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* Tamsin did a module on escapology in drama school.
* Tamsin did a module on escapology in drama school.
* The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of [[1849]] in [[Baltimore]] where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober.
* The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of [[1849]] in [[Baltimore]] where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober.
* Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier. In private, he told Uglosi that he was a time traveller and that that General Verdagast would land on Corinth Minor three months later to broker a secret deal with the enemy side. This acquiescence would become infamous as the Corinth Compact. When the two forces came together, they would create an empire which would be a blight on the region. Uglosi released him but could not help wondering if he was telling the truth. When Verdagast travelled to Corinth Minor at the predicted time, he informed Wendingo of the secret deal. With this information, which had been confirmed by her agents on Corinth Minor, she released the biological weapon into the troposphere to ensure that no compact could ever be signed on the planet.
* Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier. In private, he told Uglosi that he was a time traveller and that that General Verdagast would land on Corinth Minor three months later to broker a secret deal with the enemy side. This acquiescence would become infamous as the Corinth Compact. When the two forces came together, they would create an empire which would be a blight on the region. Uglosi released him but could not help wondering if he was telling the truth. When Verdagast travelled to Corinth Minor at the predicted time, he informed Wendigo of the secret deal. With this information, which had been confirmed by her agents on Corinth Minor, she released the biological weapon into the troposphere to ensure that no compact could ever be signed on the planet.
* Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation.
* Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation.
* During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', ''The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'' and ''The Mystery of Marie Rogêt''.
* During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', ''The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'' and ''The Mystery of Marie Rogêt''.

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Nevermore was the third release of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary

A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo – a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren’t Morella’s only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws…

There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface – wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!

Cast

References

  • The TARDIS has a mile of Margate beach with seagulls, a laundry, a greenhouse and a sauna.
  • After the black cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to Bagpuss and Animals Do the Funniest Things.
  • The Doctor quotes extensively from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. The robot-like ravens are modelled after the relevant bird due to Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsession with Poe's works. Uglosi later quotes from Poe's The Black Cat and The Pit and the Pendulum whereas Berenice Ward quotes from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
  • The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes.
  • Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in Cassopeia, which contained volcanoes that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava. It became a playground for the rich and famous including General Verdagast. The general was involved in what the Doctor describes as a "particularly nasty factional war" against one of the rival Cassopeian colonies. His rival, General Morella Wendigo, detonated a biological weapon in Corinth Minor's troposphere. Faced with the outbreak of a previously unknown flesh-eating plague, the Galactic Authority sought the help of the Time Lords. The Time Lords passed the planet through a belt of ultraviolet radiation, killing almost the entire population of the planet through the Red Death. The authorities renamed it "Nevermore" as a reminder of the folly of war. Wendigo was sentenced by a war crimes tribunal to a lifetime of exile to Nevermore so that she could contemplate her crimes.
  • Tamsin did a module on escapology in drama school.
  • The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of 1849 in Baltimore where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober.
  • Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "strange little man" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier. In private, he told Uglosi that he was a time traveller and that that General Verdagast would land on Corinth Minor three months later to broker a secret deal with the enemy side. This acquiescence would become infamous as the Corinth Compact. When the two forces came together, they would create an empire which would be a blight on the region. Uglosi released him but could not help wondering if he was telling the truth. When Verdagast travelled to Corinth Minor at the predicted time, he informed Wendigo of the secret deal. With this information, which had been confirmed by her agents on Corinth Minor, she released the biological weapon into the troposphere to ensure that no compact could ever be signed on the planet.
  • Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation.
  • During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.
  • Protocol Roderick is a reference to Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher.
  • The black cat is a messenger from the Time Lords and is far more intelligent than she appears. She tells the Doctor that he must apprehend the renegade Time Lord who told Uglosi of the Corinth Compact twenty years earlier.

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Continuity

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