Bloodtide (audio story)

For the Carrionite, see Mother Bloodtide.

 featured a return of the Silurians, the first time in audio form.

Publisher's summary
The prehistoric Earth is dying. Thunderclouds roll across the skies, cloaking the land in darkness. The seas crash and boil as the rain turns to acid. The remnants of the Silurian race place themselves in suspended animation, deep below the surface.

One day they will awaken and reclaim their world...

The TARDIS has landed on the Galapagos Islands, a desolate outcrop of rocks shrouded in mist and fear.

In the settlement of Baquerizo Moreno, there are rumours that prisoners have been mysteriously disappearing from the gaolhouse. A fisherman has been driven insane by something he saw in the caves. And the Sixth Doctor and Eveyln are not the only new arrivals; there is also a young natural philosopher by the name of Charles Darwin...

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Tulok - Daniel Hogarth
 * Sh'vak - Helen Goldwyn
 * Governor Lawson - Julian Harries
 * Emilio - Jez Fielder
 * Greta - Jane Goddard
 * Charles Darwin - Miles Richardson
 * Captain Fitzroy - George Telfer
 * Lokan - Jez Fielder

Species

 * The Silurians have a Myrka.

Theories and concepts

 * Monkton's Theorem states that no intelligent species is likely to leave behind fossils.

Scientist

 * The Doctor makes Charles Darwin think he's Albert Einstein by making himself known to the scientific community at the time.

Continuity

 * The Silurians first appeared on screen in DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians.
 * The Myrka previously appeared in DW: Warriors of the Deep and MA: The Scales of Injustice.
 * Many years later, the Seventh Doctor and Evelyn would reminisce about the events of this story in which they met Charles Darwin. (BFA: A Death in the Family)
 * The Eighth Doctor later told his companion Charley Pollard that this experience "nearly turned [Darwin] off reptiles for life." (BFA: The Creed of the Kromon)
 * In an alternative timeline, the Valeyard and his companion Ellie Martin likewise paid a visit to the Silurian bunker in the Galapagos islands. They were observed doing so by Coordinator Vansell. (BFDWU: He Jests at Scars...)

Timeline

 * Bloodtide occurs after BFA: The Apocalypse Element
 * Bloodtide occurs before ST: The Eighth Wonder of the World