Thicker than Water (audio drama)

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Thicker Than Water
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Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who
Release no.73
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Mel Bush
Evelyn Smythe
Written by Paul Sutton
Directed byEdward Salt
Produced by Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)none listed
Production code7CU
Length1 hr 37 mins
Release dateSeptember 2005
Preceded byEvelyn:
 after Industrial Evolution
Mel:
  Catch-1782
Followed by The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box

Thicker Than Water is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It is a sequel to the earlier audio play Arrangements for War .

Contents

Plot

It is three years since the Sixth Doctor helped repel the Killoran invasion of Világ, and he brings a new friend, Mel, to meet an old one. Evelyn Smythe, his former companion is now married to Principal Triumvir Rossiter. But Evelyn has made political enemies, among them her own stepdaughter Sofia, and the reunion takes a deadly turn when Evelyn and Mel are kidnapped.

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