Omega (audio drama)

Omega

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	'Doctor Who'
Release no.	47
Featuring	Fifth Doctor
Written by	Nev Fountain
Directed by	Gary Russell
Produced by	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	6EA
Length	2 hrs 21 mins
Release date	August 2003

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

Plot

Jolly Chronolidays is offering sight-seeing tours of the "Sector of Forgotten Souls", the place where in ancient times the Time Lord Omega detonated a star that enabled the Time Lords the power to travel through time, and was lost. When the Fifth Doctor arrives, he discovers that Omega might not be as lost as was thought.

Cast

The Doctor — Peter Davison
Omega — Ian Collier
Professor Ertikus — Patrick Duggan
Glinda — Anita Elias
Maven — Faith Kent
Daland — Hugo Myatt
Sentia — Caroline Munro
Zagreus — Jim Sangster
Tarpov — Conrad Westmaas

Continuity

This story is part of a trilogy with Davros and Master to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who.
Also, this story directly follows, and acts as a sequel to the TV story Arc of Infinity, where Omega takes the Doctor's form.
Tegan and Nyssa are not in this story. In The Elite it is revealed that they are staying at the hostel in Amsterdam, seen in Arc of Infinity.
Omega first appeared in The Three Doctors.
The hologram foreshadows Zagreus.
Lurmans were seen in Carnival of Monsters.
The elephants' graveyard for TARDISes that is mentioned here is finally seen at the end of The Axis of Insanity.

Cast notes

Conrad Westmaas would later play C'rizz, a companion of the eighth Doctor.

External links

Reviews

Omega reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Omega reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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

Gallifrey stories

Television stories	The War Games The Three Doctors The Deadly Assassin The Invasion of Time Arc of Infinity The Five Doctors The End of Time "The Day of the Doctor" "Listen" "Heaven Sent" "Hell Bent"

Minor appearances	Colony in Space "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" "The Name of the Doctor"

Doctor Who audio dramas	The Sirens of Time The Apocalypse Element Death Comes to Time Shada Neverland Omega Zagreus Unregenerate! Urban Myths Human Resources "Sisters of the Flame" / "Vengeance of Morbius" Dark Eyes Doom Coalition

Gallifrey audio series	Weapon of Choice Square One The Inquiry A Blind Eye Lies Pandora Insurgency Imperiatrix Fractures Warfare Appropriation Mindbomb Panacea Reborn Disassembled Annihilation Forever Intervention Earth Enemy Lines

Unbound audio plays	Auld Mortality He Jests at Scars...

Novels	Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible Nightshade Blood Harvest Goth Opera A Device of Death Lungbarrow The Eight Doctors Legacy of the Daleks The Infinity Doctors Dead Romance The Shadows of Avalon The Ancestor Cell Warmonger World Game Engines of War

See also	Time Lords Eye of Harmony Regeneration Time War Shada "The Last Day"

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