Red Dawn (audio story)

Publisher's Summary
Ares One: NASA's first manned mission to the dead planet Mars. But is Mars as dead as it seems?

While the NASA team investigate an 'anomaly' on the planet's surface, the Doctor and Peri find themselves inside a strange alien building. What is its purpose? And what is frozen inside the blocks of ice that guard the doorways? If the Doctor has a sense of deja-vu, it's because he's about to meet some old adversaries, as well as some new ones...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Peri - Nicola Bryant
 * Commander Forbes - Robert Jezek
 * Susan Roberts - Maureen Oakeley
 * Tanya Webster - Georgia Moffett
 * Paul Webster - Stephen Fewell
 * Commander Zzaal - Matthew Brenher
 * Sub Commander Sstast - Hylton Collins

Continuity

 * The British Mars missions are mentioned are either from: DW: The Ambassadors of Death or NA: The Dying Days. An unmanned mission, described as being the UK's first (despite the earlier missions depicted) is featured in DW: The Christmas Invasion.
 * The Ice Warriors first appeared in DW: The Ice Warriors.

Timeline
According to Big Finish, the events portrayed in this story take place after DW: Planet of Fire and before The Caves of Androzani.


 * Red Dawn occurs before: The Eye of the Scorpion

Cast notes

 * Georgia Moffett is Peter Davison's real-life daughter. She later went on to play Jenny in the David Tennant episode The Doctor's Daughter, as well as an unrelated character, Cassie Rice, in the animated serial, Dreamland.