The Kingmaker

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Big Finish Productions audio play

Series	Doctor Who
Release number	81
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Peri Brown Erimem
Writer	Nev Fountain
Director	Gary Russell
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Set between	The Council of Nicaea and The Gathering
Release date	April 2006

The Kingmaker is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The drama was written by Nev Fountain who is better known for his work on the radio and television series Dead Ringers, and also stars Jon Culshaw who in the same programmes is known for his impression of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

Plot

The Doctor travels to the 15th century to investigate the mystery of the Princes in the Tower, to fulfil a contract to write a series of children's books. Is there another time traveller on the loose? And just why is there a robot in the TARDIS?

Cast

The Doctor — Peter Davison
Peri — Nicola Bryant
Erimem — Caroline Morris
Richard, Duke of Gloucester — Stephen Beckett
Earl Rivers/Voice of the Fourth Doctor — Jon Culshaw
Mr Seyton — Michael Fenton Stevens
Henry, Duke of Buckingham — Marcus Hutton
Judith — Linzi Matthews
Sir James Tyrell — Chris Neill
Clarrie — Arthur Smith
Susan — Katie Wimpenny

Notes

Jon Culshaw does his famous Tom Baker impression when the Fifth Doctor listens to the Fourth Doctor's dictated notes for the incomplete (and fictional) work "Doctor Who Discovers Historical Mysteries".^[1]

Critical reception

Matt Michael, reviewing the audio for Doctor Who Magazine, criticised it strongly, calling it "over-engineered and overlong", and saying that it "can't make its mind up whether it wants to be comedy or tragedy, and ends up doing neither very well."^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Michael, Matt (21 June 2006 (cover date)). "Off The Shelf: The Kingmaker". Doctor Who Magazine (370): 63. Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

Reviews

The Kingmaker reviews at Outpost Gallifrey

v t e Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Return to the Web Planet The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef & A Perfect World Castle of Fear The Eternal Summer Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights 1963: Fanfare For The Common Men The Light at the End Moonflesh Tomb Ship Masquerade

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane Eldrad Must Die! The Lady of Mercia Prisoners of Fate

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince

v t e Fourth Doctor audio dramas

Sarah Jane	Doctor Who and the Pescatons Exploration Earth: The Time Machine

Leela	The Catalyst Empathy Games The Time Vampire The Foe From The Future/The Valley of Death Destination Nerva The Renaissance Man The Wrath of the Iceni Energy of the Daleks Trail of the White Worm The Oseidon Adventure Night of the Stormcrow The Child The King of Sontar The White Ghosts The Crooked Man The Evil One Last of the Colophon Destroy the Infinite The Abandoned Zygon Hunt The Light at the End

Mrs Wibbsey and Mike Yates	Hornets' Nest Demon Quest Serpent Crest

Romana I and K-9	The Stealers from Saiph Ferril's Folly Tales from the Vault The Auntie Matter The Sands of Life War Against The Laan The Justice of Jalxar Phantoms of the Deep The Dalek Contract The Final Phase

Romana II and K-9	The Beautiful People The Pyralis Effect Luna Romana Destiny of the Doctor: Babblesphere The Romance of Crime/The English Way of Death

Romana II, K-9 and Adric	The Invasion of E-Space

Other	The Kingmaker

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