The Death Collectors (audio story)

was the three-part story comprising part of the one hundred and ninth release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Stewart Sheargold and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
Released in June 2008, it was the third monthly story to feature the Seventh Doctor without any travelling companions. It was the first performed 3-part Seventh Doctor story since 1989's Survival.
== Publisher's summary ==
There is only death.
A virulent disease that killed millions. A missing scientist. An ancient race of salvagers who collect and preserve the dead. The quarantined planet Antikon connects them all.
When the Doctor arrives on a sky station above Antikon, a single accident has already set in motion a chain of events that will mean the death of every living thing.
And the only way he can stop it is to die. Again.
== Plot ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
* Professor Mors Alexandryn - Alastair Cording
* Danika Meanwhile - Katherine Parkinson
* Smith Ridley / Dar Traders - Derek Carlyle
* Nancy - Katarina Olsson
* Opera singer - Rebecca Bottone
== Crew ==
* Cover Art - Barry Piggott
* Director - Ken Bentley
* Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
* Music and Sound Design - David Darlington
* Producer - David Richardson
* Script Editor - Alan Barnes
* Writer - Stewart Sheargold
== Worldbuilding ==
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor says that he is a personal friend of Death.
== Gallery ==
The Death Collectors cover.jpg|Original cover art
The Death Collectors DWM 396.jpg|Illustrated preview by Cliff Robinson from DWM 396
== Notes ==
* This audio drama was recorded on 17 and 18 March 2008 at the Moat Studios.
* The reference book AHistory arbitrarily places this story in 4300, as it seems to feature humans in the far future.
* This story is set between Survival and the 1996 TV Movie.
* This story was previewed in DWM 396 with an illustration from Cliff Robinson.
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor previously encountered the Dar Traders during his fifth incarnation in the company of Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka and Adric. (AUDIO: The Darkening Eye)
* The Doctor mentions being the Lord President in a previous life. (TV: The Invasion of Time, The Five Doctors)
* The Doctor refers to the fact that he can survive in the vacuum of space for a brief period of time. (TV: Nightmare of Eden, TV: Four to Doomsday, AUDIO: Unregenerate!, TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5, Imperial Moon)
* The Doctor refuses to die to the sound of Madame Butterfly, which he calls "elevator music". He later died in surgery to that opera in Doctor Who.
== External links ==
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Category:Seventh Doctor Main Range audio stories
Category:2008 Main Range audio stories
Category:Audio stories that use the Keff McCulloch theme
Category:Three part audio stories