| Extra Three Big Finish Doctor Singles for
2002 |
 Big Finish Productions has announced a very special
project for 2002 - three additional Doctor Who audios, featuring the Fifth,
Sixth and Seventh
Doctors.
As previously reported, the first six
months of 2002 will see the release of Paul McGann's 'second season'
of audio adventures.
But Big Finish has realised that this will
mean a long time to wait for the other three Doctors to have any releases.
So they have decided that for
February, April and July 2002 there will
also be a single CD Doctor Who adventure starring Peter Davison, Colin
Baker and Sylvester McCoy starring in
one each.
"What's different about these adventures," says
Big Finish producer Jason Haigh-Ellery, "is that although they are three
separate stories, all will take place on the planet Artaris and focus on events
occurring in the city of Excelis The plays will be linked via a holy relic that
each Doctor must locate in the three different time zones he arrives in… but
of course it's not quite that simple!"
Titled
"Excelis 1: Dawns", "Excelis 2: Rising" and "Excelis 3: Decays" they
are being written by Paul Magrs, David A McIntee and Craig Hinton respectively.
They will
also guest-star Paul Magrs' popular Iris
Wildthyme character who has appeared in several of his Doctor Who novels. Katy Manning, who starred
alongside Jon Pertwee as the Third
Doctor's companion Jo Grant,
has agreed to take on the role of Iris.
It is understood that Katy, who is currently in the UK, will be recording
both plays during November before her
return to her home in Australia.
Big Finish
have announced that in addition to these three Excelis stories, Ms Wildthyme
will also feature in "Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of
Excelis" which will be written by Stephen Cole. It will be released
in July 2002 as part of the ongoing Benny audios and it will be both
a crossover with
the Doctor Who plays and an epilogue to the Excelis saga.
Watch
this space for further plot details and the supporting actors. |
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Big Finish
Productions have announced further details on the Excelis stories that are due
to be released during 2002.
Big Finish Productions has revealed that Katy
Manning, who starred alongside Jon Pertwee as the
Third
Doctor's companion
Jo Grant,
has agreed to take on the role of Time Lady extrordinaire Iris Wildthyme. It is
understood that Katy, who is currently in the UK, will be recording both plays
during November before returning to her home in Australia.
They have
also revealed that Iris will make a guest appearance in the opening instalment
of "Excelis Dawns". This character will also join Bernice Summerfield in the
closing part of "Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of
Excelis".
Please click
here for more details on this special project.
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