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The Holy Terror
Album cover
Big Finish Productions audio drama
SeriesDoctor Who
Release no.14
FeaturingSixth Doctor
Frobisher
Written byRobert Shearman
Directed byNicholas Pegg
Produced byGary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)Jacqueline Rayner
Production codeSS2
Length2 hrs 20 mins
Release dateNovember 2000
Preceded byThe Shadow of the Scourge
Followed byThe Mutant Phase

The Holy Terror is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is notable for incorporating Frobisher, a regular character from Doctor Who Magazine's comic strip during the mid-1980s.

Plot

The Sixth Doctor and Frobisher become involved in a power struggle in a mysterious castle, culminating in a bloodbath. The Doctor and Frobisher finds themselves involved with a society which strictly adheres to a complex and apparently illogical set of customs. Drawing inspiration from Shakespearean tragedy as well as exploring unpleasant elements of the father/child relationship and infanticide, this is one of the darker episodes.

This is the first Doctor Who audio story to feature Frobisher.

This episode addresses issues of crime and retribution, self-determinacy, religious extremism and custom.[citation needed]

Cast

Notes