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Blood of the Daleks
Big Finish Productions audio play produced for BBC 7, and stars Paul McGann as the Eighth
Doctor and Sheridan Smith as new companion Lucie
Miller. Lucie, described as a "brash northern lass", will
initially be an unwilling passenger in the TARDIS; she has
been placed with the Doctor as part of a "Time Lord wit-
ness protection programme". It is the first in a series of
six stories commissioned by BBC 7 from Big Finish.
The story is set on a human colony named Red Rocket
Rising, and features the Daleks.
As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship
to the televised serials is open to interpretation.
Plot
Part 1
To the Doctor’s puzzlement and consternation, Lucie
Miller appears in the TARDIS; he attempts to return her
to the North of England in 2006, but finds that a temporal
shield prevents him from landing there. Instead, the two
find themselves on the human colony world Red Rocket
Rising, which has suffered an asteroid strike and the con-
sequent impact winter. The survivors include the
colony’s acting president, Eileen Klint, disgraced scientist
Asha Gryvern and the apparently paranoid Tom Card-
well. Klint receives a message from a Dalek fleet offering
rescue to the colony’s citizens, and accepts the offer, be-
lieving the Daleks to be benevolent. Lucie reveals that the
Blood of the Daleks Time Lords have placed her in the Doctor’s care because
Series Doctor Who
of something she’d seen, although she doesn’t know what
it is. Asha, apparently the assistant to one Professor
Release number BBC7 1 Martez, is in reality Martez himself, who had combined
Featuring Eighth Doctor dead and living humans with technology salvaged from a
Lucie Miller crashed Dalek ship in an effort to ensure survival; Martez
has created a new race of Daleks. When the true Daleks
Writer Steve Lyons
land, they welcome the survivors onto their ship, and de-
Director Nicholas Briggs mand that Klint turn the Doctor over to them. Meanwhile
Martez orders his Daleks to open fire on the Doctor.
Executive Nicholas Briggs
producer(s)
Part 2
Set between The Girl Who Never Was and Horror of
Glam Rock The Doctor tricks Martez’s Daleks and escapes. Martez
has summoned the Daleks for assistance with his own
Length 2 50-minute episodes Dalek creations, but the true Daleks see Martez’s Daleks
as a threat to the purity of the Dalek race, and plan to
Blood of the Daleks is an audio drama based on the long- destroy them. The Doctor allies himself temporarily with
running British science fiction television series Doctor the true Daleks in order to destroy Martez’s Daleks, but
Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Pro- then works with Tom Cardwell to eliminate both Dalek
ductions; the first of two 50-minute parts was broadcast groups. The Daleks reveal that they caused the asteroid
on BBC 7 on 31 December 2006, and the second was aired strike on Red Rocket Rising, in a failed attempt to elim-
on 7 January 2007. It is the first original Doctor Who drama inate Martez’s creations; they also destroyed the exodus
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ships carrying refugees from the disaster. Martez’s • Lucie meets the Daleks again in her last story, Lucie
Daleks, which are being birthed at a rapid rate, initially Miller / To the Death.
have an advantage over the true Daleks, who are weak-
ened from another conflict. The Doctor eventually con-
vinces Martez that a Dalek-dominated world will know
Notes
only hatred, war and death. Martez, whose stolen body is • This is the first of a run of episodes set before the
breaking down, halts the birthing process; in return, his ongoing revival TV series and after the 1996
creations kill him. Eventually, the two groups of Daleks television movie. The series may be set some time
(aided by Cardwell’s resistance) destroy each other. The after the previous and ongoing Big Finish run of
humans are left to pick up the pieces, and Klint an- stories featuring McGann and India Fisher. The Radio
nounces that a new offer of rescue has been received Times indicated that this series was the run up to
from the inhabitants of a planet whose name begins Christopher Eccleston’s subsequent incarnation of
"Tel-". the Time Lord. However, according to the Beyond the
Lucie considers staying with the survivors on Red Vortex episode broadcast after Human Resources part 2,
Rocket Rising, but the Doctor discovers that the Time Big Finish will not be doing this. This is the first time
Lords will not let him leave the planet without her. And the BBC has itself supported two separate ongoing
elsewhere, a woman calling herself the Headhunter ac- productions featuring different Doctors (although
cepts a commission from one Mr. Hulbert, promising him Big Finish is, itself, not part of the BBC; BBC7 is). The
that she will find Lucie Miller anywhere in space and end of this series is the 2011 release To the Death.
time... • Part 1 was broadcast on BBC 7 less than a week after
The Runaway Bride aired on BBC One, on Christmas
Day; coincidentally, both stories open with the
Cast Doctor startled by the sudden, unexpected
• The Doctor — Paul McGann appearance of a strange woman in the TARDIS
• Lucie Miller — Sheridan Smith console room.
• Computer/Headhunter — Katarina Olsson • Lucie asking the Doctor if his hair is real is a
• Eileen Klint — Anita Dobson reference to the wig that Paul McGann wore as the
• Tom Cardwell — Kenneth Cranham Doctor in the TV movie[1].
• Asha/Martez — Hayley Atwell
•
•
Lowell — Gerry O’Toole
Daleks — Nicholas Briggs
References
• "Digital Doctor". Doctor Who Magazine (374): 6.
2006-10-11 cover date.
Continuity • "Doctor Eight for BBC7". BBC Doctor Who website.
• The real reason Lucie and the Doctor are brought bbc.co.uk. 2006-09-14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/
together is revealed in Human Resources. doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/09/14/
• The Doctor refers to one of the Daleks as Dalek Fred, 36379.shtml. Retrieved 2006-09-18.
a popular fan nickname for the Dalek who shot the • "New Eighth Doctor Adventures". Big Finish
Tenth Doctor in The Stolen Earth. Productions. 2006-10-16. http://www.bigfinish.com/
• At the end of the play, Klint declares that help is news/news_061016_neweighthdoctor.shtml.
coming once more; she names their new saviours’ Retrieved 2006-10-17.
home planet, but only the first part of the name, [1] Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery. Beyond the
"Tel-", is heard before the signal cuts off. This Vortex Part 1 (radio documentary). Big Finish
implies the planet is Telos, and that Red Rocket Productions.
Rising will soon be invaded by Cybermen.
• The Headhunter reappears in several of the
following Eighth Doctor stories. She finally catches
External links
Lucie at the end of No More Lies. • Big Finish Productions - Blood of the Daleks Part 1
• The Daleks talk about putting the Doctor on trial to • Big Finish Productions - Blood of the Daleks Part 2
deceive the inhabitants of Red Rocket Rising. This • Blood of the Daleks on TARDIS Index File, an external
may refer to the TV movie in which the Daleks, out wiki
of the norm, put the Master on trial, listening to his • Blood of the Daleks at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
plea, and explains why this had happened.
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