100 (audio drama)

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Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who
Release no.100
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Evelyn Smythe
Written by Jacqueline Rayner
Robert Shearman
Joseph Lidster
Paul Cornell
Executive producer(s) Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code7CMC
Release dateSeptember 2007

100 is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It consists of four one-part stories by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial, all involving the number 100 in some way. All episodes feature the Sixth Doctor as played by Colin Baker and Evelyn Smythe played by Maggie Stables.

Contents

Main cast

100 BC

By Jacqueline Rayner

My Own Private Wolfgang

By Robert Shearman

Bedtime Story

By Joseph Lidster

The 100 Days of the Doctor

By Paul Cornell

Continuity

In the final story, The Doctor visits various aspects in Big Finish's Doctor Who range. These include the Fifth Doctor with Peri and Erimem, the Seventh Doctor with Ace and Hex, the Eighth Doctor with Charley, C'rizz and Lucie, the Bernice Summerfield adventures, and the Unbound stories. The Doctor says he has already met his next incarnation, possibly a reference to The Sirens of Time .

Cast notes

Will Thorp also appeared in the 2006 television episodes The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit as Toby Zed.

Story notes

The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn break the fourth wall in episode 4, "100 Days of the Doctor"

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