UNIT: The Wasting
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| Big Finish Productions audio play | |
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| The Wasting | |
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| Series | UNIT |
| Release number | 4 |
| Writer | Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett |
| Director | Nicola Bryant |
| Producer(s) | Ian Farrington Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Set between | after UNIT: The Longest Night |
UNIT: The Wasting is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Nicholas Courtney reprising his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the former commander of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). "The Wasting" is the final play of a four-part mini-series.
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[edit] Plot
As a mysterious plague threatens the world's population, UNIT faces its final battle with I.C.I.S..
[edit] Cast
- The Brigadier - Nicholas Courtney
- Colonel Emily Chaudhry - Siri O'Neal
- Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood - David Tennant
- Sergeant Willis - Nora Brande
- Andrew Winnington - Sara Carver
- Francis Currie - Michael Hobbs
- George - Adrian McLoughlin
- Prime Minister - Steffan Rhodri
- Corporal McLeish - Alex Zorbas
[edit] Trivia
- An introduction to the UNIT series, UNIT: The Coup was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #351.
- The series sees UNIT in an ongoing battle with its xenophobic rival, ICIS.
- The short story "The Terror of the Darkness" in the collection Short Trips: A Day in the Life revealed that Chaudhry and Hoffman had previously travelled with the Sixth Doctor. Their adventures continued in "Incongruous Details" (Short Trips: The Centenarian).
- Colonel Ross Brimicombe-Wood also appears in Sympathy for the Devil. "The Wasting" was recorded shortly before David Tennant started filming as the Tenth Doctor.
- The Wasting is directed by Nicola Bryant, best known for playing the Fifth and Sixth Doctor's companion, Peri Brown.
