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Gallifrey:
A Blind Eye

by Alan Barnes

Starring
Lalla Ward
as Romana

Louise Jameson
as Leela

With
India Fisher

And
John Leeson
as K9

Directed by
Gary Russell

Production Notes
Rel. May 2004
P/Code GALL04
Rec. @ The Moat Studios

Running Time
Total Time 01:08:12

Review
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Gallifrey

Gallifrey: A Blind Eye (#1.04)
By Alan Barnes

A Blind Eye
From The Back Cover...

"You're fiddling at the outset of a conflict that will have profound consequences for this planet's history. You think that isn't dangerous?"

Earth, September 1939. With Europe sliding into war, a young Englishwoman, her loyalties torn, comes to a terrible decision. But what does the intergalactic secrets broker Mephistopheles Arkadian want with the fascist sympathiser Cecilia 'Sissy' Pollard on the last day of her life?

Still searching for the facts about the Gryben debacle, President Romana makes a deal with the devil. So begins a chain of consequence that can only end in tragedy for the passengers aboard the Vienna to Calais Transcontinental Express, the woman called Leela included.

By journey's end, the truth will out but at what cost to Romana and Leela? To Gallifrey's empire, even?


The Cast

Romana Lalla Ward
Leela Louise Jameson
K9 John Leeson
Coordinator Narvin Sean Carlsen
Commander Torvald Andy Coleman
Ms Joy Susan Engel
Cecilia Pollard India Fisher
Waiter Daniel Hogarth
Arkadian Hugo Myatt
Erich David Warwick

The Crew

Writer Alan Barnes
Director Gary Russell
Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery
Gary Russell
Executive Producer for BBC Worldwide Jacqueline Rayner
Recording Toby Robinson
Lee Bowman
Music, CD Mastering, Sound Design & Post Production David Darlington
Theme Arrangement David Darlington
Front Cover Lee Binding

Memorable Quotes

Romana: "You're a trans-temporal crook Arkadian. Meeting you could never be a pleasure."

Arkadian: "I believe you knew her sister..."

Sissy: "My compartment was invaded by a family of trolls. I thought their beastly little children might rob me in the night!"

Sissy: "Oh my! It's going to be an eventful journey, that I can tell."

Romana: "What's your game, Arkadian?" Arkadian: "In the normal course of things, Twister? Risk? Shove, Piggy, Shove?"

Arkadian: "I don't deal in those sort of clichés."

Romana: "What's Captain Cretin doing here?"

Arkadian: "Devil am I? A lowly imp at worst!"

Sissy: "What's wrong with keeping people apart? If they won't ever get on?"

Arkadian: "Events appear to be running ahead of us. Or should I say in tandem."

Erich: "The original. And dare I say it, best."

Ms Joy: "The fairest fascist of them all."

Leela: "I can tell you are lying. It is when your lips move!"

Erich: "Your continuity Madame. A circle of misery that never, ever ends."

Track Listings

01 Bon soir, madame... 00:05:02
02 Blessed thing! 00:06:04
03 The sound is gone... 00:04:22
04 Thirty-seven metres... 00:04:41
05 We're saved! 00:07:45
06 There is something in the air... 00:07:34
07 Now, now, Madame President... 00:06:11
08 It's going to catch us! 00:05:48
09 Into your TARDIS, Madame President... 00:06:13
10 Leela, my dear... 00:09:26
11 Arkadian! 00:01:51
12 My dearest Charlotte... 00:03:09
13 Trailer - Dalek Empire III
Trailer - Arrangements For War
Trailer - The Harvest
00:05:32

Comments

India Fisher plays Charley Pollard in Big Finish's Eighth Doctor series of audio plays, but appears here as her sister, Cecilia Pollard.

Susan Engel appeared as Vivien Fay in the 1978 Doctor Who story The Stones Of Blood.

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