Excelis Dawns

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Series||Doctor Who |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Release number||1 in Excelis series |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Featuring||Fifth Doctor
Iris Wildthyme |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Writer||Paul Magrs |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Director||Gary Russell |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Producer(s)||Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Executive producer(s)||Jacqueline Rayner |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Production code||EX01 |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Set between||scenes of Frontios |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Length||1 hr 30 mins |- class (UTC)}="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" |Release date||February 2002 |}

Excelis Dawns is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is part of the Excelis trilogy which continues in Excelis Rising and Excelis Decays. The events are also connected to the Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Plague Herds of Excelis.

Plot

The Fifth Doctor arrives on the planet Artaris, where he and Iris Wildthyme become entangled with the search for the Holy Relic.

Cast

The Doctor — Peter Davison
Iris Wildthyme — Katy Manning
Warlord Grayvorn — Anthony Stewart Head
Sister Jolene — Posy Miller
The Mother Superior — Patricia Leventon
The Zombie King — Billy Miller

Notes

This story is set during the last episode of Frontios, after the Doctor has dropped the Gravis off on Kolkokron but before his return to Frontios.
Katy Manning, who plays Iris Wildthyme in this story, previously played the Third Doctor's companion, Jo Grant, for three seasons between 1971 and 1973.

Big Finish Productions audio play

Fifth Doctor audio dramas [Edit]
The Sirens of Time \| Phantasmagoria \| The Land of the Dead \| Red Dawn \| Winter for the Adept
The Mutant Phase \| Loups-Garoux \| The Eye of the Scorpion \| Primeval \| Excelis Dawns \| Spare Parts
The Church and the Crown \| No Place Like Home \| Nekromanteia \| Creatures of Beauty \| Omega \| Zagreus
The Axis of Insanity \| The Roof of the World \| The Game \| Three's a Crowd \| The Council of Nicaea \| Singularity
The Kingmaker

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