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The Third Doctor and Sarah encounter Kaleidoscope
The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith – as well as the Brigadier and UNIT – face an unusual threat in Kaleidoscope, out now from Big Finish. An alien space […]
The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith – as well as the Brigadier and UNIT – face an unusual threat in Kaleidoscope, out now from Big Finish.
An alien space messiah has an urgent prophecy for the Time Lord as the Doctor (Tim Treloar), Sarah Jane Smith (Sadie Miller) and the Brigadier (Jon Culshaw) encounter a man that fell to Earth in the form of Kaleidoscope (Gerran Howell).
His name is Kaleidoscope. He claims to have travelled halfway across the universe to warn all humankind that it stands on the brink of extinction. And a certain tenacious young journalist has got an exclusive interview with this alien messiah…
But it’s not Sarah Jane Smith who’s got the out-of-this-world scoop, – it’s her rival, the unscrupulous Jenny Nettles. Sarah’s busy helping the Doctor and UNIT work out if Kaleidoscope is for real or a fake when RAF Phantoms scramble to intercept an unidentified something homing in on a top-secret missile base.
It seems like Kaleidoscope’s apocalyptic predictions might all be about to come true.
Director and Script Editor Nicholas Briggs said: “I always have great fun directing The Third Doctor Adventures, which is why I keep doing it! Tim Treloar is a real laugh.
“It’s lovely that people get what we’re doing with the Third Doctor range. I think we’ve really pursued the ‘nostalgia with a twist’ philosophy of making it feel 100 percent authentic while adding some more modern storytelling sensibilities.”
Producer Heather Challands added: “Sean Longmore has done an absolutely astonishing job on the cover. It feels really fresh but totally of the period – you can absolutely imagine Jon Pertwee loving the idea of riding a snowmobile!”
“Alan Barnes is a very clever writer and he worked with Nick and me on the previous Third Doctor Adventures story, The Annihilators, so he understood the format of one great big long adventure. It’s such a mammoth script so a lot of the plot points were worked out at storyline stage. Alan just gets the era; I was shocked to find out that he’d never written for the Brigadier before!”
Doctor Who —The Third Doctor Adventures: Kaleidoscope is now available to own for just £19.99 (collector’s edition CD box set + download) or £16.99 (download only).
Click here for our interview with Tim Treloar and Sadie Miller
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