Iris Wildthyme (BF - Series 1-4)

Wildthyme At Large 1.1

Writer: Paul Magrs
Director: Gary Russell
Starring: Katy Manning as Iris Wildthyme with Ortis Deley as Tom and David Benson as Panda
Recorded: 4th September 2005
Release Date: November 2005
Sound Design & Music: Joseph Fox
Theme 'She's Famous for It': Stephen Cole and Jason Loborik


Exciting adventures time, space and the backalleys of the galaxy with the transtemporal adventuress, her chum Tom, and his toy panda (don't call him a 'bear'). Together, aboard Iris' #22 Routemaster (not bound for Putney at all), they explore the universe, carousing, shagging and generally having fun. At least, that's the plan... never quite works out that way, naturally...

Cast List

Iris Wildthyme    Katy Manning
Tom        Ortis Deley
Panda        David Benson
Mida Slike    Ann Bryson
The Head    Stephen Chance
Robin Hood    Duncan Wisbey
Lucretia    Lucy Beresford
Fans        Lizzie Hopley
        Simon Guerrier

Devil In Ms. Wildthyme 1.2

Writer: Stephen Cole
Director: Gary Russell
Starring: Katy Manning as Iris Wildthyme with Ortis Deley as Tom and David Benson as Panda
Recorded: 15th September 2005
Release Date: December 2005
Sound Design & Music: Joseph Fox
Theme 'She's Famous for It': Stephen Cole and Jason Loborik


Exciting adventures time, space and the backalleys of the galaxy with the transtemporal adventuress, her chum Tom, and his toy panda (don't call him a 'bear'). Together, aboard Iris' #22 Routemaster (not bound for Putney at all), they explore the universe, carousing, shagging and generally having fun. At least, that's the plan... never quite works out that way, naturally...

Cast List

Iris Wildthyme    Katy Manning
Tom        Ortis Deley
Panda        David Benson
Doctor Marwick    Michael Hobbs
Alice Elbaum    Lizzie Hopley
Spectres    Simon Guerrier

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Iris Wildthyme Series 2

Iris Wildthyme Series 2 is a box set of four Big Finish Productions audio dramas and one Christmas special featuring Katy Manning as Iris Wildthyme, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.[1]

Each individual release parodied Doctor Who from one decade between the 1960s and the 1990s.


Main Cast

    Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
    Panda - David Benson



The Sound of Fear
The Sound of Fear
Big Finish Productions audio play
Series     Iris Wildthyme
Release number     2.1
Writer     Mark Michalowski
Director     Gary Russell
Producer(s)     Mark Wright & Cavan Scott
Set between     The Devil in Ms Wildthyme and Land of Wonder

Materialising aboard Radio Yesterday, a space station broadcasting golden oldies to Earth's colonies, Panda finds something sinister in the air-conditioning and Iris comes face to face with her long-lost husband…
Cast

    Sam Gold - Miles Richardson
    Leeza Lewis - Helen Goldwyn
    Janice - Jane Goddard
    Mohanalee - Scott Handcock



Land of Wonder
Land of Wonder
Big Finish Productions audio play
Series     Iris Wildthyme
Release number     2.2
Writer     Paul Magrs
Director     Gary Russell
Producer(s)     Mark Wright & Cavan Scott
Set between     The Sound of Fear and The Panda Invasion

Exiled to Earth by her mysterious superiors, Iris has been amusing herself and Panda by working for MIAOW, the Ministry for Alien Incursions and Other Wonders. When a certain Professor Ramsbottom and his lovely assistant Audrey unearth a weird vehicle under a London railway station, Ms Wildthyme and her art critic chum are on the scene pretty sharpish.
Cast

    Trevor Ramsbottom - Steven Wickham
    Audrey/Harriet Dodd - Lizzie Hopley
    Mock Turtle/Salford Cat - Sean Connolly
    White Rabbit - Scott Handcock

Trivia

    As revealed in the first issue of Big Finish's 'Vortex' magazine, this episode was originally titled "Wildthyme in Wonderland".




The Two Irises
The Two Irises
Big Finish Productions audio play
Series     Iris Wildthyme
Release number     2.3
Writer     Simon Guerrier
Director     Gary Russell
Producer(s)     Mark Wright & Cavan Scott
Set between     Land of Wonder and The Panda Invasion

Iris is dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. She sacrificed herself to save her best friend, Panda, then exploded inside her time-travelling bus.

On Earth in the year 2108, the North Bloc and the South Bloc teeter on the edge of terrible nuclear war. The fate of the whole world rests on a not-very-good disco in Spain. One run by the dastardly alien Naxians…
Cast

    Iris Hilary Wildthyme - Daniel Hogarth
    Roger the Naxian - John Dorney
    Barry - Scott Handcock



The Panda Invasion
The Panda Invasion
Big Finish Productions audio play
Series     Iris Wildthyme
Release number     2.4
Writer     Mark Magrs
Director     Gary Russell
Producer(s)     Mark Wright & Cavan Scott
Set between     The Two Irises and The Claws of Santa

San Francisco, New Year’s Eve, 1999. She’s back, and it’s about… gin!

