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|image = Suburban Hell cover.jpg | |image = Suburban Hell cover.jpg | ||
|series = ''[[ | |series = ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'' | ||
|range = Fourth Doctor Adventures | |range = The Fourth Doctor Adventures | ||
|series in range = Series 4 (4DA) | |series in range = Series 4 (4DA) | ||
|number in series = 5 | |number in series = 5 | ||
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|enemy = | |enemy = | ||
|setting = North [[London]], [[1977]] and [[2017]] | |setting = North [[London]], [[1977]] and [[2017]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Alan Barnes | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |||
|music = [[Alistair Lock]] | |music = [[Alistair Lock]] | ||
|sound = | |sound = Alistair Lock | ||
|cover = [[Anthony Lamb]] | |cover = [[Anthony Lamb]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 21 May 2015 | ||
|format = | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download | ||
|production code = | |production code = BFPTOMCD026 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-350-4 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-350-4 (physical); 978-1-78575-878-2 (digital) | ||
|prev = Death Match (audio story) | |prev = Death Match (audio story) | ||
|next = The Cloisters of Terror (audio story) | |next = The Cloisters of Terror (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-suburban-hell-trailer | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-suburban-hell-trailer | ||
|epcount = 2 | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fifth story in the [[Series 4 (4DA)|fourth series]] of | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fifth story in the [[Series 4 (4DA)|fourth series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Louise Jameson]] as [[Leela]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
Somewhere in a suburb of North [[London]], there's a crisis. More than a crisis, a positive disaster. [[Belinda (Suburban Hell)|Belinda]] and [[Ralph (Suburban Hell)|Ralph]] are expecting four for supper, and there's no Marie Rose sauce for the Prawns Marie Rose. All in all, the evening couldn't possibly get any worse... | Somewhere in a suburb of North [[London]], there's a crisis. More than a crisis, a positive disaster. [[Belinda (Suburban Hell)|Belinda]] and [[Ralph (Suburban Hell)|Ralph]] are expecting four for supper, and there's no Marie Rose sauce for the Prawns Marie Rose. All in all, the evening couldn't possibly get any worse... | ||
Until the doorbell rings, bringing [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Leela]] to the dinner party. They've got a crisis, too – [[temporal ruckage]] has sent [[the TARDIS]] to another time zone entirely. Meaning they might have to endure a whole evening in Belinda's company. | Until the doorbell rings, bringing [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Leela]] to the dinner party. They've got a crisis, too – [[temporal ruckage]] has sent [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to another time zone entirely. Meaning they might have to endure a whole evening in Belinda's company. | ||
But the Doctor and Leela aren't the only uninvited guests tonight. There's a strange fog falling, out in the road. And in that fog: savage blue-skinned monsters, with dinner party plans of their own. Because it's not Prawns Marie Rose on their menu – it's [[human|people]]! | But the Doctor and Leela aren't the only uninvited guests tonight. There's a strange fog falling, out in the road. And in that fog: savage blue-skinned monsters, with dinner party plans of their own. Because it's not Prawns Marie Rose on their menu – it's [[human|people]]! | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Part one === | === Part one === | ||
' | [[Ralph (Suburban Hell)|Ralph]] arrives home only to be berated by his wife [[Belinda (Suburban Hell)|Belinda]] in preparation for their guests to arrive for the dinner party. Soon the [[Fourth Doctor|Doctor]] and [[Leela]] arrive and are invited inside by mistake. The [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] has apparently relocated itself due to an "[[temporal ruckage]]", or as Leela claims, a "wrinkle in time" that caused it to slip to another place and they have come to investigate the house in search of equipment that may be causing the problem as she explains to Belinda. Leela talks with Belinda who reveals she had been expecting someone else when they are interrupted by the ringing of the [[doorbell]] as Belinda's friend [[Thelma (Suburban Hell)|Thelma]] arrives. Meanwhile the Doctor and Ralph are in the [[garage]] when he discovers an interesting [[painting]] of some [[Astronomy|astronomical]] [[constellation]]s. Belinda entertains her guests when Leela notices a [[fog]] descending outside. They answer a [[telephone]] call and hear a panic on the other end which Belinda dismisses but worries Leela. The Doctor intrudes having just finished his tracker device and discovers that they have arrived in the wrong time, they thought they had landed in the [[1970s]] when actually they had arrived in the [[2010s]]. After some arguing they are interrupted by a [[car crash]] outside. | ||
