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The Oseidon Adventure
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Adventures
Release no.	1.6
Featuring	Fourth Doctor Leela
Written by	Alan Barnes
Directed by	Ken Bentley
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs
Production code	4S/F
Release date	June 2012

The Oseidon Adventure is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.^[1]

This is the second part of a two-part story, the first part being Trail of the White Worm.

Plot

The Kraal attempt to invade the Earth, while the Doctor is trapped on their irradiated home world, Oseidon.

Cast

The Doctor – Tom Baker
Leela – Louise Jameson
The Master – Geoffrey Beevers
Colonel Spindleton – Michael Cochrane
Marshal Grimnal / Captain Clarke – Dan Starkey
Tyngworg / Warner / UNIT R/T Operator – John Banks

Continuity

The Kraals were in the 1975 Fourth Doctor television story, The Android Invasion. That story also featured UNIT.
This is the first use of Kraals by Big Finish Productions.
The Doctor and Leela encounter the Master again in the third season of Fourth Doctor adventures, due to be released in 2014.^[2]

Notes

In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place between Trail of the White Worm and Night of the Stormcrow.

Critical reception

Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael found the casting and performances excellent, but the play "slightly misjudged" as a finale.^[3]

References

^ "Louise Jameson | the Official Website". Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
^ "The Fourth Doctor and Leela Will Return! - News - Big Finish".
^ Michael, Matt (September 2012). "The DWM Review: The Oseidon Adventure". Doctor Who Magazine. No. 450. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics. pp. 88–89.

External links

The Oseidon Adventure

Doctor Who: Fourth Doctor stories

Television

Season 12	Robot The Ark in Space The Sontaran Experiment Genesis of the Daleks Revenge of the Cybermen
Season 13	Terror of the Zygons Planet of Evil Pyramids of Mars The Android Invasion The Brain of Morbius The Seeds of Doom
Season 14	The Masque of Mandragora The Hand of Fear The Deadly Assassin The Face of Evil The Robots of Death The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Season 15	Horror of Fang Rock The Invisible Enemy Image of the Fendahl The Sun Makers Underworld The Invasion of Time
Season 16	The Ribos Operation The Pirate Planet The Stones of Blood The Androids of Tara The Power of Kroll The Armageddon Factor
Season 17	Destiny of the Daleks City of Death The Creature from the Pit Nightmare of Eden The Horns of Nimon Shada (unaired)
Season 18	The Leisure Hive Meglos Full Circle State of Decay Warriors' Gate The Keeper of Traken Logopolis
Minor appearances	Planet of the Spiders "The Name of the Doctor" "The Day of the Doctor" "The Witch's Familiar"
See also	"The Five Doctors" Dimensions in Time

Audio

The Nest Cottage Chronicles

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

Season 1	The Renaissance Man The Wrath of the Iceni Energy of the Daleks Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
Season 2	The Auntie Matter The Sands of Life

Novel adaptations

Other

See also

The Kingmaker

Books

Missing Adventures	Evolution The Romance of Crime System Shock Managra The English Way of Death The Shadow of Weng-Chiang The Well-Mannered War
Past Doctor Adventures	Millennium Shock Corpse Marker Tomb of Valdemar Festival of Death Asylum Psi-ence Fiction Wolfsbane Match of the Day
Novellas	Ghost Ship

Video games

Doctor Who: The Master stories

Television

Third Doctor	Terror of the Autons The Mind of Evil The Claws of Axos Colony in Space The Dæmons The Sea Devils The Time Monster Frontier in Space
Fourth Doctor	The Deadly Assassin The Keeper of Traken Logopolis
Fifth Doctor	Castrovalva Time-Flight The King's Demons "The Five Doctors" Planet of Fire
Sixth Doctor	The Mark of the Rani The Trial of a Time Lord The Ultimate Foe
Seventh Doctor	Survival
Eighth Doctor	Doctor Who
Tenth Doctor	"Utopia" / "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" "The End of Time"
Twelfth Doctor	"Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven" "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar" "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls"
Thirteenth Doctor	"Spyfall" "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children" "The Power of the Doctor"
Minor appearances	The Caves of Androzani "Deep Breath" "Into the Dalek" "The Caretaker" "Flatline" "In the Forest of the Night" "Extremis" "The Lie of the Land" "Empress of Mars" "The Eaters of Light"
See also	The Curse of Fatal Death Scream of the Shalka "The Giggle"

Audio

The Fourth Doctor Adventures	Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
Other	The Monthly Adventures Unbound The Eighth Doctor Adventures Dominion Mastermind The End of the Line Jago & Litefoot The War Master Master of Worlds

Books

Missing Adventures	The Dark Path Verdigris
Eighth Doctor Adventures	The Eight Doctors Legacy of the Daleks The Adventuress of Henrietta Street Sometime Never... The Deadstone Memorial The Gallifrey Chronicles
Past Doctor Adventures	The Infinity Doctors Last of the Gaderene Prime Time The Quantum Archangel Deadly Reunion
Other	Who Killed Kennedy Happy Endings Harvest of Time The Story of Martha

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors
Legacy

Doctor Who: UNIT stories

Television

Second Doctor

The Invasion

Third Doctor

Fourth Doctor

Seventh Doctor

Battlefield

Tenth Doctor

"The Christmas Invasion"
"The Sontaran Stratagem" / "The Poison Sky"
"Planet of the Dead"

Eleventh Doctor

Twelfth Doctor

"Death in Heaven"
"The Zygon Invasion" / "The Zygon Inversion"

Thirteenth Doctor

Flux
- "Survivors of the Flux"
"The Power of the Doctor"

Fourteenth Doctor

"The Star Beast"
"The Giggle"

Fifteenth Doctor

"The Legend of Ruby Sunday" / "Empire of Death"

Other appearances

Major	Enemy of the Bane Death of the Doctor The War Between the Land and the Sea
Minor	Colony in Space The Mutants The Time Warrior The Seeds of Doom "The Five Doctors" "Aliens of London" / "World War Three" "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" "Fragments" "Turn Left" "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End" Children of Earth "The End of Time" "The Bells of Saint John" "The Magician's Apprentice" "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" "73 Yards"

Spin-offs