Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Doctor Who and the Space War


Doctor Who and the Space War / Malcolm Hulke. – [Bath] : BBC Audiobooks Ltd., 2008.

1 audio file (60140 KB) (4 hrs., 11 min.)

ISBN: 9781405666695

(Doctor Who)

OverDrive eAudio Book

Cast

Narrator: Geoffrey Beevers

The Doctor : Jon Pertwee

Jo Grant : Katy Manning

General Williams - Michael Hawkins

President of Earth - Vera Fusek

Draconian Prince - Peter Birrell

The Master - Roger Delgado

Draconian Emperor - John Woodnutt

Using parts of the original dialog from the original BBC television show, Geoffrey Beevers narrates this audio adaptation of the "Doctor Who and the frontier in space" by Malcolm Hulke. The television serial was first broadcast between February 2 and March 31, 1973.

In order to avoid a head on collision in hyperspace, the Doctor materializes his time and space traveling machine, the TARDIS, inside the hold of an earth space cargo ship. When he and his companion Jo Grant step out to look around the crew of the cargo ship locks them up and accuses them of being Draconian pirates. Since the Draconians are reptiles and the Doctor and Jo are humanoids they are puzzled by their captors strange misperception.

Doctor Who (Fictitious character) – Drama. 2. Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989) 3. Science fiction. 4. Science fiction television programs – Great Britain.

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