Flip-Flop (audio drama)

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<th colspan="2" class=""summary"" style="text-align:center;font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;font-size: 125%;;">Flip-Flop

Big Finish Productions audio play

Series	Doctor Who
Release number	46
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Mel
Writer	Jonathan Morris
Director	Gary Russell
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Set between	Bang-Bang-a-Boom! and Delta and the Bannermen
Length	2 hrs 6 mins
Release date	July 2003

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

This audio drama is presented on two CDs, one white and the other black. The discs can be listened to in either order due to the construction of the plot.

Plot

Black disc

It is Christmas Eve, 3090, and the Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive on the planet Puxatornee searching for leptonite crystals to fight the Quarks. They discover a world where the human citizens are slowly becoming in thrall to the alien Slithergees.

White disc

It is Christmas Eve, 3090, and the Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive on the planet Puxatornee searching for leptonite crystals. They find the world a ruined radioactive wasteland.

Cast

The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
Mel — Bonnie Langford
Mitchell — Richard Gibson
Slithergee Voices — Daniel Hogarth
Potter — Trevor Littledale
Stewart — Francis Magee
Professor Capra — Trevor Martin
Bailey — Pamela Miles
Reed — Audrey Schoellhammer

Notes

Puxatornee and the events in this strange episode loosely resemble the bizarre events in the "time-travel" Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day where the same day happens over and over again only to be changed by Bill Murray in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The film takes place on Groundhog Day, another winter holiday.
The character names are references to the film It's a Wonderful Life, which also takes place at Christmas. Characters in the film include Mr. Potter and the Bailey family; the film was directed by Frank Capra and starred James Stewart, Donna Reed and Thomas Mitchell, among others.

External links

Reviews

Flip-Flop reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Flip-Flop reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

v t e Seventh Doctor audio plays

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Ace	The Fearmonger The Genocide Machine Dust Breeding Colditz The Rapture The Prisoner's Dilemma Thin Ice 1963: The Assassination Games The Light at the End

Ace & Raine	Crime of the Century Animal Earth Aid

Ace & Hex	The Harvest Dreamtime LIVE 34 Night Thoughts The Settling No Man's Land Nocturne The Dark Husband Forty-five The Magic Mousetrap Enemy of the Daleks The Angel of Scutari Project: Destiny A Death in the Family Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge Protect and Survive Black and White Gods and Monsters Afterlife Revenge of the Swarm Mask of Tragedy Signs & Wonders

Ace & Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge The Dark Flame Love and War

Benny	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story The Architects of History UNIT Dominion Persuasion Starlight Robbery Daleks Among Us

Alone	The Sirens of Time Last of the Titans Excelis Decays Project: Lazarus Master Return of the Daleks Valhalla Frozen Time The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake A Death in the Family The Four Doctors Robophobia The Doomsday Quatrain House of Blue Fire The Shadow Heart

Other	Death Comes to Time Zagreus The Wormery Thicker than Water Project: Nirvana

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