April 11th, 2013
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Smoke and Mirrors (Destiny of the Doctor 5)
Smoke and Mirrors (Destiny of the Doctor5)
As all Doctor Who fans know, it’s the programme’s big Five-O anniversary this year.
The series began on 23rd November 1963, and AudioGO is continuing to celebrate with the fifth story in their Destiny of the Doctor series.
Whereas April saw the fourth Doctor and his companion Romana investigating a malevolent intelligence in the world of Hephastos in Babblesphere, May finds adventure in store for the Fifth Doctor, as played by Peter Davison in the TV series, and his companions Tegan, Nyssa and Adric.
The Doctor answers a psionic distress call sent from England in the 1920s. There, in the environs of a fairground, he is reunited with an old friend: Harry Houdini. To Adric and Nyssa the name means very little, but to the Doctor’s companion Tegan he is a legend. Escape artist extraordinaire, Houdini’s reputation will last for decades. But how does Houdini know so much about Tegan herself? Is it really just guesswork, as he says? Is Houdini right to be concerned about the fairground’s fortune teller, who claims to have supernatural skills? Both he and the Doctor suspect an alien influence may be at work.
What neither the Doctor nor his friends realise is that, somewhere in the shadows, a sinister and all too familiar presence is lying in wait for them…
Doctor Who: Smoke and Mirrors (Destiny of the Doctor 5) is an original adventure by Steve Lyons, a prolific writer of Doctor Who fiction, and is available as a CD or download from 2nd May. It’s performed by Janet Fielding, who played Tegan in the original TV series, and Tim Beckmann. The series is produced for AudioGO by Big Finish Productions.
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Joe
April 11th, 2013 - 9:18pmIs it like the big finish audio companion chronicals or like a full cast because it really confused. At first I thought it was like a full cast then someone write a comment saying it was a companion chronical like one which one is it or is it both of them or like part narratedart full cast drama is it all of the series that’s like this
Ps: who will be the companion for the 8th dr will it be lucie miller, Molly o Sullivan or any of his other companions it presume it won’t have grace holloway in it
josh smith
April 11th, 2013 - 9:20pmits 2 people reading a script
T4RD1S
April 11th, 2013 - 3:32pmThe 6th doctor one is called trouble in paradise I think
woozworld
April 11th, 2013 - 6:00pmI got 1 2 3 4 5 of the destiny of the doctor
LEWIS
April 14th, 2013 - 3:44pmyou are right
josh smith
April 11th, 2013 - 3:05pmwhat are these exactly? are they like big finish?
eddy
April 11th, 2013 - 3:06pmaudios
josh smith
April 11th, 2013 - 3:14pmyes but are they the ones were someone reads a book or a proper full cast drama?
booboo
April 11th, 2013 - 3:46pmSome parts are narrated as links to the story with some cast
The TARDIS
April 11th, 2013 - 3:43pmThey are like the bbc audio books, only with a second actor.
josh smith
April 11th, 2013 - 3:49pmoh i see
booboo
April 11th, 2013 - 3:51pmI have been listening to some of The Second one with Frazer Hines that i downloaded for free last night, he does a very good impression of The 2nd Doctor
josh smith
April 11th, 2013 - 3:56pmah i met Frazer once he is very funny and nice
The TARDIS
April 11th, 2013 - 4:28pmFrazer Hines’ second Doctor is AMAZING! In his companion chronicles, it really sounds like Patrick Troughton recorded it.
Scott the Raptor
April 11th, 2013 - 2:24pmNice