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Return Of The Daleks
''Return of the Daleks'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Synopsis The secret resistance led by Susan Mendes and Kalendorf encounters the Seventh Doctor on the planet Zaleria during Dalek occupation — a planet which hides a secret of its own. Cast *The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy *Kalendorf — Gareth Thomas *Susan Mendes — Sarah Mowat *Skerrill — Christine Brennan *Mendac — Hylton Collins *Aytrax — Jack Galagher *The Daleks — Nicholas Briggs *Dorla, Zalerian & Ogrons — Hylton Collins *Zalerian 2 & Ogrons — Jack Galagher *Ogrons & Talamar — Nicholas Briggs Continuity *This story is set between episodes 1 and 2 of the events of the first '' Dalek Empire'' miniseries. *The planet Zaleria is revealed to be Spiridon, the planet from the 1973 serial ''Planet of the Daleks ''Planet of the Daleks'' is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and radio drama, audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Thunderbirds (TV series), Thunderbirds'', ''Dark Shadows#Audio drama, Dark Shadows'', ''Dracula'', ''Terrahawks'', ''Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', ''The Avengers (TV series)#Audio, The Avengers'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Timeslip'', and ''Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the Virgin New Adventures, New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice Summerfield, Bernice "Benny" Summerfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvester McCoy
Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith (born 20 August 1943), known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish actor. Gaining prominence as a physical comedian, he became best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996. He is also known for his work as Radagast in ''The Hobbit'' film series (2012–2014). Early life McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish Catholic mother and an English father who had died in action during World War II a couple of months before McCoy was born; he met his father's family at the age of 17. His mother suffered a mental breakdown when McCoy was eight years old, and was institutionalised thereafter. Prior to adopting his stage name, McCoy was known as Kent Smith; he was unaware of his given names until he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh Doctor Audio Plays
Seventh is the ordinal form of the number seven. Seventh may refer to: * Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution * A fraction (mathematics), , equal to one of seven equal parts Film and television *"The Seventh", a second-season episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' Music * A seventh (interval), the difference between two pitches ** Diminished seventh, a chromatically reduced minor seventh interval ** Major seventh, the larger of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees ** Minor seventh, the smaller of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees ** Harmonic seventh, the interval of exactly 4:7, whose approximation to the minor seventh in equal temperament explains the "sweetness" of the dominant seventh chord in a major key ** Augmented seventh, an interval * Leading-tone or subtonic, the seventh degree and the chord built on the seventh degree * Seventh chord, a chord consisting of a triad p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Audio Plays
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon also has 6 edges as well as 6 internal and external angles. 6 is the second smallest composite number. It is also the first number that is the sum of its proper divisors, making it the smallest perfect number. It is also the only perfect number that doesn't have a digital root of 1. 6 is the first unitary perfect number, since it is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, without including itself. Only five such numbers are known to exist. 6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. 6 is the 2nd superior highly composite number, the 2nd colossally abundant number, the 3rd triangular number, the 4th highly composite number, a pronic number, a congruent number, a harmonic divisor number, and a semiprime. 6 is also the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalek Empire
''Dalek Empire'' is an audio play series made by Big Finish Productions about the Daleks. This series ties in elements from the Dalek Empire arc in the ''Doctor Who'': The Monthly Range, a storyline containing the releases '' The Genocide Machine'', '' The Apocalypse Element'', ''The Mutant Phase'' and '' The Time of the Daleks''. Nicholas Briggs wrote, directed and voices the Daleks in all episodes of this series. He is also the voice of the Daleks in the 2005 revival of ''Doctor Who''. Episodes Series 1 (2001) Series 2 (2003) Series 3 (2004) Series 4 (2007–08) Continuity *Kalendorf is a Knight of Velyshaa. Another member of the Knights, Sancroff, appeared in the audio adventure ''The Sirens of Time''. *The Daleks prepared for their endeavours in this spin-off series. These preparations were heard in four previous Doctor Who audio stories. Those stories were part of the Dalek Empire arc with the Seventh Doctor ('' The Genocide Machine''), the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet Of The Daleks
''Planet of the Daleks'' is the fourth serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 7 April to 12 May 1973. It was the first Dalek story to be written by their creator Terry Nation since 1965’s '' The Daleks' Master Plan''. Continuing from the events of the serial '' Frontier in Space'', the story involves a small team of Daleks plotting to revive an army of Daleks which are being kept in suspended animation on the planet Spiridon. Plot The Third Doctor has been wounded after being shot by the Master. Jo helps the Doctor into the TARDIS, where he sends a message to the Time Lords before he collapses then falls into a coma. The Time Lords direct the TARDIS to the planet Spiridon, where Jo leaves the TARDIS in an attempt to find help, and encounters a party of Thals, the Daleks' oldest enemy. The Thals rescue the Doctor from the TARDIS, the outside of which has been overtak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalek Empire (Big Finish Series)