When an unconscious Iris Wildthyme is rushed into a San Francisco hospital on New Year’s Eve 1999, hunky doctor George Strangeways’ life is turned upside down. As the world prepares to party its way into the next millennium, a space time rift opens above the Golden Gate Bridge – where an old fashioned London bus has appeared… As the rift spills untold horrors from other dimensions into our world, Iris has just one question: where the ‘eck is Panda?!
Cast

    Lionel Pandeau - Toby Longworth
    George Strangeways - Sean Carlsen




The Claws of Santa
The Claws of Santa
Big Finish Productions audio play
Series     Iris Wildthyme
Release number     2.5
Writer     Mark Wright & Cavan Scott
Director     Gary Russell
Producer(s)     Mark Wright & Cavan Scott
Set between     The Panda Invasion and The Claws of Santa

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Iris Wildthyme
Series 3 Box Set

Released August 2012

Three more adventures for everyone’s favourite trans-temporal Adventuress and her long-suffering travelling companion, Panda.



The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society

Written by Cavan Scott

Panda isn’t happy. One minute he’s due to be crowned an intergalactic hero with concubines galore and the next Iris is dragging him to the planet Trull, the 42nd Century equivalent of Milton Keynes. As Iris becomes the hottest celeb in the galaxy, little do they know that everyone on Trull is about to die…



Iris Rides Out

Written by Guy Adams

Thomas Carnacki, the famed Edwardian Ghost Finder, faces his most terrifying challenge yet. Not only must he rid Mocata Grange of hideous apparitions and rampaging pig-monsters, he must also avoid the advances of that hellcat Iris Wildthyme. Will any of them get through the night alive?



Midwinter Murders

Written by George Mann

People are dropping like flies in the Warwickshire village of Midwinter Leys and the number one suspect is Iris Wildthyme. Can Inspector Nettles and Sergeant Spartan find the real culprit before more loveable locals are murdered in increasingly bizarre ways? And will Panda ever get his pork pie?

Written By: Cavan Scott, Guy Adams and George Mann
Directed By: Gary Russell
Cast

Katy Manning (Iris Wildthyme), David Benson (Panda), Chris Allen (Wayne Bland II), Scott Handcock (Emperor/Hog Lord/Sergeant Spartan), Dolly Oladini (Mother/Till Girl), Tony Coburn (Barman/Prisoner), Tom Rees-Kaye (Policebot/Prisoner), Marcus Hutton (Thomas Carnacki), Roger Parrott (Sir Donald Marshall), Stewart Bevan (Inspector Nettles), Sophie Melville (Ellie March)

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Iris Wildthyme
Series 4 Box Set

Released August 2013


Katy Manning and David Benson are back as Iris Wildthyme and Panda in three unique audio adventures in Time, Space and the little bits in between.



Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme?

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright

Iris is living the life she always dreamt of, swanning from one party to the next. From the swinging Sixties to the roaring Twenties to Freddie Mercury's 40th birthday bash via Ancient Rome, Iris has become the ultimate party girl. What more could she want? But who are those sinister ticking figures hiding in the mist? Why are partygoers snapping out of existence? And who is this Panda she keeps talking about?



Iris at the Oche

Written by Mark Wright

Super, smashing, great! It's the annual Pondside World Darts Championship. As down-at-heel pub darts player Ted Taylor steps up to the oche, Iris realises that the fate of the entire universe depends on the result of this one game of arrows. What are the calculations streaming through Ted’s mind, why are the bullish Hankians determined to drag a Kent Country Club into a temporal rift and will Panda ever get to enjoy his chicken-in-a-basket in peace? Game on!



A Lift In Time

Written by David Bryher

Ever get a tune stuck in your head? Annoying, isn't it? Especially when it transforms you into a mindless, murderous zombie. After years of righting wrongs and wronging rights, is the fat lady about to sing for Iris Wildthyme? As Panda becomes the next big thing and the bus is stolen by an insane artificial intelligence, Iris’s future finally catches up with her. Ding ding, going down...

Directed By: Gary Russell
Cast

Katy Manning (Iris Wildthyme), David Benson (Panda), David Ames (Alex), Ayesha Antoine (Amanda), Bernard Holley (Ted Taylor), Sophie Aldred (Lady Bow'n), Simon Fisher-Becker

All Series = 192K-256K

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Iris Wildthyme Series 1-4

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  • Looking forward to hearing this one - thanks! (and I hope things get better for you this year!)

    • Excellant Series Rick!

  • Many thanks!

    • You are welcome many times over.  ------------------------------------------------  R

  • Thank you Rick!

    • You are welcome.  -----------------------------------  R

  • Cheers for your work Rick - you're the man. 

    I remember back in Big Finish's early days and that first Who story that featured Iris, set in the TARDIS nightclub in Berlin, it was obvious then that if Katy Manning was up for it, they were gonna make a series out of it.

    Thanks! 

    • You are very welcome.  Enjoy!!  --------------------------------------------  R

  • This is great.
    • Glad you like it Robert.  I have not been feeling well at all and it took me days to get it in order to post.  Enjoy them, they are quite good.  ----------------------------------------------------------  R

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