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Year Zero (Bernice Summerfield)
''Year Zero'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Plot Bernice is trapped on a planet where archeology is illegal. To return home she must break the law to find out what happened in Year Zero. Cast *Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman *Gormune - Chris Porter *Pallis - Evie Dawnay *Matka - Maria McErlane References External links''Professor Bernice Summerfield: Year Zero'' Year Zero A year zero does not exist in the Anno Domini (AD) calendar year system commonly used to number years in the Gregorian calendar (nor in its predecessor, the Julian calendar); in this system, the year is followed directly by year . However, the ... Fiction set in the 27th century {{DoctorWho-stub ...
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Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', '' Blake's 7'', '' Dark Shadows'', ''Dracula'', '' Terrahawks'', '' Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', ''The Avengers'', '' The Prisoner'', '' Timeslip'' and '' Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the 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 "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story '' The Sirens of Time' ...
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Jonathan Clements
Jonathan Michael Clements (born 9 July 1971) is a British author and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shi Huang, as well as monthly opinion columns for ''Neo'' magazine. He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas. Background Clements speaks both Chinese and Japanese, and many of his works relate to East Asia. He wrote his Master's degree at the University of Stirling on manga and anime exports, predicting the rise of several trends in the international industry including back-to-front printing, direct American investment in anime, and the proliferation of attempts to substitute non-Japanese products. Subsequently, he translated over 70 anime and manga works for British distributors, and worked as a voice director and actor. He wrote his PhD at the University of Wales on the industrial history of Japanese animation, later published by the British Film Institute as ''Anime: A History' ...
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Escaping The Future
''Escaping the Future'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Plot The galaxy is in turmoil. As Bernice's friends fight to keep the Deindum at bay, can Bernice and Peter find out who they are, and how to stop them? Cast *Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman *Irving Braxiatel - Miles Richardson * Bev Tarrant - Louise Faulkner * Adrian Wall - Harry Myers *Joseph - Steven Wickham *Hass - Paul Wolfe *Doggles Doggles are a commercial brand of eye protection for dogs in the form of tinted goggles designed and manufactured to fit the shape of a dog's head. While marketed as a fashion item, several practical and medical uses have been reported, and presc ... - Sam Stevens * Peter Summerfield - Thomas Grant *Lianna - Rachel Lawrence External links''Professor Bernice Summerfield: Escaping the Future'' * Escapi ...
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Dead Man's Switch (Bernice Summerfield)
Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length '' Doctor Who'' novels, the '' New Adventures''. The ''New Adventures'' were authorised novels carrying on from where the ''Doctor Who'' television series had left off, and Summerfield was introduced in Cornell's novel '' Love and War'' in 1992. History A 26th century archeologist, Summerfield became a hugely popular character amongst fans of the books, and was present right up until their end in 1997. She officially stopped travelling with the Doctor in ''Happy Endings'' but returned a few times thereafter, including the last Virgin New Adventure, ''The Dying Days''. That year, Virgin had lost the licence to publish ''Doctor Who'' fiction, which was not renewed by the BBC. However, range editors Peter Darvill-Evans and Rebecca Levene decided to contin ...
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List Of Doctor Who Audio Plays By Big Finish
This is a list of audio productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' produced by Big Finish Productions. Overview These are the season and episode counts for all seasons and series released , ordered by the date that they were initially released. Cast The dramas feature both former actors who portrayed the Doctor and his companions, and new continuing characters as well as elements from other spin-off media. The canonicity of the audio dramas, as with other ''Doctor Who'' spin-off media, is unclear. To date, productions have featured the Fourth (Tom Baker), Fifth ( Peter Davison), Sixth (Colin Baker), Seventh (Sylvester McCoy), Eighth (Paul McGann), War ( Sir John Hurt), Ninth ( Christopher Eccleston) and Tenth (David Tennant) Doctors portrayed by their original actors. In April 2022, it was confirmed Jo Martin would reprise her role as the Fugitive Doctor in a series of audio adventures. Big Finish's current li ...
