The Guardian of the Solar System

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The Guardian of the Solar System is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot[]

The First Doctor, Steven and Sara Kingdom find themselves inside a giant clock, the great secret of The Guardians of the Solar System.

Cast[]

• Sara Kingdom — Jean Marsh
• Robert — Niall MacGregor

Continuity[]

• This play is a sequel to Home Truths and The Drowned World.
• The flashback stories occur in the opposite order of the framing stories.
• Sara mentioned seeing an old man caught in the workings of a giant clock in Home Truths.
• Mavic Chen was the Guardian of the Solar System, in league with the Daleks, in The Daleks' Master Plan.
• Mavic Chen mentions Sara's earlier encounter with the Daleks alongside a robot named Mark 7, as heard in the audio lost story The Destroyers.

Critical reception[]

Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael said that the audio was "excellent", describing it as having a "dark, haunting atmosphere", and praising its "astonishing" imagery.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• The Guardian of the Solar System