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The First Wave

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Series
  
'Doctor Who'

Written by
  
Simon Guerrier

Production code
  
BFPDWCC49

Release no.
  
49

Directed by
  
Lisa Bowerman

Featuring
  
Steven Taylor Oliver Harper

The First Wave is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot

The First Doctor and his companions arrive on a planetoid named Grace Alone, in the Kuiper belt, just beyond the major planets of the Solar System. There they discover the Vardans, telepathic beings made of pure energy. They are edging slowly toward the Earth, tempted by the radio waves it constantly emits.

Cast

  • Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
  • Oliver Harper - Tom Allen
  • Vardans - Lisa Bowerman

    • Continuity

  • Oliver joined the Doctor and Steven in The Perpetual Bond.
  • The data about their arrest in the future was obtained in The Cold Equations.
  • The Fourth Doctor encountered the Vardans in the 1978 television story The Invasion of Time.
  • The coordinates of Gallifrey, 10-0-11-0-0 by 0-2 from Galactic Zero Centre, were first mentioned in Pyramids of Mars.

    • References

    The First Wave Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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