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Doctor Who: Excelis Saga #1-4
Doctor Who: Excelis Collected
The complete Excelis Saga, including extended music scores by David Darlington.
Throughout his lives, the Doctor has fought legends. But some legends refuse to die.
1. Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns by Paul Magrs - That terrible old reprobate and transdimensional adventuress Iris Wildthyme has gone and locked herself up in a nunnery on the savage world of Artaris. Here she is discovered by the Doctor and the reasonably brutal warlord Grayvorn. Together - with a peculiar nun they pick up en route - they must travel the forests and swamps of this ghastly world in Iris's double decker bus in order to tussle - to the death - with a horde of flesh-eating zombies for a mysterious and holy relic of unfathomable value and questionable pedigree. But what is the Mother Superior's part in all this?
2. Doctor Who: Excelis Rising by David A McIntee - A thousand years after his first visit to the planet Artaris, the Sixth Doctor returns. As the city of Excelis spreads her Empire throughout the globe, death follows a mysterious Relic through the halls of the Imperial Museum. As the Doctor helps the Curator and the local authorities with this mystery, he finds himself crossing paths with a familiar face from Excelis' history - but no-one lives for a thousand years, do they?
3. Doctor Who: Excelis Decays by Craig Hinton - 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.
4. Bernice Summerfield: The Plague Herds of Excelis by Stephen Cole - 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.
Throughout his lives, the Doctor has fought legends. But some legends refuse to die.
1. Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns by Paul Magrs - That terrible old reprobate and transdimensional adventuress Iris Wildthyme has gone and locked herself up in a nunnery on the savage world of Artaris. Here she is discovered by the Doctor and the reasonably brutal warlord Grayvorn. Together - with a peculiar nun they pick up en route - they must travel the forests and swamps of this ghastly world in Iris's double decker bus in order to tussle - to the death - with a horde of flesh-eating zombies for a mysterious and holy relic of unfathomable value and questionable pedigree. But what is the Mother Superior's part in all this?
2. Doctor Who: Excelis Rising by David A McIntee - A thousand years after his first visit to the planet Artaris, the Sixth Doctor returns. As the city of Excelis spreads her Empire throughout the globe, death follows a mysterious Relic through the halls of the Imperial Museum. As the Doctor helps the Curator and the local authorities with this mystery, he finds himself crossing paths with a familiar face from Excelis' history - but no-one lives for a thousand years, do they?
3. Doctor Who: Excelis Decays by Craig Hinton - 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.
4. Bernice Summerfield: The Plague Herds of Excelis by Stephen Cole - 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.
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February 24, 2023
This download only release includes all four Doctor Who & Bernice Summerfield audio-dramas released from Big Finish Productions.
Excelis Dawns - The (Fifth) Doctor finds himself on the planet Artaris, in the city of Excelis, and he’s not alone, to his chagrin he discovers Iris Wildthyme incongruously sequestered in a convent and thus begins a strange quest to find … The Beloved? This is one of those stories that only The Doctor and Iris Wildthyme could be involved with. Weird. Wacky. And just plain silly (3/5).
Excelis Rising - The (Sixth) Doctor, while traveling alone, finds himself once again on the planet Artaris, in the city of Excelis, just in time to get caught up in an attempted museum robbery. A robbery of none other than … The Beloved. I did enjoy this one quite a bit more than the previous chapter (which got more than a bit bit silly), this one is a nice little mystery and certainly doesn’t descend into the Iris Wildthyme realm of the absurd (4/5).
Excelis Decays - The (Seventh) Doctor, again traveling alone, arrives somewhere he’s visited before. The planet of Artaris, and the all too familiar city of Excelis, have a new dystopian threat and The Doctor will need to solve this Gordian knot of a puzzle or he and everyone on the planet will die. The biggest problem is that the fate of Excelis was already seen. Does that make this foreseen destiny a fixed point in time? (5/5)
Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis - The story of Excelis began in Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns, continues in Doctor Who: Excelis Rising and Doctor Who: Excelis Decays, before coming to a conclusion in this story. I’d originally thought this was an interlude, that between Rising and Decays, but I’m glad I found out it was an epilogue before I got too far into the series. The combination of Bernice Summerfield and Iris Wildthyme works wonderfully. These women have great chemistry. Big Finish should do a whole series of them playing off each other (if they haven’t already). As for the overall story? It’s fine. But not nearly as good as Excelis Decays (3/5).
Excelis Dawns - The (Fifth) Doctor finds himself on the planet Artaris, in the city of Excelis, and he’s not alone, to his chagrin he discovers Iris Wildthyme incongruously sequestered in a convent and thus begins a strange quest to find … The Beloved? This is one of those stories that only The Doctor and Iris Wildthyme could be involved with. Weird. Wacky. And just plain silly (3/5).
Excelis Rising - The (Sixth) Doctor, while traveling alone, finds himself once again on the planet Artaris, in the city of Excelis, just in time to get caught up in an attempted museum robbery. A robbery of none other than … The Beloved. I did enjoy this one quite a bit more than the previous chapter (which got more than a bit bit silly), this one is a nice little mystery and certainly doesn’t descend into the Iris Wildthyme realm of the absurd (4/5).
Excelis Decays - The (Seventh) Doctor, again traveling alone, arrives somewhere he’s visited before. The planet of Artaris, and the all too familiar city of Excelis, have a new dystopian threat and The Doctor will need to solve this Gordian knot of a puzzle or he and everyone on the planet will die. The biggest problem is that the fate of Excelis was already seen. Does that make this foreseen destiny a fixed point in time? (5/5)
Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis - The story of Excelis began in Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns, continues in Doctor Who: Excelis Rising and Doctor Who: Excelis Decays, before coming to a conclusion in this story. I’d originally thought this was an interlude, that between Rising and Decays, but I’m glad I found out it was an epilogue before I got too far into the series. The combination of Bernice Summerfield and Iris Wildthyme works wonderfully. These women have great chemistry. Big Finish should do a whole series of them playing off each other (if they haven’t already). As for the overall story? It’s fine. But not nearly as good as Excelis Decays (3/5).
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