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{{Infobox Story
|name= Other Lives
 
 
|image=Other Lives cover.jpg
 
|image=Other Lives cover.jpg
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|range = Main Range
|series=[[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]]
 
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|number in range = 77
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|series=''[[Main Range]]''
 
|number= 77
 
|number= 77
 
|doctor= Eighth Doctor
 
|doctor= Eighth Doctor
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|writer= [[Gary Hopkins]]
 
|writer= [[Gary Hopkins]]
 
|director= [[Gary Russell]]
 
|director= [[Gary Russell]]
|post production= [[David Darlington]]
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|music = [[David Darlington]]
|music=[[David Darlington]]
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|sound = [[David Darlington]]
|cover=[[Lee Binding]]
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|cover = [[Lee Binding]]
 
|publisher= Big Finish Productions
 
|publisher= Big Finish Productions
 
|release date= [[December (releases)|December]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]
 
|release date= [[December (releases)|December]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]
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|isbn= ISBN 1-84435-162-9
 
|isbn= ISBN 1-84435-162-9
 
|prev= Singularity (audio story)
 
|prev= Singularity (audio story)
|next= Pier Pressure (audio story)}}{{audio stub}}
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|next= Pier Pressure (audio story)
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|made prev = Scaredy Cat (audio story)
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventy-seventh [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio story]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]].
 
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|made next = LIVE 34 (audio story)
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|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-other-lives-trailer
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|producer = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]}}
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventy-seventh story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Gary Hopkins]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[India Fisher]] as [[Charlotte Pollard]] and [[Conrad Westmaas]] as [[C'rizz]].
   
 
== Publisher's summary ==
 
== Publisher's summary ==
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== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
The Doctor takes his companions to the great exhibition in 1851. While Charley meets the Duke of Westhampton, C’rizz becomes kidnapped by a local street thug and put on display as a freak; the Doctor saves a French couple from assassination by letting them into his TARDIS, but gets mistaken for their assailant when the TARDIS dematerialises all of a sudden. In prison he meets the real assassin and inadvertently helps him escape. The next morning a woman claiming to be his wife posts his bail. The woman keeps trying to convince him that he is her husband but after another incident with the assassin, he is told that she already knows. She needed his likeness to fool her husband’s uncle so that she and her children will be able to keep their home. The Doctor decides to play along with the charade and returns to the Crystal Palace afterwards, where he finds C’rizz and Charley and the TARDIS.
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The Doctor takes his companions to the great exhibition in 1851. Charley meets the Duke of Wellington; C'rizz becomes kidnapped by a local street thug and put on display as a freak; the Doctor saves a French couple from assassination by letting them into his TARDIS, but gets mistaken for their assailant when the TARDIS dematerialises all of a sudden. In prison he meets the real assassin and inadvertently helps him escape. The next morning a woman claiming to be his wife posts his bail. The woman keeps trying to convince him that he is her husband but after another incident with the assassin, he is told that she already knows. She needed his likeness to fool her husband's uncle so that she and her children will be able to keep their home. The Doctor decides to play along with the charade and returns to the Crystal Palace afterwards, where he finds C'rizz and Charley and the TARDIS.
   
 
== Cast ==
 
== Cast ==
 
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]]/[[Edward Marlow]] - [[Paul McGann]]
 
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]]/[[Edward Marlow]] - [[Paul McGann]]
* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]]/[[Madeline De Roche|Madame De Roche]] - [[India Fisher]]
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* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]]/[[Madeline de Roche|Madame de Roche]] - [[India Fisher]]
* [[C'rizz]]/[[Christian De Roche|Monsieur De Roche]] - [[Conrad Westmaas]]
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* [[C'rizz]]/[[Christian de Roche|Monsieur de Roche]] - [[Conrad Westmaas]]
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* [[Christian Griswold]] - [[Gary Bakewell]]
 
* The [[Arthur Wellesley|Duke of Wellington]] - [[Ron Moody]]
 
* The [[Arthur Wellesley|Duke of Wellington]] - [[Ron Moody]]
 
* [[Fazackerly|Mr. Fazackerly]] - [[Michael Hobbs]]
 
* [[Fazackerly|Mr. Fazackerly]] - [[Michael Hobbs]]
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== References ==
 
== References ==
 
* The Doctor adjusts the [[isomorphic controls]] of the TARDIS to allow C'rizz to open the doors.
 
* The Doctor adjusts the [[isomorphic controls]] of the TARDIS to allow C'rizz to open the doors.
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* The Doctor mentions the [[Montgolfier brothers]].
* The Doctor performs several sleight-of-hand tricks in order to earn enough money to enter the Great Exhibition.
 
* C'rizz does not know what a greenhouse is.
 
* The Doctor tells Georgina Marlow that he has never thought of himself as a family man.
 
   
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
 
* To date, this is the only pure historical story in performed ''Doctor Who'' to feature the Eighth Doctor.
 
