Gallifrey: Warfare
Encyclopedia
Gallifrey: Warfare is a Big Finish Productions
audio drama based on the long-running British
science fiction television
series Doctor Who
. The series is set on the Doctor's
home planet of Gallifrey
.
great Academy as a base of operations in their war against Imperiatrix Pandora. But Pandora's anomalous existence within Romana's first incarnation is fracturing her mind. Only bonding with Romana's current form can stabilize her. The Imperiatrix discovers the newly acquired rebel headquarters and orders it destroyed, but their leader must be captured alive. Pandora's other advantage is the completion of a stronger strain of the Dogma Virus, infused with her own biology.
Meanwhile, Romana's plan is a showdown within the Matrix
, one of the oldest repositories of information in the universe, containing the memories and knowledge of every Time Lord
that has ever existed. She, Leela and K-9 trick Pandora into a dark partition, but the Matrix has become infected with the virus. Romana intends to sacrifice herself to end the conflict, but all three of them escape. With Pandora and her virus still trapped inside, the Matrix is destroyed forever.
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio drama based on the long-running British
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science fiction television
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Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...
series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. The series is set on the Doctor's
Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
home planet of Gallifrey
Gallifrey
Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld of the Doctor and the Time Lords...
.
Plot
Romana's rebels use the shattered remains of Gallifrey'sGallifrey
Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld of the Doctor and the Time Lords...
great Academy as a base of operations in their war against Imperiatrix Pandora. But Pandora's anomalous existence within Romana's first incarnation is fracturing her mind. Only bonding with Romana's current form can stabilize her. The Imperiatrix discovers the newly acquired rebel headquarters and orders it destroyed, but their leader must be captured alive. Pandora's other advantage is the completion of a stronger strain of the Dogma Virus, infused with her own biology.
Meanwhile, Romana's plan is a showdown within the Matrix
Matrix (Doctor Who)
The Matrix, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a massive computer system on the planet Gallifrey that acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords....
, one of the oldest repositories of information in the universe, containing the memories and knowledge of every Time Lord
Time Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
that has ever existed. She, Leela and K-9 trick Pandora into a dark partition, but the Matrix has become infected with the virus. Romana intends to sacrifice herself to end the conflict, but all three of them escape. With Pandora and her virus still trapped inside, the Matrix is destroyed forever.
Cast
- President RomanaRomanaRomana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
- Lalla WardLalla WardSarah Ward known as Lalla Ward, is an English actor, author and illustrator. As an actor, she is known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is married to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.-Early career:Ward's stage name, "Lalla", comes... - LeelaLeela (Doctor Who)Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978...
- Louise JamesonLouise JamesonLouise Jameson is an English actress, best known for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the fourth Doctor in Doctor Who. Jameson has also appeared on Emmerdale , The Omega Factor Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, best known... - K9 MK IIK-9 (Doctor Who)K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional robotic canines in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who, first appearing in 1977...
- John LeesonJohn LeesonJohn Leeson is a British actor who is best known for voicing K-9 on the television series Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, and again in the 1980–1981 season. He was called back to do the voice of K-9 again for the 2006 episode "School Reunion" and again for the 2008 Doctor Who episode "Journey's End"... - Inquisitor-Prime Darkel - Lynda BellinghamLynda BellinghamLynda Bellingham is a Canadian-born English actress, broadcaster and author, who is known for her distinctive husky voice.-Early life:...
- CIA Coordinator Narvin - Sean Carlsen
- Imperiatrix Pandora - Mary TammMary TammMary Tamm is an English actress. She is best known for being the first actress to play the character of Romana in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, opposite Tom Baker as the Doctor, from the 1978–1979 season known collectively as The Key to Time.-Early life:Mary Tamm was born in...
- Lord Matthias - Stephen Perring
- Chancellor Valyes - Steven WickhamSteven WickhamSteven Wickham is a British actor known largely for his roles in Big Finish Productions audio dramas as well as guest appearances in Red Dwarf, Casualty, The Bill, Eastenders and Doctor Who in a career which began in 1984.-Career:...
- Captain Annos - Dickson Tolson
- Captain Janartis - Charlie Ross
- Commander Hallan - Michael Cuckson
- Surgeon-Master Elbon - Paul Grunert
- The Sentience - Lisa BowermanLisa BowermanLisa Bowerman is a British actress.Bowerman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and was a regular in the first two series of BBC medical drama Casualty playing Sandra Mute, the show's first female paramedic. Her other television work includes: Dodgem, The Count of Solar, Grange Hill, The...
Continuity
- The Matrix was introduced in the 1976 story The Deadly AssassinThe Deadly AssassinThe Deadly Assassin is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 October to 20 November 1976...
and was also extensively used in The Trial of a Time LordThe Trial of a Time LordThe Trial of a Time Lord is a fourteen-part British science fiction serial of the long running BBC series Doctor Who. The serial, produced as the twenty-third season of the Doctor Who television series, aired in weekly episodes from 6 September to 6 December 1986...
.