The Reaping (audio drama)

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

Plot

Peri and the Sixth Doctor travel to Baltimore, 1984, four months after Peri left her stepfather and mother in Lanzarote. As she tries to explain to her mother where she has been, the Doctor discovers an old enemy has laid a trap for him…

Cast

• The Doctor — Colin Baker
• Peri Brown — Nicola Bryant
• Cybermen — Nicholas Briggs
• Mrs Van Gysegham — Denise Bryer
• Janine Foster — Claudia Christian
• Natalie Hamilton — Allison Karayanes
• Anthony Chambers — Stuart Milligan
• Nate Chambers — Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
• Kathy Chambers — Jane Perry
• Daniel Woods — Vincent Pirillo
• Lt Doyle — John Schwab

Trivia

• Kathy Chambers' story is resolved in the Fifth Doctor audio drama The Gathering.
• Despite the fact that Claudia Christian plays Nicola Bryant's mother, she is almost three years her junior.
• Commander Zheng, a character who first appeared in the Fifth Doctor audio drama Spare Parts, has a brief cameo.
• Janine Foster, Peri's mother, and Mrs. Van Gysegham were both mentioned in Planet of Fire, in which Peri made her debut. Peri's father's name being Paul comes from the Past Doctor Adventures novel Synthespians™.
• In addition to Planet of Fire, the events of The Caves of Androzani - specifically the Fifth Doctor's regeneration - and Attack of the Cybermen are also referenced.
• The dimensionally transcendental time machine the Cybermen find on a burned world far in the future is a possible reference to the Time War.

External links

• Big Finish Productions - The Reaping
• The Reaping at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

Reviews

• The Reaping reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• The Reaping reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide