A Quick Guide to Big Finish Classic Who- Mrs Constance Clarke

0:00 [Music] Tes you don't know where you land it's Dre Treasures of History to be found of time all that works [Music] Dre hello and welcome to the quick guide to Big finish classic Who Mrs constant

0:47 Clark in case you missed the earlier videos I'm going by companions because from most classic Who releases big finish didn't have serieses the stories tended to jump around each doctor's timeline and as far as I can tell there's no official author have agreed upon timeline for Adventures so I separate them out by companion hopefully it'll make things easier for everyone and make it harder for me to miss any stories constant Clark or Mrs Clark if you're the doctor was sl's play B Miranda raisan I said was Slash is because while I'm sure she will be back they've not announced anything yet

1:32 What A Stroke of Luck anyway she's played B Miranda Ray in the extremely prolific film TV and voice actor as a doctor who fan the chances are you've already seen her play tula and Yoo oh you say the sweetest things but she's done a bunch of other stuff over the years at a six's companions she's easily the one with the biggest career at of Doctor Who currently you can see her in the series Warrior based on the concept for Bruce Le it's B basically a Kung fre Western sit in 19th century San Francisco and it's quite good raisin is such a big name that quite unusually she became a companion because she asked she wanted to be six's companion because she didn't calling her friends in real life and the created constant especially for her Hello uh I'm Alan Barnes and I'm the

2:18 script editor of uh the Doctor Who monthly range constant fairly unusually came about because David sent me an email one day and said um we've been doing some stuff with Mir raise on and and everyone thinks she's lovely and and she'd love to be a companion place for the sixth doctor anyway Constance was the sixth doctor's fourth big finish cretive companion and one of my favorites born upper middle class in early 20th century colonial Malawi she returned to England with her family after her father died at tuberculosis fast forward to World War II and she was a ran a member of the woman's Royal Naval service basically the woman's division of the royal Navy and she obtained the rank of leading ran one rank blet officer she was assigned to Bletchley Park home of valid

3:03 codebreaking efforts alen touring worked there and she eventually met it with a doctor who had taken up residence there for reasons of plot but interestingly crisscross her debut story was not her first appearance because earlier on big Finnish had released the last adventure which was six's swan song several stories had tried to explain exactly why six regenerated to varying degrees of success everything from being murdered by The Unborn 7even doctor to falling over and bumping his head but I feel the last adventure did the best job basically it was five stories setting different points in his life each with a different companion which were United by the valiard as the greater scope villain Constance appeared in the first story The End Of The Line about an interdimensional train station think HP

3:49 Lovecraft getting freaked out by a few hours waiting for a late night train and you basically got at I'll be talking about the last adventure in a separate video for special releases like it and the crisis crossovers interestingly the last adventure wasn't just released before her first chronological story crisscross it was recorded and edited before any other stories were written the writer crisscross listened to it before starting work but like I said before big finish's classic who isn't often released in chronological order though introducing the companion before they arrived is a new one even for them it's the sort of thing Sten Moffet does but completely by accident because there was a sheduling [ __ ] up and he has the stories where generally stand alone at the time it wasn't exactly a big problem it's just fun trivia constant appeared

4:35 in six regular stories before former companion flip rejoined the tardas creating in my opinion one of the best teams in the franchise the sixth doctor's official Dream Team I wouldn't have assumed that the old-fashioned restrained Duty first stiff upper lips Steely sometimes morally gray World War II V would work quite so well with the sometimes flippant to the point of Spacey morally black and white emotionally driven flip but clearly someone knows much better than I do actually I should have known better flip and constant work for the exact same reason peran araman works so well in five big finished stories they five's dream team in my opinion they're two people who really get on but they're from different time periods and have wildely different cultural contexts and that's perfect for making GIC sparks fly

5:20 without having to meet new interesting characters and then kill them for drama but that's much later on oh fun fact out of six's main companions four are modern Perry male flip and heeby two are historical Charlie and constant and elin's both because her age arguably but also because she's a history lecturer Chriss cross was constant's debut and it's a story of two halves the first half really immersed in the world of codebreaking World War II science Intrigue and spying and then the second half is much more generic with radio wave aliens and the main Nazi villain from the first half teaming with our heroes against the real velons the agent crisscross and the sent radio wave creatures the chadri the aliens are a great creation perfectly designed for

6:06 audio and they really put an effort trying to work out how such things would interact with our world please listen to me we already transmit I am the doctor I have Superior technology I can help you there's no need to harm any more people of this world world you are not of this world we have decoded this fact good and despite what you've done I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt our physical plane must be extremely confusing for a creature such as yourself waves crisscross this planet interference what does it mean up on the surface it can't move too much radio

6:52 traffic down here the sea kept it insulated until you turned up in a submarine with its communication Beacon it was able to hop on board the infra burn the ultra the spectrum is divided the rays are at War we flee to longer wavelengths lower frequencies your world of matter distorts our be anyway weirdly by the end of the story the original Nazi villain is so integrated with the rest of the heroes that it's like the writer barely remembers he's even a Nazi it's kind of distracting oh it's no you fighting we need to use our heads here schwarzman let's get you untied thank you I suppose it is too

