Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: The Ark
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A new take on an old classic is out now, as Tom Baker stars in Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: The Ark.
Originally scripted in 1975 for Tom Baker’s debut season as the Fourth Doctor, John Lucarotti’s first drafts of what became the television serial The Ark in Space are now brought to life as a brand-new full-cast audio drama.
This adaptation by Jonathan Morris remains true to the writer’s original vision and excludes elements such as the Wirrn that were added by Doctor Who’s then script editor, Robert Holmes.
Joining Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor in this four-part adventure are Sadie Miller (playing Sarah Jane Smith), Christopher Naylor (playing Harry Sullivan), Terry Molloy (as Noah) and Yasmin Mwanza (as Viva).
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: The Ark is now available to own as a collector’s edition two-disc box set (on CD + download at £14.99) and as a digital download (at £12.99), exclusively at www.bigfinish.com.
A space station orbiting Earth has lain dormant for 8,476 years. Its systems are clogged with dust, so the human crew kept frozen in cryogenic storage have never woken up.
When the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive to resuscitate the sleepers, they discover something else on board. A small, golf-ball like object gives Harry an electric shock, and has a more sinister impact on the awakening crew. Soon, the Doctor and his friends are battling to save the space station - and Earth - from a ravenous puffball!
Writer Jonathan Morris said: “What I found most interesting about the script was that it was written at a point when the show’s producers didn’t know whether or not the Doctor would be a man of action, and so they included Harry Sullivan to get into fights and so on.
“And this script is from a very specific point in time; it’s written to a different format to the one that ended up on screen, being much more like how it was in the 1960s with the First Doctor and Ian, or the First Doctor and Steven. The Doctor is written as a Hartnell-type figure, tinkering with electronics, and being cryptic and absent-minded, while Harry is the one who does a spacewalk and gets into punch-ups. It’s very interesting as a piece of Doctor Who archaeology!”
Producer Simon Guerrier added: “Two things really struck me. Firstly, I’d expected this first draft to be awful and assumed that was why it got extensively reworked. In fact, a lot of what made it to the screen is here, and there are lots of good ideas and dramatic moments including an amazing cliffhanger. It’s a good story, worth telling. I think that then new producer Philip Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes were ambitious to make it much more. So reading the script and working on this adaptation have been really revealing about what the two of them brought to Doctor Who.
“Secondly, it’s clearly not written for Tom Baker’s Doctor as we know him. This is a different, more cerebral, less action-oriented character, one who comes to the Ark on purpose as a sort of benign custodian of humanity. I think Tom was really taken by that too, and wanted to play the Doctor differently. So I got an insight into his working methods and his contribution to the Fourth Doctor. I thought I knew The Ark in Space really well but working on this story has really opened it up. I hope that’s what listeners will get from it too.”
Big Finish listeners can save money by purchasing a bundle of both The Lost Stories, The Ark and Daleks! Genesis of Terror, for £28 (collector’s edition CD + download) or £25 (digital download only). - Zábava
It saddens me to think that out of the Season 12 trio, only Tom Baker is still alive.
The oldest of this trio too!
@@dylanlarge11 Ian Marter was only 43!
@@davidcallinicos1976 Yeah I know and I mean Baker would of been the oldest if all still alive
Currently.
It’d sadden me even more if they were all bloody dead!
Tom Baker’s voice is one of the most beautiful things.
I love the Alt Season 12 storyboard style trailers! And I must say that this one magnificently illustrates the contrasts between The Ark in Space and John Lucarotti's original scripts.
A new story from John Lucarotti would be a total dream, and this must be about as close as it gets!
That Harry impression is on point!
Just listened to it Big Finish, really enjoyed it. I Loved the Space Station Space walk cliffhanger scene with Harry! No Wirrn here but a very bizarre interesting adversary for the Fourth Doctor. I highly recommend it.
Doctor Who: First Drafts
Whoever makes these trailers are amazing, I wanna work at big finish
This looks like an interesting version of the story and I'm quite hyped about it
For the love of you, Tom...
I shall look forward to getting this cd
Big Finish. Please just Continue The Doctor Who Comic Strip Adaptation range!!
This
it failed
massively
They've been clear for a long time that they're never doing more
@@Yetaxa Doesn't mean we can't dream
Fellow fans, this release is worth your time and money! It beautifully blends sci-fi styles of the 60s and 70s and is both similar and completely different to The Ark in Space. This is John Lucarotti after all, and, having written Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre, he's no spring chicken to Doctor Who.
One of my fav stories fantastic
Great trailer
Isn’t there a Hartnell story called the ark?
Yes.
@@DanBen07 yeah,big finish,could you name this something a bit less similar? I even have a suggestion:”the beacon in space”
@@oliverasensio9429 Yeah!
@@oliverasensio9429 Yeah, it's not like there are two 'Doctor Who' stories named 'The Mutants'...or 'Thin Ice'.....or 'World Enough and Time'....
I got it- "The Ark in Space."
I'll take my pay cheque by mail.
phoned them regarding a missing order 3 weeks ago only to be told it was my fault i didnt contact them sooner, funny thing is i had at the time and i forgot about it, they did nothing
phoned them today said the exact same thing but i was calling about the refund i said about
as in cancel everything i ordered, they did nothing again and shipped new releases
Ill say it again
Like genesis of terror this is hardly a lost story
It was adapted to a stronger story, toms voice sounds over excited compaired to his normal tone as well
Adapt a real missing story the 30th anniversary story that was cancelled due to a certain actors ego
You mean The Dark Dimension aka Lost in The Dark Dimension with Dalek STORM
@@marsandcobblesproductions3501 exactly
Something worth adapting
Plus it was the 30th anniversary special that never got made
We would have had another this year, one i would actually be excited for and the others I'm just apathetic towards
That's providing the scripts for LITDD still exist
@@marsandcobblesproductions3501 I got a fan adaptation book of the script
I know it exists
Another great trailer.
Shouldn't Tom be spending his remaining time making totally new stories.
He's really up to date on that. This stuff has been recorded like 3 years before it comes out
Release 'Torchwood: Absent Friends'
No. Not with John B
Big Finish should take a leaf out of the H P Lovecraft Historical Society's book and produce collectables and handouts for games
That's not a bad idea; like a special edition containing little mock magazine cuttings or stuff like that related to the story. It would be novel.
@@EdSigma I'd be a sucker for anything like that 😍
Isn’t that a major selling point of Once and Future’s Limited Edition CD run?
@@bellboy7809It just comes with a poster that's actually the cover of the CD on the other side