The Time of the Daleks
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| The Time of the Daleks | |
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| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 32 |
| Featuring | Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard |
| Writer | Justin Richards |
| Director | Nicholas Briggs |
| Producer(s) | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive producer(s) | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Production code | 8K |
| Set between | Embrace the Darkness and NeverLand |
| Release date | May 2002 |
The Time of the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with The Genocide Machine and continued in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase.
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[edit] Plot
The Doctor is confused enough when he finds that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare. But when he travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with watching Shakespeare's plays — and the Daleks wanting to help her — the mystery grows more sinister.
[edit] Cast
- The Doctor — Paul McGann
- Charley Pollard — India Fisher
- The Orator — Don Warrington
- Dalek Voices — Nicholas Briggs
- General Mariah Learman — Dot Smith
- Viola — Nicola Boyce
- Major Ferdinand — Julian Harries
- Kitchen Boy — Jem Bassett
- Priestly — Mark McDonnell
- Hart — Lee Moone
- Professor Osric — Ian Brooker
- Mark Anthony — Ian Potter
- Army Officer — Ian Potter
- Marcus — Robert Curbishley
[edit] Trivia
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
- The kitchen boy in this story is eventually revealed to be a young William Shakespeare, dislocated from his proper time. Shakespeare was previously glimpsed in the Time/Space Visualiser in The Chase. In Planet of Evil, the Doctor mentioned having met Shakespeare, and in City of Death claimed that he helped transcribe the original manuscript for Hamlet. Shakespeare also appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Empire of Glass. A time-travelling adult Shakespeare appears in The Kingmaker, again credited under an alias. None of these stories reference each other and it is unclear how these different accounts can be reconciled, if at all. Shakespeare is also scheduled to appear in the 2007 episode of Doctor Who, The Shakespeare Code.
- The short story "Apocrypha Bipedium" by Ian Potter (in the collection Short Trips: Companions) is set immediately following The Time of the Daleks, and involves the Doctor's attempt to return young Shakespeare to his own time. Also featuring Vicki, it deals with the Doctor's previous encounters with Shakespeare and tries to reconcile Vicki's apparently happy ending as Cressida in The Myth Makers with the tragic ending of Troilus and Cressida
- The dialogue in this play is loaded with direct and indirect quotations from the plays of Shakespeare, but several character names are also taken from the plays, such as Osric from Hamlet, Viola from Twelfth Night and Ferdinand from The Tempest. Mariah Learman's name could also be a reference to the title character of King Lear.
- Direct references are made to the invasion of Gallifrey in The Apocalypse Element and the events on Kar-Charrat in The Genocide Machine.
[edit] External links
- Big Finish Productions - The Time of the Daleks
- The Time of the Daleks at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
[edit] Reviews
- The Time of the Daleks reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- The Time of the Daleks reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
| Eighth Doctor audio dramas | |
|---|---|
| Big Finish Season 27: | Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell |
| Big Finish Season 28: | Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Living Legend • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland |
| BBCi special: | Shada |
| Big Finish Season 29: | Zagreus • Scherzo • The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom |
| Big Finish Season 30: | Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life |
| Continuing adventures: | Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane |
| BBC7 adventures: | Blood of the Daleks • Horror of Glam Rock • Immortal Beloved • Phobos • No More Lies • Human Resources |
| Dalek audio stories | |
|---|---|
| Second Doctor: | Fear of the Daleks |
| Fifth Doctor: | The Mutant Phase • Renaissance of the Daleks |
| Sixth Doctor: | The Apocalypse Element • Jubilee • The Juggernauts |
| Seventh Doctor: | The Genocide Machine • Return of the Daleks |
| Eighth Doctor: | The Time of the Daleks • Terror Firma • Blood of the Daleks |
| Bernice Summerfield: | Death and the Daleks |
| Dalek Empire: | Invasion of the Daleks • The Human Factor • "Death to the Daleks!" • Project Infinity |
| Dalek War: | Chapter One • Chapter Two • Chapter Three • Chapter Four |
| Dalek Empire III: | The Exterminators • The Healers • The Survivors • The Demons • The Warriors • The Future |
| I, Davros: | Innocence • Purity • Corruption • Guilt |