[[Pete (Suburban Hell)|Pete]] and [[Penny (Suburban Hell)|Penny]] end up in a crash but when the Doctor comes to investigate he notices that the car that seems to belong to the original real estate agent Mike who had been invited and they supposedly collided with was broken into from the outside. The Doctor investigates another house and finds strange blue creatures who prepare to attack him. The other guests suddenly hear strange noises and Leela, Thelma, Pete, Penny, Belinda and Ralph take refuge in Ralph and Belinda's house and attempt to call the police but find they cannot reach them and worse yet, start to hear their own voices coming through the telephone... | |||
=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
''to be | The Doctor finds Thelma in a house forty years ago and comments about her looking the same, likely because of her using [[glamour]]. He deduces that the fog is part of the "wrinkle in time" and that when he tried returning to the house he must have passed through the "wrinkle" and ended up in the past, in the 1970s, which must've been why the TARDIS couldn't land them properly originally. Meanwhile the occupants of Ralph and Belinda's house prepare for the worst. They learn that the intruders are after a "vessel", which Leela suspects to be the TARDIS, and they decide to split up and try Thelma's phone and call the police. The Doctor deduces the reason for the presence of the blue beings, their connection to the painting and the imprints of witches, and asks Thelma to take care of the child that is making the strange noises, but when she answers that she will name the child Belinda the Doctor begins to worry. In the present, Leela and the surviving guests make their way upstairs and prepare to shatter a mirror when they are contacted by the Doctor thanks to a spell cast by Thelma in [[1977]] with the Doctor. He explains that baby Belinda had the imprint of a witch and that the [[Manasara]]ns were going to fill baby Belinda with the essence of an alien monster before she was, or from the Doctor's perspective, about to be saved by himself and Thelma, and the Doctor reveals he suspects the painting is what attracted Belinda back to the house so that the blue Acolytes (the beings from earlier) could finish the job. He tells Leela she has to protect Belinda at all costs. | ||
The Acolytes seemingly manage to begin the ceremony to finish filling their chosen vessel, Belinda, with the alien essence but the Doctor manages to get Thelma and Belinda away by distracting them. The Acolytes break into the room Leela and the others are hiding in and explains to them what happened back in 1977. Just then Ralph manages to save the Doctor in the past, having got there after the car crash. He and the Doctor then discover that the Doctor miscalibrated his machine and discovers that all the events that have and are happening are really because of the machine, and by extension himself. In the present the Acolytes attempt to finish their mission to fill Belinda with the alien essence and succeed while the Doctor in the past with Ralph attempts to destroy his device in hopes it will reset the timeline seeing as it was the cause of all the problems. It succeeds just as Leela is about to be killed by an Acolyte and when Leela reawakens she finds that all has been restored to a different [[timeline]], the original, in which Ralph is married to Penny and Belinda, when a confused Leela asks the Doctor, who has just arrived with Ralph, jokes about now being single. The other guests do not seem to remember the previous events and the Doctor explains to a confused and bewildered Ralph that there is nothing to worry about as his memory of the altered timeline will slowly fade as the new one takes hold. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Thelma (Suburban Hell)|Thelma]] - [[Annette Badland]] | * [[Thelma (Suburban Hell)|Thelma]] - [[Annette Badland]] | ||
* [[Belinda (Suburban Hell)|Belinda]] - [[Katy Wix]] | * [[Belinda (Suburban Hell)|Belinda]] - [[Katy Wix]] | ||
* [[Penny (Suburban Hell)|Penny]]/[[Acolyte (Suburban Hell)|Acolyte]] - [[Alix Dunmore]] | * [[Penny (Suburban Hell)|Penny]] / [[Acolyte (Suburban Hell)|Acolyte]] - [[Alix Dunmore]] | ||
* [[Ralph (Suburban Hell)|Ralph]]/[[Second acolyte|Second Acolyte]] - [[Raymond Coulthard]] | * [[Ralph (Suburban Hell)|Ralph]] / [[Second acolyte|Second Acolyte]] - [[Raymond Coulthard]] | ||
* [[Pete (Suburban Hell)|Pete]]/[[Priest (Suburban Hell)|Priest]] - [[David Ricardo-Pearce]] | * [[Pete (Suburban Hell)|Pete]] / [[Priest (Suburban Hell)|Priest]] - [[David Ricardo-Pearce]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Ralph is wearing a [[leopard]] skin shirt. | * Ralph is wearing a [[leopard]] skin shirt. | ||
* Belinda claims that Pete has thighs like [[Usain Bolt]]. | * Belinda claims that Pete has thighs like [[Usain Bolt]]. | ||
* Belinda and Ralph were married in [[2004]]. | * Belinda and Ralph were married in [[2004]]. | ||
* Ralph thinks the collar shirt makes him look like [[Starsky & Hutch|Starsky and Hutch]]. | |||
