| Big Finish Productions audio play | |
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| The First Doctor Boxset | |
| Series | Doctor Who: The Lost Stories |
| Release number | 09 |
| Featuring | Susan Foreman Ian Chesterton |
| Writer | Moris Farhi (adapted by Nigel Robinson) |
| Director | John Ainsworth |
| Executive producer(s) | Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Set between | The Reign of Terror and Here There Be Monsters |
| Length | 288 minutes |
| Release date | 10 November 2010 |
The First Doctor Boxset is a Big Finish Productions audio drama set based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is in the Companion Chronicles format, a "talking book" narrated by the Doctor's companions with guest-star's voices, music and sound effects. As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.
Contents |
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara arrive in 323 BC, Babylon and befriend the King of Macedon, the ruler of the known world, Alexander the Great. They join Alexander on his travels, along with his generals and officers, including his brave but contemptuous father figure Cleitus, the wise Calanus of India, the nobel young Hephaestion, the Nubian bodyguard Ptolemy, the prophetic priest Iollas and the cunning Seleucus. Over the course of their weeks together, Alexander's greatest friends suffer horrible deaths. Suspicion falls on the Doctor and his companions, who must must prove their worth to escape execution. But when the great king himself falls ill, his life is in their hands.
The TARDIS arrives on a beautiful utopian world known as Fragrance. The Doctor persuades the peaceful inhabitants to build a filament that could improve his ship's navigation. And Barbara spends time with a young man named Rhythm, who falls in love with her. When his feelings are not reciprocated, his life is forfeit.
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