The One Doctor

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Big Finish Productions audio play
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The One Doctor
Series Doctor Who
Release number 27
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Melanie Bush
Writer Gareth Roberts and
Clayton Hickman
Director Gary Russell
Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code 7CR
Set between The Ultimate Foe and
The Juggernauts
Release date 17 December 2001

The One Doctor is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

[edit] Plot

The Sixth Doctor and Mel come up against an impostor Doctor and his companion Sally-Anne.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

During the serial, the Doctor and his companions undertake a quest to find the three greatest treasures of the Generios system.

[edit] The Shelves of Infinity

Banto Zame and Mel arrive on Generios Eight to try and locate, one of the treasures, The Shelves of Infinity (Unit ZX419). The Shelves of Infinity were designed and created by the Assembler race on Generios Eight and consider them the pinnacle of their race. But these shelves were no ordinary shelves as the pieces that make up the shelves are constantly phasing in and out of our dimension. And as such, you can never completely assemble them. The Shelves of Infinity were stored in Warehouse ZX under the code ZX419.

Banto and Mel encounter the Assemblers, but manage to convince them to let them take unit ZX419, but only as long as they could assemble it. Banto scoffs saying it will be easy. Once the two start building the shelves they notice parts are going missing. The instructions make sense, but they never get any closer to actually building it. Eventually they come up with a way to fool the Assemblers. Since you can never actually finish building the shelves, how would the Assemblers know what the finished product would look like?

The Assemblers are fooled long enough for the Doctor to arrive in the TARDIS and Banto and Mel escape with the Shelves of Infinity.

[edit] Mentos

Doctor Who universe character
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Mentos
Affiliated with None
Race Artificial intelligence
Home planet Generios Fourteen
Home era Far future
First appearance The One Doctor
Last appearance The One Doctor
Portrayed by Nicholas Pegg

Another of the treasures, Mentos (also known as the Mentos Device) is an advanced computer and information retreival system that is one of the three treasures of the Generios system in the far future, described by the Doctor as the "vulgar end of time".

Mentos appears in our universe as a small metal box that projects the holographic image of an old man which acts as its real world interface. The box is actually a portal to a shadow universe which is populated by countless information collectors — research devices that travel through time and space, constantly seeking out the answer to any given question. As a result, Mentos literally knows everything there is to know.

Mentos was made to participate in Superbrain, a game show (a parody of The Weakest Link). However, as Mentos was able to answer every question put to it, the game continued endlessly. Eventually, the two factions which were vying for control of the Mentos device fought and wiped each other out along with the codes that would shut down the Questioner and end the game. As Mentos was programmed to continue answering questions until it got a wrong answer, the result was that it outlasted the civilisation that created it by over 330 centuries.

The Doctor arrived on Generios Fourteen to collect Mentos. An alien cylinder was holding Generios One, the capital planet of the system hostage, threatening to destroy it unless the people of Generios handed over their three greatest treasures. Unable to disconnect the computer without ending the game, the Doctor tried to stump Mentos without success until he and Sally Anne Stubbins asked it what it did not know. With Mentos being unable to answer that question, the game ended, with its score a "pitiful" 679,330,567,010 credits. The Doctor was then able to disconnect the device and take it with him.

During the Doctor's initial attempts to outwit Mentos, the computer tiredly asked him if he was going to ask it "one of those tricky, fox the computer logic conundrums," like the liar paradox. In the Third Doctor serial The Green Death the Doctor asked the rogue artificial intelligence BOSS the same question. Mentos, however, stated that it would not have made a difference — it is able to answer those kinds of questions as well.

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 v • d • e Sixth Doctor audio dramas
Slipback • The Sirens of Time • Whispers of Terror • The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
The Apocalypse Element • The Holy Terror • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The One Doctor • The Ratings War
Excelis Rising • The Maltese Penguin • ...ish • Real Time • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates
Project: Lazarus • Davros • Zagreus • The Wormery • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes
Her Final Flight • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • Cryptobiosis • Pier Pressure
The Nowhere Place • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • I.D. • Urgent Calls
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