The Third Doctor (Tim Treloar) and Jo Jones (Katy Manning) meet Anton Chekhov and face the Daleks in The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers, a new box set of two brand-new audio adventures from Big Finish. The second story in this box set guest stars student actors from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and a new video (below) features Katy Manning as she meets these young actors.
The first story in this box set is a four-parter – The Beasts of Sakhalin Island by Jez Fielder. When the TARDIS arrives on Sakhalin Island in 1890, the Doctor and Jo meet the writer Dr Anton Chekhov, who is writing about the prisoners at a penal colony. He has already noted how the conditions in the prison are awful, but something else has arrived on the island that are about to make things much worse. Can the Doctor find out what is causing the strange new infection, and will he discover what mysterious creature is providing the tortured howls?
This adventure stars Sasha Alexandra as Dr Anna Petrovna, Jez Fielder as Dmitri, George Weightman as Commandant Konovich, Alexander Ballinger as Polkovnik Gedrus/Prisoner Yuri, and Bruce Alexander as Time Monitor Prendar.
From L to R: George Naylor, Ellie Carnaby, Kieran Devine, Tim Treloar, Katy Manning, Nicholas Briggs, Emily Hurst, Tom Brace-Jenkins, and Peter Devlin.
In The Planet Killers by Andrew Smith, the Doctor and Jo arrive on a beautiful world filled with life. Little do the pair know that they have arrived when the planet is set to be destroyed, its minerals exploited, and a whole lot of slavery and suffering to take place. It’s not long before the duo discover that the Daleks have a terrifying and merciless scheme in motion, and the cost to defeat them will cost many lives.
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This adventure stars students from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, including Emily Hurst as Zeb Skander, Peter Devlin as Mercatious Grib, Tom Brace-Jenkins as Polk, Ellie Carnaby as Kasper, and Kieran Devine as Councillor Voster.
The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers is available now for £19.99 for the download, and £24.99 for the download and limited collector’s edition CD box set. Bundles are also available for other othe Third Doctor Adventures.
