The Juggernauts
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Template:Bigfinishbox The Juggernauts is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Plot
To escape the destruction of a medical vessel the Sixth Doctor sends his red-headed companion Melanie Bush out in an escape pod, promising to seek her out once he rescues his TARDIS from the exploding ship. However, on finding his ship he is trapped in a Dalek time scoop. Mel, however, lands on the planet Lethe where her skills as a computer technician are keenly sought, and she joins a team led by the wheelchair-using Dr. Vaso and works to create the Juggernauts: "the ultimate service robots". She becomes quite attached to the team (catching the eye of the juvenile but intelligent Geoff) and particularly the elderly Vaso, with whom she strikes up a rapport.
The Doctor however, discovers himself employed by the Daleks to spy on the situation on Lethe. He agrees; for they threaten Mel's life. What is the secret of the Juggernauts? Why are the Daleks interested in Lethe? What are the strange things residing in the darkness of the lower echelons of the colony?
Cast
- The Doctor — Colin Baker
- Mel Bush — Bonnie Langford
- Davros — Terry Molloy
- Sonali — Bindya Solanki
- Geoff — Klaus White
- Kryson — Peter Forbes
- Brauer — Paul Grunert
- Loewen — Julia Houghton
- Dalek/Mechanoid Voices — Nicholas Briggs
Notes
- This adventure takes place between the television stories The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani. For Davros, the events depicted here follow on from those of Revelation of the Daleks. As his hand was blown off by Bostock in that story, he has replaced it with a cybernetic hand, which would tie this story in with The Stolen Earth/Journey's End where he also has a cybernetic hand.
- The Mechonoids previously appeared in the television story The Chase.
- Davros uses the alias of "Dr Vaso", an anagram of his real name. Another Doctor Who villain, the Master, has a similar habit for assuming aliases which are anagrams (or other derivations) of "Master".