* The Doctor comments that "[[Sheffield]] [[Steel]]" is still strong. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded at [[Audio Sorcery]]. | * This story was recorded on [[8 October (production)|8 October]] [[2013 (production)|2013]] at [[Audio Sorcery]]. | ||
* This story was originally released on CD and download. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Leela notes that the Doctor's TARDIS is a [[Type 40]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'', ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') | * Leela notes that the Doctor's TARDIS is a [[Type 40]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'', ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') | ||
* Leela once again refers to the police as "blue guards. | * Leela once again refers to the police as "blue guards". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Renaissance Man (audio story)|The Renaissance Man]]'', ''[[Energy of the Daleks (audio story)|Energy of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Foe from the Future (audio story)|The Foe from the Future]]'', ''[[The Hourglass Killers (audio story)|The Hourglass Killers]]'') | ||
* The Doctor refers to the disappearance of the crew of the ''[[Mary Celeste]]'' in [[1872]]. During his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]], he and his companions [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Vicki Pallister]] were indirectly responsible for their disappearance. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') | * The Doctor refers to the disappearance of the crew of the ''[[Mary Celeste]]'' in [[1872]]. During his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]], he and his companions [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Vicki Pallister]] were indirectly responsible for their disappearance. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') | ||
* The Monosaron Acolytes use a [[Glamour]] to disguise themselves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glamour Chase (novel)|The Glamour Chase]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (audio story)|Damaged Goods]]'') | * The Monosaron Acolytes use a [[Glamour]] to disguise themselves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glamour Chase (novel)|The Glamour Chase]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (audio story)|Damaged Goods]]'') | ||
* Leela tells Belinda and Penny that she knows about heartbreak. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'') | * Leela tells Belinda and Penny that she knows about heartbreak. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'') | ||
* Thelma claims to be a "[[Witchfinder General]]". The Doctor, in his [[Thirteenth Doctor|thirteenth]] incarnation would identify herself as Witchfinder General to [[James I|King James I]] in the [[17th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witchfinders (TV story)|The Witchfinders]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/941 | {{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-suburban-hell-941}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:27, 30 March 2024
Suburban Hell was the fifth story in the fourth series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alan Barnes and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Somewhere in a suburb of North London, there's a crisis. More than a crisis, a positive disaster. Belinda and Ralph are expecting four for supper, and there's no Marie Rose sauce for the Prawns Marie Rose. All in all, the evening couldn't possibly get any worse...
Until the doorbell rings, bringing the Doctor and Leela to the dinner party. They've got a crisis, too – temporal ruckage has sent the TARDIS to another time zone entirely. Meaning they might have to endure a whole evening in Belinda's company.
But the Doctor and Leela aren't the only uninvited guests tonight. There's a strange fog falling, out in the road. And in that fog: savage blue-skinned monsters, with dinner party plans of their own. Because it's not Prawns Marie Rose on their menu – it's people!
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ralph arrives home only to be berated by his wife Belinda in preparation for their guests to arrive for the dinner party. Soon the Doctor and Leela arrive and are invited inside by mistake. The TARDIS has apparently relocated itself due to an "temporal ruckage", or as Leela claims, a "wrinkle in time" that caused it to slip to another place and they have come to investigate the house in search of equipment that may be causing the problem as she explains to Belinda. Leela talks with Belinda who reveals she had been expecting someone else when they are interrupted by the ringing of the doorbell as Belinda's friend Thelma arrives. Meanwhile the Doctor and Ralph are in the garage when he discovers an interesting painting of some astronomical constellations. Belinda entertains her guests when Leela notices a fog descending outside. They answer a telephone call and hear a panic on the other end which Belinda dismisses but worries Leela. The Doctor intrudes having just finished his tracker device and discovers that they have arrived in the wrong time, they thought they had landed in the 1970s when actually they had arrived in the 2010s. After some arguing they are interrupted by a car crash outside.
