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Slipback
Doctor	Colin Baker (Sixth Doctor)
Writer	Eric Saward
Producer	Paul Spencer
Length	6 episodes, 10 mins each
Transmission date	25 July–8 August 1985

Slipback is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in six episodes on BBC Radio 4 from 25 July to 8 August 1985, as part of a children's magazine show called Pirate Radio Four.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Notes 3 Cast 4 External links 4.1 Reviews

The Sixth Doctor and Peri arrive on a mysterious space liner, where intergalactic policemen are investigating art thefts, a computer is suffering from a split personality and the Captain's disease threatens every living thing on the ship…

1. This audio adventure was written to fill the long gap in production between Seasons 22 and 23 while the programme was on an enforced hiatus (see History of Doctor Who). It was the first full Doctor Who adventure to be produced for radio. (A previous production, The Pescatons, is sometimes considered a radio play but it was actually a story record for children.) No further radio productions would be mounted until the mid-1990s when Jon Pertwee provided the voice of the Doctor in two serials.
2. The end of this story, where the Vipod Mor is sent back to the beginning of creation and causes the Big Bang, seems to contradict the explanation for the same event in Terminus. However, as with all non-televised stories, the canonicity of this story is unclear.
3. Fan speculation places this story in the possible long gap between Revelation of the Daleks and The Trial of a Time Lord because this is when it was broadcast, though the story itself presents no clue as to when it might occur.
4. A novelisation of this serial, written by Eric Saward, was published by Target Books in April 1986. It was the first novelisation of a non-televised Doctor Who story. Saward's novelisation expands on the radio play greatly, with an extensive prologue running a good third of the book before the Doctor appears and the adaptation of the radio play storyline begins.

• The Doctor — Colin Baker
• Peri — Nicola Bryant
• Computer/Inner Voice — Jane Carr
• Grant — John Glover
• Bates/Snatch — Nick Revell
• Mutant/Stewart — Alan Thompson
• Slarn — Valentine Dyall
• Seedle — Ron Pember

• Slipback at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

• Slipback reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Slipback reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

v • d • e Sixth Doctor audio dramas
Slipback • The Sirens of Time • Whispers of Terror • The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
The Apocalypse Element • The Holy Terror • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The One Doctor • The Ratings War
Excelis Rising • The Maltese Penguin • ...ish • Real Time • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates
Project: Lazarus • Davros • Zagreus • The Wormery • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes
Her Final Flight • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • Cryptobiosis • Pier Pressure
The Nowhere Place • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • I.D. & Urgent Calls