The Age of Sutekh (audio story)

was the eighth and final story in the seventh series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela.
It was the conclusion of a story which began in Kill the Doctor!.
== Publisher's summary ==
The world has changed. And the evil Osiran Sutekh is returning.
As blood sacrifices and worship boost the strength of the God of War, servicer robots walk the streets, killing those who have not converted.
Leela is working with the homeless population of the city, while the Doctor co-operates with the police.
A brutal battle is ready to begin. And if the Doctor and his friends fail, everyone in the galaxy will perish.
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
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=== Part two ===
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== Cast ==
* The Doctor - Tom Baker
* Leela - Louise Jameson
* Rania Chuma - Sophia Myles
* Sutekh - Gabriel Woolf
* Kendra - Eleanor Crooks
* Carlton Joyce - John Dorney
* Ash / Barge Captian / Dupree - Barnaby Edwards
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor quotes Oscar Wilde: "You can always judge a man based on the quality of his enemies."
* Sutekh can repurpose matter; at his full power, he could think fleets of sky barges into existence, but presently only creates one.
* The Doctor warns that the longer Sutekh's reality of Drummond persists, the harder it will be to shift back to how it was.
* Sutekh has been nothing but a thought for centuries, a creature of pure will. The decay of his body is hastened.
* Sutekh's power is psychosomatic.
* Sutekh says he is "the snake coiling around the throat of the universe."
* The Citadel of Horus is recreated on Drummond. Sutekh remembers the waterfall and gardens full of "dirty ever-growing life."
== Notes ==
* It had been planned for Sutekh to appear in The Fourth Doctor Adventures very early on, but these plans were shelved when the character was due to appear in The Triumph of Sutekh in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield. Following its release in 2015, the original plans were revisited. For Sutekh, this story takes place after Triumph; in Kill the Doctor!, he mentions his second encounter with the Doctor. (BFX: Kill the Doctor!)
* Recording of this story had to be delayed because of Louise Jameson's involvement in Agatha Christie's , which was on tour at the time. Eventually she had a week's break from the tour and returned to Big Finish to record Leela's lines. (BFX: The Age of Sutekh)
* Guy Adams wanted to place a historical Doctor Who villain in a more modern setting, hence the advanced setting on Drummond. He did not specifically have Blade Runner in mind for inspiration, (BFX: Kill the Doctor!) although Barnaby Edwards felt that kind of vibe in the story. (BFX: The Age of Sutehk) Blade Runner more directly influenced the previous two-parter in Series 7, The Mind Runners and The Demon Rises. (BFX: The Mind Runners, The Demon Rises)
* Sophia Myles, who previously played Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (Reinette) in The Girl in the Fireplace, worked with Nicholas Briggs on Gerry Anderson's Firestorm, produced by Jamie Anderson. During that production, she expressed interest in working for Big Finish, resulting in Briggs offering her the role in this story. (BFX: The Age of Sutekh)
* Guy Adams deliberately avoided a direct regurgitation of the famous line "I bring Sutekh's gift of death to all humanity". He does have the Doctor deliver an inversion of the line when he offers the "gift of life". (BFX: The Age of Sutekh)
* Leela first states that the Osiran service robots are fast, then says they are slow.
== Continuity ==
* Leela says she knows of robot men. (TV: The Robots of Death)
* Sutekh finds destruction "good" and brings his "gift of death." (TV: Pyramids of Mars)
* The Doctor leaves the food machine behind for the poor on Drummond. (TV: The Daleks, The Edge of Destruction, et al.) He later replaces it with a spare. (AUDIO: Purgatory 12)
== External links ==
Category:Series 7 (4DA) audio stories