Big Finish Productions have today released a new box set of audio adventures for the Sixth Doctor in The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Water Worlds. Colin Baker returns once again to do the voice for the Sixth Doctor while Bonnie Langford returns as Mel and BAFTA-nominated Ruth Madeley is the new companion, Hebe Harrison.
In The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Water Worlds the Doctor and his companions have three wet adventures that include finding an ocean on the Moon, coming across a flooded town with survivors doing some rather desperate things and making friends with an alien fish.
The Rotting Deep by Jacqueline Rayner is the first of the three adventures and finds the Doctor and Mel responding to a mysterious SOS that takes them to an oil rig in the North Sea where an ever-decreasing number of survivors await rescue from a strange creature. When they meet marine biologist Hebe Harrison they find there are plenty of perils to see beneath the waves. As well as the Doctor and his companions, this adventure guest stars popular Australian actor Rove McManus as Jonah Strong, a fainthearted TV star.
The Tides of the Moon by Joshua Pruett takes the TARDIS and its occupants to the Moon, two billion years in the past. The Moon at this time has a massive ocean and is occupied by an advanced humanoid race called the Gilleans who are terrorised each night by the monstrous Sheega. How can the Doctor help this race, especially when in a few hours time a cataclysmic event will occur from the gravitational forces of the Moon’s blue and green neighbour.
Finally, in Maelstrom by Jonathan Morris the trio visit the archipelago world of Veludia where they discover that the planet has been beset by electromagnetic storms. There they come across a ramshackle vessel with three survivors known as ‘Corps’, bodies used as hosts for minds stored in the vessel’s ‘mind-drive’. The Doctor, Mel and Hebe are seen as ideal replacements but there’s something lurking in the dark waters beneath the vessel that wants to destroy them. Maelstrom guest stars Cherylee Houston MBE as Hebe’s best friend, Elise.
Colin Baker said “My Doctor always needs to be reminded that he can be a little overbearing and now I have two perfect companions to do that. I think it’s very good for Ol’ Sixie. It’s a lovely dynamic.
The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Water Worlds is now available from the Big Finish website as a collector’s edition 3-disc CD box set for £19.99 or digital download for £16.99.
