The Game (audio story)

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The Game
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Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Nyssa
Main enemy:	Morian
Main setting:	Cray
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Darin Henry
Director:	Gary Russell
Music:	Gareth Jenkins
Post production:	Andy Hardwick
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Release number:	66
Release date:	February 2005
Format:	6 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	6C/G
ISBN 1-84435-100-9
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The Game was the sixty-sixth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. Released in February 2005, it featured the Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. It is the only Fifth Doctor story in audio or television to be six episodes long.

1 Publisher's summary
2 Plot
3 Cast
4 References
5 Notes
6 Continuity
7 External links

Publisher's summary Edit

On the planet Cray, it's game time...

The Gora and the Lineen are set to face off in the grudge match to end all grudge matches. The players are limbering up, the commentators are preparing, the fans are daubing themselves in their team's colours.

The arena is set, and the kick-off is approaching...

When the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa arrive, however, they find that Naxy is a sport that anyone can play ... whether they want to or not. Cray's entire future depends on the match's outcome, but the time travellers soon realise that it is anything but just a game...

Plot Edit

to be added

Cast Edit

References Edit

Planets Edit

Cray has recently been twinned with Earth, a status which causes much embarrassment to Earth due to Cray's poor reputation and ongoing civil war.
The planet Galtry is on the other side of Cray's galaxy and uses coin currency.

Species Edit

Velosian bornoxes are dog-like bipeds capable of being tamed and trained to kill.
Mayzerians naturally emit a highly addictive pheromone with effects like a love potion. They come from Maser.

Units of time Edit

A rev is equivalent to forty Earth minutes.

Notes Edit

This is one of Big Finish's few Doctor Who releases that is six parts long as usually they are four-part stories. It is also the only monthly release to have three episodes per disc. Because the total running time of the play is still around 120 minutes, it has the shortest average episode length of any monthly release.
William Russell (Lord Darzil Carlisle) previously played the First Doctor's companion Ian Chesterton and would later reprise his role in AUDIO: The Transit of Venus, Farewell, Great Macedon, The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance, The Rocket Men, The Five Companions, The Wanderer, The Revenants, The Time Museum and The Flames of Cadiz.
Jonathan Pearce, who plays the Naxy commentator Garny Diblick, is a BBC football commentator in real life.
This audio drama was recorded on 27 October, 28 October and 29 October 2004 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity Edit

to be added

External links Edit

Official The Game page at bigfinish.com
The Game at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
DisContinuity for The Game at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide

Big Finish monthly releases

Fifth Doctor

	Nyssa	The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time (Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter) • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories (The Demons of Red Lodge • The Entropy Composition • Doing Time • Special Features) • 1001 Nights

	Nyssa Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster • The Boy That Time Forgot • Time Reef • A Perfect World

	Tegan Turlough Nyssa	Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat Trap • The Emerald Tiger • The Jupiter Conjunction • The Butcher of Brisbane • Eldrad Must Die! • The Lady of Mercia • Prisoners of Fate

	Turlough	Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • Singularity

	Peri	Red Dawn • Exotron • Urban Myths • Mission of the Viyrans

	Peri Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye • The Bride of Peladon

	Amy	The Judgement of Isskar • The Destroyer of Delights • The Chaos Pool

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Omega • The Gathering • The Four Doctors • The Burning Prince

Sixth Doctor

	Peri	Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • Recorded Time and Other Stories (Recorded Time • A Most Excellent Match • Question Marks • Paradoxicide)

	Frobisher	The Holy Terror • The Maltese Penguin

	Evelyn	The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 (100 BC • My Own Private Wolfgang • Bedtime Story • The 100 Days of the Doctor) • Assassin in the Limelight

	Evelyn Brewster	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial Evolution

	Flip	The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn Isle

	Charley	The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten Planet

	"Jamie"	City of Spires • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen

	Mel	The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • The Wishing Beast • The Vanity Box • The Wrong Doctors • Spaceport Fear • The Seeds of War

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Davros • The Wormery • Her Final Flight • I.D. • Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • The Acheron Pulse

Seventh Doctor

	Mel	The Fires of Vulcan • Bang-Bang-A-Boom! • Flip-Flop • Unregenerate! • Red

	Ace	The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture

	Ace Hex	The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-Five (False Gods • Order of Simplicity • Casualties of War • The Word Lord) • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project: Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge • Protect and Survive

	Ace Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge • The Dark Flame

	Sally	House of Blue Fire

	Ace Hex Lysandra Sally	Black and White • Gods and Monsters

	Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings • Klein's Story • Survival of the Fittest • The Architects of History

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • Death Collectors • Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver • Keepsake • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • The Shadow Heart

Eighth Doctor

	Mary Shelley	Mary's Story • The Silver Turk • The Witch from the Well • Army of Death

	Charley	Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell • Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland • Zagreus • Scherzo • The Girl Who Never Was

	Charley C'rizz	The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom • Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life • Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane • Absolution

	Solo & Other travels	The Company of Friends (Benny's Story • Fitz's Story • Izzy's Story) • An Earthly Child • The Four Doctors

All stories of the main monthly range are included in this navigation box including the "subscriber only" stories which are part of Big Finish Productions' subscription for this range. All other stories are represented in other navigation boxes.

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