The Sirens of Time (audio story)

The Sirens of Time is the first in the series of Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs, the four-part story features the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, with Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy respectively reprising their roles from the original television series.

Publisher's summary
Gallifrey is in a state of crisis, facing Destruction at the hands of an overwhelming enemy. And the Doctor is involved in three different incarnations - each caught up in a deadly adventure, scattered across time and space. The web of time is threatened - and someone wants the Doctor dead.

The three incarnations of the Doctor must join together to set time back on the right track - but in doing so, will they unleash a still greater threat?

Part 1
A TARDIS arrived on Gallifrey, flown by Coordinator Vansell who was claiming that the planet was in terrible danger. The Lord President discovered that the Coordinator was right after finding that their planet was under siege by an unknown species. In the Doctor's TARDIS, he wass having trouble. The ship was pulled towards a planet because of a gravitational pull. A Time Lord tried to communicate with the Doctor, but was unable to and the signal was cut off.

Exiting the TARDIS, the Doctor discovered a voice in the distance. A girl called Elenya was trapped in quick sand. The Doctor told her not to struggle as he hacked his way through the undergrowth using his trusted umbrella. A mysterious woman appears and laughs at the Doctor. Evading her comments the Doctor goes in aid of the trapped girl. Using his umbrella he pulls the girl out of the bog and onto a safe patch of land.

Sancroff who is a prisoner of Ruthley inside her home, is waiting for her to return. When returning she tells him that she hates her job, which is to keep him there. She reluctantly helps the man into his bed. Speaking through a communicator with guards who are hovering above the planet she lies about there being no visitors on the surface. The Doctor finds that he's locked out of his TARDIS Elenya explains about her arrival. She was a geologist, and all of her crew had been killed. A ship suddenly comes through the planet's atmosphere and crashes to the surface.

The Doctor and Elenya are walking across the surface to find civilisation. The Doctor searches the area and finds a light through a window. Another ship comes crashing down. One ship comes towards them and they run away. On the communicator, the assassins have arrived to kill Sancroff. Ships are arriving all around the Doctor and Elenya. They investigate the ship wreckage and find the remains of the crew. The Doctor deciphers that the creatures are actually being born.

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Cast

 * The Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
 * The Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
 * The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Commander Raldeth / Schmidt - Andrew Fettes
 * Coordinator Vansell - Anthony Keetch
 * The President - Michael Wade
 * Elenya / Helen / Ellie / Knight Commander Lyena - Sarah Mowat
 * Ruthley - Maggie Stables
 * Sancroff - Colin McIntyre
 * Commandant / Lt Zentner / Pilot Azimendah / Sub-Commander Solanec - John Wadmore
 * Captain Walther Schwieger / Edifice Captain / Knight 2 - Mark Gatiss
 * The Temperon - Nicholas Briggs
 * Delegate - Nicholas Pegg

Astronomical objects

 * Calfadoria
 * The Kurgon Wonder was created as a result of the Knights of Velyshaa attempting to capture the Temperon.

The Doctor

 * The fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations of the Doctor make telepathic contact with one another to apprise all of them of the situation. They trigger it with the spoken command "Contact".

Individuals

 * Tegan and Turlough are trapped in the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS when he arrives.
 * The Sixth Doctor mentions that he knows Hadene Lestrade.

Organisations

 * Coordinator Vansell is a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency.
 * The Galactic Wonders Commission decides which objects are Wonders of the Universe.

Species

 * The Knights of Velyshaa appear.
 * The Temperon is a legendary time beast. It is a 'cousin' of the Chronovores.

TARDIS

 * TARDISes have time cores.
 * Cloister Bell

Theories and concepts

 * The Laws of Time (supposedly) stop the Doctor's incarnations from meeting.

Sirens' altered timeline

 * The Fifth Doctor accidentally prevents the U-20 from sinking the RMS Lusitania in the Atlantic Ocean on 7 May 1915. This allows Eric Charles Vincent to kill Alexander Fleming before he discovered penicillin.

Continuity

 * The Fifth and Seventh Doctors previously met each other in MA: Cold Fusion and would later do so again prior to the events of BFA: The Veiled Leopard. The latter is not actually depicted but is witnessed by the former's companions Peri Brown and Erimem. Peri describes the Seventh Doctor as being "a kooky little guy in a weird pullover." She would later meet him more formally in NA: Bad Therapy.
 * The Sixth Doctor recalls climbing the Himalayas during his first incarnation. (DW: Marco Polo)
 * The Knights of Velyshaa are mentioned and a Knight appears in BFDE: Invasion of the Daleks.
 * Vansell reappears in BFA: The Apocalypse Element and BFA: Neverland. Following his death in the latter story, alternative versions of Vansell appear in BFDWU: He Jests at Scars..., BFG: Reborn, BFG: Disassembled and BFG: Forever.
 * According to PDA: Instruments of Darkness, Evelyn Smythe was in the TARDIS while the Sixth Doctor was at the Kurgon Wonder.
 * The method by which the Doctors telepathically contact one other ("Contact") was first seen in DW: The Three Doctors.
 * Sancroff is mentioned by Kalendorf in BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter Four.

For the Fifth Doctor

 * The Sirens of Time occurs after ST: Lily
 * The Sirens of Time occurs before ST: Qualia

For the Sixth Doctor

 * The Sirens of Time occurs after BFA: The Marian Conspiracy
 * The Sirens of Time occurs before BFA: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

For the Seventh Doctor

 * The Sirens of Time occurs after NA: The Room With No Doors (after the Doctor returns Penelope and Joel home)
 * The Sirens of Time occurs before PDA: Bullet Time