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The Genocide Machine
Series:	Doctor Who - Big Finish Audio Dramas
Release Number:	7
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Ace
Enemy:	The Daleks
Setting:	Kar-Charrat
Writer:	Mike Tucker
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music and Post Production:	Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Russell
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Release Date:	May 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Prod. Code:	7S
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-069-X
Previous Story:	The Marian Conspiracy
Following Story:	Red Dawn

Publisher's Summary

The library on Kar-Charrat is one of the wonders of the Universe. It is also hidden from all but a few select species. The Doctor and Ace discover that the librarians have found a new way of storing data - a wetworks facility - but the machine has attracted unwanted attention, and the Doctor soon finds himself pitted against his oldest and deadliest enemies - the Daleks!

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Bev Tarrant - Louise Falkner
• Chief Librarian Elgin - Bruce Montague
• Cataloguer Prink - Nicholas Briggs
• Rappell - Daniel Gabriel
• The Daleks - Alistair Lock, Nicholas Briggs
• Phantom Voices - Daniel Gabriele

References

• The Time Lords used the natives of Kar-Charrat, who are in the presence of the water, as part of their wetworks facility.
• The Daleks were kept in suspended animation in what was thought to have been a zigguraut on the planet.
• An android replica of Ace was made by the Daleks in order to get into the library.
• The Kar-Charratans attack the Daleks by flooding their shells and drowing the mutants inside of them, but the Ace Andoids outer covering must be uncovered in order for them to damage it
• The Doctor's consciousness/mind was used in the transferal of knowledge in the wetworks facility and a Dalek, after when a previous dalek went beserk when it downloaded it directly into its mind.
• The Doctor blows up the wetworks facility, freeing the captive natives.

Notes

• This is Big Finish's first Dalek audio drama.
• The Special Weapons Dalek and the Dalek Emperor makes an appearance
• The Supreme Dalek that is the same design of the one in Planet of the Daleks makes an appearance, being a subordinate to the Dalek Emperor

Continuity

to be added

Timeline

• The Genocide Machine occurs after PDA: Storm Harvest
• The Genocide Machine occurs before PDA: The Colony of Lies

External Links

• Big Finish The Genocide Machine page
• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of The Genocide Machine
• The Discontinuity Guide The Genocide Machine page