Doctor Who - Planet of the Rani Synopsis

This month's Main Range release sees the return of the Rani as she takes on the 6th Doctor again. This time she has her own planet.  You can order this release starring Colin Baker at the Big Finish website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/planet-of-the-rani-877

Miasimia Goria was a quiet planet, an ancient world of bucolic tranquillity… until the Rani arrived with ideas of her own.

She planned to create a race of new gods… gods that she could keep on her leash, but those plans went horribly wrong.

Now, she languishes in the high security of Teccaurora Penitentiary, consigned there by her arch enemy and old student colleague, the Doctor.

But the Rani, always resourceful, ever calculating, knows things about the Doctor’s past that he would rather forget. She wants revenge, even if it takes a hundred years… and then she has other unfinished business.

The ruins of Miasimia Goria await…

Written By: Marc Platt
Directed By: Ken Bentley

Cast
Colin Baker (The Doctor), Miranda Raison (Constance Clarke), Siobhan Redmond (The Rani), James Joyce (Raj Kahnu/Guard), Olivia Poulet (Pazmi), Dominic Thorburn (Brejesh/Security Leader), Tim Bentinck (Chowdras/Governor), Chris Porter (Degoor/Montain)

Doctor Who - The Rani Elite Reviewed By @BlackAdder345

Doctor Who:
The Rani Elite 
Reviewed By Will Barber – Taylor

The TARDIS arrives in the CAGE – not a trap, but the College of Advanced Galactic Education, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in colonised space.

Not a trap. Or is it?

The Doctor’s here to receive an honorary degree in Moral Philosophy. But there’s something rotten at the heart of the Medical Facility. Someone is operating on the students. Someone without a conscience. Someone with access to a Sidelian Brain Scanner – a technology that hasn’t been invented yet.

That someone is the ruthless Time Lord scientist known as the Rani – in her new incarnation. But will the Doctor and Peri recognise the Rani’s hand before her trap is sprung?

Doctor Who - Synopsis For The Rani Elite

The Doctor and Peri encounter The Rani this month and this time she looks a tad bit different.  She is still female but this time she is being played by Siobhan Redmond.  This Main Range release ends the mini 6th Doctor trilogy that stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant and can be ordered from the Big Finish website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-rani-elite-866

The TARDIS arrives in the CAGE – not a trap, but the College of Advanced Galactic Education, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in colonised space.

Not a trap. Or is it?

The Doctor’s here to receive an honorary degree in Moral Philosophy. But there’s something rotten at the heart of the Medical Facility. Someone is operating on the students. Someone without a conscience. Someone with access to a Sidelian Brain Scanner – a technology that hasn’t been invented yet.

That someone is the ruthless Time Lord scientist known as the Rani – in her new incarnation. But will the Doctor and Peri recognise the Rani’s hand before her trap is sprung?

Written By: Justin Richards
Directed By: Ken Bentley

Cast
Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Siobhan Redmond (The Rani), Andrew Bone (Vice Chancellor), Becky Wright (Lizzo), Mike Noble (Miklev), Charlie Morton (Reev)

Doctor Who - Kate O' Mara Who Played The Rani Has Passed Away

Kate O'Mara who played the Rani in two Doctor Who stories with two different Doctors has passed away at the age of 74 after a short illness.  She first appeared in the Colin Baker story the Mark of the Rani where along with Anthony Ainley's Master tried to disrupt the Luddite Rites by taking the power of sleep from the miners.  She would later return 2 seasons later in Sylvester McCoy's debut story Time of The Rani.  There she shoots down the TARDIS and triggers The Doctor's regeneration making him become the 7th Doctor.  She is most famously known for her role in Dynasty and also had a reoccurring role in Absolutely Fabulous.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/467714/Kate-O-Mara-Dynasty-and-Doctor-Who-actress-dies-aged-74

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-30/dynasty-and-triangle-star-kate-omara-dies-aged-74/

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-30/dynasty-and-triangle-star-kate-omara-dies-aged-74/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dynastys-kate-omara-dead-live-3301850

Kate O'Mara The Rani From Doctor Who To Be A Guest At Chiller Theatre Expo Con

In a rare US convention appearance Kate O'Mara who played The Rani in Doctor Who battling both the 6th and 7th Doctors.  The appearance will be at the Sheraton Parsippany in Parsippany, New Jeresy on October 25th to the 27th.  Other guests include Terry Farrel and Marina Sirtis from Star Trek among many others.  Here is a link to the guest page for more info.
http://www.chillertheatre.com/gt/gtc4.htm 

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Mark of the Rani

Doctor Who: 

The Mark of the Rani 

By Pip and Jane Baker

“You disappoint me. A scientist and you're not thinking objectively. Davy, Faraday, Telford and others. Over twenty men of genius. Have you no conception of what we could achieve if we control them? Harness their genius, and this planet could become the platform for the most devastating power in the universe.”

Promising to take Peri to Kew Gardens the seem to have landed anywhere but.  It appears they have landed in Killingworth in the 19^th Century at the beginning of the industrial revolution.  The problem there is that some of the miners have become extremely violent and those that are have a strange mark behind their ear.  This string of violence has George Stevenson worried about his industrial meeting with a bunch of that era’s genius’s. 

That is the least of The Doctor’s problem as it appears that The Master is also in Killingworth also.  It appears he survived the events from “Planet of Fire” and is up to his menacing deeds trying to change the course of Earth’s history yet again. The Master is not the only Time Lord around Killingworth either. The evil female Time Lady The Rani is around also taking the chemical in the brain that induces sleep.  She is stealing that from humans to give to her slaves on Miasimia Goria.  That’s double the trouble for The Doctor and Peri as they must contend with both renegade Time Lords and rid them from causing havoc on Earth.