UNIT: The Coup is a Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...

 audio drama based on the long-running British

United Kingdom

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 science fiction television

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Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...

 series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

. It stars Nicholas Courtney

Nicholas Courtney

William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an English television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...

 reprising his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Nicholas Courtney...

, the former commander of UNIT

United Nations Intelligence Taskforce

UNIT is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures...

 (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The Coup was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine

Doctor Who Magazine

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#351 as a prologue to a four-part mini-series

UNIT: Time Heals

UNIT: Time Heals is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Nicholas Courtney reprising his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the former commander of UNIT...

. The Coup occupies the first thirteen tracks on the CD, the thirteenth to twenty-first being occupied by Silver Lining

Silver Lining (Bernice Summerfield)

Silver Lining is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Silver Lining was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #351...

, and the twenty-second to thity-third occupied by promotions for various Big Finish Productions Doctor Who and Bernice Summerfield audio plays.

From September 2008, Big Finish re-released the play as a free download.

Plot

As London

London

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 faces the return of the Silurian

Silurian (Doctor Who)

The Silurians are a fictional race of reptile-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The species first appeared in Doctor Who in the 1970 serial Doctor Who and the Silurians...

s, the UK branch of UNIT is preparing to shut down.

Cast

• Colonel Emily Chaudhry - Siri O'Neal
• The Brigadier - Nicholas Courtney
• Silurian Ambassador - Matthew Brenher
• Captain Andrea Winnington - Sara Carver
• Sergeant French - Mark Wright
• Corporal Ledger - Joseph Lidster
  Joseph Lidster
  Joseph Lidster is an English television writer best known for his work on the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.-Biography:His debut work was the audio play The Rapture for Big Finish Productions in 2002...
  
  
• Scott Cartwright - Scott Andrews
• Francis Currie - Michael Hobbs

Continuity

• UNIT Previously dealt with the Silurians in TV story The Silurians
  Doctor Who and the Silurians
  Doctor Who and the Silurians is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from January 31 to March 14, 1970. The story is the first appearance of a recurring family of Earth-dwelling reptiles...
  
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• This is the first story to state that the Brigadier has been Knighted. This is later seen to be the case in the new TV series episode The Poison Sky
  The Poison Sky
  "The Poison Sky" is the fifth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 3 May 2008. The episode features both former companion Martha Jones and the alien Sontarans...
  
  and the Sarah Jane Adventures story Enemy of the Bane
  Enemy of the Bane
  Enemy of the Bane is a two-part story from the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. It was broadcast on CBBC on 1 and 8 December 2008, and is the final serial of the second series...