7:37 much to ask for the return of my weapon to defend myself yes in any case it won't do much good yeah I'll write down what I want you to say just a couple of lines here doctor FR Clark If I might interject yes ciphers are my business I will help if it's using radio waves for power then we could stop them order radio silence just for a short while Dr schwarzman you could ask too you think German High command would listen no the worst thing we could do now is disrupt radio traffic history must take its course anyway they remembered he was an ny just inted to give him a great ending he's captured by his British equivalent who promises the doctor he won't be harmed on British soil ah Major Harris a

8:25 word whatever his allegian is schwarzman here was in strumental in saving the world there must be room for understanding I give you my word he'll not come to harm on British soil so after interrogation he's taken in a submarine for disposal whatever the doctor thinks there's a war on you come in person professional courtesy I appreciate it but this happens a wolf pack patrols here last I heard it was awaiting orders I have an idea what those orders are dear Lord we're hit your gun seems rather Superfluous now you think the war will be over next year we'll never know

9:11 H Schwartzman we'll never know I love the unemotional callousness of the ending you might wonder what the doctor decid to rock up to Bletchley Park but it's pretty simple the Tardis is broken and he's not good at laying low he stopped wearing his rainbow jacket though so what more could people possibly want and I usually avoid displaying too prominent a profile they say your evening wear was somewhat colorful when you arrived it pays sometimes to blend in it was really nice to see the usual doctor [ __ ] [ __ ] up for once okay [ __ ] up for twice and have people in BL assume that he's a spy I think it's quite clear sir he's offered every excuse to avoid an interview he could hardly be more

9:57 blatant Dr John Smith no credentials his identity evaporates as soon as one examines it too closely no sir I do not need to refer it to the prime minister's office I am quite capable of reaching my own conclusion and that conclusion is the man's a spy because he's a weird genius doing weird genius stuff that's not helping the war in the heart of the most important Alli genius project that's not about a bombs of course it assumes a spy and a great first half interesting alien villain crap human villain the titular agent Chriss cross and a much weaker second half anyway constant decides to travel with the doctor but she's insistent that when she comes home she needs to be returned exactly when she left because she's many things but she's

10:44 not a deserter sounds kind of hypocritical but she recently found out that her husband is missing an action and she's still dealing with that and if possible she' like to find out what happened and she will later on one odd element which is kind of a problem with the writing is that if you go into this story fresh but know the doctor is going to end up with a new companion but not know who it is there's an excellent chance you'll be surprised that it's constant because there's a number of similar characters with similar voices and constant doesn't exactly stand out for chunks of that one thing this does very well though is act as an introduction for sex I don't know for sure but I think they might have done that deliberately there's a new companion so if any new who fans took a chance they want to rope the man and if so I think it works very well in that regard constant's second appearance was

11:31 pled of the ranie the second appearance of the second ranie Kara had been Jud to reprise the rule in big finish but died late in scripting So eventually the script was retooled for a new Incarnation played by Scottish actor shobon Redman a slightly less glamorous but equally science chis version if you're lucky you might remember Redmond from the Scottish drama sea of souls where a guy in Glasgow University investigates a paranormal C of souls was Phil collinson's last producing job before he works on You Who series one and Captain Jack's description of Torchwood 2 being a single guy in Glasgow is a reference to it Torchwood 2 is an office in Glasgow very strange man so if you want to watch some Torchwood and all but name then watch see of souls there's 20 episodes I did a whole video about it where was I oh yes Javon

12:19 Redmond you might also remember her being iconic in the High Life a Scottish sitcom co-written by in starring a very young Alan Kang you are a waser Sebastian you are a lying cheat you are a fibster a fabulous an equivocating shim shammer a cousin in card sharp a pathological mythomaniac a yarner a poter who purgers a Whited Seiler a cantering serpent a rat bity of that woman asains me my point is that she's had a long brilliant career she's a fantastic Ranny and if they were bring the character back on TV they could do much worse than using her again her first appearance is the Ronnie was the Ronnie Elite with six and Perry so we're talking about that in another video anyway one of the things you begin to notice in constant's stories is in the covers for 1940s military woman who

13:06 acted in every way she adjusted incredibly quickly to her more modern style clothing and hair which is fine just unexpected and sometimes doesn't agree with what the script says she's wearing constant are you all right perfectly well I think although I appear to have laded my nylon blast well you weren't find a street corner SP to replace them not in 2029 and the other thing you notice is that the covers seem to think her default emotional state is Happy surprise whatever's going on in the story I mean look at these what's that doctor Magic Snow oh my God a skis I love The Dark Crystal and is pretty a ferris wheel here what the [ __ ] slavery well I never I say I think

13:53 I'm being recreated as some manner of tree monster mild perturbant but look at me wrong I still love constant the covers are just hilariously at odds with her character in the stories and way in Planet of the Rani we find out that constant has taken upon herself to act as a doctor secretary her job at Bley was basically to run the offices for a bunch of demanding egotistical science genius as so sifting through decades worth of male both snail and E probably feels like a busman's holiday oh for goodness sake doctor how many of these electronic letters have gone answered I wouldn't worry Mrs Clark most are unsolicited interplanetary spam easily deleted spam that's what the G's brought with them I mean look at all

14:39 these what you need's a personal secretary oh are you applying for the job no I am not oh well I'm delighted to hear it even so yes H never mind and Among The Correspondents she finds a summons to a galactic prison where the Ronnie has been stuck since the last time she met sex and Naturally by the time they arve arve they find out that the Rani was imprisoned for almost 100 years has since been released has been made the governor and has been hatching an evil plan to get back to her home world not Gala FR she is a Time Lord but she took over the planet of M migor years ago and now it's being ruled by your son Raj kanu you see in Hindi Ronnie means Queen Raj means king and kanu means kanu Mark Platt wrote this he wrote paper cuts with Charlie where he

