The Time of the Daleks

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Big Finish Productions audio play
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The Time of the Daleks
Series Doctor Who
Release number 32
Featuring Eighth Doctor
Charley Pollard
Writer Justin Richards
Director Nicholas Briggs
Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code 8K
Set between Embrace the Darkness and
NeverLand
Release date May 2002

The Time of the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with The Genocide Machine and continued in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase.

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The Doctor is confused enough when he finds that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare. But when he travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with watching Shakespeare's plays — and the Daleks wanting to help her — the mystery grows more sinister.

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[edit] Trivia

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
  • The kitchen boy in this story is eventually revealed to be a young William Shakespeare, dislocated from his proper time. Shakespeare was previously glimpsed in the Time/Space Visualiser in The Chase. In Planet of Evil, the Doctor mentioned having met Shakespeare, and in City of Death claimed that he helped transcribe the original manuscript for Hamlet. Shakespeare also appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Empire of Glass. A time-travelling adult Shakespeare appears in The Kingmaker, again credited under an alias. None of these stories reference each other and it is unclear how these different accounts can be reconciled, if at all. Shakespeare is also scheduled to appear in the 2007 episode of Doctor Who, The Shakespeare Code.
  • The short story "Apocrypha Bipedium" by Ian Potter (in the collection Short Trips: Companions) is set immediately following The Time of the Daleks, and involves the Doctor's attempt to return young Shakespeare to his own time. Also featuring Vicki, it deals with the Doctor's previous encounters with Shakespeare and tries to reconcile Vicki's apparently happy ending as Cressida in The Myth Makers with the tragic ending of Troilus and Cressida
  • The dialogue in this play is loaded with direct and indirect quotations from the plays of Shakespeare, but several character names are also taken from the plays, such as Osric from Hamlet, Viola from Twelfth Night and Ferdinand from The Tempest. Mariah Learman's name could also be a reference to the title character of King Lear.
  • Direct references are made to the invasion of Gallifrey in The Apocalypse Element and the events on Kar-Charrat in The Genocide Machine.

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Eighth Doctor audio dramas v • d • e 
Storm Warning | Sword of Orion | The Stones of Venice | Minuet in Hell | Invaders from Mars
The Chimes of Midnight | Seasons of Fear | Embrace the Darkness | The Time of the Daleks | Neverland
Living Legend | Zagreus | Shada | Scherzo | The Creed of the Kromon | The Natural History of Fear
The Twilight Kingdom | Faith Stealer | The Last | Caerdroia | The Next Life | Terror Firma | Scaredy Cat | Other Lives
Time Works | Something Inside | Memory Lane
Blood of the Daleks | Horror of Glam Rock | Immortal Beloved | Phobos | No More Lies | Human Resources
Doctor Who audio plays
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