Excelis Dawns

Big Finish Productions audio play
Excelis Dawns
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	1 in Excelis series
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Iris Wildthyme
Writer	Paul Magrs
Director	Gary Russell
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Set between	During Frontios, prior to the final sequence.
Length	1 hr 30 mins
Release date	February 2002

Excelis Dawns 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 continues in Excelis Rising and Excelis Decays. The events are also connected to the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Plague Herds of Excelis.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Continuity 4 Notes 5 External links

Plot

The Doctor discovers Iris Wildthyme in a nunnery, on a medieval world called Artaris.

Cast

• The Doctor — Peter Davison
• Iris Wildthyme — Katy Manning
• Warlord Grayvorn — Anthony Stewart Head
• Sister Jolene — Posy Miller
• The Mother Superior — Patricia Leventon
• The Zombie King — Billy Miller

Continuity

• This story is set during the last episode of Frontios, after the Doctor has dropped the Gravis off on Kolkokron but before his return to Frontios.

• Iris Wildthyme was a character (created by Paul Magrs) who appeared in several Doctor Who books such as The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen

• The Scarlet Empress takes place on the planet Hyspero, where Iris claims to have bought the Excelis Relic.

• This is the first Big Finish story to include Iris. She returns in the Bernice Summerfield story The Plague Herds of Excelis, which brings closure to elements of this story. She also meets the Sixth Doctor in The Wormery and even gets her own audio series, Iris Wildthyme.

• Some of the adventures Iris claims to have shared with the Doctor include The Web Planet, The Three Doctors, Genesis of the Daleks and Invasion of Time. She also claims to have had a solo adventure similar to The Five Doctors, but orchestrated by Morbius and involving Mechanoids, Voord and Zarbi.

Notes

• Katy Manning, who plays Iris Wildthyme in this story, previously played the Third Doctor's companion, Jo Grant, for three seasons between 1971 and 1973.

External links

• Big Finish Productions - Excelis Dawns
• Excelis Dawns at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

Fifth Doctor audio dramas Tegan, Nyssa & Adric The Darkening Eye Nyssa The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Return to the Web Planet The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef & A Perfect World Castle of Fear The Eternal Summer Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions Nyssa & Tegan Omega The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction Tegan & Turlough The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow Turlough Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity Peri Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox Peri & Erimem The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker The Gathering Cuddlesome Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon Amy The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool Other Zagreus The Four Doctors

Iris Wildthyme Short stories "Old Flames" "Femme Fatale" "Suitors, Inc." Short story anthologies Wildthyme on Top Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus The Panda Book of Horror Ms Wildthyme and Friends Investigate Iris: Abroad Wildthyme in Purple Novels The Scarlet Empress The Blue Angel Verdigris Mad Dogs and Englishmen Enter Wildthyme Iris Wildthyme audio plays Wildthyme at Large The Devil in Ms Wildthyme The Sound of Fear Land of Wonder The Two Irises The Panda Invasion The Claws of Santa Doctor Who audio plays Excelis Dawns The Wormery Find and Replace Bernice Summerfield audio plays The Plague Herds of Excelis