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Lisa Bowerman
Lisa Bowerman (born 1 February 1962) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Sandra Mute, the paramedic, in the BBC One medical drama '' Casualty'', in the first two series (1986–1987). She also starred as Professor Bernice Summerfield in many '' Doctor Who'' Big Finish Productions audio plays, as well as directing many series for the company. Career Bowerman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was a regular in the first two series of BBC medical drama '' Casualty'' playing Sandra Mute, the show's first female paramedic. Her other television work includes: ''Dodgem'', ''The Count of Solar'', '' Grange Hill'', ''The Vision Thing'', '' Doctors'', '' McCallum'', '' Bad Girls'' and '' Night and Day''. In 2007 she guest-starred as the home secretary's PA in '' Spooks'', and returned to ''Casualty'' for a one-episode cameo role as a patient. In 2011 and 2012, she appeared in five episodes of ''Coronation Street'' as solicitor Jennifer Lingwood. In Jul ...
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Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length '' Doctor Who'' novels, the '' New Adventures''. The ''New Adventures'' were authorised novels carrying on from where the ''Doctor Who'' television series had left off, and Summerfield was introduced in Cornell's novel '' Love and War'' in 1992. History A 26th century archeologist, Summerfield became a hugely popular character amongst fans of the books, and was present right up until their end in 1997. She officially stopped travelling with the Doctor in ''Happy Endings'' but returned a few times thereafter, including the last Virgin New Adventure, '' The Dying Days''. That year, Virgin had lost the licence to publish ''Doctor Who'' fiction, which was not renewed by the BBC. However, range editors Peter Darvill-Evans and Rebecca Levene decided to c ...
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Science Fiction On Television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. Story creation and scientific accuracy Science fiction tries to blend fiction and reality seamlessly so that the viewer can be immersed in the imaginative world. This includes characters, settings, and tools. Viewers often critique the scientific plausibility and accuracy of technology and technological concepts. In the 2020 series ''Away (TV series), Away'' a notable plot point in the eight episode, ''Vital Signs'' has astronauts listen intently for a sound boom picked up by a real-life Mars rover called InSight. Similarity, in 2022 scientists used InSight to listen for the landing of a real spacecraft. Visual production process and methods The need to portray imaginary settings or char ...
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Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. ...
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Professor Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length '' Doctor Who'' novels, the '' New Adventures''. The ''New Adventures'' were authorised novels carrying on from where the ''Doctor Who'' television series had left off, and Summerfield was introduced in Cornell's novel '' Love and War'' in 1992. History A 26th century archeologist, Summerfield became a hugely popular character amongst fans of the books, and was present right up until their end in 1997. She officially stopped travelling with the Doctor in ''Happy Endings'' but returned a few times thereafter, including the last Virgin New Adventure, '' The Dying Days''. That year, Virgin had lost the licence to publish ''Doctor Who'' fiction, which was not renewed by the BBC. However, range editors Peter Darvill-Evans and Rebecca Levene decided to cont ...
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Maria McErlane
Maria McErlane (born 9 December 1957, in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British actress and presenter specialising in comedy. She has been acting since 1984. She has appeared in several TV series, including ''The Fast Show'', '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'', '' Thin Ice'' and ''Happiness'', "straight" roles in ''The Bill'' and ''Holby City'' and as the narrator for Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier's '' Eurotrash''. Career Starting on the comedy circuit in the 1990s, under the name 'Maria Callous', she has also guested on shows such as '' Have I Got News for You'', '' If I Ruled the World'' and '' Just a Minute'' on Radio 4. She also is part of the murder panel show ''Foul Play'', alongside Lee Simpson. In June 1984, she appeared in 'Out of Order' (a revue by Christopher Middleton and Jonathan Kydd) at the Finborough Theatre. McErlane co-presented the ITV quiz show ''Carnal Knowledge'' with her friend Graham Norton in the mid 1990s. She co-presented the "Grill Graham" agony au ...
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Bernice Summerfield Audio Plays
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