15:24 added a bunch of vaguely Japanese stuff as World building for the draconians and here he adds one or two Indian things because Ronnie is Hindi for Queen honestly if I didn't bring it up you probably wouldn't have noticed that I didn't even notice it until plat mentioned in the making of I suppose you take the Rani herself as the lead and think well this is an Indian term what sort of culture must this be like so hence we we have we have a prince a Raj and um temples and palaces and Exotica really and and go on from there andway Raj KH who isn't her son's son but is one of her more successful genetic experiments I want facts not stories it has to be precise that's what

16:10 my brother said well I'm sure she knows best notes her Legacy and that's my world my inheritance a crazed petulent genius who's convinced he's a God and has built himself a giant robber cockroach body for reasons only understood by himself and probably more PL ah high up on the wall a large insect man-sized like a metal plated cockroach what did it see you what indigenous I take it is there a back way out only through to the yard there's no gate well that door won't hold long what a beautiful Precision instrument it's disgusting it's

16:56 fascinating exquisite scroll work on the armor keep back well this was made by a Craftsman doctor look out and he's reluctant to have the planet back who hated mother this is the story where Constance kind of becomes theon's companion by accident how do I get back to the doctor well since you burdened me with your presence it wasn't deliberate you can forget about him and make yourself useful forget the doctor if you want to survive think about it my assistant and I have traveled a long way to meet you min Dore the Rani herself speaks of you in the highest terms have you seen her and she mentioned me did she send you absolutely she did of all the people she mentions Dore is seldom

17:42 far from her thoughts Dore this deore that she remembers I'm Mrs Clark by the way her assistant thank you Mrs Clark my office Adam we can speak privately here why who's listening and your companion is she oh don't worry I'm very discreet official Secrets act and all that principal way wght there is much to discuss indeed there is things that cannot be said in present company you want me to go is that what you're saying wait outside Mrs Clark I'm not just a dog's body you know I can be useful will you go of course thank you and don't wer off and later on gets turned into a cyber Carro herself what are they doing

18:29 no you'll be much safer keep away from me no let me go don't struggle L hurt for a moment apparently we are expected that cogr guard seems very unsteady on its feet give me your gun highness doctor help me tell Raju the Ron is here please help me but it could be worse she could be adri I'm pretty sure he had sex with scorpions in this other story but I'll talk about that in another video you could view this as a funh house mirror version of the typical who Story the doctorine constant travels somewhere on purpose not by accident then constant becomes the Ran's

19:15 companion and the rannie is facing down against the crazy cyberg genius with a God complex putting her in the doctor's usual position and the doctor assists the crazy cyborg wannabe god with keeping his throne and not changing the plan status quo the doctor thinks I am a moral perhaps I cannot tell good from bad and I have learned hope and despair thank you doctor and thank you const thank you your highness I've never met a god before CaRu only thinks he's a God but if he thinks he's a benevolent one so be it and none of this is even

20:02 touched upon in the making of Platt's a good writer with an excellent track record on TV fan films audio and books I doubt this was an accident anyway this isn't a Triumph the first part set in the hospital is when it's at its best and there is some good stuff in the rest of it it's just kind of bland overall and seems to be missing explanations for quite a lot of stuff honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Platt's original script was much longer and had to be hacked down to time is what happened to his ghostlighting TV if I had to sum this up piy I'd say they threw a bunch of random stuff against the wall and only some of it stuck but like I said it's not all bad though Siobhan Redmond is a great Ranny I really wish she could put the part in TV as it is she's not even been back to put the part in big finish since

20:49 this apparently there's been licensing issues involving the Ronnie's Creator's estate but I don't know the details if you do please write them below I'd love to find out he anyway planet of the Ron is interesting but not great fantastic ED Style score though big finish channeling their inner joh on Carpenter [Music] there after that slight disappointment we have Shield of the yoten big Improvement and it is ludicrous they land in Arizona where a billionaire is trying to fix climate change using little Nano machines and it's all going okay until they accidentally break into a viking burial mound in Arizona and

21:36 inside the mound is an inscription that no one can read yet a handful of dead Warriors and a very weird looking Shield then it begins to snow and the snow starts to coass into a frost giant bent and destruction nearly there major oh God am I glad to see you for a moment there I thought there was something something on my tail behind you what the [Music] hell did you hear that Hugo how could I not hey where are you going come on it might be the major he might be in trouble so you want us to run out blindly into a blizzard towards the source of that frankly terrifying screen is there another way out of here sure far start of the hanger next to the

22:22 office it's coming after us all of you run they're making whirlwinds no they're not my Engineers no longer need to steal your flesh to give themselves for they're weaving New bodies from the elements themselves welcome to the new ice AG I really don't want to spoil this one because its many twists are ridiculously fun and the finale is giant size it would probably require whole series is budget if they tried to put it on TV this was written by Ian ederton who's primarily a comic writer but he really captured six whale ever since big finish

