The Bride of Peladon

The Bride of Peladon

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	104
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Peri Brown Erimem
Writer	Barnaby Edwards
Director	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code	6Q/M
Release date	January 2008

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

Plot

On the planet of Peladon the young King awaits his bride, a princess from Earth, whom he has never met. The marriage has been arranged for political reasons but the King's grandmother does not approve. With different off-worlders arriving, mysterious deaths happening and a voice manipulating events, it's up to the Doctor and his companions to prevent an ancient evil from rising.

Cast

Voice — Jenny Agutter

Pelleas — Christian Coulson
Pandora — Yasmin Bannerman
Zixlyr — Nicholas Briggs
Alpha Centauri — Jane Goddard
Frankis — Richard Earl
Elkin — Peter Sowerbutts
Foreman — Philip Childs
Miner — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Continuity

This audio drama is a sequel to the Third Doctor serials The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon. Besides the Doctor, Alpha Centauri is the only other character to appear in all three stories.
This is the fourth Big Finish audio drama to feature the Ice Warriors, following Red Dawn, Frozen Time and a brief cameo appearance in Bang-Bang-a-Boom!.
The Osirans were introduced in the Fourth Doctor television story Pyramids of Mars.
Yasmin Bannerman appeared in the Ninth Doctor television episode "The End of the World", as Jabe.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster has appeared in the Tenth Doctor television episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" as well as another Fifth Doctor audio, The Mind's Eye.
Phyllida Law played Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures story Eye of the Gorgon.
This is Erimem's departure story.
At the end of the play, Peri says to the Doctor that she will not be leaving (like Erimem) because she marries "some alien king". However, she does in fact end up marrying "some alien king" at the end of The Trial of a Time Lord.

External links

Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	Psychodrome Iterations of I The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Return to the Web Planet Castle of Fear The Eternal Summer Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights 1963: Fanfare For The Common Men The Light at the End Moonflesh Tomb Ship Masquerade

Nyssa & Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef A Perfect World

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth The Waters of Amsterdam Aquitaine The Peterloo Massacre

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane Eldrad Must Die! The Lady of Mercia Prisoners of Fate Mistfall Equilibrium The Entropy Plague

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince And You Will Obey Me Fallen Angels

Doctor Who: Ice Warrior stories

Television episodes	The Ice Warriors The Seeds of Death The Curse of Peladon The Monster of Peladon "Cold War"

Audio plays	Red Dawn Frozen Time The Bride of Peladon The Judgement of Isskar The Prisoner of Peladon Mission to Magnus Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars Thin Ice Lords of the Red Planet

Novels	Mission to Magnus Legacy GodEngine The Dying Days The Silent Stars Go By

Minor appearances	The War Games The Mind of Evil Bang-Bang-a-Boom! "Face the Raven"

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