Deadline (Doctor Who audio)

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title=Deadline
series="Doctor Who"
number=5
featuring=Sir Derek Jacobi as Martin Bannister and the Doctor


writer=Robert Shearman
director=Nicholas Briggs
producer=Jason Haigh-Ellery
John Ainsworth
executive_producer=Jacqueline Rayner
production_code=DWUN5
set_between=n/a
length=1 hr 1 min
date=September 2003|

"Deadline" is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The Doctor Who Unbound dramas pose a series of "What if...?" questions.

Plot

What if... "Doctor Who" did not materialise as a television series?

Martin Bannister was once a promising young writer, but somewhere along the line everything went wrong. As he looks back at the ruin of his life, he wonders whether it all started with that children's science fiction programme that never got produced. Whatever became of Doctor Who?

Cast

*Martin — Sir Derek Jacobi
*Susan — Genevieve Swallow
*Philip — Peter Forbes
*Barbara — Jacqueline King
*Sydney — Ian Brooker
*Tom — Adam Manning"Other parts played by members of the cast."

Notes

*Sir Derek Jacobi later played two different incarnations of the Master, once in the internet animation "Scream of the Shalka", and later on television in "Utopia". Both of these productions also featured David Tennant. Jacqueline King later had a recurring role in the fourth series of the revived show as Sylvia Noble.

* Martin's scripts and dreams use plot elements from "An Unearthly Child", "The Daleks" and the unmade "Masters of Luxor"

External links

* [http://www.bigfinish.com/5-Doctor-Who-Unbound-Deadline Big Finish Productions - "Deadline"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=unbound05 | title=Deadline

Reviews

*OG review | id=bf-un5 | title=Deadline
*DWRG | id=deadline | title=Deadline