The Elite (audio story)

 was the first story in the third series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by John Dorney, from the original script by Barbara Clegg, and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor offers Tegan and Nyssa a trip to the paradise world of Florana, but instead the TARDIS takes them to a domed city on a planet scarred by warfare. A world where everyone is young, and fighting for the glory of the Elite...

Hidden away in the Cathedral of Power, the High Priest is watching. It knows the Doctor, and his arrival changes everything...

Part one
Tegan is back on board the TARDIS and the Doctor, afraid that her presence will disturb the peaceful atmosphere that he and Nyssa have enjoyed in her absence, pilots the ship to Florana, but they are caught in the path of another timeship and land in a domed city. With the TARDIS instruments damaged, the Doctor goes to find out where they are and leaves Nyssa and Tegan with the ship, telling them not to wander off. After hearing an explosion, Nyssa suggests that she and Tegan go looking for the Doctor, but Tegan is determined to remain where they are to avoid what usually happens when they wander off. They are arrested and accused of terrorism.

The Doctor visits the Cathedral of Power in search of a star map and is pointed by Gasson towards the Academy, where Educator Stemp mistakes him as a representative of the High Priest of Power and gives him a tour. The children are partaking in war games on computers and performing advanced mathematics which continue to identify the weaker intellects to be "disposed of" by order of the High Priest. When Stemp is called away, the Doctor gives out chocolate to the students and is subsequently accused by Stemp of gross sedition and condemned to death. In the Cathedral, Gasson is taken to the High Priest by Father Thane and killed.

Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Aubron - Joe Coen
 * Thane - Ryan Sampson
 * Alaric - Derek Carlyle
 * Stemp - Joannah Tincey
 * High Priest - Arthur Wallis
 * Garthak - John Banks
 * Ella - Ellie Burrow

Botany

 * Black roses grow on Florana.

Computers

 * Computers are used to fly bombing runs.

Foods and beverages

 * Nyssa has some chocolate that she got in Amsterdam. The Doctor confiscates it from her.

Individuals

 * Novice Wilcock is a member of the Church.

Locations

 * Tegan compares the soullessness of the city to Birdsville.

Species

 * The Dalek's voice changes depending on whether it is within its Dalek casing or not, or within the casing/Throne built by the inhabitants.

Vehicles

 * Trains are used to transport people to the factories.

Continuity

 * Nyssa and Tegan spent several days on holiday in Amsterdam in January 1983 (TV: Arc of Infinity) while the Doctor was dealing with Omega in the Sector of Forgotten Souls. (AUDIO: Omega, The Waters of Amsterdam) In the interim, the Doctor visited Sharnax, a planet in the Drashani Empire. (AUDIO: The Burning Prince)
 * Tegan complains that she'll have to wear the same clothes for weeks, and Nyssa asks what's wrong with that as she always wore her Trakenite outfit. (TV: The Keeper of Traken to Arc of Infinity) This may have prompted her to begin dressing differently. (TV: Snakedance)
 * The Third Doctor had previously intended to take Sarah Jane Smith on a visit to Florana (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs) but his efforts were unsuccessful. (TV: Death to the Daleks)
 * Tegan refers to her possession by the Mara and her subsequent attempt to kill the Doctor. (TV: Kinda)
 * Nyssa previously encountered the Daleks in two alternate timelines (AUDIO: The Mutant Phase, Renaissance of the Daleks), in Stockbridge in the 45th century (AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks) and on Traxana (AUDIO: Alien Heart) whereas Tegan would encounter them again, first on a drilling rig on planet XB93, (AUDIO: Nightmare of the Daleks) then in London in 1984, the latter experience resulting in her departing the TARDIS. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
 * After dealing with the Elite, the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan spend several days on holiday in Brisbane, Australia in 1983. (AUDIO: Hexagora)
 * The Doctor refers to his encounter with the Rosemariners on Earth Station 454 during his second incarnation. (AUDIO: The Rosemariners)