Peladon
David Troughton (King Peladon), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Paul McGann (The Doctor), Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush), Alex Kingston (River Song), Moyo Akandé (Harfair/Skanlar), Ariyon Bakare (Father Mendica), Nicholas Briggs (Ixmari/Ssilas), Deborah Findlay (Queen Thalira), Jane Goddard (Alpha Centauri/Guard Captain), Remmie Milner (Isabelda), Aaron Neil (Gobran), Sara Powell (Queen Minaris), Justin Salinger (Ribble), David Sturzaker (Raarlan), Meera Syal (Arla Decanto), Jason Watkins (Chancellor Barok), Liz White (Helais), Ashley Zhangazha (Skarn/Guard Captain)
Journey to Peladon, member world of the Galactic Federation and home to intrigue and adventure. With each passing generation, industrial exploitation and deadly political games are taking their toll on the planet…
Journey to Peladon, member world of the Galactic Federation and home to intrigue and adventure. With each passing generation, the toll of industrial exploitation and deadly political games is taking its toll on the planet. Can The Doctor and his allies guide the course of history towards a hopeful future? Or is Peladon’s fate in the lap of the gods?
1. The Ordeal of Peladon by Jonathan Barnes & Robert Valentine
When King Peladon hears of a holy man with seemingly magical powers and the gift of foresight, he resolves to discover the truth of it for himself. But his quest to understand the shifting loyalties of his people is one from which he cannot return unchanged.
2. The Poison of Peladon by Lizzie Hopley
River Song has infiltrated the court of Queen Thalira in the guise of a high priestess. With rumours swirling that Peladon is on the brink of a republican uprising, River joins forces with her new best friend, Alpha Centauri, to get to the bottom of the mystery
3. The Death of Peladon by Mark Wright
The Sixth Doctor and Mel arrive on Peladon to discover a world on the brink of environmental disaster. Civil war looms and a dark plot brews in the shadows of the court. Unless they can help avert catastrophe, there seems to be little hope left forone of the Doctor’s favourite planets.
4. The Truth of Peladon by Tim Foley
Arla, last of Peladon’s great seamstresses, is commissioned to make a great cloak for the latest coronation. She’ll need a new assistant to complete her work in time, and one appears: the Eighth Doctor! Determined to show Arla the truth of Peladon, the delicate threads he’s drawing together will change Peladon forever.
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Troughton returns to Peladon!
It’s 50 years since The Doctor first set foot on Peladon in Doctor Who, and the planet awaits adventure once more in January 2022.
Set in different moments across Peladon’s timeline, these four brand-new full-cast audio adventures let listeners into the past, present and future of this mineral-rich planet from different points of view.
Journey to Peladon, member world of the Galactic Federation and home to intrigue and adventure. With each passing generation, the toll of industrial exploitation and deadly political games is taking its toll on the planet.
In the box set opener, David Troughton returns to the role of King Peladon, fifty years after he first appeared in the 1972 Third Doctor adventure, The Curse of Peladon. Various time travellers also turn up across these tales – and some of them have very familiar faces…
Doctor Who – Peladon is now available to pre-order as a collector’s edition box set (on CD for just £24.99) or a digital download (for just £19.99), ..
The four epic episodes are as follows:
The Ordeal of Peladon by Jonathan Barnes & Robert Valentine
The Poison of Peladon by Lizzie Hopley
The Death of Peladon by Mark Wright
The Truth of Peladon by Tim Foley
Producer David Richardson said: “Fifty years of Peladon… that’s something to celebrate. I loved the Peladon stories on they were such a complete storytelling world created by Brian Hayles, full of a whole galaxy of alien races. It was, if you will, an alien Game of Thrones many decades ahead of its time. And so we return there in January 2022, to meet King Peladon again… and then journey through the generations to discover what happened to the planet, the alien races and the Galactic Federation. It’s a huge tapestry – and one that will feature many familiar friends, foes and heroes.”
Actor David Troughton added: “It’s a long time since I played King Peladon, but the nice thing about this script is that there are a lot of elements of who he was then in the older man – they carried on certain characteristics, his naivety and basic wanting to be loved by everyone. It was a pleasure to do.”
Doctor Who – Peladon is now available to pre-order as a collector’s edition box set (on CD at £24.99) or a digital download (at £19.99), exclusively from the Big Finish website.
FLASH SALE! To celebrate Big Finish’s return to the planet Peladon, for a very limited time two previous adventures are available to download for HALF PRICE OR LESS. (Hurry, these discounts will expire at 23:59 UK time on 06 June 2021)
Big Finish is currently operating a digital-first release schedule. The mail-out of collector’s edition CDs may be delayed due to factors beyond our control, but all purchases of this release unlock a digital copy that can be immediately downloaded or played on the Big Finish app from the release date.
