Bloodtide (audio drama)

Bloodtide (radio drama)

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	22
Featuring	Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe
Writer	Jonathan Morris
Director	Gary Russell
Producer	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	7CD
Length	1 hr 50 mins
Release date	23 July 2001

Bloodtide is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn meet Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands where an awakening group of Silurians have horrifying plans for mankind.

Cast

The Doctor — Colin Baker
Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
Tulok — Daniel Hogarth
Sh'vak — Helen Goldwyn
Governor Lawson — Julian Harries
Emilio — Jez Fielder
Greta — Jane Goddard
Charles Darwin — Miles Richardson
Captain Fitzroy — George Tefler
Lokan — Jez Fielder

Notes

The play features an appearance by an adult Myrka, a type of monster previously seen in the TV serial Warriors of the Deep.
Darwin and the Doctor make references to other real scientists such as geologist Charles Lyell and naturalist Georges Cuvier. The Doctor also uses the alias of Doctor Albert Einstein and warns Darwin to watch out for Alfred Wallace.
According to this story, humanity (Homo sapiens) are the result of a forbidden breeding program carried out by a renegade Silurian scientist.

External links

Reviews

Bloodtide reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Bloodtide reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Sixth Doctor audio dramas

Peri	Slipback Whispers of Terror ...ish Her Final Flight Cryptobiosis The Reaping Year of the Pig The Nightmare Fair Mission to Magnus Leviathan The Hollows of Time Paradise 5 Point of Entry The Song of Megaptera The Macros Recorded Time and Other Stories The Guardians of Prophecy Power Play The First Sontarans Destiny of the Doctor: Trouble in Paradise 1963: The Space Race The Light at the End Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories The Widow's Assassin Masters of Earth The Rani Elite

Frobisher	The Holy Terror The Maltese Penguin

Evelyn	The Marian Conspiracy The Spectre of Lanyon Moor The Apocalypse Element Bloodtide Project: Twilight The Sandman Jubilee Doctor Who and the Pirates Real Time Project: Lazarus Arrangements for War Medicinal Purposes Pier Pressure The Nowhere Place 100 Assassin in the Limelight A Town Called Fortune

Evelyn & Brewster	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster The Feast of Axos Industrial Evolution

Charley	The Condemned The Doomwood Curse Brotherhood of the Daleks Return of the Krotons The Raincloud Man Patient Zero Paper Cuts Blue Forgotten Planet The Red House

Jamie	City of Spires Night's Black Agents The Wreck of the Titan Legend of the Cybermen Last of the Cybermen

Jago & Litefoot	Jago in Love Beautiful Things The Lonely Clock The Hourglass Killers Voyage to Venus Voyage to the New World Stage Fright Masterpiece

Flip	The Curse of Davros The Fourth Wall Wirrn Isle Antidote to Oblivion The Brood of Erys Scavenger Stage Fright

Constance Clarke	Criss-Cross The End of the Line Planet of the Rani Shield of the Jötunn

Mel	The One Doctor The Juggernauts Catch-1782 Thicker than Water The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box The Wrong Doctors Spaceport Fear The Seeds of War The Brink of Death

Alone	The Sirens of Time The Ratings War Excelis Rising Davros The Wormery I.D. & Urgent Calls The Four Doctors Peri and the Piscon Paradox The Acheron Pulse Trial of the Valeyard Second Sight Vampire of the Mind Judoon in Chains

Other	Zagreus The Ultimate Adventure Beyond the Ultimate Adventure

Doctor Who: Silurian stories

Television episodes	Doctor Who and the Silurians The Sea Devils Warriors of the Deep "The Hungry Earth" / "Cold Blood"

Madame Vastra	"A Good Man Goes to War" "The Snowmen" "The Crimson Horror" "The Name of the Doctor" "Deep Breath"

Minor appearances	Frontier in Space "The Pandorica Opens" "The God Complex" "The Wedding of River Song" "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" "Face the Raven"

Novels	The Scales of Injustice Blood Heat Happy Endings Eternity Weeps

Video Games	Destiny of the Doctors Evacuation Earth The Eternity Clock The Mazes of Time

Audio Dramas	Bloodtide The Poison Seas

See also	"The Monsters Are Coming"

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