Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979 season (Season 17), but was never completed due to a strike at the BBC during filming. It is also the title of the remake, an audio play produced by Big Finish Productions and webcast on BBCi. The audio play was also broadcast, this time on digital radio station BBC 7, on 10 December 2005, and will be repeated in six parts beginning on 16 July 2006. Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, from The Masque of Mandragora Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is an English actor. ... The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician and author, most notably of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series (HHGG or H2G2). ... Pennant Roberts is a Welsh director noted for his work on British television. ... Graham Williams was a British producer and script-editor, whose best know work was on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... John Nathan-Turner. ... This is a list of Doctor Who television serials. ... The Horns of Nimon is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 22, 1979 to January 12, 1980. ... The Leisure Hive is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from August 30 to September 20, 1980. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, sometimes also known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, founded in 1922. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Audio theatre. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... BBCi is the brand name for the BBCs interactive television services. ... BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Synopsis

Shada, the prison planetoid of the Time Lords.

The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, an up-and-coming would-be conqueror of the universe, needs the assistance of one of the prison's inmates, but finds that nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to Earth, where he is masquerading as a professor at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge (the story features some on-location filming in Cambridge, all of which was completed before the strike). Luckily for the fate of the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of Professor Chronotis coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend the Doctor (and this is where the story really begins). Image File history File links Shada. ... Image File history File links Shada. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Earth (often referred to as the Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth in order of size. ... St. ... Professor Urban Chronotis is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams. ...

Television cast

• Doctor Who — Tom Baker
• Romana — Lalla Ward
• Voice of K-9 — David Brierley
• Skagra — Christopher Neame
• Professor Chronotis — Denis Carey
• Chris Parsons — Daniel Hill
• Clare Keightley — Victoria Burgoyne
• Wilkin the Porter — Gerald Campion
• Dr Caldera — Derek Pollitt
• Police Constable — John Hallet
• Passenger — David Strong
• Voice of the Ship — Shirley Dixon
• Voice of the Krargs — James Coombes
• Krargs — James Muir, Lionel Sansby, Derek Suthern, Reg Woods

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Notes

1. Location filming in Cambridge and the first of three studio sessions at BBC Television Centre were recorded as scheduled. The second studio block was affected by a long-running technician's dispute. The strike was over by the time rehearsals began for the third recording session, but this was lost to higher priority Christmas programming.
2. Attempts were made by new producer John Nathan-Turner to remount the story, but for various reasons it never happened and the production was formally dropped in June 1980.
3. Shada was released on video in 1992, with the missing sections filled in by commentary delivered by Tom Baker. In all parts of the world except North America, the video cassette was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of Douglas Adams's script. The release was discontinued in 1996, although is still in print in the United States.
4. Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine. Adams did not allow Shada, or any of his other Doctor Who stories, to be novelised by Target Books. It is, therefore, one of only five serials from the 1963-89 series not to be novelised. A fan group in New Zealand, however, did publish an unofficial adaptation. [1]
5. In 1983, clips from Shada were used in The Five Doctors, the 20th anniversary special. Tom Baker, the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the clips.
6. In an unfilmed scene in Episode Five, a listing of prisoners kept on Shada was to have included a Dalek, a Cyberman and a Zygon.

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Big Finish remake

Big Finish Productions audio play
Shada
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	II
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Romana K-9
Writer	Douglas Adams
Director	Nicholas Pegg
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Martin Trickey
Production code	BBCi02
Set between	Doctor Who and Storm Warning
Length	2 hrs 22 mins
Release date	May 2003

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Big Finish cast

• The Doctor — Paul McGann
• Romana — Lalla Ward
• K-9 — John Leeson
• Chris Parsons — Sean Biggerstaff
• Constable — Stuart Crossman
• Professor Caldera — Barnaby Edwards
• Professor Chronotis — James Fox
• The Ship — Hannah Gordon
• Clare Keightley — Susannah Harker
• Wilkin — Melvyn Hayes
• Think Tank Voice — Nicholas Pegg
• Skagra — Andrew Sachs

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Notes

1. Although working from the original Adams script, portions of the story were reworked by Gary Russell to make the story fit into Doctor Who continuity. This included a new introduction, and a new explanation for the Fourth Doctor and Romana being "taken out of time" during the events of The Five Doctors. It currently remains available from the website, and an expanded audio-only version is available for purchase on CD from Big Finish. The expanded version was the one broadcast on BBC7.
2. When the character of Skagra is investigating the Doctor, clips from three other Big Finish productions can be heard, exclusively on the CD version: The Fires of Vulcan, The Marian Conspiracy and Phantasmagoria.
3. Tom Baker was originally approached to reprise the role of the Doctor, but declined. The Eighth Doctor was then substituted and the story reworked accordingly.
4. In Episode Two of the webcast version, when Chris is in his lab showing Clare the book, a vending machine-like object in the background is labelled "Nutrimat", a reference to a similar device in Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Two other references are a sequence where Skagra steals a Ford Prefect and when images of Hitchhiker's Guide characters appear as inmates on Shada itself.

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References

1. Howe, Stammer, Walker (1994). Doctor Who: The Seventies. Virgin Books.

External links

• Shada episode guide on the BBC website
• Shada at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
• Shada at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

Reviews

• Shada reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Shada reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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Fan novelisation

• Doctor Who and Shada
• Shada reviews at Outpost Gallifrey

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Webcast

• Shada webcast on the BBC website
• Big Finish Productions - Shada
• Shada reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Shada reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide