Death Comes to Time

Death Comes to Time
Cast
Doctor Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)
Companions Sophie Aldred (Ace) Kevin Eldon (Antimony)
Starring Golcrum/Senator Hawk/President — Jon Culshaw Admiral Mettna — Jacqueline Pearce Casmus — Leonard Fenton The Minister of Chance — Stephen Fry Senator Sala — Britta Gartner General Tannis — John Sessions St Valentine — Anthony Stewart Head Nessican — Dave Hill Dr Cain — Charlotte Palmer Speedwell — Stephen Brody Campion — Gareth Jones Captain Carne — Andrew McGibbon Lieutenant Suneel — Michael Yale The Kingmaker — Peggy Batchelor Pilot — David Evans Premier Bedloe — Robert Rietti Computer — Julienne Davis Magan — Emma Ferguson President of Santiny — Huw Thomas Major Bander/Prime Minister — Nick Romero Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart — Nicholas Courtney
Production
Directed by	Dan Freedman
Written by	Colin Meek
Script editor	Nev Fountain
Produced by	Dan Freedman
Length	5 episodes
Originally broadcast	12 July 2001 (Pilot) 14 February 2002 - 3 May 2002
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Death Comes to Time is a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on the BBCi Cult website from 12 July 2001, accompanied by limited animation.

It was the BBC's first new Doctor Who broadcast since the 1996 film.

When two Time Lords are killed, the Seventh Doctor together with his companion Antimony must stop the powerful General Tannis' plans for conquest and Ace is groomed to face a new destiny.

In a show of force, General Tannis destroys the city of Annit — population 9 million — and then demands the surrender of Admiral Mettna. This is the first stage in the Canisian invasion of the Santine Republic, which falls quickly. Tannis himself kills their president. It is to this world the Seventh Doctor and Antimony have arrived. The Doctor soon meets Senator Sala, the leader of the resistance and rescues her and other resistance fighters from captivity. When the Doctor sees burning trees, he realises someone is trying to contact him.

A being identifying himself as a "God of the Fourth" appears on a spaceship to rescue a prisoner — that prisoner is Ace. He tells her that he is Casmus, and that she was rescued so that she could learn.

The Doctor and Antimony travel to the Temple of the Fourth on the planet Micen Island, where they see the statues of long dead Time Lords. They see an inscription "We serve the many, for the many are One, until twilight falls and death comes to Time." A Time Lord called The Minister of Chance arrives, it was he who had sent the Doctor a message. The Minister informs the Doctor that two Time Lords — the Saints Antinor and Valentine have been brutally murdered on Earth. The Doctor wistfully says that even Time Lords die, but the Minister fears a greater evil. The Minister travels to Santiny to replace the Doctor, whilst the Doctor sets out to investigate what has happened to the Saints.

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