The Gathering (Doctor Who audio)

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title=The Gathering
series="Doctor Who"
number=87
featuring=Fifth Doctor Tegan


writer=Joseph Lidster
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
executive_producer=
production_code=6QJ
set_between="The Kingmaker" and "Son of the Dragon" (contemporaneous with "The Veiled Leopard")
length=
date=September 2006|

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

Plot

The Fifth Doctor encounters an enthusiastic fan who has found traces of the Doctor's various visits to Earth in his archives. Many of the visits are accompanied by a characteristic energy signature which the Doctor does not recognise and sets off to investigate. He travels to 1984 Baltimore, but hears a police report with a search out for the Doctor and realises a future incarnation is already there, so instead decides to visit Australia in 2006.

There he is to meet Tegan, an old companion, still trying to reconcile her every day life with the adventures she had with the Doctor, and Katherine Chambers, a woman dealing with a legacy of events in the Doctor's future…

Cast

*The Doctor — Peter Davison
*Tegan Jovanka — Janet Fielding
*Michael Tanaka — Dait Abuchi
*Eve Morris — Janie Booth
*Alan Fitzgerald — Nicholas Briggs
*James Clarke — Richard Grieve
*Waiter — Jef Higgins
*Rosemary Stark — Belinda Hoare
*Jodi Boyd — Zehra Naqvi
*Katherine Chambers — Jane Perry

Trivia

*The companionless Doctor says he has left Peri and Erimem in Monte Carlo, a reference to the Doctor-less audio adventure "The Veiled Leopard".
*The story is set on Tegan's birthday, September 22.
*"Doctor Who" actress and singer Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) shares that birthday, a fact subtly acknowledged by the story when it is mentioned during an in-story radio broadcast.
*This is the first audio drama in which Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka) appears.
*It is heavily implied that James Clarke is working for the Forge. This is confirmed in the short story "Twilight's End" which features in "".
*In the Children In Need special Time Crash, The Fifth Doctor mistakenly believes his Tenth Incarnation to be a "fan". This story sees this same incarnation meet a fan, leading to the events that unfold, The Fifth Doctor will also become aware of LINDA in the future.

External links

* [http://www.bigfinish.com/87-Doctor-Who-The-Gathering Big Finish Productions - The Gathering"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_bf87 | title=The Gathering

Reviews

*OG review | id=bf-87 | title=The Gathering