Excelis Rising

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Big Finish Productions audio play
Album cover
Excelis Rising
Series Doctor Who
Release number 2 in Excelis series
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Writer David A. McIntee
Director Edward Salt
Producer(s) Gary Russell,
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code EX02
Set between The Ultimate Foe and
Time and the Rani
Release date 8 April 2002

Excelis Rising is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is part of the Excelis trilogy which commenced in Excelis Dawns and concludes in Excelis Decays. The events are also connected to the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Plague Herds of Excelis.

[edit] Plot

The Sixth Doctor arrives on the planet Artaris many centuries after his first visit, where a seemingly familiar figure is still hunting for the Holy relic.

[edit] Cast

  • The DoctorColin Baker
  • Reeve Maupassant — Anthony Stewart Head
  • The Curator — Charles Kay
  • Solomon — Rupert Laight
  • Thief — Toby Walton
  • Inquisitor Danby — Nicky Goldie
  • Minister Pryce — James Lailey
  • The Mother Superior — Patricia Leventon


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