The Bride of Peladon
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The Bride of Peladon | |
Series | Doctor Who |
Release number | 104 |
Featuring | Fifth Doctor Peri Brown Erimem |
Writer | Barnaby Edwards |
Director | Barnaby Edwards |
Executive producer(s) | Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
Production code | 6Q/M |
Set between | The Mind's Eye and Mission of the Viyrans. |
Release date | January 2008 |
The Bride of Peladon is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity
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[edit] Plot
Peladon will bathe in oceans of blood!
A mysterious voice, a missing girl and a murdered queen. The Royal House of Peladon is once more plunged into intrigue, terror and death. The Doctor, Peri and Erimem must find their way through a treacherous labyrinth of lies if they are to distinguish friend from foe before it is too late.
For deep beneath the Citadel of Peladon, something infinitely ancient and immeasurably powerful is stirring...
[edit] Cast
- The Doctor — Peter Davison
- Peri — Nicola Bryant
- Erimem — Caroline Morris
- Beldonia — Phyllida Law
- Voice — Jenny Agutter
- Pelleas — Christian Coulson
- Pandora — Yasmin Bannerman
- Zixlyr — Nicholas Briggs
- Alpha Centauri — Jane Goddard
- Frankis — Richard Earl
- Elkin — Peter Sowerbutts
- Foreman — Philip Childs
- Miner — Thomas Brodie-Sangster
[edit] Continuity
- This audio drama is a sequel to the Third Doctor serials The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon. Besides the Doctor, Alpha Centauri is the only other character to appear in all three stories.
- This is the fourth Big Finish audio drama to feature the Ice Warriors, following Red Dawn, Frozen Time and a brief cameo appearance in Bang-Bang-a-Boom!.
- The Osirans were introduced in the Fourth Doctor television story Pyramids of Mars.
- Yasmin Bannerman appeared in the Ninth Doctor television episode The End of the World, as Jabe.
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster has appeared in the Tenth Doctor television episodes Human Nature and The Family of Blood as well as another Fifth Doctor audio, The Mind's Eye.
- Phyllida Law played Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures story Eye of the Gorgon.
- This is Erimem's departure story.
[edit] External links
- Big Finish Productions - The Bride of Peladon
- The Bride of Peladon at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
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