The Oseidon Adventure
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{{Infobox audio drama
|title=The Oseidon Adventure
|publisher=Big Finish Productions
|series=Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Adventures
|number= 1.6
|featuring=Fourth Doctor
Leela
|cover=
|writer=Alan Barnes
|director=Ken Bentley
|producer=
|executive_producer=Nicholas Briggs
|production_code=4S/F
|length=
|date=June 2012
}}
The Oseidon Adventure is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.{{cite web |url=http://www.louisejameson.com/portfolio-posttheoseidonadventure.html |title=Louise Jameson | the Official Website |accessdate=2012-04-11 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819203420/http://www.louisejameson.com/portfolio-posttheoseidonadventure.html |archivedate=2013-08-19 }}
This is the second part of a two-part story, the first part being Trail of the White Worm.
Plot
The Kraal attempt to invade the Earth, while the Doctor is trapped on their irradiated home world, Oseidon.
Cast
- The Doctor – Tom Baker
- Leela – Louise Jameson
- The Master – Geoffrey Beevers
- Colonel Spindleton – Michael Cochrane
- Marshal Grimnal / Captain Clarke – Dan Starkey
- Tyngworg / Warner / UNIT R/T Operator – John Banks
Continuity
- The Kraals were in the 1975 Fourth Doctor television story, The Android Invasion. That story also featured UNIT.
- This is the first use of Kraals by Big Finish Productions.
- The Doctor and Leela encounter the Master again in the third season of Fourth Doctor adventures, due to be released in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-fourth-doctor-and-leela-will-return|title = The Fourth Doctor and Leela Will Return! - News - Big Finish}}
Notes
- In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place between Trail of the White Worm and Night of the Stormcrow.
Critical reception
Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael found the casting and performances excellent, but the play "slightly misjudged" as a finale.{{cite magazine|last=Michael|first=Matt|date=September 2012|title=The DWM Review: The Oseidon Adventure|magazine=Doctor Who Magazine|publisher=Panini Comics|location=Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent|issue=450|pages=88–89}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bigfinish.com/106-Doctor-Who-The-Oseidon-Adventure The Oseidon Adventure]
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