Post by MS on Feb 12, 2024 2:03:15 GMT -5
The Annihilators marked the ninth season of The Third Doctor Adventures from Big Finish.
Released in February 2022 and written by Nick Briggs.
Featuring Liz Shaw and the Brigadier.
Also featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie with the Second Doctor played for the first time on Big Finish by Michael Troughton.
Troughton plays the Doctor that was originally by his late father Patrick on television.
Curiously enough it was Michael's brother David who has often been suggested to play the Second Doctor on Big Finish.
David however has played various characters on Big Finish and has gotten to play the Second Doctor but for BBC Audio for Serpents' Crest.
Like his father and brother, Michael has appeared in Doctor Who on television, in his case in Last Christmas playing Professor Albert Smithe.
Briggs has revealed the inclusion of the Second Doctor and Jamie in The Annihilators was that of serving as a teaser for the Michael Troughton's own Big Finish series as the Second Doctor.
As well as Michael Troughton's debut as the Second Doctor, The Annihilators also marked Big Finish's first seven-part story.
This is reflective of the fact that this takes place during season 7 in which three of its four stories The Silurians, Ambassadors of Death & Inferno are seven-parters in which fact the vast majority of Liz's time on television.
Of the three said seven-parters, The Annihilators replicates the style delivered by The Ambassadors of Death which is best explained by TARDIS Wiki:
"The opening theme for each episode is split in two, largely framing the cliff-hanger reprise, as it was for The Ambassadors of Death."
Of the guest stars it has Karen Archer playing DCI Denise Walker. Truthfully when I heard her voice I thought I was hearing the voice of Meera Syal who has played Nasreen Chaudhry in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood which incidentally I felt was like an amalgamation of the earlier mentioned The Silurians & Inferno.in its premise.
The Annihilators delivers a very intriguing tale of strange goings on at Lewgate Docks but the Brigadier's investigation on this gets hampered by the local police force led by the said DCI Walker.
Interesting how things unfold from there as well as how the Second Doctor and Jamie gets added to mix all this and how it has something to do with gravity.
The Annihilators has the two said Doctors meeting and I am sure it does not give anything away that by story's end it has the two Doctors forgetting about this meeting as it maintains continuity.
This is because The Annihilators is set long before The Three Doctors with the Second and Third Doctors having no memory of that earlier meeting-
It is rather a delicate way to maintain continuity and I am happy to say it did not affect my enjoyment of the story with Big Finish making an impressive effort to tell a story in a seven-part format for the first time.
Released in February 2022 and written by Nick Briggs.
Featuring Liz Shaw and the Brigadier.
Also featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie with the Second Doctor played for the first time on Big Finish by Michael Troughton.
Troughton plays the Doctor that was originally by his late father Patrick on television.
Curiously enough it was Michael's brother David who has often been suggested to play the Second Doctor on Big Finish.
David however has played various characters on Big Finish and has gotten to play the Second Doctor but for BBC Audio for Serpents' Crest.
Like his father and brother, Michael has appeared in Doctor Who on television, in his case in Last Christmas playing Professor Albert Smithe.
Briggs has revealed the inclusion of the Second Doctor and Jamie in The Annihilators was that of serving as a teaser for the Michael Troughton's own Big Finish series as the Second Doctor.
As well as Michael Troughton's debut as the Second Doctor, The Annihilators also marked Big Finish's first seven-part story.
This is reflective of the fact that this takes place during season 7 in which three of its four stories The Silurians, Ambassadors of Death & Inferno are seven-parters in which fact the vast majority of Liz's time on television.
Of the three said seven-parters, The Annihilators replicates the style delivered by The Ambassadors of Death which is best explained by TARDIS Wiki:
"The opening theme for each episode is split in two, largely framing the cliff-hanger reprise, as it was for The Ambassadors of Death."
Of the guest stars it has Karen Archer playing DCI Denise Walker. Truthfully when I heard her voice I thought I was hearing the voice of Meera Syal who has played Nasreen Chaudhry in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood which incidentally I felt was like an amalgamation of the earlier mentioned The Silurians & Inferno.in its premise.
The Annihilators delivers a very intriguing tale of strange goings on at Lewgate Docks but the Brigadier's investigation on this gets hampered by the local police force led by the said DCI Walker.
Interesting how things unfold from there as well as how the Second Doctor and Jamie gets added to mix all this and how it has something to do with gravity.
The Annihilators has the two said Doctors meeting and I am sure it does not give anything away that by story's end it has the two Doctors forgetting about this meeting as it maintains continuity.
This is because The Annihilators is set long before The Three Doctors with the Second and Third Doctors having no memory of that earlier meeting-
It is rather a delicate way to maintain continuity and I am happy to say it did not affect my enjoyment of the story with Big Finish making an impressive effort to tell a story in a seven-part format for the first time.