The Time of the Daleks

The Time of the Daleks

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release no.	32
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard
Written by	Justin Richards
Directed by	Nicholas Briggs
Produced by	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	8K
Length	2 hours 2 mins
Release date	May 2002

The Time of the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with The Genocide Machine and continued in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase.

Plot

The Doctor is confused enough when he finds that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare. But when he travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with watching Shakespeare's plays — and the Daleks wanting to help her — the mystery grows more sinister. Can the Daleks really claim to be the 'Masters of Time'?

Cast

The Doctor — Paul McGann
Charley Pollard — India Fisher
The Orator — Don Warrington
Dalek Voices — Nicholas Briggs
General Mariah Learman — Dot Smith
Viola — Nicola Boyce
Major Ferdinand — Julian Harries
Kitchen Boy — Jem Bassett
Priestly — Mark McDonnell
Hart — Lee Moone
Professor Osric — Ian Brooker
Mark Anthony — Ian Potter
Army Officer — Ian Potter
Marcus — Robert Curbishley

Continuity

The kitchen boy in this story is eventually revealed to be a young William Shakespeare, dislocated from his proper time. The short story "Apocrypha Bipedium" by Ian Potter (in the collection Short Trips: Companions) is set immediately following The Time of the Daleks, and involves the Doctor's attempt to return young Shakespeare to his own time. Also featuring Vicki, it deals with the Doctor's previous encounters with Shakespeare and tries to reconcile Vicki's apparently happy ending as Cressida in The Myth Makers with the tragic ending of Troilus and Cressida.

Outside references

The dialogue in this play is loaded with direct and indirect quotations from the plays of Shakespeare, but several character names are also taken from the plays, such as Osric from Hamlet, Viola from Twelfth Night and Ferdinand from The Tempest. Mariah Learman's name could also be a reference to the title character of King Lear.

External links

Reviews

The Time of the Daleks reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
The Time of the Daleks reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Eighth Doctor audio dramas

Big Finish Main Range	Storm Warning Sword of Orion The Stones of Venice Minuet in Hell Invaders from Mars The Chimes of Midnight Seasons of Fear Embrace the Darkness The Time of the Daleks Neverland Zagreus Scherzo The Creed of the Kromon The Natural History of Fear The Twilight Kingdom Faith Stealer The Last Caerdroia The Next Life Terror Firma Scaredy Cat Other Lives Time Works Something Inside Memory Lane Absolution The Girl Who Never Was The Company of Friends The Silver Turk The Witch from the Well Army of Death

The Eighth Doctor Adventures	Blood of the Daleks Horror of Glam Rock Immortal Beloved Phobos No More Lies Human Resources Dead London Max Warp Brave New Town The Skull of Sobek Grand Theft Cosmos The Zygon Who Fell to Earth Sisters of the Flame / Vengeance of Morbius Orbis Hothouse The Beast of Orlok Wirrn Dawn The Scapegoat The Cannibalists The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web Death in Blackpool Situation Vacant Nevermore The Book of Kells Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars Relative Dimensions Prisoner of the Sun Lucie Miller / To the Death

Dark Eyes	Dark Eyes Dark Eyes 2 Dark Eyes 3 Dark Eyes 4

Doom Coalition	Doom Coalition Doom Coalition 2 Doom Coalition 3 Doom Coalition 4

Other	Living Legend Shada An Earthly Child Survival of the Fittest & Klein's Story The Four Doctors Solitaire Destiny of the Doctor: Enemy Aliens The Light at the End The Rulers of the Universe The Sontaran Ordeal The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

Dalek audio stories

Second Doctor	Fear of the Daleks

Fourth Doctor	Energy of the Daleks The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase

Fifth Doctor	The Mutant Phase Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Four Doctors The Elite The Five Companions

Sixth Doctor	The Apocalypse Element Jubilee The Juggernauts Brotherhood of the Daleks Patient Zero The Four Doctors The Curse of Davros Masters of Earth Order of the Daleks

Seventh Doctor	The Genocide Machine Return of the Daleks Enemy of the Daleks The Four Doctors Daleks Among Us We Are The Daleks

Eighth Doctor	The Time of the Daleks Terror Firma Blood of the Daleks The Four Doctors Lucie Miller / To the Death Dark Eyes Dark Eyes 2 Dark Eyes 4

War Doctor	The War Doctor 1: Only the Monstrous

Bernice Summerfield	Death and the Daleks The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

Dalek Empire	Invasion of the Daleks The Human Factor Death to the Daleks! Project Infinity

Dalek Empire II	Dalek War

Dalek Empire III	The Exterminators The Healers The Survivors The Demons The Warriors The Future

Dalek Empire IV	The Fearless

I, Davros	Innocence Purity Corruption Guilt

Doctor Who Unbound	Masters of War

Minor appearances	Seasons of Fear

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