Death Comes to Time is a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on the BBCi Cult website from 12 July 2001, accompanied by limited animation.

[1] When two Time Lords are killed, the Seventh Doctor together with his companion Antimony must stop the powerful General Tannis' plans for conquest and Ace is groomed to face a new destiny.

In a show of force, General Tannis destroys the city of Annit — population 9 million — and then demands the surrender of Admiral Mettna.

The Doctor and Antimony travel to the Temple of the Fourth on the planet Micen Island, where they see the statues of long dead Time Lords.

The Minister informs the Doctor that two Time Lords — the Saints Antinor and Valentine have been brutally murdered on Earth.

The Doctor discovers that black holes are being created and that existing ones are growing at a drastic rate.

The Doctor sees the body of a young woman with bite marks in her neck, and also another police constable.

Investigating further they enter a bar and find twenty bodies with their throats ripped out, and see a figure flee from the scene.

Casmus teaches her how to remember dreams, and tells her that soon they will be going to Mount Plutarch to have her abilities tested by the Kingmaker.

When the Doctor and Speedwell find more bodies, they notice there appears to be two different styles of killing, some for feeding, and some were just in the way.

Before his death, Nessican had managed to contact his employer, Tannis, and informed him that the Earth is rich in resources and completely defenceless.

On the Canisians homeworld, Premier Bedloe announces the defeat of the Santine Republic by Tannis, claiming that its people had been freed from oppression.

When Bedloe confronts him, he denies wanting to overthrow the Premier, but he intends to use him as a front while Tannis wields the true power and goes about his plans of universal conquest.

On Alpha Canis, the Doctor tells Antimony that they can't just kill Tannis, as someone else would take his place.

The Doctor informs a public wallscreen that he has kidnapped Bedloe's children and waits for the City Guards to turn up and arrest them.

Bedloe decides to question the Doctor personally about his "confession", while Bander reports back to Tannis that the man he was told to look out for has arrived.

Just as Sala asks to be left behind, they are found by a resistance member who tells them that they now have the required information to rescue the prisoners from the Lurian camp.

When Sala asks the Minister why he doesn't use his powers to save everyone's life, he tells her that she cannot understand his people's position.

He then reveals his secret — he is a Time Lord — but unlike the Doctor or the Minister, one who wants to use his powers to rule the Universe.

The Santine resistance mount their attack on the Luria prison, but Tannis is prepared, and sends in ships to slaughter the escapees.

She gives Ace a test, she will be sent to Anima Persis, a world ravaged by biological and psychic warfare.

Ace is despondent as she wiped out the villagers in her attempt to destroy the dead spirits, and misused her Time Lord powers.

She tells the Doctor that Tannis is not responsible for the damage to time, it is in fact the Minister of Chance who is the cause.

They mourn Casmus's death, and the Doctor reassures Ace about the events she witnessed on Anima Persis.

Anima Persis was a test, one that all Time Lords fail, so that the memory of failure stays with them forever as a stark warning.

The structure of time has been corrupted, so the Doctor revokes the Minister's TARDIS, and leaves him to face himself, now powerless.

Speedwell, Golcrum and the Brigadier celebrate the defeat of the Canisians, but Ace finds them and tells them the Doctor is gone.

Ace returns to the Kingmaker, and, conferred with full Time Lord powers, a new age is begun.

It also includes an interview on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 with John Humphrys talking to Sylvester McCoy, a science writer for the Daily Mail, and a Dalek.

In addition to this, there is a spoof interview between John Humphrys and General Tannis, plus a selection of audio out-takes from the recording.