Blue Forgotten Planet
The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Charley – actually Mila in Charley’s body – to future Earth, where the human race is divided into a technologically and scientifically competent caste and a larger tribe of vicious nomads. Infected with something that both sides simply know as “the madness,” the nomadic humans have regressed to a feral state. The only thing keeping the madness at bay for the more civilized pockets of humanity is a vaccine provided by the Viyrans. When the Doctor and Mila/Charley are scanned by the humans for traces of the madness, the Viyrans are very interested in Mila and send a ship to Earth – a ship that also happens to contain the real Charley, alive and well. Now a number of truths must come out: that the Viyrans are terminating their support of the human race and will soon terminate the entire species, that Mila is not really Charley, and that Charley is from the Doctor’s own future – and traveling with him his created a potentially deadly paradox with implications that reach far beyond the TARDIS.
written by Nicholas Briggs
directed by Nicholas Briggs
music by Jamie RobertsonCast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charley Pollard), Michael Maloney (Viyrans / Alien), J.J. Feild (David McCallister), Andree Bernard (Ellen Green), Alec Newman (Ed Driscoll), Sam Clemens (Sgt. James Atherton), Alex Mallinson (Soldier Clive), Jess Robinson (Mila)
Notes: Apart from the Companion Chronicles release Solitaire, this is India Fisher’s final appearance to date as Charley Pollard in audio Doctor Who, after playing the character since Paul McGann’s first Big Finish story in 2001. She continues her work for Big Finish in other capacities, including an appearance in one of the company’s Sherlock Holmes audio plays.
Timeline: after Paper Cuts and before City Of Spires
LogBook entry and TheatEar review by Earl Green
The Doctor tells Mike Yates that his encounter with possessed taxidermist Percy Noggins wasn’t his final encounter with the Noggins family tree; after some investigation, the Doctor discovered that Noggins’ grandmother, dancer Ernestina Stott, has herself suffered unusual effects after being stung by a hornet in 1932. Traveling to meet her in the TARDIS, the Doctor witnesses Ernestina’s unusual behavior, including the smash-and-grab theft of a mysterious pair of ballet slippers in broad daylight and an astounding one-woman presentation of The Nutcracker ballet, wearing the aforementioned slippers. But it soon becomes apparent that the slippers are another means for the alien hornets to possess a human host. The Doctor confronts the hornets again in his attempt to free Ernestina from their grasp, and discovers that he and the hornets are moving in opposite directions through time… something which may work to the Doctor’s advantage when the hornets reveal something that he will do in the future.
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