Thicker than Water (audio drama)

Thicker than Water

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	73
Featuring	Sixth Doctor Mel Bush Evelyn Smythe
Writer	Paul Sutton
Director	Edward Salt
Producer	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	none listed
Production code	7CU
Length	1 hr 37 mins
Release date	September 2005

Thicker than Water is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is a sequel to the earlier audio play Arrangements for War.

Plot

It is three years since the Sixth Doctor helped repel the Killoran invasion of Világ, and he brings a new friend, Mel, to meet an old one. Evelyn Smythe, his former companion is now married to Principal Triumvir Rossiter. But Evelyn has made political enemies, among them her own stepdaughter Sofia, and the reunion takes a deadly turn when Evelyn and Mel are kidnapped.

Cast

The Doctor — Colin Baker
Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
Mel — Bonnie Langford
Principal Triumvir Rossiter — Gabriel Woolf
Dr Sofia Rossiter — Rachel Pickup
Dr Andrew Szabó — Patrick Romer
Dr Sebastian Lawrence — Simon Watts
Jenner — Matt Dineen
TV Interviewer — James Parsons

Continuity

This story revisits the world Világ, first heard in Arrangements for War.
This story features an uncredited appearance by Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
It is revealed in this story that Hex, who is a companion of the Seventh Doctor, is the son of Cassie from Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus. The Doctor discovered this in The Harvest.
Evelyn may recognize the Seventh Doctor as she previously watched him from afar in The 100 Days of the Doctor. They properly meet again in A Death in the Family.

External links

Reviews

Thicker than Water reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Thicker than Water 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

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