The Sentinels of the New Dawn was the forty-second release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the tenth story of season 5. It was written by Paul Finch and featured Liz Shaw.
Publisher's summary
Some time after leaving UNIT, Liz Shaw calls the Doctor to Cambridge University, where scientists are experimenting with time dilation. The device hurls them to the year 2014 and a meeting with Richard Beauregard, heir to the Beauregard estate.
Yet there's something rotten at the core of this family… The seeds of a political movement that believes in a new world order.
The Sentinels of the New Dawn are stirring and its malign influence will be felt for centuries to come...
Plot
to be added
Cast
References
- According to Liz, the Doctor and the Brigadier had a strong professional friendship but were poles apart philosophically. They seemingly never socialised during her time with UNIT.
Notes
- This audio drama was recorded on 18 May 2010.
- The New Dawn planned to create an ebola epidemic in 2014. Ironically, in the real world there was a large ebola outbreak in that year.
Continuity
- The Sixth Doctor and his companion Peri Brown would later encounter the Sentinels of the New Dawn. (AUDIO: Leviathan)
- Liz makes reference to the Silurians (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians), the Mim (AUDIO: Shadow of the Past) and the Mars Probe 7 Incident (TV: The Ambassadors of Death) as well as to the Doctor's latest companion with whom he was not "initially enamoured."
External links
- Official The Sentinels of the New Dawn page at bigfinish.com
- The Sentinels of the New Dawn at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
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