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Excelis Decays

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Series
  
'Doctor Who'

Featuring
  
Seventh Doctor

Directed by
  
Gary Russell

Release no.
  
3 in Excelis series

Written by
  
Craig Hinton

Produced by
  
Gary Russell, Jason Haigh-Ellery

Excelis Decays is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the final part of the Excelis trilogy which commenced in Excelis Dawns and continued in Excelis Rising. The events are also connected to the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Plague Herds of Excelis.

Contents

Plot

The Seventh Doctor again visits Artaris and is finally able to resolve the mystery that two of his incarnations have encountered.

Cast

  • The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
  • Lord Vaughan Sutton — Anthony Stewart Head
  • Commissar Sallis — Ian Collier
  • Major Brant — Yee Jee Tso
  • Mattias — Stuart Piper
  • Reeve Cless — Alistair Lock
  • Deputy Warden Baris — Mark Gatiss
  • Jancis — Penelope McDonald
  • The Mother Superior — Patricia Leventon

    • Continuity

  • The first Excelis story featured the Fifth Doctor and the second the Sixth Doctor. Excelis Decays features the Seventh Doctor. As with the other two stories, the Doctor travels alone.
  • The Excelis trilogy is marked by the continual appearance of Anthony Stewart Head, ostensibly as a different character in each story, although by the end it becomes clear that all three characters played by Head are the same man.
  • In the later audio drama Master, the Doctor uses Vaughan Sutton as his alias since the Master was using the pseudonym John Smith in that story.
  • It is implied that this is the first chronological appearance of the console used in the TV movie.

    • References

    Excelis Decays Wikipedia
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