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The Guardian of the Solar System

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Series
  
'Doctor Who'

Featuring
  
Sara Kingdom

Directed by
  
Lisa Bowerman

Release no.
  
33

Written by
  
Simon Guerrier

Production code
  
BFPDWCC33

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The Guardian of the Solar System 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, Steven and Sara Kingdom find themselves inside a giant clock, the great secret of The Guardians of the Solar System.

Cast

  • Sara Kingdom — Jean Marsh
  • Robert — Niall MacGregor

    • Continuity

  • This play is a sequel to Home Truths and The Drowned World.
  • The flashback stories occur in the opposite order of the framing stories.
  • Sara mentioned seeing an old man caught in the workings of a giant clock in Home Truths.
  • Mavic Chen was the Guardian of the Solar System, in league with the Daleks, in The Daleks' Master Plan.
  • Mavic Chen mentions Sara's earlier encounter with the Daleks alongside a robot named Mark 7, as heard in the audio lost story The Destroyers.

    • Critical reception

    Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael said that the audio was "excellent", describing it has having a "dark, haunting atmosphere", and praising its "astonishing" imagery.

    References

    The Guardian of the Solar System Wikipedia
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