23:07 remade six is a softer character there's been times when people have scripted him as a more generic doctor forcing Colin Baker to the character heavy work and get his personality across regardless of lines but ederton gets some unusually perfectly as aurbic as he was in TV and as caring as he was in audio the story isect spacular but most of the time it shines extra brightly when dealing with six and constan is fast but firm friendship you remind me of my great uncle Jasper lived alone rattling around in a huge Tumbl down Pile in the country he'd spend his days talking to the dog and taking pot shots at rabbits through the breakfast room window well that is nothing like me I have H guns and as for rabbits well no creature can be that

23:53 cute without an alterior motorcycle oh doctor what did we do constant or for it to come to this the war my War the sacrifices we made so the future would be much brighter good men and women gave their lives and for what so their AES could poison the planet it does get better I promise come on we're going to freeze to death if we don't get back to the tarer soon you do know the way don't you have faith Constance faith you couldn't even find your own kitchen ah I have a confession to make about that I'm all ears Frozen ears but ears nonetheless I've never been able to find the kitchen ever what

24:42 well why go traing around all those endless corridors when the finest eating establishments in all of time and space are right outside the tardy do so why did you want to cook for me doctor I wanted to do something something nice for you it backfired back in the old country our governor would tell us never to use the word nice but to find a more expressive alternative instead quite right but I like nice it's small and warm and friendly thank you for trying to do something nice for me doctor my pleasure Orin six is pissed off the billionaire Hugo Mark there's no such thing this is insane you're all insane oh Dr Mark what are you a do of exactly history onic if

25:29 you're going to have a hissy fit do it quietly in a corner there's a good chap voila what is that oh you don't know something the same size and shape as a viking Chieftain Shield recently disinterred from a mysterious burial mound I presume only this is no Viking Shield Dr Mark it isn't no it's a piece of Highly sophisticated extraterrestrial technology extraterrestrial as an alien yeah yes and it would appear that it's been wired up to interface directly with your Geo engine's primary computer system a terraformer oh who wait wait a minute do you think I've got something to do with this oh I dare say you thought you could reverse engineer this device we could be

26:15 worth billions in new technologies tens of billions trillions really don't sound so surprised doctor ah the doctor is honorary honestly Mac is probably the nicest single billionaire to unleash an alien menace in who history it was an accident and the guy's legitimately just trying to save the planet honestly I think six SP half the story being terrible too a habit more than anything else this was direct to bouise Jameson who played Leela and even cam uses the Volva no Volva basically norer which is kind of distracting because it sounds like an elderly Leela ended up in a viking Village so has the mighty chief met his match in the

27:00 stormbringer he wonders how he can defeat a foe who does not fear spear or sword what is to be done now the cast for this is mostly American and in the making of they mentioned deliberately seeking out American actors for the roles this was before Co made big finish upgrade their Tech to let them record internationally so getting a bunch of American actors was a bit of an achievement there is a number of in the UK but they're always working because American characters will turn up and stuff and American stuff sometimes films there so getting a number in at once is impressive on the other hand they all sound like middle class Brits pretending to be grizzled 1890s gold prospectors man aive of it's cold out

27:46 there the morning starts out with an Arizona Summer and the afternoon turns into a Wisconsin winter no way that's natural my thoughts exactly Hugo Pass Key you own these Thousand Acres you must have a universal key you never needed one there's always been somebody about oh you're an idiot oh wait wait wait wait wait major you're supposed to be head of sight security how did two trespassers get that far inside the perimeter sir if you'll let me finish they weren't inside the facility they were inside the excavation itself so maybe they should have just gone for Brits doing bad accents it might have ended up sounding better anyway there's a chunk of this where Constance translates a viking runic inscription explaining how they ended up in Arizona

28:32 and I love how it was handled in the story are you sitting comfortably Professor not really then I'll begin so it was that I rallied my men to travel to esic to do battle with this demon Mount up R hard prepare for battle but when we arrived there was no battle to be had esic was a ruin its people stripped of their flesh white bone in white snow and no blood on either then we heard the beast in the Mist it's wailing on the Wind we set ourselves into this desert

29:20 soil our spirits to stand Eternal Sentinel over our monstrous charge for from this tomb we shall hold fast the safety of the world like fish should adapt an actual Viking Saga like that it's just fantastic Arizona is an unusual location for who and that is nice but I really think they should have set this in Canada in the 1970s and make it about the actual discovery of the villain Colony on top of that Canada's never or almost never even turned up in who that have to lose the climate change stuff which was well handled and subtler than in some stories but it wouldn't have been that big a loss to the story and sitting in the 70s and Canada would have fixed a bit early on where one of the cast says that Vikings in North

30:05 America long be theorized well they kind of look like Vikings Vikings like in that 2D Kirk Douglas movie Vikings H what's so funny it's long been conjectured that Vikings made it to America if this is for Real if this is hard evidence it could rewrite the history books well this is set in 2029 and Vikings were confirmed in North America about 60 years earlier and if you want to get technical they were confirmed long before that because Greenland is part of North America anyway back to the chronological order thing this was released after planet of the Rani and apparently that's when it s but at the same time this story features constant dealing with the Tardis translation stuff for the first time

30:52 doctor bring your torch over here you found something else these roomes on the days I think I can read them it's getting clearer by the second it reads like no no it feels like like there's a warning of some sort how can I say that I've not the faintest idea oh I see what's going on don't worry Constance it's just the Tardis translation Matrix tinkering with your perception the what tinkering with my what with your brain essentially like I say don't worry about it when you spend the last adventure talking to aliens and two different alien planets so I put this story before planet of the rany but that's just me oh fun fact this story claims that the 13th of July 2029 is going to be a Sunday but

