Gallifrey: Weapon of Choice

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Weapon of Choice
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Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Gallifrey
Release no.1.1
Written by Alan Barnes
Directed by Gary Russell
Produced by Jason Haigh-Ellery
Gary Russell
Length75 minutes
Release dateMarch 2004 (2004-03)

Gallifrey: Weapon of Choice is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.

Big Finish Productions British company producing books and audio dramas

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Contents

Plot

The Doctor is gone forever. Leela's husband is missing. And Romana's presidency is under threat. The Time Lords are now part of a coalition of temporal powers, along with less ancient civilizations such as the Monan Host, the Nekkistani and the Warpsmiths of Phaidon. Together, they curtail the efforts of less deserving species from making any major breakthroughs with time travel technology. Those that do are often shunted to a miserable little world called Gryben.

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Some refugees on Gryben wish to strike back at their oppressors by forming a terrorist organization called Free Time. They weren't taken seriously by the temporal powers, until a rumor surfaced that they had acquired a top secret and highly unstable Time Lord weapon called a Timeonic Fusion Device. And a mysterious information dealer named Mephistopheles Arkadian won't reveal what he knows.

Cast

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Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978. Writer Chris Boucher named her after the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled. Leela appeared in 9 stories.

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