History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWhoTheUltimateAdventure

The Doctor and new companion Jason (well, the Marquis de Saint Epiman de Sinee de la Tour, rescued by the Doctor from revolution-era France) are summoned by UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher to prevent the kidnapping of an American envoy. The guy promptly does get kidnapped by a VillainTeamUp of Daleks and Cybermen and assorted mercenaries, and team TARDIS accidentally drags along up-and-coming TeenIdol Crystal. They follow the lead to an intergalactic BadGuyBar, where the Doctor's disguise (pointy helmet and all) fails to fool anyone. They pick up a furry alien named Zog, who's had enough of his job at the bar, and go on a stealth mission to trick the Daleks (including the emperor) and get the envoy back to earth on time. Jason and Crys, who've fallen in love at this point, decide to stick together and become a proper team TARDIS.

* WhipItGood: Madame Delilah wields a whip. The Doctor [[http://imgur.com/1YCPP1j.jpg is not impressed]].

The Doctor and new companion Jason (well, the Marquis de Saint Epiman de Sinee de la Tour, rescued by the Doctor from revolution-era France) are summoned by MargaretThatcher to prevent the kidnapping of an American envoy. The guy promptly does get kidnapped by a VillainTeamUp of Daleks and Cybermen and assorted mercenaries, and team TARDIS accidentally drags along up-and-coming TeenIdol Crystal. They follow the lead to an intergalactic BadGuyBar, where the Doctor's disguise (pointy helmet and all) fails to fool anyone. They pick up a furry alien named Zog, who's had enough of his job at the bar, and go on a stealth mission to trick the Daleks (including the emperor) and get the envoy back to earth on time. Jason and Crys, who've fallen in love at this point, decide to stick together and become a proper team TARDIS.

The Doctor and new companion Jason (well, the Marquis Jason de Saint Epiman de Sinee de la Tour, rescued by the Doctor from revolution-era France) are summoned by MargaretThatcher to prevent the kidnapping of an American envoy. The guy promptly does get kidnapped by a VillainTeamUp of Daleks and Cybermen and assorted mercenaries, and team TARDIS accidentally drags along up-and-coming TeenIdol Crystal. They follow the lead to an intergalactic BadGuyBar, where the Doctor's disguise (pointy helmet and all) fails to fool anyone. They pick up a furry alien named Zog, who's had enough of his job at the bar, and go on a stealth mission to trick the Daleks (including the emperor) and get the envoy back to earth on time. Jason and Crys, who've fallen in love at this point, decide to stick together and become a proper team TARDIS.

* HappinessInSlavery: A variation; Zog's race enjoys cleaning, but Zog finds his job a bit too rough and escapes in the TARDIS.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Crys has a habit of bursting into song.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: How Crys starts out in the TARDIS.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted; for some odd reason that's never explained or even alluded to, Jason and Crys don't understand alien languages at all.
* VillainTeamUp: Daleks and Cybermen.

* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/NicholasBriggs thought the play was terrible when he first saw it, and Terrance Dicks strongly disliked the way sappy love songs had been shoe-horned into his script. Both cooperated to record the story as a Creator/BigFinish audio play regardless just to preserve a classic piece of Who, including every little bit of {{camp}} and {{narm}}... and having so much fun in the process that they eventually made a sequel.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The producers ''insisted'' on having balloon aliens (since they knew a way to make it look cool), a guillotine scene (since they knew a way to make it look cool) and three musical numbers. Terrance Dicks scrambled to come up with a plot that featured all those things, but eventually just gave up on trying to find a way to make the big romantic musical duet look believable. He later expressed relief at the fact that none of the producers happened to know a particularly well-trained group of circus seals that he'd have had to include.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Mrs Margeret T is a ''very'' thinly-veiled MargaretThatcher. The Doctor comments that she scares him more than most monsters he faces.

* VillainTeamUp: Daleks and Cybermen.

"The Ultimate Adventure" was originally a 1989 stage play by Terrance Dicks running from March 23 to August 19, performed at first by Creator/JonPertwee as the Third Doctor (occasionally substitued by David Banks as a non-canon Doctor when Pertwee fell ill in the middle of its UK run) and later by Creator/ColinBaker as the Sixth Doctor. BigFinish has faithfully adapted it into a Sixth Doctor AudioPlay with only very minor changes to the script.

Terrance Dicks eventually wrote a sequel for BigFinish, called "Beyond The Ultimate Adventure".

* ContinuityNod: The BigFinish version has a tremendously sweet moment in which Six fondly thinks about Evelyn. (Creator/NicholasBriggs was aware of the ContinuitySnarl implications but couldn't resist, and calls the reference "a bit naughty" in regards to canonicity.)
* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/NicholasBriggs thought the play was terrible when he first saw it, and Terrance Dicks strongly disliked the way sappy love songs had been shoe-horned into his script. Both cooperated to record the story as a BigFinish audio play regardless just to preserve a classic piece of Who, including every little bit of {{camp}} and {{narm}}... and having so much fun in the process that they eventually made a sequel.

"The Ultimate Adventure" was originally a 1989 stage play by Terrance Dicks running from March 23 to August 19, initially performed by Creator/JonPertwee as the Third Doctor (occasionally substitued by David Banks as a non-canon Doctor when Pertwee fell ill) and later by Creator/ColinBaker as the Sixth Doctor. BigFinish has faithfully adapted it into a Sixth Doctor AudioPlay with only very minor changes to the script.

"The Ultimate Adventure" was originally a 1989 stage play by Terrance Dicks, performed by the Third (and later Sixth) Doctor during its UK run. BigFinish has faithfully adapted it into a Sixth Doctor AudioPlay with only very minor changes to the script.

"The Ultimate Adventure" was originally a 1989 stage play by Terrance Dicks, performed by the Third (and later Sixth) Doctor during its UK run. BigFinish has adapted it into a Sixth Doctor AudioPlay.

* ContinuityNod: The BigFinish version has a tremendously sweet moment in which Six fondly thinks about Evelyn. (Creator/NicholasBriggs was aware of the ContinuitySnarl implications but couldn't resits, and calls the reference "a bit naughty" in regards to canonicity.)

* ContinuityNod: The BigFinish version has a tremendously sweet moment in which Six fondly thinks about Evelyn. (Creator/NicholasBriggs was aware of the ContinuitySnarl implications but couldn't resits, and calls the reference "a bit naughty" in regards to canonicity).

* ContinuityNod: The BigFinish version has a tremendously sweet moment in which Six fondly thinks about Evelyn.

* DoingItForTheArt: NicholasBriggs thought the play was terrible when he first saw it, and Terrance Dicks strongly disliked the way sappy love songs had been shoe-horned into his script. Both cooperated to record the story as a BigFinish audio play regardless just to preserve a classic piece of Who, including every little bit of {{camp}} and {{narm}}... and having so much fun in the process that they eventually made a sequel.

"The Ultimate Adventure" was originally a 1989 stage play by Terrance Dicks, performed by the Third (and later Sixth) Doctor during its UK run. BigFinish has adapted it an an AudioPlay.