The Guardian of the Solar System

The Guardian of the Solar System
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series 'Doctor Who'
Release no. 33
Featuring Sara Kingdom
Written by Simon Guerrier
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
Production code BFPDWCC33
Release date July 2010

The Guardian of the Solar System is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot

The First Doctor, Steven and Sara Kingdom find themselves inside a giant clock, the great secret of The Guardians of the Solar System.

Cast

Continuity

  • This play is a sequel to Home Truths and The Drowned World.
  • The flashback stories occur in the opposite order of the framing stories.
  • Sara mentioned seeing an old man caught in the workings of a giant clock in Home Truths.
  • Mavic Chen was the Guardian of the Solar System, in league with the Daleks, in The Daleks' Master Plan.
  • Mavic Chen mentions Sara's earlier encounter with the Daleks alongside a robot named Mark 7, as heard in the audio lost story The Destroyers.

Critical reception

Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael said that the audio was "excellent", describing it has having a "dark, haunting atmosphere", and praising its "astonishing" imagery.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Michael, Matt (15 September 2010). "The DWM Review". Doctor Who Magazine. No. 425. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics. p. 64.


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