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Power Play (Doctor Who audio)

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Release no.
  
19

Directed by
  
Ken Bentley

Written by
  
Gary Hopkins

Series
  
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories

Featuring
  
Sixth Doctor Peri Brown

Executive producer(s)
  
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery

Power Play is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

Plot

The Doctor reunites with his former companion, Victoria Waterfield, now crusading against nuclear waste.

Cast

  • The Doctor - Colin Baker
  • Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
  • Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling
  • Dysart - David Warwick
  • Dominic - Miles Jupp
  • Leiss - Andrew Dickens
  • Weska - Howard Gossington
  • Marion - Victoria Alcock
  • David Greg Donaldson
  • Sean - James Hayward

    • Continuity

  • Victoria Waterfield was a companion of the Second Doctor, leaving with him after her father was killed. They met in 1866, in the story Evil of the Daleks. Eventually she settled down in the 20th Century, at the end of the story, Fury from the Deep.
  • The Terrible Zodin, referenced in this story, is a villain that has never been seen, but has been previously mentioned by the Second Doctor (The Five Doctors), and the Sixth Doctor (Attack of the Cybermen) and other Doctors and companions in various spin-off media.

    • Critical reception

    Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael found the play flawed, although not without some "nice touches".

    References

    Power Play (Doctor Who audio) Wikipedia
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