31:38 it's actually a Friday and Oak Arizona 2029 July the 13th Sunday morning I believe but that's not a mistake it's deliberately lining up with a mistake in the heart no ST the war War Games C day that is computer day will be next Monday July the 16th that is in 4 days time oh and six mispronounces yoten why have you called on me the Jon Chief Herer your Frost demons they have returned everyone else does too but six is a pent and he would be mortified anyway this is a great story highly recommended not earth shattering but good well-written Doctor

32:24 Who and constance's First Class Act next is order of the dialect which is a little underwhelming kind of generic is but fine one thing in who I do not get is to name a story the dot dot dot of the Dix and then put them on the cover but then scripted as though them being involved as a Twist but that's a Trope in the TV show too and has been for decades so that's just Tradition at this point and I suppose if they didn't spoil the DI involvement we wouldn't have got that cover in many ways the best part of the story The stained glass dalac even better than the plain glass last Al from revelation of the DI it is wonderful but like I said the story is kind of generic it's a bunch of monks oh no the dels have infiltrated them cue four 25 minute parts of doct Who action to defeat them

33:11 I'm being a bit too ass seric I think it's not great but it's not bad either and it is nice to see the Del being forced to use their wits rather than their guns and there is some fantastic imageries such as still living dialects being kept alive in Alien cow stomachs being fit on nutrients from the monks blood observe Yonder that is how the injured creatures have been kept alive what in bags hanging from the rafters they're not bags that smell it's obvious they're stomachs you're quite right they are stomachs cut from two bandelac repurposed as wounds for the creatures to rest in that's horrible as the doctor said it's survival the best they could do under the circumstances Constance don't get too close can actually see one

33:58 of the creatures moving about through the wall of the stomach look it's turning over and around it's my stomach that's turning over and around and the stained glass doll I mentioned before that's the version that constant first meets and the doctor is not with her or warned her so she has no idea what it is and because it was the stained glass version she wasn't exactly scared she wanted a closer look at the Artistry and it's Kang you really are terrified aren't you Boswick too of course we are it's a dark a vicious killing machine how can you not know what it is I thought it was something made by the monks I've never seen stained glass and Lead work used in such a manner before it's like a mobile work of art the monks must have built it a new Cas it's rather beautiful may I

34:45 take a closer look stop talking say where you are please do as it says Mrs Clark it won't hesitate to kill you if something is going to appear a bunch I like to have a variety of reactions to it especially when the companions not be warned about it beforehand but at the same time that she's excitedly fondling this work of art the diac is barking orders at constants and there's someone else screaming in Terror because she knows it's a diac do not Mo too late what on Earth is this I repeat go not move oh no please no what is it what's wrong those aliens they're DARS you

35:31 what in Heaven's name is it this darling don't not move b b con you really are terrified aren't you Constance is easily one of the doctor's smarter companions she's no Roman Zoe or Nissa but she's up there with Liz Shaw except apparently when Mike Tucker is writing her Tucker has a unique position among big finish writers not only did he write the genocide machine the first big finish dial story but his day job is special effects guy he worked on the original series and the new show he designed the Russell the Davies dials in the making of even had a great story about the production of diac they designed and made the diac to the same height as Billy Piper so she could look into a TI stock for dramatic scenes and

36:16 then because location issues they had problems with the alc and had she dramatically change its height for some shots when it's with her they then spent ages trying to work out how they could possibly keep continu when Piper over haired disappeared for a few minutes and then returned with giant platform heels Tucker also worked with it Alex when doing special effects a red dwarf yes Red Dwarf the babyc had a whole theme night dedicated to the show and they turned up we have never seen Red Dwarf now go away before we exterminate you exterminate exterminate exterminate that light B gag was funny though from series six remember that what when they wanted to go to ready now your cour buttons are impaired you are not behaving like a true doac you should

37:02 be exterminated all I said was it was funny that b with a light [Music] extermin no sense of you but up people anyway apart from that scene where Constance was comically stupid I have no complaints about Tucker either to do with special effects or writing I just wasn't too enthused with this story though it was fun spotting all the references he littered throughout to various monk stories the most obviously being the Brotherhood of the black petal being a shout out to the name of the Rose this also a fun Supporting Cast Nick Briggs plays the Abbot of the monastery who's been taken over by the DX and slowly but surely his voice changes to become more docash you're Holiness night draws in please might we Prevail on your hospitality

37:49 just for one evening rasp have these Merchants joined their apprentices in the secure quarters secure quarters a sale is the only accommodation we have even for honored guests ah and when I say you I mean the real Abbott tanal not the DX sto keep away oh I'm right aren't I you are mistaken doctor oh I don't know by the sounds of it the DAR pushing the abt's buttons is having to fight to retain control UK so fans might recognize John Savant as pandal who's basically Star Trek's prime directive as a sitcom character Galactic sensus eh

38:36 indeed you and your associate have just made Planet fall on a Grade Three world without taking the proper precautions oh your appearance could do Untold harm to the inhabitants but we've not seen any inhabitants we're in the middle of nowhere allow me to reassure you I am something of an expert when it comes to visiting pre-space age civilizations I am a Time Lord a Time Lord indeed then you should know better swanning around space and time as if you own it all and lastly Pen's assistant is played by Olivia henan who was in torch with as a Time displaced person and is one of my favorite actors who I rarely

