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The
Axons Due on Audio
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The Feast of Axos
(Mike Maddox)
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 Big Finish Productions have announced that the Sixth
Doctor is going to face the classic foe - The Axons -
in the release due for February 2011. And Bernard Holley,
who played both the voice of Axos and the male Axon
in the 1971 Third
Doctor television story "The
Claws of Axos", is back after 40 years to reprise
the role!
"The Feast of Axos", by Mike Maddox, finds a group
of British explorers heading off into space
to break into the Axos time loop, in which
it was trapped by the Third Doctor, in
order to plunder the energy of the alien
entity. But the scheme goes awry...
Executive Producer Nicholas Briggwe got very excited
at the prospect of bringing Axos
back. It was the Axonite on the
cake when we learned that Bernard
was interested in reprising the
role-and he plays it as if not
a single day has passeds as
stated that ‘’.
This story comes second in a trilogy that reunites the Sixth
Doctor with his hugely popular
audio companion Evelyn
Smythe (played by Maggie Stables)
for three brand new stories. Evelvn
first appeared in "The
Marian Conspiracy" back
in 2000, and was last heard in
an audio story in 2008, in "Assassin
in the Limelight".
‘It's been too long’, Nicholas Briggs
has admitted, ‘but I'm
delighted to welcome Evelyn back
by popular demand. That's not hyperbole – we’ve
been inundated with letters from
fans who have missed her!’
Also joining The Doctor and Evelyn will be a companion from
a previous incarnation. Victorian orphan Thomas Brewster (played by John
Pickard), who accompanied the Fifth
Doctor - and we have been promised
that he and the Sixth Doctor won't always
see eye to eye.
This mini-season for the Sixth Doctor begins in January
2011 with "The Crimes of Thomas
Brewster" by Jonathan Morris,
which is set in present-day London.
Then, after "The Feast of Axos" in
February, March’s release is "Industrial
Evolution" by Eddie Robson,
which is set in Lancashire during
the industrial revolution. |
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