Excelis Decays

Excelis Decays

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	3 in Excelis series
Featuring	Seventh Doctor
Writer	Craig Hinton
Director	Gary Russell
Producer	Gary Russell, Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	EX03
Length	1 hr 14 mins
Release date	June 2002

Excelis Decays is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the final part of the Excelis trilogy which commenced in Excelis Dawns and continued in Excelis Rising. The events are also connected to the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Plague Herds of Excelis.

Plot

The Seventh Doctor again visits Artaris and is finally able to resolve the mystery that two of his incarnations have encountered.

Cast

The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
Lord Vaughan Sutton — Anthony Stewart Head
Commissar Sallis — Ian Collier
Major Brant — Yee Jee Tso
Mattias — Stuart Piper
Reeve Cless — Alistair Lock
Deputy Warden Baris — Mark Gatiss
Jancis — Penelope McDonald
The Mother Superior — Patricia Leventon

Continuity

The first Excelis story featured the Fifth Doctor and the second the Sixth Doctor. Excelis Decays features the Seventh Doctor. As with the other two stories, the Doctor travels alone.
The Excelis trilogy is marked by the continual appearance of Anthony Stewart Head, ostensibly as a different character in each story, although by the end it becomes clear that all three characters played by Head are the same man.
In the later audio drama Master, the Doctor uses Vaughan Sutton as his alias since the Master was using the pseudonym John Smith in that story.
It is implied that this is the first chronological appearance of the console used in the TV movie.

Notes

Unlike most Big Finish audio dramas, the Excelis trilogy consisted only of single-disc stories (Excelis Dawns aside). Their release coincided with the first release of audio dramas featuring the Eighth Doctor, and were intended for fans who were more interested in the adventures of past Doctors.

External links

Seventh Doctor audio plays

Mel	The Fires of Vulcan Bang-Bang-a-Boom! Flip-Flop Unregenerate! Red We Are The Daleks The Warehouse Terror of the Sontarans

Ace	The Fearmonger The Genocide Machine Dust Breeding Colditz The Rapture The Prisoner's Dilemma Thin Ice 1963: The Assassination Games The Light at the End You Are the Doctor & Other Stories Nightshade

Ace & Raine	Crime of the Century Animal Earth Aid

Ace & Hex	The Harvest Dreamtime LIVE 34 Night Thoughts The Settling No Man's Land Nocturne The Dark Husband Forty-Five The Magic Mousetrap Enemy of the Daleks The Angel of Scutari Project: Destiny A Death in the Family Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge Protect and Survive Black and White Gods and Monsters Afterlife Revenge of the Swarm Mask of Tragedy Signs and Wonders

Ace & Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge The Dark Flame Love and War The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield The Triumph of Sutekh Theatre of War All Consuming Fire

Benny	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code The Highest Science

Benny, Chris & Roz	Original Sin

Chris & Roz	Damaged Goods

Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story The Architects of History UNIT: Dominion Persuasion Starlight Robbery Daleks Among Us

Alone	The Sirens of Time Last of the Titans Excelis Decays Project: Lazarus Master Return of the Daleks Valhalla Frozen Time The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake A Death in the Family The Four Doctors Robophobia The Doomsday Quatrain House of Blue Fire The Shadow Heart The Two Masters Harvest of the Sycorax

Other	Death Comes to Time Zagreus The Wormery Thicker Than Water Project: Nirvana Doom Coalition

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