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| The East India Incident | |
| Season: | 1 |
| Story Number: | 4 |
| Doctor: | Scott D. Harris Doctor |
| Companions: | Whitney Anderson |
| Writer: | Stephen M. Wolterstorff |
| Producer: | CP Studios |
| Release Date: | January 2015 |
| Running Time: | 133 minutes approx. |
| No. Episodes: | 4 |
| Previous Story: | Everything Stops for Tea |
| Following Story: | The Ride of the Headless Horseman |
Story[]
Synopsis[]
A distortion in the time stream strikes the Doctor, beckoning both him and his companions to India during the era of the British Raj. Political tensions threaten to tear the country to pieces, and an unexpected threat from another world dwells in the shadows, placing the stability of the Earth's history in dire peril. Cut off from the TARDIS and each other, the time travellers must each work to prevent the outbreak of total war between the various militant factions and stop the mysterious manipulator behind the changes.
Continuity[]
- The TARDIS crew has recently visited the planet Krannon, where the inhabitants quite literally have cast iron stomachs.
- The Monk references the Doctor's Seventh Incarnation (No Future). The Doctor reacts quite negatively.
- According to Zacharias, the Doctor has never mentioned the Monk to him, not even once.
- The Doctor mentions that he gave Edmund Burke the quote "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", though claims Burke changed the wording "because he always had to know better, didn't he!"
- In fact, the quote is misattributed and Burke never said it.
- The Doctor namedrops the Silurians (Doctor Who and the Silurians), the Oblivioners (Ophidius), the Galyari (The Sandman), the Chelonians (The Highest Science), the Terileptils (The Visitation), and, curiously, the Kzinti from Larry Niven's Known Space and Man-Kzin Wars series. It's unclear whether the Doctor just threw the name in, that there's another race called the Kzinti in the Whoniverse, or the Kzinti will feature in CP Studios Doctor Who just as they did in Star Trek: The Animated Series.
- Zacharias refers to how the Doctor knocked him down a few pegs. This will be seen in upcoming retrospective Ninth Doctor stories.
- Before the Monk is revealed, the travelers are variously concerned that it is the Rani or the Master behind the changes due to misunderstandings.
- It would appear that this incarnation of the Monk doesn’t recall the elaborate gambit to replace the Doctor he undertook after Tamsin Drew's death (To the Death, The Secret History), and has returned to small-time fiddling with the timelines. He could be an intermediate incarnation between the one last seen by the Seventh Doctor and the one that the Eighth Doctor dealt with. However, it’s unlikely that we’ll ever know.
- K-9 Mk V displays proficiency in chess, much like previous models. The Doctor calls him a natural, which is a marked change from his Fourth Incarnation's boasting that a machine mind was too limited to comprehend such a game (The Sun Makers, The Androids of Tara).
- Bahadur Shah II claims to only have his wife Zeenat and no concubines. In real life, he had four wives - of which Zeenat was purportedly the favorite - and countless concubines.
This section is currently incomplete.
Production[]
Cast[]
DOCTOR WHO: Scott D. Harris
WHITNEY ANDERSON: April Sadowski
ZACHARIAS COBB: Caith Donovan
THE MONK: Russell Gold (credited as GURU in Episodes One and Two)
BAHADUR SHAH II: Ed Waldorph
THE RANI OF JHANSI/SERVANT GIRL: Ronda Mitchell
KHARAK SINGH: Jason R. Wallace
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE CARMICHAEL-SMYTH: Jym DeNatale
MAJOR JOHN WHEELER: Paul Brueggemann
LIEUTENANT RIPPER: Stuart O'Dwyer
SEPOY REGIMENT LEADERS: Pete Lutz, Steve White, James P. Quick
RANI'S SOLDIERS: James P. Quick, Brian Higgins
SHAH'S SOLDIERS: Jason R. Wallace, Steve White
SIKH SOLDIERS: James P. Quick, Pete Lutz
RIOTERS: Pete Lutz, James P. Quick, Jason R. Wallace
NEWSCASTERS: Jean Hilde-Fulghum, Viktor Aurelius, James P. Quick
PRIVATE HART: Jason R. Wallace
PRISONERS: Pete Lutz, Jason R. Wallace, James P. Quick
SPIES: James P. Quick, Jason R. Wallace
BHERU: Brian Higgins
ASSASSIN: Steve White
MAJOR GENERAL HEWITT: Mark Kalita
PRIEST: Viktor Aurelius
WAITER/BRITISH GUARD/MONK'S COMPUTER: James P. Quick
K9: Matt "Timey" Clarke
ANNOUNCER: Mindy Rast-Keenan
The Soldiers and the Crowd in Episode Three were voiced by members of the cast.
Crew[]
WRITTEN BY: Stephen M. Wolterstorff
SCRIPT EDITOR: James P. Quick
THEME TUNE BY: Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire
THEME ARRANGEMENT BY: HardWire
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: M. Ariel Shaked
ADDITIONAL MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod
Rakesh Chaurasia
Niladri Kumar
Sunil Das
Ulhas Bapat
Madhu Dhumal
Pandit Bhavani Shankar
Russell Stone
Ben Bartlett
Edmund Butt
Harry Gregson-Williams
Kuniaki Haishima
David Edwards
SOUND EFFECTS: Sounddogs.com and James P. Quick
GRAPHICS: Brett Gregory, Peter Wiegel, and Neale Davidson
THE MONK CREATED BY: Dennis Spooner
COVER ART: Jason R. Wallace
STOCK IMAGES: Elizabeth Stiles, Joni M. Karvinen, Sacha Duensing, and Valeria Myrusso
ASSISTANT PRODUCER: Anne Lawrence
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Scott D. Harris
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY: James P. Quick
“Rock of Ages” performed by the Antrim Mennonite Choir
NUMBER CPDW104 © 2015 CP Studios
DOCTOR WHO © BBC Television 1963-2015
NILLE NILLE KAVERI and YENO YENO AGIDHE © 2013 D-beats Audio
Production Notes[]
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