* To date, this is the only pure historical story in performed ''Doctor Who'' to feature the Eighth Doctor.
* This is the first of two audio dramas released in the main range to feature the Duke of Wellington as a character. The other is [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'' in January 2012, in which the Duke was played by [[Granville Saxton]]. He does not actually have a direct conversation with the Doctor in either story.
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* This is the first of two audio dramas released in the main range to feature the Duke of Wellington as a character. The other is ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'' in January 2012, in which the Duke was played by [[Granville Saxton]]. He does not actually have a direct conversation with the Doctor in either story.
* [[Paul McGann]], [[India Fisher]] and [[Conrad Westmaas]] all play dual roles in this story.
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* [[Paul McGann]], [[India Fisher]] and [[Conrad Westmaas]] all play dual roles in this story.
* [[Ron Moody]] was offered the role of the [[Third Doctor]] in 1969, but declined, as recounted by [[Jon Pertwee]] in multiple interviews, [[Elisabeth Sladen]] and Moody himself.
 
 
* This audio drama was recorded on [[29 April (production)|29]] and [[30 April (production)|30 April]] 2005.
 
* This audio drama was recorded on [[29 April (production)|29]] and [[30 April (production)|30 April]] 2005.
   
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* The Doctor once again observes that "sleep is for tortoises." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
 
* The Doctor once again observes that "sleep is for tortoises." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
 
* Charley previously visited the [[Crystal Palace]] as a child in the [[1910s]] or [[1920s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
 
* Charley previously visited the [[Crystal Palace]] as a child in the [[1910s]] or [[1920s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
* C'rizz is forced to perform in Jacob Crackles' freakshow in the same manner as the alien creatures in [[Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer]]'s freakshow were in [[Buzzard Creek]], [[Arizona]] in [[1905]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freakshow (audio story)|Freakshow]]'')
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* C'rizz is forced to perform in Jacob Crackles' freakshow in the same manner as [[Captain]] [[Kybo]] in [[Jonathan Jaggers]]' [[circus]] in [[1884]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judoon in Chains (audio story)|Judoon in Chains]]'') and the alien creatures in [[Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer]]'s freakshow in [[Buzzard Creek]], [[Arizona]] in [[1905]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freakshow (audio story)|Freakshow]]'').
* During his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], the Doctor would later return to the Great Exhibition in the company of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] and encounter the [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]. On that occasion, he mentioned that he had to be careful not to run into himself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hypothetical Gentleman (comic story)|Hypothetical Gentleman]]'')
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* During his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], the Doctor would later return to the Great Exhibition in the company of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] and encounter the [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]. On that occasion, he mentioned that he had to be careful not to run into himself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hypothetical Gentleman (comic story)|Hypothetical Gentleman]]'')
* The Doctor and his companions agree to meet at [[Oslers Crystal Fountain]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] previously dealt with an incident involving the fountain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Claws of the Klathi]]'')
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* The Doctor and his companions agree to meet at [[Oslers Crystal Fountain]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] previously dealt with an incident involving the fountain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Claws of the Klathi! (comic story)|Claws of the Klathi!]]'')
   
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
* {{bigfinish|releases/v/other-lives-243|Other Lives}}
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Revision as of 11:24, 16 November 2019

RealWorld

Other Lives was the seventy-seventh story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Gary Hopkins and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard and Conrad Westmaas as C'rizz.

Publisher's summary

London, 1851.

Scene of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations.

Scene also of a plot to unseat the government, dethrone the monarch and start a republic.

If the Duke of Wellington himself is to be believed...

While the Doctor and Charley are drawn into the murky world of nineteenth-century politics, C'rizz struggles to maintain his dignity against growing odds.

What begins as an attempt to prevent murder quickly becomes a desperate race to avert revolution. Separated from the TARDIS, the travellers are left to wonder if they'll get their own lives back or be forever entangled with the lives of others.

And who is Mrs Georgina Marlowe? What need does she feel the Doctor can satisfy?

Plot

The Doctor takes his companions to the great exhibition in 1851. Charley meets the Duke of Wellington; C'rizz becomes kidnapped by a local street thug and put on display as a freak; the Doctor saves a French couple from assassination by letting them into his TARDIS, but gets mistaken for their assailant when the TARDIS dematerialises all of a sudden. In prison he meets the real assassin and inadvertently helps him escape. The next morning a woman claiming to be his wife posts his bail. The woman keeps trying to convince him that he is her husband but after another incident with the assassin, he is told that she already knows. She needed his likeness to fool her husband's uncle so that she and her children will be able to keep their home. The Doctor decides to play along with the charade and returns to the Crystal Palace afterwards, where he finds C'rizz and Charley and the TARDIS.

Cast

References

Notes

  • To date, this is the only pure historical story in performed Doctor Who to feature the Eighth Doctor.
  • This is the first of two audio dramas released in the main range to feature the Duke of Wellington as a character. The other is The Curse of Davros in January 2012, in which the Duke was played by Granville Saxton. He does not actually have a direct conversation with the Doctor in either story.
  • Paul McGann, India Fisher and Conrad Westmaas all play dual roles in this story.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 29 and 30 April 2005.

Continuity

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