39:22 see in things so that was great pricate say I've never been so doctor this is planetary assessor Malcolm Pendle of the central Galactic Census Bureau I'm Junior assessor Jane Aster probationary assessor let's not get ahead of ourselves shall we miss Aster no assessa it's my first time out in the field well it's always good to get your hands dirty helin got a role in the suggestion of Tucker himself now this was just a few years after her biggest role Laura in larr to candleford but that's not why he recommended her he did the special effects on Julia Jackel and Harriet Hyde her first big role and he remembered how good she was andway order of the DI isn't special but it's solid

40:09 but if you really want a story where di manipulate religion to Insidious ends and is really good then I suggest the elite Fifth Doctor lost story originally conceived as a TV story or the D isn't bad but the elite is better but I'll talk about that in one of my fifth doctor videos the next story absolute power I'm a little divided on on the one hand the setup a desert alien planet with mysterious inscriptions and the Dead coming back to life to murder the living lifts from the tropes of old school kind of racist adventure stories but harmlessly allowing you to enjoy them without the real world baggage but at the same time the main sporting character is a mostly not brave guy with a vaguely Arab sounding name of Omar Who falls in love with the blonde English

40:54 traveler based in basically nothing which also lives from the tropes of old school kind of racist adventure stories but he does it while putting on this accent Emma you made me jump oh my apologies Emma for the 600th time please call me Flory please thank you Miss flurry I can take Mrs Clark sir if that would help you of course thank you Mar but I'd like to take our guest there personally oh wait are you suggesting we prepare for hand to hand combat with a zombie that is not in my employment contract I'm better safe than sorry quite so Jesus he sounds like he's walked of a 1940s mummy movie this story is clearly

41:40 a series of choices that were made with no ill intent but I felt profoundly uncomfortable listening to some of this on the other hand Constance gets a lot of good stuff she's a signed to translate the inscriptions because her experience of blanch lay and her in the doctor get a hilariously [ __ ] scene where the First Watch a film introducing the company who are funding the archaeological dig at the heart of the story for Millennia we have aied upon nature to provide resources for our own advancement but there comes a point in every civilization's development where demand outstrips Nature's Supply is it talking about that thanks to ice Industries however do at last we are able to overcome Nature's inadequacies a suitably dramatic and pompous introduction without a leader yeah ice Industries would be nothing sounds like

42:26 a ring master all of our advances are thanks to our founder and chairman Liam ice goodness me his vision and determination has led to ice Industries excelling across multiple specialisms from mining to Medicine yeah from retail to research oh this is tedious his unrivaled leadership has led to many technological advances as well as the development of a devoted following unrivaled leadership unrivaled ego more like it's a decent story with some very unfortunate choices good character stuff and a uniquely unpleasant non-human villain 3,000 years ago I landed here in a colonization after almost 100 years in

43:12 transit my pod struck the surface of ter I found a host upon Landing but the Primitive people of this world have prophesized the arrival of I was that God I made as much progress as I could but tamarian physiology is weak the body's brittle and shortlived as hosts that would only last days sometimes only hours but you wiped out all of them single-handedly leaping from host to host tens of millions of them in order to allow your own procreation this was written and directed by Jamie Anderson who' previously written and directed for big fash but this is his first time doing both and it's kind of rough in

43:58 chunks Anderson is the son of one of the most important TV makers in UK history Jerry Anderson crater Thunderbird Stingray Captain Scarlet space 99 joe90 Tera Hawks UFO Fireball xl5 that protect your space Precinct and many many more and I'm not being ironic about his importance in the USA might be most famous for inspiring Team America World Police but in the UK Anderson was basically Jean roddenbery George Lucas and Jim H all once his career lasted over half a century and his impact cannot be underestimated and apparently his son preferring Doctor Who over his work was a bit embarrassing for him anyway the main human antagonist is a guy called lion ice Spit with two eyes and no eyes the man is possibly the most

44:44 insufferable character in Doctor Who history doctor Mrs Clark we've been expecting you you have of course you have Mr um Li two eyes no eyes I carry around all sorts of things obviously a trap doctor a pathetic plan from a pathetic man it's really not where has that curly haired buffoon got to you mean the doctor yeah the doctor something about him still makes me uncomfortable I mean where's he got to would you go wandering off in a situation like this you are a clever one aren't you Mrs Clark I'm sorry to be so ungentlemanly about this you you hit me welcome back Mrs Clark

45:31 I'm afraid though that this is goodbye what and why is that take a look around you do you see these compact Little Boxes strapped onto the temple pillars yes monod distronic explosives it's a shame in any other situation I'd have offered you a job goodbye which I'm pretty sure was the intention so well done chaps it was played by Paul Reynolds who was part of a double act with Callin Baker in a truly awful horror movie called the Asylum back in 2000 when Baker found out he was going to be in this story he brought him a souvenir from the time that could brly murder together and then I'm reunited with an old friend Paul Reynolds who I did a movie with in the year 2000 called Asylum I was a property developer and he was my assistant and we went to take

46:18 over this disused Asylum which was filmed in a disused Asylum and was the creepiest place I've ever been in and while we were there we got savagely hacked to death by a Wandering lunatic and we shared pictures I brought a picture in today sh of us covered in blood after our untimely end no [Music] please so how about is the Asylum well very I'm going to review it Andy absolute power

