The Movellan Grave
AUDIO DRAMA
BIG FINISH RRP £10.99 (CD), £8.99 (download) RELEASED JULY
You wait ages for a Movellan revival and then two come along at once. Fresh from an all-too-brief appearance in The Pilot, the android race introduced in 1979’s Destiny of the Daleks is back, alongside the Doctor that encountered them first – the Fourth, as played by Tom Baker – in a new audio drama by Andrew Smith.
“I was initially going to take it a bit further, and go back to the origins of the Movellans,” Andrew recalls, “but instead, we decided to look a little deeper into the concept of a ‘computer race’, if you like – this very logical, computerised race, which really wants to be seen as humanoid, and hide its robot-ness from others. That led to the character of Chenek, who’s a very different kind of Movellan, and turned out to be quite an exciting idea to play with – it gave me the guts of the story.”