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Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars

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Series
  
Doctor Who

Written by
  
Jonathan Morris

Release no.
  
4.05

Directed by
  
Barnaby Edwards

Range
  
Eighth Doctor Adventures

Featuring
  
Eighth Doctor Tamsin Drew

Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars consistute a two-part audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.

Contents

Deimos

On the Martian moon Deimos, the Ice Warriors sealed themselves away when their planet was rendered inhospitable. By the 23rd Century, they were believed to be extinct and Mars and its moons became popular tourist destinations for humans. But now the Ice Warriors are awake. And they want Mars back.

The Resurrection of Mars

The Ice Warriors are willing to kill every human colonist on Mars in order to reclaim it. And someone is threatening to disrupt the Web of Time for what they believe to be the greater good. The Doctor has to make a difficult choice. And his companion does not agree with him.

Cast

  • The Doctor - Paul McGann
  • Tamsin Drew - Niky Wardley
  • Professor Boston Schooner - David Warner
  • Margaret - Susan Brown
  • Temperance Finch - Tracy-Ann Oberman
  • Harold - Nick Wilton
  • The Ice Warriors - Nicholas Briggs
  • The Ice Warriors/Gregson Grenville - Nicky Henson
  • Pilot - Jack Brown
  • Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
  • The Monk - Graeme Garden

    • Deimos

  • The Eighth Doctor visited Mars' other moon in Phobos.
  • The Doctor mentions witnessing the environmental destruction of Mars (The Judgement of Isskar).
  • The humans believe the last of the Ice Warriors burned up in the Sun (The Seeds of Death).

    • The Resurrection of Mars

  • Lucie stopped traveling with the Doctor in Death in Blackpool. The Monk's advertisement that she responded to was predominantly featured in Situation Vacant. Between Death in Blackpool and The Resurrection of Mars, the only story Lucie was heard in was The Book of Kells, but she did not directly encounter the Doctor.
  • Lucie mentions that she visited the Sensorites with The Monk.
  • The Monk's TARDIS console was damaged after Tamsin tricked him into taking the wrong directional circuit in The Book of Kells.
  • The Monk's SEP filter is a reference to Douglas Adams' novel Life, the Universe and Everything, which featured a space ship equipped with a Somebody Else's Problem field. It is similar to the Perception filter, which is often mentioned in the newer Doctor Who television stories.
  • Tamsin and the Monk return in Lucie Miller / To the Death.

    • Broadcast

    Deimos was broadcast on digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra on 11 Jan 2013; The Resurrection of Mars was similarly broadcast three days later. Each was an hour-long episode.

    The Resurrection of Mars cover image

    The preview cover image differs from the cover included with the physical disc; the true cover reduces the size of the Ice Warrior image to focus on Lucie and the Monk, and it does give cover credit to their portrayers, Smith and Garden.

    References

    Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars Wikipedia
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