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Return of the Krotons
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 Accompanying "The
Raincloud Man", the release in December 2008,
is the annual 'Subscriber Special'. Titled "Return
of the Krotons" this audio adventure features
the return of Robert Holmes’ crystalline creatures,
the Krotons, who made their first (and only) appearance
in the 1968/69's Second
Doctor television story "The
Krotons". Nicholas Briggs has written the script
and has directed the story, which features the popular
pairing of the Sixth
Doctor and his 'new' companion
Charley
Pollard. It was recorded on the 20th June
2008.
‘"The
Krotons" are an example of a Doctor Who monster
that has often been laughed at’, says Nicholas
Briggs, ‘mainly because they were a bit visually
disappointing due to budgetary limitations of the day.
As has often been said, your budget for visuals on audio
is limitless, and the Krotons are rather fascinating.
I thought they deserved better representation!’
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This story
guest-stars veteran actor Philip Madoc who also appeared
in the original Krotons story, although in this new
adventure he plays a new character, Cobden, the head
of a human colony desperate for a new energy source. Also
starring are: Matthew Burgess, Susan Brown, Glynn
Sweet, Ian Brooker, Andrew Dickens and, playing the
part of a Kroton, Nicholas Briggs.
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Notes:
- Featuring the Sixth
Doctor and Charley
Pollard.
- Serial Number: 7C/PD
- Number of Episodes: 1
- Cover Length: 60 minutes
- Episode Lengths: 1 = 67'53"
- Total Story Length: 67'53"
- Also features 12 minutes of
special behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast
and producers.
- This story takes place between the television
adventures, "The
Trial of a Time Lord" and "Time
and the Rani" and after "Brotherhood
of the Daleks".
- Cover Illustration: Alex Mallinson
- Recorded: 20th June 2008
- Recording Location: Moat Studios
- Released: December 2008
- ISBN: 978-1-84435-385-9
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The
dead planet Onyakis is being plundered by the last
survivors of the human race, and their leader, Commander
Cobden, will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Already there are rumours of those who stand against
him mysteriously disappearing. But when The Doctor
and Charley find themselves on the side of those trying
to expose Cobden, they discover something far more
sinister.
Deep in the
mines of Onyokis, alien technology is reactivating.
Power is flowing. Something is forming in the darkness. |
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Who's Who?
The Sixth Doctor
First television appearance: "The
Twin Dilemma"
First chronological Big Finish audio appearance: "Davros"
He
has been exploring the universe for hundred of years. He fights injustice.
He defeats evil. He helps people. The Doctor sacrificed his previous life
on the planet Androxani Minor to save his companion Peri from a toxic virus.
Now he is travelling through time and space on his own, driven on by his
insatiable curiosity and adventurous spirit. In this incarnation he is forthright,
often abrasive and can be blunt to the point of rudeness in the face of grave
danger. But when he answers a distress call emanating from Earth in the year
500,002, he meets Charlotte Pollard – someone who may be more than
she first seems…
Charley Pollard
First Big Finish audio appearance: "Storm
Warning".
Charlotte
Elspeth Pollard (1912 – 1930); born on the day the Titanic sank; died
in the crash of the airship R101. (Or at least, that’s how the Web
of Time has it.) In reality, the self-styled ‘Edwardian Adventuress’ was
whisked away on an incredible journey through time and space in the company
of the Eighth Doctor. The journey ended in 2008, when she walked away into
the Singapore night. (Or at least, that’s how The Doctor remembers
it.) In reality, she’d been washed up on a lonely island in the year
500,002, from where she sent an SOS out to the TARDIS. But it wasn’t ‘her’ Doctor
who answered her call… |
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Full Cast List:
| The Doctor |
Colin Baker |
| Charley Pollard |
India Fisher |
| Rag Cobden |
Philip Madoc |
| Ned Gillespie |
Matthew Burgess |
| Eleanor Harvey |
Susan Brown |
| Professor Lyle Woodruff |
Glynn Sweet |
| Romilly |
Ian Brooker |
| Security |
Andrew Dickens |
The Krotons
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Nicholas Briggs and
Ian Brooker |
The Production Team:
| Writer |
Nicholas Briggs |
| Director |
Nicholas Briggs |
| Sound/Music |
Nicholas Briggs |
| Theme Music |
David Darlington |
| Script Editor |
Alan Barnes |
| Producer |
David Richardson |
| Executive Producers |
Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery |
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