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2002 Doctor Who audio drama

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The Time of the Daleks

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release no.	32
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard
Written by	Justin Richards
Directed by	Nicholas Briggs
Produced by	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	8K
Length	2 hours 2 mins
Release date	May 2002
Preceded by	"Embrace the Darkness"
Followed by	"Neverland"

The Time of the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with The Genocide Machine and continued in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase.

Plot

The Doctor is confused enough when he finds that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare. But when he travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with watching Shakespeare's plays — and the Daleks wanting to help her — the mystery grows more sinister. Can the Daleks really claim to be the 'Masters of Time'?

Cast

The Doctor — Paul McGann
Charley Pollard — India Fisher
The Orator — Don Warrington
Dalek Voices — Nicholas Briggs
General Mariah Learman — Dot Smith
Viola — Nicola Boyce
Major Ferdinand — Julian Harries
Kitchen Boy — Jem Bassett
Priestly — Mark McDonnell
Hart — Lee Moone
Professor Osric — Ian Brooker
Mark Anthony — Ian Potter
Army Officer — Ian Potter
Marcus — Robert Curbishley

Notes

In the Whovian timeline, this story is set between Solitaire and NeverLand.

Continuity

The kitchen boy in this story is eventually revealed to be a young William Shakespeare, dislocated from his proper time. The short story "Apocrypha Bipedium" by Ian Potter (in the collection Short Trips: Companions) is set immediately following The Time of the Daleks, and involves the Doctor's attempt to return young Shakespeare to his own time. Also featuring Vicki, it deals with the Doctor's previous encounters with Shakespeare and tries to reconcile Vicki's apparently happy ending as Cressida in The Myth Makers with the tragic ending of Troilus and Cressida.

Outside references

The dialogue in this play is loaded with direct and indirect quotations from the plays of Shakespeare, but several character names are also taken from the plays, such as Osric from Hamlet, Viola from Twelfth Night and Ferdinand from The Tempest. Mariah Learman's name could also be a reference to the title character of King Lear.

External links

Big Finish Productions - The Time of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor stories

Television

TV film	Doctor Who
Minor appearances	"The Name of the Doctor" "The Day of the Doctor" "The Power of the Doctor"
See also	"The Night of the Doctor"

Audio

The Monthly Adventures	Invaders from Mars The Chimes of Midnight Seasons of Fear Embrace the Darkness The Time of the Daleks Neverland Zagreus The Witch from the Well Army of Death
The Eighth Doctor Adventures	Immortal Beloved Phobos
Other	Earth and Beyond An Earthly Child The Four Doctors Classic Doctors, New Monsters

Books

New Adventures	The Dying Days
Eighth Doctor Adventures	The Eight Doctors The Bodysnatchers Genocide War of the Daleks Kursaal Option Lock Longest Day Legacy of the Daleks Dreamstone Moon Seeing I Placebo Effect Vanderdeken's Children The Scarlet Empress Beltempest The Face-Eater The Taint Demontage Revolution Man Dominion Unnatural History Autumn Mist The Blue Angel The Taking of Planet 5 Parallel 59 The Shadows of Avalon The Fall of Yquatine Coldheart The Space Age The Banquo Legacy The Ancestor Cell The Burning Casualties of War The Turing Test Endgame EarthWorld Vanishing Point The Year of Intelligent Tigers The Slow Empire The City of the Dead Grimm Reality The Adventuress of Henrietta Street Hope Anachrophobia Trading Futures The Book of the Still The Crooked World History 101 Camera Obscura Time Zero The Infinity Race The Domino Effect Reckless Engineering The Last Resort Timeless Emotional Chemistry Sometime Never... The Tomorrow Windows The Sleep of Reason To the Slaughter The Gallifrey Chronicles
Past Doctor Adventures	The Infinity Doctors Wolfsbane

Video games

Legacy
Lego Dimensions

Doctor Who: Dalek stories

Television

First Doctor	The Daleks The Dalek Invasion of Earth The Chase "Mission to the Unknown" The Daleks' Master Plan
Second Doctor	The Power of the Daleks The Evil of the Daleks
Third Doctor	Day of the Daleks Planet of the Daleks Death to the Daleks
Fourth Doctor	Genesis of the Daleks Destiny of the Daleks
Fifth Doctor	Resurrection of the Daleks
Sixth Doctor	Revelation of the Daleks
Seventh Doctor	Remembrance of the Daleks
Ninth Doctor	"Dalek" "Bad Wolf" / "The Parting of the Ways"
Tenth Doctor	"Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks" "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End"
Eleventh Doctor	"Victory of the Daleks" "Asylum of the Daleks" "The Time of the Doctor"
Twelfth Doctor	"Into the Dalek" "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"
Thirteenth Doctor	"Resolution" "Revolution of the Daleks" "Eve of the Daleks" "The Power of the Doctor"
Minor appearances	The Space Museum The Wheel in Space The War Games The Mind of Evil Frontier in Space Logopolis "The Five Doctors" Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars" "The Beast Below" "The Pandorica Opens" / "The Big Bang" "The Wedding of River Song" "The Day of the Doctor" "Hell Bent" "The Pilot" "Twice Upon a Time" "Once, Upon Time" / "The Vanquishers"
See also	The Curse of Fatal Death Tardisode 13 – "Doomsday" "The Last Day" Daleks! "Destination: Skaro"

Films

Dr. Who films	Dr. Who and the Daleks Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
See also	The Lego Batman Movie

Audio

The Monthly Adventures	The Genocide Machine The Apocalypse Element The Mutant Phase The Time of the Daleks Jubilee The Juggernauts Return of the Daleks Renaissance of the Daleks Brotherhood of the Daleks Enemy of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks Daleks Among Us
Dalek Empire	Dalek War
I, Davros	Innocence The Davros Mission
Other	Death and the Daleks Unbound The Lost Stories The Four Doctors The Five Companions Energy of the Daleks The Eighth Doctor Adventures The War Doctor Living History The Tenth Doctor Adventures After the Daleks Nightmare of the Daleks The Final Beginning
Minor appearances	Seasons of Fear Eyes of the Master

Books

Novelisations	Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks The Dalek Invasion of Earth The Chase The Daleks' Master Plan Part I: Mission to the Unknown The Daleks' Master Plan Part II: The Mutation of Time The Power of the Daleks The Evil of the Daleks Day of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Space War Planet of the Daleks Death to the Daleks Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks Resurrection of the Daleks Revelation of the Daleks Remembrance of the Daleks
Eighth Doctor Adventures	War of the Daleks Legacy of the Daleks
New Series Adventures	I Am a Dalek Prisoner of the Daleks The Dalek Generation Engines of War
Other	The Dalek Factor

Video games

Stage

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