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The serial was written by veteran television writer Paul Cornell, with Richard E. Grant providing the voice for the Ninth Doctor and Derek Jacobi as the voice of an android made in the image of The Doctor's old enemy, the Master.
With the news of the new series of Doctor Who returning to BBC One, plans for a sequel were scrapped and the Richard E. Grant Doctor consigned to unofficial status since the new television series will feature the adventures of another Ninth Doctor. Grant's incarnation of the Time Lord, however, has since appeared in an online short story, "The Feast of the Stone" by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright .
A novelization of this story was published in 2004, the first novelization of a Doctor Who serial (notwithstanding the 1996 TV movie) in nearly a decade.