Flip-Flop (Doctor Who audio)

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title=Flip-Flop
series=Doctor Who
number=46
featuring=Seventh Doctor Mel


writer=Jonathan Morris
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
executive_producer=Jacqueline Rayner
production_code=7EB
set_between="Bang-Bang-a-Boom!" and "Delta and the Bannermen"
length=2 hrs 6 mins
date=July 2003|

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

This audio drama is presented on two CDs, one white and the other black. The discs can be listened to in either order due to the construction of the plot.

Plot

Black disc

It is Christmas Eve, 3090, and the Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive on the planet Puxatornee searching for leptonite crystals to fight the Quarks. They discover a world where the human citizens are slowly becoming in thrall to the alien Slithergees.

White disc

It is Christmas Eve, 3090, and the Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive on the planet Puxatornee searching for leptonite crystals. They find the world a ruined radioactive wasteland.

Cast

*The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
*Mel — Bonnie Langford
*Mitchell — Richard Gibson
*Slithergee Voices — Daniel Hogarth
*Potter — Trevor Littledale
*Stewart — Francis Magee
*Professor Capra — Trevor Martin
*Bailey — Pamela Miles
*Reed — Audrey Schoellhammer

Notes

*Puxatornee and the events in this strange episode loosely resemble the bizarre events in the "time-travel" Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day" where the same day happens over and over again only to be changed by Bill Murray in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The film takes place on Groundhog Day, another winter holiday.
*The character names are references to the film "It's a Wonderful Life", which also takes place at Christmas. Characters in the film include Mr. Potter and the Bailey family; the film was directed by Frank Capra and starred Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Thomas Mitchell, among others.

External links

* [http://www.bigfinish.com/46-Doctor-Who-Flip-Flop Big Finish Productions - "Flip-Flop"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_bf46 | title=Flip-Flop

Reviews

*OG review | id=bf-46 | title=Flip-Flop
*DWRG | id=flip | title=Flip-Flop