Mission to Magnus (audio story)

 was the second story in the first series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Philip Martin, from his original script, and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown and Nabil Shaban as Sil.

This story was originally intended to be the second story of the original Season 23, but was cancelled along with other planned stories when Doctor Who went on a production hiatus.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Peri face enemies at every turn on the planet Magnus. There's the Time Lord bully Anzor, who made the Doctor's life hell during his time at the Academy. There's also Rana Zandusia, the matriarchal ruler of the planet, who seeks to prise the secret of time travel from these alien visitors.

Also on Magnus is the slug-like Sil, still bitter from his defeat on the planet Varos and seeking to make his fortune from the most potentially destructive ends. And, deep within the planet, there is something else. Another old enemy of the Doctor's. And the future is looking decidedly colder...

Part one
The TARDIS is pulled through time by Anzor, who threatens the Doctor with his galvaniser stick into activating trans-replicator mode so that he and his TARDIS can escape a force field. The Doctor and Peri are trapped in his place, but the spaceship creating the force field transfers energy down to Magnus and the Doctor uses the opportunity to relocate the TARDIS beneath the ground there. They are greeted by the Magnii, a group of young boys who believe that they have called the two of them into being, and learn that the males on Magnus are kept underground and told that they will die if they enter the sunlight. The Doctor covers for them when matrons Tace and Soma come looking for the boys, but they stun him as they suspect he is an invader from Salvak.

Anzor visits Rana Zandusia of the Seven Sisterhoods of Magnus, as well as his old business acquaintance Sil, and rejects her request that the Time Lord Council permit the use of time travel to remove the threat of Salvak. The Rana has Jarmaya freeze him and Ulema try to use her psychic powers to extract the secrets of time travel from his mind, but he knows little about TARDIS mechanics and Ulema instead connects with the Doctor's mind when he is brought to her. The Doctor writes out a formula for time travel and the Rana forces Anzor to open his now-programmed TARDIS, only for him to draw a photon blaster and dematerialise, sent back to the beginning of time by the Doctor's formula to keep his TARDIS out of the Rana's reach.

The Rana appeals to the Doctor to allow her access to his TARDIS to stop the Salvakians from continuing to affect Magnus's climate by melting the ice caps in a way that avoids war, but he refuses because of the Laws of Time and Sil suggests that a search begins for Peri. The TARDIS is soon located and the Doctor manages to flee with his key when Peri and an armed Vion return, the three of them heading to the ice cap to investigate. They find a nuclear detonator for a bomb capable of destroying the entire planet and are attacked by an Ice Warrior who knocks the Doctor out and kidnaps Peri.

Part two
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor – Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown – Nicola Bryant
 * Sil – Nabil Shaban
 * Anzor – Malcolm Rennie
 * Madamme Rana Zandusia – Maggie Steed
 * Jarmaya / Tace – Susan Franklyn
 * Ulema / Soma – Tina Jones
 * Vion – William Townsend
 * Asam – Callum Witney Mills
 * Brorg / Vedikael / Grand Marshall / Ishka – Nicholas Briggs
 * Skaarg / Jarga / Hussa – James George

Worldbuilding

 * Anzor's TARDIS is a Type 60.
 * Trans-replication disables the Hostile Action Displacement System.
 * Sil works for Amorb.
 * Rana Zandusia is the elected leader of the Seven Sisterhoods of Magnus.
 * Anzor has a photon blaster.

Continuity

 * Upon meeting an older version of Peri in Los Angeles in 2009 who possessed no memory of their travels together beyond their first encounter on Lanzarote in May 1984, (TV: Planet of Fire) the Doctor mentions Sil and the Ice Warriors in an attempt to jog her memory. (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox)
 * The Doctor recalls his encounters with the Ice Warriors on Earth during his second incarnation (TV: The Ice Warriors, TV: The Seeds of Death) and on Peladon during his third incarnation (TV: The Curse of Peladon, TV: The Monster of Peladon).
 * During his fifth incarnation, the Doctor and Peri encountered the Ice Warriors on their native Mars in both the 2000s (AUDIO: Red Dawn) and, in the company of Erimem, on Peladon in the 41st century. (AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)
 * Sil mentions Lord Kiv. (TV: Mindwarp)