Black and White (audio drama)

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Black and White is a Big Finish Productions audio play based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

The search for the Doctor continues. The Black TARDIS brings Ace and Aristedes to the setting of the classic, epic, Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. The White TARDIS brings Hex and Sally to the same location, but sixteen years later.

Cast

• Seventh Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
• Ace – Sophie Aldred
• Hex – Philip Olivier
• Captain Lysandra Aristedes – Maggie O'Neill
• Amy Pemberton
• Garundel – Stuart Milligan
• Michael Rouse
• Old Beowulf – Richard Bremmer
• Weohstan – John Banks
• Wiglaf – James Hayward

Continuity

• Aristedes was first heard in the 2010 story,
  Project Destiny
  , where she was working for The Forge, just before its destruction.
• Sally met the Doctor in the 2011 story House of Blue Fire. She also features in Project: Nirvana, alongside Captain Aristedes.
• The exterior of the TARDIS was rendered white during the events of the 2009 story,
  Protect and Survive
  .
• Ace and Hex discovered that the Doctor was missing at the start of the previous story, Protect and Survive.
• The TARDIS with the black exterior was inexplicably seen in a trilogy of solo Seventh Doctor stories,
  The Doomsday Quatrain
  and House of Blue Fire, which, for the Doctor, take place between Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and Protect and Survive. It is also in Project: Nirvana, which takes place just before Black and White.
• Aristedes recalls unheard adventures with the Doctor and Sally, fighting Elder Gods such as
  The Magic Mousetrap
  .
• The Fast Return Switch was used in the 1964 First Doctor television story, The Edge of Destruction. It has also featured in Big Finish audios such as Seasons of Fear and Neverland.
• The Doctor is heard in several scenes that take place at other points in time. He is heard obtaining the Black TARDIS, just after the events in Alaska in Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge. He is then heard taking it on its first three trips, (Robophobia, The Doomsday Quatrain and House of Blue Fire). He is also heard recruiting Sally, in a scene taken from the end of House of Blue Fire. And he is heard recruiting Captain Aristedes, just after House of Blue Fire.

Notes

• Stuart Milligan previously played U.S. President
  Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
  .
• An alternative cover was first released, to conceal the inclusion of the characters Sally and Aristedes. The actual cover was not revealed until just before the audio's release.^[1]

External links

• Big Finish Productions – Black and White

References