47:03 is the story that makes constant ask the doctor to take her home back to the war and it is a good scene but it's not enough to overpower the stuff I talked about earlier and I know just the place London good Heavens no I was thinking the Blustery Moon of thessalonia by a strange Quirk of cosmic chemistry the rain on the Blustery Moon of pelonia tastes rather like homemade lemonade London Doctor London back to the war oh uh which war my War obviously interestingly this wasn't in the story until the last draft originally Amar was being set up with the intention of constant staying with them then it was decided that wouldn't happen and any Love Stuff was removed then they re

47:49 added the love stuff because unrecorded love added a different flavor to the story then they settled on the current ending and and Alan Barnes the script editor ended up writing at Conant gets home in the next story Quicksilver which reintroduces flip and sets up the Dream Team and probably the strongest single run in six Zer outside of his travels with Eveland and I'll be gushing over that in another video absolute power to Quicksilver is actually one of the few times big finish releases line up perfectly with the narrative so enjoy it alas it doesn't line up with these stories because constant is in a couple of other releases which I'm going to talk about now after Co hit with less access to actors big finish decided to go back and do some extra six and constant stories which Slaughter in some way in Colony of fear the doctorine constants arriving the planet tatha

48:36 where the locals are having some trouble with intelligent malevolent wasp looking things called the txan who have a really horrifying reproductive cycle they sting you and add you to their hive mind and from that moment on they can talk to you and influence your thoughts and actions and when they decide you lose yourself to them and transform into one yourself sou yeah it's basically the worren they fly now they fly now they fly now my favorite element of the story is probably a guy called taros he's an old man found in a stasis tube in a crash ship near The Colony he'd captured the txian and they were released in the crash tarlos is a local from The Colony a young man out for adventure and about 5 years before the story began he met and started traveling with the second doctor who then accidentally left him

49:23 home a few decades early in the wrong planet so we got to lead the life his controlling father denied him a life of adventure and really wild things like nearly being murdered by space wasps as he waited for the timeline to catch up with them six though had no idea about any of this because he doesn't remember taros at all it was several lifetimes ago but it was certainly me it's all coming back to you is it not really no I accept that we travel together but it was during a period of my life that I can't recall I got think got two possibilities for why one it's Amnesia big finish as so many characters meeting before they met on TV that almost everyone must have crippling Amnesia or two probably more likely two is from series 6B forced into working for the timer Secret Service between the war

50:09 games and spearhead from space and had his memory of it wiped it started out as a fan Theory but it fixed so many continuity issues that it's pretty much accepted as Canon big finish is even doing a second dror series set during at the obvious thing here would be for tarlos to be pissed off with the doctor but he is not he got the life he wanted lots of adventure and really wild things his dad though was Furious one day a stranger materialized literally materialized in front of me I know this do you want me to tell you this or not all these years and we still rub each other up the wrong way don't we so you went with him because you wanted Adventure huh barely concealed disgust

50:54 for my action I've missed that one but you went because you were bored he thought he could get me back within a few minutes of me leaving no one would ever know and I believed him and I don't let the unimaginative title fool you this is a great little story with just enough temporal Shenanigans and body horror to keep the average ho fan happy there's even a lovely young woman who makes friends with the doctor and wants to join him traveling is this what you do all the time turn up and help people i' like to do something like that I'd be really good at that sort of thing so what do you think you me and Mrs Clark saving people who knows so you can count the seconds until she is a terrible fight thank you coling your fear I love that Trope fun fact this is one a big

51:41 finishes first phrase into remote recording because this was done during the very early days of Co so it might have actually been the first I'm not 100% sure it was so early that the pull of possible actors was Tiny because so few had installed their home Studios yet the performances though weren't bad I couldn't even tell it was remote recorded but hearing Snippets and releases about how they dealt with Co recording is always interesting Constance also appeared with six in a separate miniseries called the 11 this was released after the end of the main range also known as The monthy Adventures the original home of big finish Doctor Who is for the vast majority of the releases I've talked about come from the stories were usually Standalone and made up of four 25 minute parts after the end of the main range

52:27 five six and seven got their own adventure ranges eight and four already had their own ranges beforehand and the 11 was the first of the sixth doctor Adventures the 11 though isn't just the overall title for the release he's also a guy big finishes Triumph of a renegade Time Lord he suffers from regenerative dissonance basically when he regenerates the old personalities don't die or go to sleep in the background of his mind like they do in other time Lords they stay active in in his mind talking to him giving advice commenting and even taking over his body it's the time lord equivalent of dissociated Personality Disorder or multiple personalities and it's an ingenious idea it's called the 11 because there's 11 Personalities in there and in other stories they've also

53:12 introduced the 12 and the nine and the eight Etc what I love is that Mark boner plays him you might remember him from the rebel Flash in series six of new who he manages to make every personality feel and sound different there's an aoral Baseline to most of them but each of the people in there are as different as each doctor as oh you could have stopped this but my dear Constance we wouldn't have known what's in store you're hurting my arm so what it's not yours what a half life are you worried now now you've divided yourself into just so many parts that's all you'll be not with you around I've been showing off all day but

53:57 now I think it's time to actually kill you no we won't be doing that eight we are very much in need of your assistance you idiot what are you doing just preventing a few murders that's all and what's really impressive is that Bonner is Scottish and all the 11's voices are English if you want an easy to imagine shorthand for the 11 if John Sim's master was the Frank Goran Riddler then the 11 is the Joker all of them at once honestly almost wish RTD

