Emancipation of the Daleks (audio story)

Emancipation of the Daleks was the third release in The Audio Novels. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured the Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts and the Daleks.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Bill Potts has an unexpected visitor: another Bill Potts from twenty years in the future. Bill summons the Doctor, who confirms that the other Bill is the genuine article. She has come to see her younger self for a reason...but she can’t say what it is without creating a paradox!

Moments later, the TARDIS Cloister Bell sounds. A damaged Dalek war saucer is travelling back through the time vortex on a collision course. The Doctor dematerialises the TARDIS to avoid it, only to cause the spaceship to crash-land in Earth’s recent past. When it re-materialises, the TARDIS is now in a world altered beyond recognition. The city of Bristol has been reduced to rubble, save for an interstellar rocket construction site and a top-security research complex. The complex is guarded by ‘Robomen’ and flying security drones piloted by Dalek mutants.

The Doctor quickly realises what has happened. History has been changed, and the Daleks have conquered the Earth, enslaving the human race.

He couldn’t be more wrong. And Bill is about to discover that her past, present and future are no longer her own.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Twelfth Doctor
• Bill Potts / Future Bill / "Alt Bill"
• Daleks
• Moira / Alternate Moira
• Darren
• Toni
• Kerry
• Dr Chapman
• Supreme Leader Jean Hamilton
• Angelo Rossi
• Cooksly

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Cover Art - Claudia Gironi
• Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music and Sound Design - Steve Foxon
• Script Editor - Roland Moore
• Writer - Jonathan Morris
• Daleks created by Terry Nation

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Delos Research Complex was built on the site of the Dalek crash on St Luke's University.
  • Based on Dalek technology, researchers at this top-secret facility developed "ever-lasting batteries", drones, special tanks, laser guns and warp drives.
• The Doctor has a credit card linked to a UNIT expenses account set up by the Brigadier.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The story was recorded remotely on 3-5 August 2021.
• This story marked the Big Finish debut of Bill Potts, although there had previously been multiple stories featuring the Twelfth Doctor during Series 10, such as Dead Media and Regeneration Impossible.
• Following the previous release Watchers, this is the second consecutive story in The Audio Novels series to feature the Daleks.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Bill previously encountered Mark VIII Daleks in TV: The Pilot.
• The Doctor tells Bill that the TARDIS has a yearometer. (TV: An Unearthly Child; PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, Byzantium!, Eater of Wasps; COMIC: The Doctor Strikes Back)
• The Doctor has had past dealings with the Robomen, and explains that the process usually can't be reversed. Without the Daleks' control, they usually go insane and commit suicide. He previously met them in his in his first, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) fourth, (AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks) fifth, (AUDIO: The Mutant Phase) sixth, (AUDIO: Masters of Earth) seventh, (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!) eighth, (AUDIO: Lucie Miller) and eleventh incarnations. (COMIC: The Only Good Dalek)
• UNIT and Torchwood investigate the crash of the Dalek saucer at St Luke's University.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Official Emancipation of the Daleks page at bigfinish.com