Doctor Who: The Rescue

byDavid Whitaker, Maureen O'Brien (Read by)

1st Doctor TV soundtrack

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Maureen O’Brien narrates the BBC TV soundtrack of this two-part adventure starring William Hartnell as the Doctor.

“There's always Koquillion. He could keep me here forever...”

Landing on the planet Dido in the 25th Century, the Doctor, Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) discover a crashed spaceship. Living inside are two survivors from Earth, Vicki and Bennett. Their time awaiting rescue has been blighted by the threats of Koquillion, whose alarming appearance terrifies Vicki.

With Ian and the Doctor ensnared in a deadly trap, Barbara seeks to defend Vicki against Koquillion. But there is more to the situation than meets the eye, and the travellers must risk their lives to discover the truth.

Maureen O’Brien, making her debut as the Doctor’s new companion Vicki, provides newly recorded linking narration, and in a bonus interview she looks back at her time in Doctor Who and subsequent career.

Audio edition produced by David Darlington.
Project Editor: Michael Stevens.

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About David Whitaker

David Whitaker was an English television writer and novelist who worked on the early years of the science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. He served as the programme's first story editor, supervising the writing of its first 51 episodes from 1963 to 1964. He also wrote Doctor Who serials including The Crusade, The Rescue, The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks and The Wheel in Space, and two of the first novelisations from the series, Doctor Who and the Daleks and Doctor Who and the Crusaders. His other work included writing the Dalek comic strip for the weekly children's magazine TV Century 21, in addition to the stage play The Curse of the Daleks (1965).

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