Leviathan (audio story)

 was the third story of the first series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Paul Finch, from the original script by his father Brian Finch, and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown.

Publisher's summary
No one lives to old age in the village. When their Time is come, they are taken and never seen again. That is The Way. And, should anyone try to break with the established order of things, then the fury of Herne the Hunter is unleashed...

When the TARDIS materialises near a castle in this mediaeval society, the Doctor and Peri befriend Gurth, a terrified youth who is attempting to flee his fate. And Herne is closing in...

Why does the local baron impose the culling? What is the secret of Zeron? And who are the Sentinels of the New Dawn?

The answers lie within a cave...

Part one
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Part two
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor – Colin Baker
 * Peri – Nicola Bryant
 * Gurth/Thurstan/Soltan - Howard Gossington
 * Herne/Baron/Osbert/Chandris - John Banks
 * Althya/Maude/Eada/Zeron - Beth Chalmers
 * Wulfric/Edgar- Jamie Parker
 * Siward/Master-Serjant/Gregorian - Derek Carlyle

Worldbuilding

 * The Doctor believes that the Middle Ages is "an interesting period in its way, but in increasingly small doses."
 * Faster-than-light travel was invented in the mid-22nd century, rendering the Leviathans obsolete before they could be used.
 * Peri recognises the robotic hounds as a form of android.

Continuity

 * Peri mentions the possibility of Sil and Madame Rana Zandusia sabotaging the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Mission to Magnus)
 * The Third Doctor and Liz Shaw previously encountered the Sentinels of the New Dawn in 2014. (AUDIO: The Sentinels of the New Dawn) The Doctor reveals the Sentinels were driven off Earth in the 22nd century.
 * Peri refers to being tortured. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
 * Peri is not surprised by the appearance of androids. She previously met them both on Androzani Minor (TV: The Caves of Androzani) and in Blackpool in 1986. (AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair)
 * The Seventh Doctor would later visit another artificial environment where the inhabitants were broken down. (AUDIO: The Doomsday Quatrain)
 * The Sixth Doctor states that he learned to use the broadsword from Richard the Lionhearted. (TV: The Crusade)