Pete and Penny end up in a crash but when the Doctor comes to investigate he notices that the car that seems to belong to the original real estate agent Mike who had been invited and they supposedly collided with was broken into from the outside. The Doctor investigates another house and finds strange blue creatures who prepare to attack him. The other guests suddenly hear strange noises and Leela, Thelma, Pete, Penny, Belinda and Ralph take refuge in Ralph and Belinda's house and attempt to call the police but find they cannot reach them and worse yet, start to hear their own voices coming through the telephone...
Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor finds Thelma in a house forty years ago and comments about her looking the same, likely because of her using glamour. He deduces that the fog is part of the "wrinkle in time" and that when he tried returning to the house he must have passed through the "wrinkle" and ended up in the past, in the 1970s, which must've been why the TARDIS couldn't land them properly originally. Meanwhile the occupants of Ralph and Belinda's house prepare for the worst. They learn that the intruders are after a "vessel", which Leela suspects to be the TARDIS, and they decide to split up and try Thelma's phone and call the police. The Doctor deduces the reason for the presence of the blue beings, their connection to the painting and the imprints of witches, and asks Thelma to take care of the child that is making the strange noises, but when she answers that she will name the child Belinda the Doctor begins to worry. In the present, Leela and the surviving guests make their way upstairs and prepare to shatter a mirror when they are contacted by the Doctor thanks to a spell cast by Thelma in 1977 with the Doctor. He explains that baby Belinda had the imprint of a witch and that the Manasarans were going to fill baby Belinda with the essence of an alien monster before she was, or from the Doctor's perspective, about to be saved by himself and Thelma, and the Doctor reveals he suspects the painting is what attracted Belinda back to the house so that the blue Acolytes (the beings from earlier) could finish the job. He tells Leela she has to protect Belinda at all costs.
The Acolytes seemingly manage to begin the ceremony to finish filling their chosen vessel, Belinda, with the alien essence but the Doctor manages to get Thelma and Belinda away by distracting them. The Acolytes break into the room Leela and the others are hiding in and explains to them what happened back in 1977. Just then Ralph manages to save the Doctor in the past, having got there after the car crash. He and the Doctor then discover that the Doctor miscalibrated his machine and discovers that all the events that have and are happening are really because of the machine, and by extension himself. In the present the Acolytes attempt to finish their mission to fill Belinda with the alien essence and succeed while the Doctor in the past with Ralph attempts to destroy his device in hopes it will reset the timeline seeing as it was the cause of all the problems. It succeeds just as Leela is about to be killed by an Acolyte and when Leela reawakens she finds that all has been restored to a different timeline, the original, in which Ralph is married to Penny and Belinda, when a confused Leela asks the Doctor, who has just arrived with Ralph, jokes about now being single. The other guests do not seem to remember the previous events and the Doctor explains to a confused and bewildered Ralph that there is nothing to worry about as his memory of the altered timeline will slowly fade as the new one takes hold.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Tom Baker
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Thelma - Annette Badland
- Belinda - Katy Wix
- Penny / Acolyte - Alix Dunmore
- Ralph / Second Acolyte - Raymond Coulthard
- Pete / Priest - David Ricardo-Pearce
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ralph is wearing a leopard skin shirt.
- Belinda claims that Pete has thighs like Usain Bolt.
- Belinda and Ralph were married in 2004.
- Ralph thinks the collar shirt makes him look like Starsky and Hutch.
- The Doctor comments that "Sheffield Steel" is still strong.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story was recorded on 8 October 2013 at Audio Sorcery.
- This story was originally released on CD and download.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Leela notes that the Doctor's TARDIS is a Type 40. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Pirate Planet, State of Decay)
- Leela once again refers to the police as "blue guards". (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Renaissance Man, Energy of the Daleks, The Foe from the Future, The Hourglass Killers)
- The Doctor refers to the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste in 1872. During his first incarnation, he and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister were indirectly responsible for their disappearance. (TV: The Chase)
- The Monosaron Acolytes use a Glamour to disguise themselves. (PROSE: The Glamour Chase; AUDIO: Damaged Goods)
- Leela tells Belinda and Penny that she knows about heartbreak. (AUDIO: Death Match)
- Thelma claims to be a "Witchfinder General". The Doctor, in his thirteenth incarnation would identify herself as Witchfinder General to King James I in the 17th century. (TV: The Witchfinders)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Suburban Hell page at bigfinish.com
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