Forty-five (audio drama)
| Forty-five | |
|---|---|
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 115 |
| Featuring |
Seventh Doctor Ace Hex |
| Writer |
Mark Morris Nick Scovell Mark Michalowski Steven Hall |
| Director | Ken Bentley |
| Executive producer |
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Production code | 7W/H |
| Release date | November 2008 |
Forty-five is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. As the play released at the forty-fifth anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who, it is made of four one-part stories, by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial. All episodes featured the Seventh Doctor as played by Sylvester McCoy, Ace played by Sophie Aldred and Hex played by Philip Olivier.
Main Cast
False Gods
by Mark Morris
Thebes, Egypt, 1902. Howard Carter discovers the history of Userhat, servant of the god Amun.
- Benedict Cumberbatch — Howard Carter
- Lucy Adams — Jane Templeton
- Paul Lincoln — Robert Charles
- Jon Glover — Creodont
- Paul Lincoln — Robot
Order of Simplicity
by Nick Scovell
Mind control experiments are uncovered on a remote planet.
- Jon Glover — Dr Verryman
- Lucy Adams — Mrs Crisp
- Benedict Cumberbatch — Thing 2
- Paul Lincoln — Thing 1
Casualties of War
by Mark Michalowski
Hex and Ace's pasts are pried on VE Day in London.
- Paul Reynolds — Joey Carlisle
- Linda Marlowe — May
- Beth Chalmers — Audrey
- Beth Chalmers — Miss Merchant
- Andrew Dickens — PC Miller
The Word Lord
by Steven Hall
In 2045, in a secret bunker in the Antarctic, the Doctor meets the Word Lord.
- Linda Marlowe — Commander Claire Spencer
- Paul Reynolds — Nobody No-One
- Andrew Dickens — Captain James Hurst
- Paul Lincoln — Private Fenton
- Beth Chalmers — System
Continuity
- Ace's mother was last in the TV story The Curse of Fenric. Hex's mother was killed by the Forge in Project: Lazarus.
- Nobody No-One returns in A Death in the Family. Having regenerated, he is played by Ian Reddington.