Doctor Who and the Pescatons
| Doctor Who and the Pescatons | |
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| Doctor Who audio play | |
Original LP cover.
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| Written by | Victor Pemberton |
| Produced by | Don Norman |
| Length | 2 episodes, 46 minutes total |
| Originally broadcast | 1976 (LP Release) |
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| Author | Victor Pemberton |
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| Cover artist | Pete Wallbank |
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Doctor Who book: Target novelisations |
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Release number
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153 |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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Publication date
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15 September 1991 |
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| Preceded by | 'Battlefield' |
| Followed by | The Power of the Daleks |
Doctor Who and the Pescatons (commonly shortened to The Pescatons in a similar manner to Doctor Who and the Silurians) is an audio play in two episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is written by Victor Pemberton, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and Bill Mitchell as Zor.
Doctor Who and the Pescatons was the very first audio drama based upon Doctor Who, and not counting radio plays would be the last until the late 1990s when Big Finish Productions would revive the idea for a prolific series of audio productions based upon the series. Like Doctor Who and the Pescatons, original cast members from the series would be included. Doctor Who and the Pescatons remained the only original Doctor Who audio production to feature Tom Baker (apart from the educational Exploration Earth: The Time Machine) until the Hornets' Nest series of audios released in 2009. And, as a consequence of Sladen's death in 2011, it stands as the only audio drama featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane (discounting again Exploration Earth).
The Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive on a beach by the Thames Estuary at night, and discover a metallic seaweed there. The Doctor consults with Professor Emerson, who says that three expeditions to recover a recent meteorite from the bottom of the estuary have all vanished. The Doctor goes diving and is attacked by something that wraps itself around him, but then lets him go. The meteorite is really a wrecked spaceship buried under the estuary. The Doctor believes it is a Pescaton ship. The Pescatons are carcharhinidae, or deep water sharks. The experts scoff at this, until one comes out of the Thames and makes its way to London Zoo in search of salt water. The Doctor confronts it in the Aquarium, where it dies and disintegrates. That night, more meteorites land in the Thames.
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