September 22nd, 2023 9 comments

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Big Finish Torchwood Odyssey 76, Oodunnit 77 and Oracle 78

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Putting the Ood into TorchwOod

Everyone’s favourite spaghetti-faced aliens are invading Torchwood’s monthly range of audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, starting in October 2023.

It’s the Ood, the bad and the ugly! A loose trilogy of stories featuring characters first seen in the 2006 Doctor Who TV episode, The Impossible Planet, are set to wrap up the full-cast Torchwood audio drama run for this year.

First comes Odyssey, by Patrick O’Connor featuring the return of Ida Scott (Claire Rushbrook). Ida Scott has spent her life running from her father. But now she’s come looking for him. The Spire is an ancient relic left behind by The Resilient – a mysterious race who warped both gravity and time. Odysseus Scott lies dying in a bed in The Spire. He believes it will cure him. But are The Resilient really dead?

November’s release is James Goss’s Oodunnit, a murder mystery starring Shaun Parkes as Zachary Cross Flane. Who would murder an Ood? In the 43rd Century, all the Earth Empire’s waste goes to the recycling world of Paraglas IV. But has something else been sent there? Something worth killing for? The Torchwood Archive sends Zachary Cross Flane to investigate, and he uncovers a terrible secret. The Empire has a use for everyone, even after death.

And finally, Ronny Jhutti returns as Danny Bartock in Oracle, by Ash Darby, due for release in
December. In the 43rd Century, the height of the Earth Empire. A ship from 1000 years in the future has
crashed on a lava world and is calling for help. How dangerous is the knowledge it offers? The Torchwood Archive sends Danny Bartock. Because only an ethicist can save humanity from the future.

Producer James Goss said: “For this Ood trilogy script editor Tim Foley suggested we follow the
game of Rock Paper Scissors, so each part of the trilogy looks at a different aspect of humanity’s future.
“We start on a world where the seas are rock, in Oodunnit we visit the Empire’s recycling planet and, finally, in Oracle we find out if truth is the sharpest knife of all. Who will be the winner? “The trilogy sees the return of Ida Scott (Claire Rushbrook), Zachary Cross Flane (Shaun Parkes), and Danny Bartok (Ronny Jhutti) from The Impossible Planet. Plus, Silas Carson as the Ood. It was an absolute delight to get all of them back in – we’ve managed to investigate the Ood differently across the trilogy, plus we also get to hear how the survivors of The Impossible Planet are dealing with the events of that story.”

Each of the three audio adventures is available to pre-order as a collector’s edition CD and download (for just £10.99) or as a download only (for £8.99). A six-release Torchwood bundle, including the above three titles, plus Launch Date, Sigil and Dog Hop, is available for just £60 (collector’s edition CD + download) or £50 (download only). A 12-release Torchwood bundle is also available for just £110 (collector’s edition CD + download) or £96 (download only), which includes the first six stories of 2024.

Please note: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners. Big Finish is currently operating a digital-first release schedule. The mail-out of collector’s edition CDs may be delayed due to factors beyond our control, but all purchases of this release unlock a digital copy that can be immediately downloaded or played on the Big Finish app from the release date.

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