- Omega (audio drama)
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Big Finish Productions audio play 
Omega Series Doctor Who Release number 47 Featuring Fifth Doctor Writer Nev Fountain Director Gary Russell Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-ElleryExecutive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner Set between Arc of Infinity and
The EliteLength 2 hrs 21 mins Release date August 2003 Omega is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Contents
Plot
Jolly Chronolidays is offering sight-seeing tours of the "Sector of Forgotten Souls", the place where in ancient times the Time Lord Omega detonated a star that enabled the Time Lords the power to travel through time, and was lost. When the Fifth Doctor arrives, he discovers that Omega might not be as lost as was thought.
Cast
- The Doctor — Peter Davison
- Omega — Ian Collier
- Professor Ertikus — Patrick Duggan
- Glinda — Anita Elias
- Maven — Faith Kent
- Daland — Hugo Myatt
- Sentia — Caroline Munro
- Zagreus — Jim Sangster
- Tarpov — Conrad Westmaas
Continuity
- This story is part of a trilogy with Davros and Master to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who.
- Also, this story directly follows, and acts as a sequel to the TV story Arc of Infinity, where Omega takes the Doctor's form.
- Tegan and Nyssa are not in this story. In The Elite it is revealed that they are staying at the hostel in Amsterdam, seen in Arc of Infinity.
- Omega first appeared in The Three Doctors.
- The hologram foreshadows Zagreus.
- Lurmans were seen in Carnival of Monsters.
- The elephant's graveyard for TARDISes that is mentioned here is finally seen at the end of The Axis of Insanity.
External links
Reviews
- Omega reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Omega reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Fifth Doctor audio dramas Tegan, Nyssa & Adric Nyssa The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • The Haunting of Thomas Brewster • The Boy That Time Forgot • Time Reef & A Perfect World • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories • The Five CompanionsNyssa & Tegan Omega • The Elite • Hexagora • The Children of SethNyssa, Tegan & Turlough Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat TrapTegan & Turlough The Sirens of Time • Excelis Dawns • Ringpullworld • FreakshowTurlough Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • SingularityPeri Red Dawn • Exotron & Urban Myths • Peri and the Piscon ParadoxPeri & Erimem The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • No Place Like Home • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • The Gathering • Cuddlesome • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans • The Bride of PeladonAmy Other Zagreus • The Four DoctorsGallifrey stories Second Doctor Fourth Doctor Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor Tenth Doctor Minor appearances Doctor Who audio dramas The Sirens of Time • The Apocalypse Element • Death Comes to Time • Shada • Neverland • Zagreus • Omega • Unregenerate! • Urban Myths • Human Resources • "Sisters of the Flame" / "Vengeance of Morbius"Gallifrey audio series Weapon of Choice • Square One • The Inquiry • A Blind Eye • Lies • Spirit • Pandora • Insurgency • Imperiatrix • Fractures • Warfare • Appropriation • Mindbomb • Panacea • Reborn • Disassembled • Annihilation • ForeverUnbound audio plays See also Categories:- 2003 audio plays
- Fifth Doctor audio plays
- Gallifrey audio plays
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