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Big Finish’s Excelis saga is finally available to download.

The third and fourth instalments in the Excelis saga are now available as downloads from the Big Finish website, joining Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns and Doctor Who: Excelis Rising.

The third instalment in the story of Excelis, Doctor Who: Excelis Decays, was originally released in July 2002 and features the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) returning to find a war-torn city where there was once peace, heralding the fulfilment of a terrible plan…

When the Doctor last visited the city of Excelis, its citizens were about to enter an age of enlightenment and reason. But some centuries later, he discovers a vicious totalitarian regime at war with the rest of Artaris, living off the efforts of a drugged and broken underclass.  Who is the mysterious Lord Sutton, and what hold does he have over the ruling classes? What are the Meat Puppets, and what role do they play in the eternal war? And why is the Doctor’s arrival the final piece in a plan that has been centuries in the making?  Throughout his lives, the Doctor has fought legends. But some legends refuse to die. 

And in Bernice Summerfield: The Plague Herd of Excelis, the final Excelis chapter originally released in February 2002, Bernice Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) and Iris Wildthyme (Katy Manning) come across the city in disrepair and ruin – and danger is on the horizon…

The once-proud city of Excelis is a crumbling ruin in a state of siege, as barbarians catapult pestilent animal corpses into the city to spread disease among those trapped inside.  Excelis is a city clinging to life by a thread. But ancient prophecies foretell a final retribution for the past arrogance of its rulers. When the sun is eaten away from the sky, when the ancient relic of Excelis is taken from its rightful resting-place, and when strangers are discovered among the people, then shall the whole world be doomed to die.  Today, the sun is a moth-eaten shadow. Plans are afoot to steal the relic. And a very tired and very fraught Professor Bernice Summerfield just stomped into town in the company of a mysterious traveller in space and time known only as Iris Wildthyme. Pitted against a sinister prophet, the machinations of the Imperial court, and hordes of animal undead, Benny finds herself embroiled in the final stages of an aeons-old plan to commit genocide twice over, with no way out. 

Doctor Who: Excelis Decays is available as a collector’s edition CD at £9.99 and for the first time on download at £7.99, exclusively at www.bigfinish.com. Bernice Summerfield: The Plague Herd of Excelis is available as a collector’s edition CD at £4.99, and for the first time on download from the Big Finish website at £4.99. Plus, for a limited time, Big Finish listeners can get up to 40% off Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns, Doctor Who: Excelis Rising, Doctor Who: Excelis Decays and Bernice Summerfield: The Plague Herd of Excelis on CD and download.