Project Lazarus
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| Project: Lazarus | |
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| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 45 |
| Featuring | Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor Evelyn Smythe |
| Writer | Cavan Scott and Mark Wright |
| Director | Gary Russell |
| Producer(s) | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive producer(s) | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Production code | 7CJ, 7X |
| Set between | Sixth Doctor: Doctor Who and the Pirates and Arrangements for War Seventh Doctor: Survival and the television movie |
| Release date | June 2003 |
- The correct title of this article is Project: Lazarus. The article title conflicts with an existing namespace.
- This article concerns the Doctor Who audio drama. For other uses of the name Lazarus, see Lazarus (disambiguation).
Project: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the sequel to Project: Twilight.
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[edit] Synopsis
Two incarnations of the Doctor become involved with the plans of Nimrod and the Forge.
[edit] Plot
Having discovered the cure to the Forge Virus, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn travel to Norway seeking Cassie. They find her, but much time has passed and she now works for the Forge and goes by the name of Artemis. At the Forge on Dartmoor, Nimrod conducts a terrible experiment on the Doctor, attempting to force him to regenerate by electrocution. Evelyn talks to Cassie about her son, whom she had forgotten due to Nimrod's brainwashing, and making her realise Nimrod's evil intentions. Cassie tells Evelyn that she knows the secret that she keeps from the Doctor — she has a heart condition and had had an attack just before travelling with the Doctor. She had been afraid to tell him as she thought the Doctor would not allow her to travel with him as his companion. Cassie frees the Doctor, but is killed by Nimrod. Evelyn is distraught, and upset at the Doctor for leaving Cassie behind.
Sometime in the future, the Seventh Doctor detects an anomaly in the vortex, which leads him to the Forge. There he meets his sixth self who is now working as the Forge's scientific advisor and Nimrod is conducting an experiment on the alien Huldran. Other Huldran creatures attack the Forge, and the Sixth Doctor is injured losing his arm. Knowing that he had never lost an arm, the Seventh Doctor makes mind contact and realises that it is in fact only a clone, his DNA taken from him when he endured Nimrod's regeneration experiment. As the Seventh Doctor and the clone Doctor uncover Nimrod's awful experiment, it is revealed that clone is just one of many — Nimrod has lost count of the total. The clone Doctor uses his perfect mimicry of Nimrod's voice and instigates the Hades protocol causing the Forge to shut down, ending all of Nimrod's experiments. The Seventh Doctor escapes with the Forge's human staff and the Huldran.
The Forge is not totally destroyed however, as the Oracle computer is heard stating that the back up facility has been created.
[edit] Cast
- The Sixth Doctor — Colin Baker
- The Seventh Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
- Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
- Cassie — Rosie Cavaliero
- Nimrod — Stephen Chance
- Oracle — Emma Collier
- Huldran — Ann Jenkins
- Doctor Crumpton — Ingrid Evans
- Professor Harket — Vidar Magnussen
- Sergeant Frith — Adam Woodroffe
- Soldier — Mark Wright
[edit] External links
[edit] Reviews
- Project Lazarus reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Project Lazarus reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
| Sixth Doctor audio dramas |
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| Slipback • The Sirens of Time • Whispers of Terror • The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor |
| The Apocalypse Element • The Holy Terror • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The One Doctor • The Ratings War |
| Excelis Rising • The Maltese Penguin • ...ish • Real Time • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates |
| Project: Lazarus • Davros • Zagreus • The Wormery • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes |
| Her Final Flight • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • Cryptobiosis • Pier Pressure |
| The Nowhere Place • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • I.D. & Urgent Calls |