''Dalek Empire'' is an audio play series made by Big Finish Productions about the Daleks. This series ties in elements from the Dalek Empire arc in the ''Doctor Who'': The Monthly Range, a storyline containing the releases '' The Genocide Machine'', '' The Apocalypse Element'', ''The Mutant Phase'' and '' The Time of the Daleks''. Nicholas Briggs wrote, directed and voices the Daleks in all episodes of this series. He is also the voice of the Daleks in the 2005 revival of ''Doctor Who''. Episodes Series 1 (2001) Series 2 (2003) Series 3 (2004) Series 4 (2007–08) Continuity *Kalendorf is a Knight of Velyshaa. Another member of the Knights, Sancroff, appeared in the audio adventure ''The Sirens of Time''. *The Daleks prepared for their endeavours in this spin-off series. These preparations were heard in four previous Doctor Who audio stories. Those stories were part of the Dalek Empire arc with the Seventh Doctor ('' The Genocide Machine''), the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogron
The long-running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' has an extensive universe inhabited by a continuously expanding gallery of creatures and aliens. The series first aired on BBC in 1963 until its cancellation in 1989, with a television movie aired in 1996 in an unsuccessful attempt to revive the show . The show was successfully revived in 2005, and continues to air episodes. The series stars an extraterrestrial known as the Doctor, who is capable of changing their appearance when they die in a process known as regeneration. They travel through time and space in a machine known as the TARDIS. In the process, the Doctor often comes into contact with various alien species. This list only covers alien races and other fictional creatures and not specific characters. Several of these alien races re-appear in one or more of the spin-off series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', ''Torchwood'', and ''Class'', but antagonists original to those series do not appear on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Thomas (actor)
Gareth Daniel Noake Thomas (12 February 1945 – 13 April 2016) was a Welsh actor. He rose to national prominence playing the role of Roj Blake in the BBC science fiction television series ''Blake's 7'' (1978–1981). Early life Thomas was born on 12 February 1945 in Brentford, England, and grew up in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was the younger of two sons of Kenneth Thomas, a barrister who had been a junior at the Nuremberg trials, and his wife, Olga (''née'' Noake). Thomas attended the King's School, Canterbury. He then trained at RADA and later became an Associate Member. He was a member of the National Youth Theatre, appearing with them in the 1967 production of ''Zigger Zagger''. Career Thomas made many television appearances, including ''The Avengers (TV series), The Avengers'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Special Branch (TV series), Special Branch'', ''Sutherland's Law'', ''Public Eye (TV series), Public Eye'', ''Who Pays the Ferryman?'', ''Bergerac (TV series), Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor, sometimes known as Doctor Who, is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. An Extraterrestrials in popular culture, extraterrestrial Time Lord, the Doctor travels the universe in a time travelling Spacecraft, spaceship called the TARDIS, often with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by List of actors who have played the Doctor, fourteen lead actors. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of Regeneration (Doctor Who), regeneration, a biological function of Time Lords that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a mortal injury. A number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. The Doctor has also been featured in films and a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling Spacecraft, spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box. While travelling, the Doctor works to save lives and liberate oppressed peoples by combating List of Doctor Who villains, foes. The Doctor usually travels with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. Beginning with William Hartnell, List of actors who have played the Doctor, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; the most recent being Ncuti Gatwa, who portrayed the Fifteenth Doctor from 2023 to 2025. The transition between actors is written into the plot of the series with the Regeneration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalek
The Daleks ( ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of extremely xenophobic mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. They were conceived by writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Daleks'', in casings designed by Raymond Cusick. Drawing inspiration from the Nazis, Nation portrayed the Daleks as violent, merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, completely absent of any emotion other than hate, who demand total conformity to the will of the Dalek with the highest authority, and are bent on the conquest of the universe and the extermination of any other forms of life, including other "impure" Daleks which are deemed inferior for being different to them. Collectively, they are the greatest enemies of ''Doctor Who''s protagonist, the Time Lord known as "the Doctor". During the second year of the original ''Doctor Who'' programme (1963–1989), the Daleks developed their own form of time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
