Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

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Big Finish Productions audio play

Series	Doctor Who
Release number	39
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Mel
Writer	Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman
Director	Nicholas Pegg
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Set between	Paradise Towers and Flip-Flop
Length	2 hrs 22 mins 00 secs
Release date	December 2002

Bang-Bang-a-Boom! is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The title is a parody of Lulu's 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winning entry Boom Bang-a-Bang.

Plot

On the space station Dark Space 8, the Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive at the hosting of the Intergalactic Song Contest when a series of murders threatens the peace of the galaxy.

Cast

The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
Mel — Bonnie Langford
Waiter — Barnaby Edwards
Doctor Eleanor Harcourt — Sabina Franklyn
Professor Ivor Fassbinder — Graeme Garden
Geri Pakhar — Jane Goddard
Mister Loozly — Nickolas Grace
Lieutenant Stringberg — Vidar Magnussen
Queen Angvia — Patricia Quinn
Nicky Newman — Anthony Spargo
Commentator Logan — David Tughan

Notes

The Intergalactic Song Contest is a parody of the Eurovision Song Contest while Commentator Logan (who speaks with an Irish accent) is based upon and named after Terry Wogan, who provided commentary for the Eurovision on BBC One every year from 1980 to 2008. Like Wogan, he is seemingly known for his sardonic wit and frequently mentions his wife during broadcasts.

In The One Doctor, it was first mentioned that "I Will Survive" was the national anthem of Earth.

Professor Fassbinder and Dr Harcourt are parodies of Victor Bergman and Helena Russell in Space: 1999 (Fassbinder and Bergman are both the names of cinema pioneers). The station name Dark Space Eight is a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Pakhars are also included in the Unbound story He Jests at Scars...

According to The Sound of Fear this particular show was attended by Iris Wildthyme and the man she married the previous night.

Nickolas Grace later appeared as Albert Einstein in the Script to Screen-winning episode Death is the Only Answer.

External links

Reviews

Bang-Bang-a-Boom! reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Bang-Bang-a-Boom! reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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