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Excelis Dawns was the first audio story in the Excelis Saga.

It featured the first audio appearance of Iris Wildthyme played by Katy Manning. She acted as the Fifth Doctor's companion.

Publisher's summary[]

That terrible old reprobate and transdimensional adventuress Iris Wildthyme has gone and locked herself up in a nunnery on the savage world of Artaris.

Here she is discovered by the Doctor and the reasonably brutal warlord Grayvorn. Together — with a peculiar nun they pick up en route — they must travel the forests and swamps of this ghastly world in Iris's double decker bus in order to tussle — to the death — with a horde of flesh-eating zombies for a mysterious and holy relic of unfathomable value and questionable pedigree.

But what is the Mother Superior's part in all this?

Plot[]

Sister Jolene and Mother Superior talk about something. Iris stalks The Doctor onto Artaris. The Doctor and Iris go to the Mother Superior's house, who tells them and Warlord Grayvorn to search for a relic. They ride on Iris' bus. On the journey, Iris and Grayvorn do not get on with each other, Grayvorn even threatens Iris with his sword. A couple of hours later, Iris' bus gets stuck in quicksand, and they are forced to dematerialise it. They go 1000 years into the future, where the world has been reduced to a desert. They return to the present and go into a forest, which is full of zombies. They somehow get the relic, which turns out to be Iris' handbag.

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EXCELIS DAWNS

Art by Roger Langridge from DWM 316

Notes[]

  • This is the first part of the Excelis Saga.
  • This story marks the first appearance of Iris Wildthyme in an audio drama. She is played by Katy Manning, known for playing the Third Doctor's companion Jo Grant. This incarnation is contradictorily as a unique incarnation or the same incarnation as the "Beryl Reid" Iris from story to story. This story seems to imply the latter.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 21 November 2001 at the Moat Studios.
  • This story is set during the final episode of Frontios.
  • In an unusual format, this story is a single-episode spread across two discs with no theme music breaks.

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