The Sahul Continuum
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| 09: The Sahul Continuum | |
Doctor Who serial Preceeded by God Rust Ye Merry Gentlemen Followed by Fortitude in a Slipstream | |
| Featured cast | |
| The Doctor | Matthew Kopelke |
| Guy Anwar | Kane Major |
| Production notes | |
| Recorded | December 2001 |
| Released | Part 1: July 2002 Part 2: September 2002 Part 3: November 2002 |
A dangerous time storm has emerged into the Vortex, grabbing random elements and people from across all of Space and Time, and displacing them - depositing them - in prehistoric Earth. Dozens of time travellers have found themselves trapped, with no way of escape. Meanwhile, the Doctor is worried. He doesn't know who his mysterious Watcher is, and this perturbs him. Guy is worried as well - he's never seen the Doctor this troubled about anything. However, events soon begin to conspire against them... Very soon, with Guy seemingly lost in the Space/Time Vortex, possibly ripped apart by the time winds, and a dangerously damaged and non-functioning TARDIS around him, can the Doctor find the source of the time storm and shut it down, before the Web of Time is ripped asunder completely?
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Crew
Recording & CD mastering: Matthew Kopelke. Sound design & post-production: Gareth Preston. Music: Chris Naylor. Series theme: Ron Grainer. Realisation: The London Theatre Orchestra. Cover illustration and packaging design: Mark Brill. Press & PR: David Hutchison. Recording: BTR's Shirland Street & Lacaroo Street Studios. Script Editor: Witold Tietze. Producer: Matthew Kopelke. Director: Witold Tietze.
Episode download links
Part One: http://www.btrproductions.org/downloads/btrdwcd/btrdwcd07_part1.mp3
Part Two: http://www.btrproductions.org/downloads/btrdwcd/btrdwcd07_part2.mp3
Part Three: http://www.btrproductions.org/downloads/btrdwcd/btrdwcd07_part3.mp3
Plot
Episode endings
- Guy, apparently rendered invisible by the time storm, watches on helplessly as the Doctor faces being eaten by a big dinosaur.
- The Doctor and Markis are trapped by the essence of Sahul, and the Doctor realises that Sahul must certainly want them dead.
- Markis comments that he has seen the immediate future of the Doctor and Guy, and that "the worst truly is yet to come".
Additional credited cast
Markis Moyer (David Hutchison), The Lord of the Realm (Gareth Preston), Sebastian James (Witold Tietze), The neighbour (Katherine Fallon), The Watcher (Bill Billingsley), Natasha X (Kelly Holland), Sahul (Susannah Tiller).
Popular myths
Things to listen out for...
- The ending of Part 3 contains a teaser into the next few serials for the BTR run of Doctor Who, which revolved around the resolution of the Watcher story arc. Markis Moyer's reference that "the worst truly is yet to come" is all tied into the Prophecy story arc spoken of in many episodes in the BTR run of Doctor Who.
- Gareth Preston makes his BTR debut in both the post-production and acting departments. Gareth was the first person other then BTR Producer Matthew Kopelke to handle the post-production duties on any BTR production in any form. Gareth was picked because of his high quality work on both his own Doctor Who fan audio series, as well as original series Agents of Psyence.
- Kelly Holland's Natasha X character makes a guest appearance in this audio.
- The Watcher makes an shock appearance in Part 2 of this serial, here portrayed by Bill Billingsley. He can be heard taunting Guy about what is to come, including a reference to the end of this particular serial.
Things you probably never knew...
- The device that Sebastian James creates in his basement is a homage to the American TV series Sliders. This is further supported by several references to "that Canadian show" sprinkled throughout the text. This is because author Darran Jordan was a fan of said TV show.
- Natasha X's appearance in this serial was a marketing ploy, originally designed around the idea that both The Sahul Continuum and Volume 3 of Beyond Traditional Recognition would be released at the same time, along with a Natasha X comic book. Sadly, this trilogy of simultaneous releases never occurred, but the character's appearance here nevertheless provides a nice in-joke for fans of BTR's other product lines.
- The original intention had been for Matthew Kopelke to portray the Watcher in his appearance in Part 2, and an early edit of this episode featured his portrayal (as a darker-sounding version of his Doctor). However, because of the overt similarities, and the potential confusion this might cause (not to mention Matthew's assertion that his performance was "a bit crap!"), it was decided to re-cast the role. Matthew's portrayal can still be heard in the final product, during the "audio rewind" effect heard whenever time shifts around.