54:42 come up with the concept because the master somehow Awakening all the previous doctors and giving them all equal control the doctor's body instead of turning 10 into a gramlin would have almost made the last the timers taller B plus tenant would have had a ball getting his act nerd on with the impersonations and stuff and we having said all that I hated this box s the storyline was tiresome all I wanted was the 11 going off into the universe and fighting the doctor in a variety of places and times but nah it's all sit in one planet it's called molus and the norm is for people to have two minds and one body so in one story El and his one- minded wife mavel visit a mind Clinic to separate the 11's mind and put some the less agreeable personalities into cloned bodies or other things like a tardis the

55:31 one the original Self waiting in the ghost Tardis all along the one was our very first experiment and the moment I tra nine in the telepathic circuit both tardises became linked rather clever don't you think well that doesn't matter I can eject him not now I'm inside your machine young man and can control it no she'll fight you so will I then there's a story where 11 and misel take over the planet by murdering the president and he's elected as his replacement and finally 11 gets bored of ruling the planet so he decides to split the msian Minds giving them all 11 personalities like H the 11

56:18 is very well named because he's the main character six and constant only turn up in the first and third Stories part two is a very unconventional who dun it with several shocking tests that's mostly about the soon to be deceased Oliver Aron having a conversation about politics and stuff with his killer the 11 that's not actually a spoiler though because the big question is which of the 11 actually did the deed well you believe in the Ancients then of course how could I not when there's such an abundance of proof such as take a look around you you don't believe in Gods then your book The robes they all for show on the contrary I most definitely believe in

57:07 Gods well there we are then we agree on one thing even if our ancients have different faces if you like the politics of malus and the same people talking about the same things over and over and over again then this is the boxing for you it's not bad it's just very much not what I wanted I wanted six and constant fighting the 11 in time and space but I understand why they didn't do that the 11 had debuted about 5 years earlier they had years of stories to do that traditional Doctor Who kind of thing they wanted to do something different and there is good here Mark boner really throws himself into the role of the alavon though in the first one for all that means a lot of scenes where he's

57:52 yelling and screaming at himself ah stand back six don't Crow the poor man sucking the neurons out of his brain in streams stop huging it let me have some fun ouch don't hit me oh I knew this would happen separate out the animals Among Us oh Let Them Fight you've never had bodies of your own enjoy the freedom four minutes at a time in the second the murder of olver Aron which is really really really not what I wanted he guessed a plane 11 who might have turned over a new or old

58:39 life wa it's in the book I spent two revolutions with the Hermits of kramon after my wife died you see that's that's how I've managed to sublimate so many of those infernal inner voices of mine silence them in fact you silenced them I had no idea so you're a monom mind now yes I suppose you might call me that that's not how your disciples describe you why what oh come along now 11 I thought we decided to be open with each other I know you have followers some of the most enlightened Minds on Muse have openly pledged their loyalty to you have they really and Constance even

59:25 gets a good subplot in the third one elevation when she starts generating extra minds of her own don't you feel it Constance don't you feel better more and you led me in here and let me breathe those things in without my consent darling please stop whining haven't you heard that two heads are better than one two heads are better but I'm happy to say that this is just the beginning [Music] I should be with him we should share this yes I'd like a word with the 11 myself oh I'd thank him darling my Liberator about time I've been suffocating in

1:00:10 here all of this noise can we just calm down a moment girls no we sh you can't make us oh my Heavens what was that who were those people they're you constant all of you alter egos s selves intrusive thoughts all given the full form they deserve oh it's fabulous we love it we do not love it we have to see the 11 not with that attitude there's even a good subplot where the doctor keeps searching for evidence that the 11 is evil in part three because the 11 is adamant that he's turned over a new life and he wants nothing more than to rule the planet benevolently way Constance be careful of

1:00:57 course and Doctor maybe maybe you should keep an open mind I'm sorry well people do change it's been known people change but you 11 you're not people are you Doctor let me show you the new me come this way World president in attendance oh please please there's no need you're all doing a tremendous job please carry on everybody carry on Sir shall I activate your crown please your

1:01:42 crown multitasking doctor are you going to tell me that's something you're very good at every leader in Universal history has struggled to keep Pace with the velocity of their that position but I don't have that problem these screens what are they broadcasting the camera work seems rather wobbly it's important wouldn't you say that I understand how my people think that I see things from their point of view you're not quite as important as you giving me a simple answer again I'd ask you to moderate your tone Oh not something I turn to specialize in then it goes on for way too long until it's a bit crap doctor I have all this

1:02:31 and um what I am Bor this is a very weirdly shaped set in a story and structure kind of way but there's a reason for that it was the very early days of Co and they had to plan some stories around who at home recording studios kind of like calling a fear which me last best actors and more people playing multiple personalities mavil the 11's wife was even played by Mark Bonner's real life wife ly gasal who played Kathy Nightingale in blank partly because the home studio but also because she wanted to do some big finish for a while and they took the chance to create something meter than usual for her and I sorry that overall this wasn't the most positive ending for the video

1:03:18 but I really wasn't a fan of the 11 good character great concept bad box set if you want to know what stories to pick up to get a taste of constance and I suggest crisscross it's a very solid introduction and shield of the yoten it's easily the best of these but again none of them are fullon bad except for maybe The 11 most of them are just kind of mediocre with good and bad parts locally the team up with flip and the Dream Team run easily six is strongest run since e evand it's right around the [Music] corner me theer and the [Music]

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