Big Finish Productions audio play
The Kingmaker
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	81
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Peri Brown Erimem
Writer	Nev Fountain
Director	Gary Russell
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)
Production code	6QI
Set between	The Council of Nicaea and The Gathering
Length
Release date	April 2006

The Kingmaker is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The drama was written by Nev Fountain who is better known for his work on the radio and television series Dead Ringers, and also stars Jon Culshaw who in the same programmes is known for his impression of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... Image File history File linksMetadata The_Kingmaker. ... 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 Fifth Doctor is the name given to the fifth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. ... Erimemushinteperem, or simply Erimem, is a fictional character played by Caroline Morris in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Nev Fountain, born Steven John Fountain, is an English writer, best known for his comedy work with writing partner Tom Jamieson on the radio and television programme Dead Ringers. ... Gary Russell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK) is a freelance writer and former child actor. ... Gary Russell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK) is a freelance writer and former child actor. ... Jason Haigh-Ellery is a director of a number of successful companies including a publishing firm, an internet company, and a direct mail company. ... The Big Finish Doctor Who chronology lists the intended placement of the Big Finish Productions line of audio adventures based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Council of Nicaea cover by Stuart Manning. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... This is a list of audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... 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. ... Nev Fountain, born Steven John Fountain, is an English writer, best known for his comedy work with writing partner Tom Jamieson on the radio and television programme Dead Ringers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require removal of excess red links (links to non-existent articles). ... Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born June 2, 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is a British comedian and impressionist. ... 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. ...

Plot

The Doctor travels to the fifteenth century to investigate the mystery of the Princes in the Tower, to fulfil a contract to write a series of children's books… This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Cast

• The Doctor — Peter Davison
• Peri — Nicola Bryant
• Erimem — Caroline Morris
• Richard, Duke of Gloucester — Stephen Beckett
• Earl Rivers — Jon Culshaw
• Mr Seyton — Michael Fenton Stevens
• Henry, Duke of Buckingham — Marcus Hutton
• Judith — Linzi Matthews
• Sir James Tyrell — Chris Neill
• Clarrie — Arthur Smith
• Susan — Katie Wimpenny

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Notes

1. The "Doctor Who Discovers…" range of books, which in the play were written by the Doctor, were a real range of books published by Target Books in 1977. The five titles were Early Man, Space Travel, Strange and Mysterious Creatures, Prehistoric Animals, and The Conquerors.
2. The publishing company's robot addresses the Doctor as "Doctor Who", as the computer WOTAN does in The War Machines, but the Doctor says that this was due to a typographical error by the publishers. The titles of the books should have been "The Doctor, who discovers...".
3. Jon Culshaw does his famous Tom Baker impression when the Fifth Doctor listens to the Fourth Doctor's dictated notes for the incomplete (and fictional) work "Doctor Who Discovers Historical Mysteries".
4. William Shakespeare appears in this story. Shakespeare was previously glimpsed in the Time/Space Visualiser in The Chase, and a child in The Time of the Daleks was revealed at that play's conclusion to be Shakespeare.
5. This audio adventure refers tangentially to elements of the 2005 Doctor Who series, even though Big Finish's license technically forbids this. One character mentions that a letter from the Doctor was left by a "big-eared Northerner", a reference to the Ninth Doctor. Also Richard, played by an actor with a Manchester accent and voice very similar to that of Christopher Eccleston, uses the Ninth Doctor's frequent exclamation of "fantastic!". Later, Shakespeare exclaims, "What the Chaucer?"; this joke is a riff on Charles Dickens saying "What the Shakespeare?" in The Unquiet Dead.

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