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Release no.
  
18

Production code
  
BFPDWLS18

Release number
  
18

Directed by
  
Ken Bentley

Originally published
  
31 May 2012

Featurings
  
Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown

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Series
  
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories

Written by
  
Johnny Byrne and Jonathan Morris

Executive producer(s)
  
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery

Authors
  
Jonathan Morris, Johnny Byrne

Similar
  
The First Sontarans, ID & Urgent Calls, Paper Cuts, Wirrn Isle, The Doomwood Curse

The Guardians of Prophecy is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

Plot

The Doctor and Peri arrive on the last remaining world in The Traken Union. The peaceful planet Serenity is also the home of the mysterious Melkur.

Cast

  • The Doctor - Colin Baker
  • Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
  • Ebbko / Melkur - Graham Cole
  • Mura - James George
  • Auga - Nigel Lambert
  • Guardian - Simon Williams
  • Malador - Stephen Thorne
  • Felia - Victoria Pritchard
  • Horgan - Glynn Sweet
  • Escalus - Duncan Wisbey

    • Continuity

  • The Melkur and the planet Traken were seen in the 1981 Fourth Doctor television story, The Keeper of Traken. It was unintentionally destroyed by The Master in the next story, Logopolis. The Doctor's companion Nyssa was the only known survivor.
  • The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa returned to Traken at a point before it was destroyed in the 2001 audio story Primeval.

    • Critical reception

    Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael praised the play, singling out Baker's scenes with Thorne as especially good.

    References

    The Guardians of Prophecy Wikipedia
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