Thicker than Water (audio drama)

Big Finish Productions audio play
Thicker than Water
Series Doctor Who
Release number 73
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Melanie Bush
Evelyn Smythe
Writer Paul Sutton
Director Edward Salt
Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) none listed
Set between Evelyn:
 after Assassin in the Limelight
Mel:
 Catch-1782 and
 The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box
Length 1 hr 37 mins
Release date September 2005

Thicker than Water is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is a sequel to the earlier audio play Arrangements for War.

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Plot

It is three years since the Sixth Doctor helped repel the Killoran invasion of Világ, and he brings a new friend, Mel, to meet an old one. Evelyn Smythe, his former companion is now married to Principal Triumvir Rossiter. But Evelyn has made political enemies, among them her own stepdaughter Sofia, and the reunion takes a deadly turn when Evelyn and Mel are kidnapped.

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Continuity

  1. This story revisits the world Világ, first heard in Arrangements for War.
  2. This story features an uncredited appearance by Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
  3. It is revealed in this story that Hex, who is a companion of the Seventh Doctor, is the son of Cassie from Project: Twilight and Project Lazarus. The Doctor discovered this in The Harvest.
  4. Evelyn may recognize the Seventh Doctor as she previously watched him from afar in The 100 Days of the Doctor. They properly meet again in A Death in the Family.

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