The Judgement of Isskar

Big Finish Productions audio play
The Judgement of Isskar
Series	Doctor Who - The Key 2 Time
Release number	117
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Amy
Writer	Simon Guerrier
Director	Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Set between	Mission of the Viyrans and The Destroyer of Delights.
Release date	January 2009

The Judgement of Isskar is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Plot

The Key to Time must be sought again, due to the Doctor's carelessness during its last assembling. The first stop in its search: Mars, home of the Ice Warriors.

Cast

• The Doctor — Peter Davison
• Amy - Ciara Janson
• Zara - Laura Doddington
• Isskar - Nicholas Briggs
• Harmonious 14 Zink - Andrew Jones
• Mesca - Raquel Cassidy
• Thetris - Jeremy James
• Wembik - Heather Wright

Continuity

• This is the first appearance of Amy, who travels with the Doctor through The Destroyer of Delights and The Chaos Pool. Her sister Zara appears in this story and returns in The Chaos Pool. What Zara was doing just before Judgement of Isskar and how she met Harmonious 14 Zink are explored in the Companion Chronicles story The Prisoner's Dilemma, where she encounters the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace, although the Doctor avoids contact with her due to his awareness of her final fate.
• The character of Amy should not be confused with Amy Pond, the future companion of the Eleventh Doctor.
• The original quest for the Key to Time occurred between The Ribos Operation and The Armageddon Factor and featured the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9.
• The Fifth Doctor was also on Mars with the Ice Warriors in Red Dawn.
• This play occurs while the Doctor is travelling with Peri, but they have been intentionally separated until the Key is found, with time on the world where Amy makes contact with the Doctor being frozen while the Doctor and Peri are separated until the Doctor has helped Amy recover the segments.
• This story continues in The Destroyer of Delights.

External links

• Big Finish - The Judgement of Isskar
• The Judgement of Isskar at the Doctor Who Reference Guide