in "The
Shadow of the Scourge" and"The
Dark Flame". She also starred in Big
Finish's 50th regular CD release "Zagreus",
as well as the Bernice Summerfield spin off series.
"The
Destroyer of Delights" was recorded on the 21st
and 22nd April 2008.
The
Black Guardian is back! The Doctor’s old enemy,
who appeared in the television series in 1979 and
1983, is returning in this story.
This
character was originally played by Valentine Dyall,
but in "The Destroyer of Delights", it
will be played by David Troughton, son of Second
Doctor, Patrick Troughton. This is not
the first time David Troughton has been in Doctor
Who - having appeared as King Peladon in the Third
Doctor 1972 story "The Curse of Peladon",
1967's Second Doctor story "The Enemy of the
World" (as an uncredited extra in the first,
fifth, and sixth episodes), and as Private Moor in
1969, in his father’s last regular story "The
War Games". More recently he guest stared
in the television story "Midnight" and
in "Cuddlesome" the
special story given away free with issue 393 of the Doctor
Who Magazine.
‘David
was a delight to work with on "Cuddlesome"’,
says "Key 2 Time" Producer David Richardson, ‘and
when I read Jonathan Clements’ script for "The
Destroyer of Delights" I instinctively felt
that he’d be ideal for a character of such
great presence and menace. Fortunately Big Finish’s
executive producer, Jason Haigh-Ellery, and the director,
Lisa Bowerman, absolutely agreed, and David embraced
the opportunity to play a Doctor Who icon’.
Also
staring are: Jason Watkins, Jess Robinson, Bryan
Pilkington, Paul Chahidi, Will Barton and David Peart.
“You
will be always looking in the wrong place. I have
searched through all of Time and I cannot find it.”
In
this adventure, the Doctor and Amy find themselves
at an impasse as the search for the Key to Time has
stalled: the next segment does not appear to exist
anywhere in the Universe. Forced into a temporary
alliance with one of his greatest enemies, The Doctor
suggests a course of action that is a validation
of chaos itself.
Thrown
at random across Space and Time, The Doctor and Amy
arrive in 9th Century Sudan, where the greedy Lord
Cassim is hoarding gold from the Legate of the Caliph.
But why does Cassim look so familiar? What is the
mysterious Djinni that lives out in the desert? And
why does it need so much treasure?
This
story takes place between the television adventures, "Planet
of Fire" and "The Caves of Androzani" and
after "The
Judgement of Isskar".
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The
Chaos Pool
(Peter
Anghelides)
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March 2009:
The third
and final part of the 'Key 2 Time' season, is released
in February. Titled "The Chaos Pool" this
story sees the Fifth
Doctor become embroiled in an
epic race
to save the universe. It has been written by Peter
Anghelides and sees the return of Lalla Ward, as companion Romana,
to the audio series.
This
story also sees the return of Laura Doddington,
as Zara, and David Troughton, as The Black Guardian.
Also starring are: Ben Jones, Toby Longworth and
Cate Hamer.
"The
Chaos Pool" has been directed by Lisa Bowerman
and was recorded on the 22nd and 23rd April 2008.
The
ageless leader of a dying race believes that salvation
lies within The Chaos Pool, a place that even the
Guardians of Time have been unable to locate. Meanwhile
Commander Hectocot and his Teuthoidian followers
move in for the kill - again and again and again...
Two
different races from opposite ends of Time - so
how can they co-exist?
In
their search for the final segment of the Key to
Time, the Doctor and Amy become caught in the crossfire.
As the end of everything approaches, old friends
and enemies reveal themselves and the final battle
between the forces of Chaos and Order ignites…
This
story takes place between the television adventures, "Planet
of Fire" and "The Caves of Androzani" and
after "The
Destroyer of Delights".
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The
Magic Mousetrap
(Matthew Sweet)
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April 2009:
Following
on from November 2008’s "Forty-Five", the
Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex return to the Doctor Who range
in the spring of 2009, in a season of three new adventures.
April’s "The
Magic Mousetrap", by "The
Year of the Pig" author
Matthew Sweet, sees The Doctor end up at a Swiss sanatorium
in the year 1926, where director Ludovic ‘Ludo’ Comfort
uses parlour games to keep his rich and famous patients
busy. The Doctor soon suspects, however, that someone’s
playing a more sinister game. Someone with a score to settle…
As
ever, The Doctor is played by Sylvester McCoy,
Ace by Sophie Aldred and Hex by Philip Olivier.
This
four-part story guest stars Nadim Sawahla
(father of Julia, and best known for playing
the role of Doctor Hamada in Dangerfield),
Nadine Lewington (holby City) and Paul Antony-Barber
(Doctor Kendrick in the season 28 story "Rise
of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel").
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May 2009:
Skaro’s
deadliest are back in May 2009. "Enemy of the Daleks",
is an all-action space adventure by Judge Dredd/Sarah
Jane Smith writer David Bishop, and has the TARDIS travellers fall in with starship troopers struggling to
defend a remote
research facility from an all-out Dalek attack.
But this time, could it be the Daleks need saving…?
As
ever, The Doctor is played by Sylvester McCoy, Ace by
Sophie Aldred and Hex by Philip Olivier.
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June 2009:
The
final story in this mini-series of back-to-back adventures
for the Seventh Doctor, in June 2009, see the TARDIS arriving
at the scene of one of history’s greatest military
disasters - the Crimean War - in an as-yet-untitled epic
by Paul Sutton, author of adventures including "Exotron" and "No
More Lies".
Separated
from his friends in time and space, Hex has to deal with
the horrors of life in a Crimean field hospital - as
an assistant to Florence Nightingale!
As
ever, The Doctor is played by Sylvester McCoy, Ace by
Sophie Aldred and Hex by Philip Olivier.
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