- Dust Breeding
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Big Finish Productions audio play 
Dust Breeding Series Doctor Who Release number 21 Featuring Seventh Doctor
AceWriter Mike Tucker Director Gary Russell Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-ElleryExecutive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner Set between The Genocide Machine and
ColditzLength 1 hour 44 mins Release date June 2001 Dust Breeding is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The story marks the return of Caroline John to Doctor Who and the introduction of the Master to the Big Finish continuity.
Contents
Plot
The Seventh Doctor's diary has a strange entry that the painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is going to be destroyed in "mysterious circumstances". So he and Ace visit a colony of artists on the barren dust world of Duchamp 331 to find out more. He isn't expecting the return of one of his most personal enemies...
Cast
- The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
- Ace — Sophie Aldred
- Maggie — Jane Goddard
- Skredsvig — Jez Fielder
- Jay Binks — Gary Russell
- Bev Tarrant — Louise Faulkner
- Guthrie — Ian Ricketts
- Madame Salvadori — Caroline John
- Klemp — Mark Donovan
- Mr Seta — Geoffrey Beevers
- Damien Pierson — Johnson Willis
- Albert Bootle — Alistair Lock
Notes
- The Master spends the story in a state of decay similar to that shown in The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of Traken. His alias in the story, Mr. Seta, is, as is typical for the Master, an anagram of Master.
- Caroline John previously played the Third Doctor's companion Liz Shaw in the 1970 season. She is married to Geoffrey Beevers, who had previously played the Master in The Keeper of Traken.
- Geoffrey Beevers returns to the role in Master.
- The character of Bev Tarrant previously appeared in The Genocide Machine and also appears in the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Bellotron Incident.
- The Doctor mentions that there are multiple Mona Lisas in existence, and that the one in the Louvre has "THIS IS A FAKE" written under the paint in felt-tip pen. This is a reference to events of the Fourth Doctor serial City of Death.
- The Doctor reveals to Ace that he has the original of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the TARDIS. He claims to have rescued it from a museum fire in the Rijksmuseum in the 33rd century. The TARDIS art gallery also features a Terileptil sculpture.
- The name of the planet Duchamp 331 is almost certainly a reference to artist Marcel Duchamp, and "Dust Breeding" a reference to the Duchamp and Man Ray photograph of the same name.
- The name of the character Madame Salvadori may be a reference to artist Salvador Dalí.
- Ace and the Doctor mention to Bev Tarrant that they have encountered the monstrous alien Krill before, on a colony world. This is a reference to the events of the Past Doctor Adventures novel Storm Harvest.
External links
- Big Finish Productions - Dust Breeding
- Dust Breeding on TARDIS Index File, an external wiki
- Dust Breeding at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Reviews
- Dust Breeding reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Dust Breeding reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Seventh Doctor audio dramas Mel Ace & Raine Crime of the Century • Animal • Earth AidAce The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture • The Prisoner's Dilemma • Thin IceAce & Hex The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-five • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's EdgeAce & Benny Benny Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal CodeKlein A Thousand Tiny Wings • Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story • The Architects of HistoryAlone The Sirens of Time • Last of the Titans • Excelis Decays • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake • A Death in the Family • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • House of Blue FireOther Death Comes to Time • Zagreus • The Wormery • Thicker than WaterDoctor Who: The Master television stories Third Doctor Fourth Doctor Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor Eighth Doctor Tenth Doctor Minor appearances Audio Dust Breeding • Sympathy for the Devil • MasterSee also Categories:- Seventh Doctor audio plays
- 2001 audio plays
- The Master audio plays
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