History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho032TheTimeOfTheDaleks

* [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare ToShakespeare]]: Of Course.

* ToShakespeare: Of Course.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Mid-21st century. New Britain after the Euro Wars, during General Mariah Leahman's benevolent dictatorship.

The Doctor is shocked that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare, something that should be quite, quite impossible. When he remembers that [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho028InvadersFromMars Orson Welles suffered from the same problem]], he gets just a bit scared. He travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a general obsessed with Shakespeare, and more disturbingly, Daleks who quote Shakespeare and profess an appreciation for Earth's greatest playwright.

* {{Narrator}}: The play opens with an unidentified narrator who quotes a number of Shakespeare lines that have to do with time. He's also the same person the Doctor was talking to in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]].

However, that still isn't what's causing all the paradoxes. And even as the Daleks are being defeated and little Will is returned to Stratford-upon-Avon, time continues to unravel. [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning Charley's paradoxical nature itself]] is the key, and her being captured by the Daleks has enabled them coming to Earth in the first place and conquering humanity in the divergent timeline.

An ominous narrator confirms that time itself is in a dire state.

The general's up against a rebellion, who are clinging to what's left of their RippleEffectProofMemory in order to protect Shakepeare's heritage. She's also working together with the Daleks to create a time machine. The Daleks, for their part, need a time machine for their own purposes, and claim that they've already been to Gallifrey and made their own Eye of Harmony. The last bit of work can be done by the Doctor. They take Charley along in order to secure the Doctor's help. The Doctor isn't exactly up for it, but he's intrigued by the general's time portals, which also happen to lead back to all the eras of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]]. (Well, that explains a thing or two. [[TimeyWimeyBall Probably]].)

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The kitchen-boy, [[spoiler: William Shakespeare]], though it's not played for laughs.

* CallBack: The Dalek that ends up in ancient Rome is the one that was destroyed in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]]. Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear Lucillius]] gets to kill him.

* CallBack: The Dalek that ends up in ancient Rome is the one that was destroyed in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]].
* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear Lucillius]] gets to kill a Dalek!

The general's up against a rebellion, clinging to what's left of their RippleEffectProofMemory in order to protect Shakepeare's heritage. She's also working together with the Daleks to create a time machine. The Daleks, for their part, need a time machine for their own purposes, and claim that they've already been to Gallifrey and made their own Eye of Harmony. The last bit of work can be done by the Doctor. They take Charley along in order to secure the Doctor's help. The Doctor isn't exactly up for it, but he's intrigued by the general's time portals, which also happen to lead back to all the eras of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear "Seasons Of Fear"]]. (Well, that explains a thing or two. [[TimeyWimeyBall Probably]].)

The Doctor is shocked that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare, something that should be quite, quite impossible. He travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a general obsessed with Shakespeare, and more disturbingly, Daleks who quote Shakespeare and profess an appreciation for Earth's greatest playwright.

* ContuinityNod: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear Lucillius]] gets to kill a Dalek!

The Doctor is shocked that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare, something that should be quite, quite impossible. He travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with Shakespeare, and more disturbingly, Daleks who quote Shakespeare and profess an appreciation for Earth's greatest playwright.

Meanwhile the ominous narrator confirms that time itself is in a dire state.

* CallBack: The Dalek that ends up in ancient Rome is the one that was destroyed in BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear.

* {{Narrator}}: The play opens with an unidentified narrator who quotes a number of Shakespeare lines that have to do with time. He's also the same person the Doctor was talking to in BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear.

* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Daleks, actually.

The Doctor is shocked that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare, something that should be nearly impossible. He travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with Shakespeare, and more disturbingly, Daleks who quote Shakespeare. Meanwhile the ominous narrator confirms that time itself is in a dire state.

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