Dust Breeding
Template:Bigfinishbox Dust Breeding is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Template:Spoiler The story marks the return of Caroline John to Doctor Who and the introduction of the Master to the Big Finish continuity.
Plot
The Seventh Doctor's diary has a strange entry that the painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is going to be destroyed in "mysterious circumstances". So he and Ace visit a colony of artists on the barrent dust world of Duchamp 331 to find out more.
Cast
- The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
- Ace — Sophie Aldred
- Maggie — Jane Goddard
- Skredsvig — Jez Fielder
- Jay Binks — Gary Russell
- Bev Tarrant — Louise Faulkner
- Guthrie — Ian Ricketts
- Madame Salvadori — Caroline John
- Klemp — Mark Donovan
- Seta — Geoffrey Beevers
- Damien Pierson — Johnson Willis
- Albert Bootle — Alistair Lock
Notes
- The Master spends the story in a state of decay similar to that shown in The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of Traken. His alias in the story, Mr. Seta, is, as is typical for the Master, an anagram of Master.
- Caroline John previously played the Third Doctor's companion Liz Shaw in the 1970 season. She is married to Geoffrey Beevers, who had previously played the Master in The Keeper of Traken.
- The character of Bev Tarrant previously appeared in The Genocide Machine and also appears in the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Bellotron Incident.
- The Doctor mentions that there are multiple Mona Lisas in existence, and that the one in the Louvre has "THIS IS A FAKE" written on the canvas, under the paint, in felt-tip pen. This is a reference to events of the Fourth Doctor serial City of Death.
- The Doctor reveals to Ace that he has the original of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the TARDIS. He claims to have rescued it from a museum fire in the Rijksmuseum in the 33rd century. The TARDIS art gallery also features a Terileptil sculpture.
- The name of the planet Duchamp 331 may be a reference to artist Marcel Duchamp. The name of the character Madame Salvadori may be a reference to artist Salvador Dalí. .
- Ace and the Doctor mention to Bev Tarrant that they have encountered the monstrous alien Krill before, on a colony world. This is a reference to the events of the Past Doctor Adventures novel Storm Harvest.
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