The Reaping (Doctor Who audio)

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title=The Reaping
series="Doctor Who"
number=86
featuring=Sixth Doctor Peri Brown


writer=Joseph Lidster
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
executive_producer=
production_code=6ZC
set_between="...ish" and "The Mysterious Planet"
length=2 hrs 22 mins
date=September 2006|

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

Plot

Peri and the Sixth Doctor return to 1984 four months after Peri left her stepfather and mother in Lanzarote. As Peri tries to explain to her mother where she has been and she has been doing for the last four months, the Doctor discovers an old enemy has laid a trap for him…

Cast

*The Doctor — Colin Baker
*Peri Brown — Nicola Bryant
*Cybermen — Nicholas Briggs
*Mrs Van Gysegham — Denise Bryer
*Janine Foster — Claudia Christian
*Natalie Hamilton — Allison Karayanes
*Anthony Chambers — Stuart Milligan
*Nate Chambers — Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
*Kathy Chambers — Jane Perry
*Daniel Woods — Vincent Pirillo
*Lt Doyle — John Schwab

Trivia

*Kathy Chambers' story is resolved in the Fifth Doctor audio drama "The Gathering".
*Despite the fact that Claudia Christian plays Nicola Bryant's mother, she is almost three years younger than her in real life.
*Commander Zheng, a character who first appeared in the Fifth Doctor audio drama "Spare Parts", has a brief cameo.
*Janine Foster, Peri's mother, and Mrs. Van Gysegham were both mentioned in the "Planet of Fire" (1984) in which Peri made her debut.
*In addition to "Planet of Fire", the events of "The Caves of Androzani" (1984) and "Attack of the Cybermen" (1985) are also referenced.

External links

* [http://www.bigfinish.com/86-Doctor-Who-The-Reaping Big Finish Productions - "The Reaping"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_bf86 | title=The Reaping

Reviews

*OG review | id=bf-86 | title=The Reaping
*DWRG | id=reaping | title=The Reaping