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|image = Blue Boxes (audio story).jpg | |image = Blue Boxes (audio story).jpg | ||
|series = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' | |series = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' | ||
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|doctor = Third Doctor | |doctor = Third Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Liz Shaw|Liz]] | |companions = [[Liz Shaw|Liz]] | ||
|featuring = [[John Benton|Benton]] | |||
|enemy = | |enemy = | ||
|setting = | |setting = | ||
|writer = | |writer = Erin Horáková | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|read by = [[Mark Reynolds]] | |read by = [[Mark Reynolds]] | ||
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|cover = [[Mark Plastow]] | |cover = [[Mark Plastow]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 4 November 2020 | ||
|format = MP3 Download | |format = MP3 Download | ||
|production code = BFMSTDL71 | |production code = BFMSTDL71 | ||
|isbn = 978-1-78703-736-6 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78703-736-6 | ||
|prev = The Meaning of Red (audio story) | |prev = The Meaning of Red (audio story) | ||
|next = | |next = The Shattered Hourglass (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-short-trips-blue-boxes-trailer | ||
|epcount = 1}} | |epcount = 1 | ||
}} | |||
'''''Blue Boxes''''' was the eleventh story of the [[Series 10 (ST)|tenth season]] of [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' series. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Liz Shaw]]. | '''''Blue Boxes''''' was the eleventh story of the [[Series 10 (ST)|tenth season]] of [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' series. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Liz Shaw]]. | ||
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Death stalks the phone lines. | Death stalks the phone lines. | ||
[[UNIT]] | [[UNIT]]'s been inundated with prank calls. Bored, [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] agrees to help [[Liz Shaw|Liz]] investigate. Quickly immersed in the world of phone line hackers, it is revealed that they're being killed, one-by-one. With the death toll rising, the Doctor will have to use all his cunning and wits to defeat a foe he can't even talk to. | ||
He'll also have to use a blue box. Just not the one you're expecting. | |||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | [[Kenneth Whitby]], also known as the Twilight Trickster, is cracking the [[telephone]] lines at a [[phonebox]] in [[Chichester]] when he hears a sound and drops dead with a look of fear on his face. | ||
[[Liz Shaw|Liz]] has managed to get [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] to help investigate a series of prank calls to [[UNIT]] from public [[phonebox]]es and they contact [[Emily Chung]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] to learn about [[phreak]]s. They put together a blue box and find the phreaks' party line and learn from them about Whitby's [[death]], after which they check his [[autopsy]]. | |||
At [[Waterloo station]], [[Siobhan Reilly]] answers a payphone and hears a buzz. She feels sick and the line goes dead. | |||
Liz looks into mysterious occurrences involving phones and hears about Siobhan, whom she visits in [[hospital]]. Siobhan produces a cry like a sound Liz had heard on the party line and she tells the Doctor. The Doctor modifies the blue box and connects it to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]; the TARDIS makes the noise, leaving Liz unconscious and Emily in need of a visit to the [[sick bay]]. | |||
The Doctor believes that they are dealing with an [[Antiphon]], something commonly used on [[spacecraft]]. In this instance, it seems to be a [[distress call]] which has targeted [[UNIT HQ]] after detecting the TARDIS and is likely located near the construction of the new wing at the [[National Gallery]]. They find that the Antiphon belongs to a [[probe]] sent out by [[alien]]s wiped out by a [[virus]] and the Doctor shuts it down. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Third Doctor]] | * [[Third Doctor]] | ||
* [[Liz Shaw]] | * [[Liz Shaw]] | ||
* [[John Benton]] | |||
* [[Emily Chung]] | |||
* [[Siobhan Reilly]] | |||
* [[Kenneth Whitby]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The Doctor reminds Liz of [[Sherlock Holmes]]. | |||
* Liz had never been close to her doctoral supervisor at the [[University of Cambridge]]. | |||
* Phone crackers are known as [[phreak]]s. | |||
* Chung mentions phreaks [[Joybubbles]], who is [[blindness|blind]], and [[Crunch (Blue Boxes)|Crunch]]. | |||
* In some [[century|centuries]] on [[Draconia]], slight tonal imbalance can mean a grave insult to a [[Draconian]]s' brood circle. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
[[File:Blue Boxes (audio story) textless.jpg|thumb|Textless cover]] | |||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * The Doctor mentions the [[Mars Probe 7]] affair. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'') | ||
* The Doctor mentions [[Block Transfer Computation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', etc.) and [[Draconia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') | |||
* The Antiphon is activated by the building of a new wing at the National Gallery. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | |||
* The Doctor comments "My aunt [[Flavia]], who actually is hundreds of years old." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') | |||
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