The Curse of Davros is the first story in the 2012 Sixth Doctor audio trilogy.
Publishers summary
It's been a year since Philippa 'Flip' Jackson found herself transported by Tube train to battle robot mosquitoes on a bizarre alien planet in the company of a Time Lord known only as 'the Doctor'.
Lightning never strikes twice, they say. Only now there's a flying saucer whooshing over the top of the night bus taking her home. Inside: the Doctor, with another extraterrestrial menace on his tail – the Daleks, and their twisted creator Davros!
But while Flip and the fugitive Doctor struggle to beat back the Daleks' incursion into 21st century London, Davros's real plan is taking shape nearly 200 years in the past, on the other side of the English Channel. At the battle of Waterloo...
Cast
- The Doctor / Davros - Colin Baker
- Flip Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
- Davros / The Doctor - Terry Molloy
- Jared - Ashley Kumar
- Napoléon Bonaparte - Jonathan Owen
- Captain Pascal - Rhys Jennings
- The Duke of Wellington - Granville Saxton
- Marshal Ney - Robert Portal
- Captain Dickson - Christian Patterson
- The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
references
- After her flat is destroyed by the Daleks, Flip laments that she will have to move back in her with mother and her boyfriend Nigel whom she considers "creepy."
- Flip has never had a solid grasp of history and claims that she was not even allowed to do it for her GCSEs. Consequently, her only knowledge of the Battle of Waterloo comes from the Swedish pop group ABBA's song "Waterloo." Upon meeting Napoleon only hours before the battle is to begin, she tells him of its outcome by quoting the song's opening lyric: "At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender."
- Upon visiting the battlefield at Waterloo, Jared is reminded of the strategy based video game franchise Command & Conquer.
Notes
- This is the second audio drama released in the main range to feature the Duke of Wellington as a character. The first was BFA: Other Lives in December 2005 in which he was played by Ron Moody.
- This is the first audio drama released in the main range to feature Davros since BFA: Terror Firma in August 2005.
- Jonathan Owen (Napoléon Bonaparte) previously played Antranak in BFA: The Eye of the Scorpion and Hamiyun in BFA: Her Final Flight.
- This audio drama was recorded on 6 and 7 June 2011.
- With this audio drama, Colin Baker becomes the sixth actor to portray Davros. Coincidently, he also portrayed the sixth incarnation of the Doctor.
Continuity
- Flip and Jared recall the events of BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster.
- The Second Doctor was also present at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. In the course of the same adventure, he had had extensive contact with both Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington. (PDA: World Game) During his eighth incarnation, his companion Charley Pollard would later befriend the elderly Duke at the British Exhibition in 1851. (BFA: Other Lives)
- When Flip enquires after Evelyn Smythe the Doctor tells her that she left the TARDIS in order to spend the rest of her life with "a chap called Rossiter." (BFA: Thicker than Water)
- The Doctor tells Flip that Davros' life support chair does not feature a button with which his life support can be turned off. It would suggest that Davros has redesigned the chair since he first met the Fourth Doctor on Skaro as, on that occasion, the Doctor was about to turn off his life support unless Davros gave the order for Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan to be released. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)
Timeline
For the Sixth Doctor
- This story takes place after BFA: Thicker than Water (flashback)
- This story takes place before BFA: The Fourth Wall
For Davros
- This story takes place after BFA: The Davros Mission
- This story takes place before DWM: Emperor of the Daleks!
External links
- Official The Curse of Davros page at bigfinish.com
