Heroes of Sontar

Heroes of Sontar
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release no.	146
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Vislor Turlough
Written by	Alan Barnes
Directed by	Ken Bentley
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code	6HD
Release date	April 2011

Heroes of Sontar is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

The Doctor takes his friends to the peaceful citadel planet, Samur. But they find it deserted. Suddenly, seven Sontarans arrive on a mission so secret, even they don't know it.

Cast

The Doctor - Peter Davison
Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
Fleet Marshal Stabb/Trooper Jorr/Witch Guard - John Banks
Field-Major Thurr/Adjutant/Orbital Command - Duncan Wisbey
Sergeant Mezz/Trooper Nold - Alex Lowe
Corporal Clun - Andrew Fettes
Trooper Vend - Derek Carlyle

Writing

Writer Alan Barnes based the Sontaran characters on the characters from the sitcom Dad's Army, and derived the characters' names from the names of the sitcom's actors: Field-Major Thurr from Arthur Lowe, Sergeant Mezz from John le Mesurier, Corporal Clunn from Clive Dunn, Pilot Bekk from James Beck, Trooper Vend from Ian Lavender, Trooper Jorr from John Laurie and Trooper Nold from Arnold Ridley.^[1] The story's dialogue deliberately includes catchphrases from Dad's Army such as "You stupid boy!"^[1]

Continuity

This is Big Finish's first use of the Sontarans.
Nyssa encountered a Rutan in Castle of Fear.
Nyssa mentions an important moment in the Doctor's future that she can't let him find out anything about. This is a reference to his regeneration, from her perspective, in Circular Time: Winter.
Although Tegan met the Sontarans in the Jim'll Fix It segment, A Fix with Sontarans, it is not generally considered canonical.

References

1 2 Alan Barnes (writer); Ken Bentley (director) (30 April 2011). Heroes of Sontar (digital download only). Big Finish Productions. Event occurs at 26:26 on "Extra" track. ISBN 978-1-84435-558-7. Retrieved 15 July 2011.

External links

Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors Psychodrome Iterations of I

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights The Light at the End Moonflesh

Nyssa & Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef A Perfect World

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane The Entropy Plague

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince

Doctor Who: Sontaran stories

Television episodes	The Time Warrior The Sontaran Experiment The Invasion of Time The Two Doctors "The Sontaran Stratagem" / "The Poison Sky" The Last Sontaran Enemy of the Bane

Commander Strax	"A Good Man Goes to War" "The Snowmen" "The Crimson Horror" "The Name of the Doctor" "Deep Breath"

Minor appearances	Logopolis The End of Time "The Pandorica Opens" Death of the Doctor "The God Complex" Pond Life "The Time of the Doctor" "Face the Raven"

Audio	Heroes of Sontar The Five Companions The First Sontarans The King of Sontar Starlight Robbery Dark Eyes 4: Master of the Daleks Terror of the Sontarans Classic Doctors New Monsters 1: The Sontaran Ordeal Agents of Chaos: The Eternity Cage The Sontarans The Eternal Battle

Books	Lords of the Storm Shakedown The Eight Doctors The Sontaran Games The Taking of Chelsea 426 Silhouette

Spin-off	Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans Mindgame

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors The Gunpowder Plot

See also	Rutan "A Fix with Sontarans"

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