The First Wave (audio story)

The First Wave was the fifth story of the sixth series in The Companion Chronicles audio range. It was produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Simon Guerrier and featured Steven Taylor and Oliver Harper.
== Publisher's summary ==
Caught in the inevitable path of its own history, the TARDIS arrives on the planetoid Grace Alone, where the Doctor, Steven and Oliver expect to face their fate. What they don't expect to find is a massacred crew — and a race of alien invaders known as the Vardans.
When the Doctor is apparently killed, his companions attempt to survive against the odds. But those odds are narrowing. Their borrowed time has expired.
== Plot ==
=== The First Wave (1) ===
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=== The Last Wave (2) ===
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== Cast ==
* Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
* Oliver Harper - Tom Allen
* The Vardans - Lisa Bowerman
* Halpin - Alex Mallinson
== Crew ==
* Cover Art - Simon Holub
* Director - Lisa Bowerman
* Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
* Music and Sound Design - Richard Fox and Lauren Yason @ FoxYason Studios
* Producer - David Richardson
* Script Editor - Jacqueline Rayner
* Writer - Simon Guerrier
== Worldbuilding ==
* Oliver sacrifices his life to save the Doctor and Steven.
* There is a human city on Sedna.
== Notes ==
* This audio drama was recorded on 26 May 2011 at the Moat Studios.
* It was released on 8 November 2011.LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 27-11-2011
* This story marks the first appearance of the Vardans in an audio drama, and their first in performed Doctor Who since The Invasion of Time.
* This story is set between The Daleks' Master Plan and The Massacre.
== Continuity ==
* The Second Doctor would later encounter the Vardans in AUDIO: The British Invasion, as would the Third Doctor in AUDIO: The Scream of Ghosts, the Fourth Doctor in TV: The Invasion of Time and AUDIO: Wave of Destruction and the Seventh Doctor in PROSE: No Future and PROSE: Return of the Living Dad.
* One of the Vardans would later attempt to kill the First Doctor and Steven. (AUDIO: The Locked Room)
* Steven references the danger of changing history, mentioning someone "changing what happened at the Battle of Hastings" (TV: The Time Meddler) or "mucking around when the pyramids were being built". (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
* Steven says he could always have escaped from the Mechonoids but that he had nowhere to escape to. (TV: The Chase)
* Oliver is reduced to a non-physical form and remains within the TARDIS, seeing Steven travel in further adventures. He mentions seeing the Doctor when he was frail and walking through the snow and telling him that this is not the end. This would seem to imply that this takes place when the Doctor heads to the TARDIS after defeating the Cybermen at Snowcap in December 1986, but before Ben Jackson and Polly Wright catch up with him to witness his regeneration into his second incarnation. The Doctor catches a final sight of him and he fades into the snow as the Doctor regenerates. (TV: The Tenth Planet) The Doctor would see other former companions during later regenerations. (TV: The Caves of Androzani, The Time of the Doctor, The Doctor Falls)
== Footnotes ==
== External links ==
Category:Series 6 (CC) audio stories
Category:First Doctor audio stories
Category:2011 audio stories
Category:Audio stories set in the Sol System
Category:Audio stories that use Delia Derbyshire's 1st theme
Category:Vardan audio stories
Category:Two part audio stories