Shadow of the Past (audio story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox CD|cd name = ''Shadow of the Past''|image = [[file:ShadowOfThePast.png|250px]]|series = [[Doctor Who]]<Br>[[The Companion Chronicles|Big Finish - The Companion Chronicles]]|number = 4.9|doctor = [[Third Doctor]]|companions = [[Liz Shaw]]|enemy = TBC|year = TBC|writer = [[Simon Guerrier]]|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]]|producer = [[Richard Fox]], [[Lauren Yason]]|release date = [[30th April]] [[2010]]|format = 1 disc|production code = BFPDWCC29|isbn = 978-1-84435-465-8|previous story = ''[[The Emperor of Eternity]]''|next story = ''[[The Time Vampire]]''}}{{audio stub}}'''''Shadow of the Past''''' was the ninth [[The Companion Chronicles|Companion Chronicle]] of the fourth series. It starred [[Caroline John]] as [[Liz Shaw]]. == Synopsis ==There's a secret locked up in [[UNIT]]'s Vault 75-73/Whitehall. Dr Elizabeth Shaw is the only one left who knows what that secret is.Returning to UNIT for the first time in decades, she slowly unravels the past. The vault contains the remains of a spaceship that crashed in the Pennines in the seventies.For the young Liz Shaw, the priority is to ensure the thing's safe. But the Doctor is more concerned about the alien pilot. And the chance this ship offers for escape. Can he resist the temptation, or will [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] turn on his friends?== Plot ==''to be added''==Cast==*[[Liz Shaw]] - [[Caroline John]]*[[Marshall (Shadow of the Past)|Marshall]] - [[Lex Shrapnel]]==Production crew==*[[Writer]] - [[Simon Guerrier]]*[[Director]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]*[[Executive Producer]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]] [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] *[[Sound design]] - [[Richard Fox]], [[Lauren Yason]]*[[Cover art]] - [[Iain Robertson]]*[[Music]] - Richard Fox, Lauren Yason== References ==''to be added''== Story notes ==*This story was recorded on [[11th August]] [[2009]].== Continuity ==*The Doctor and the [[Brigadier]] are still not back on pleasant terms after the bombing of the [[Silurian]] base on Wenley Moor ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'')*Liz comments that her dissatisfaction in her role in UNIT was because she felt all she had to do was tell the Doctor he was brilliant and pass him his test tubes, which she later told the Brigadier, because he uses this to convince the Doctor to accept [[Jo Grant]] as his new assistant in ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''.*The Sergeant who dies in the story is stated to be [[Benton|Benton's]] immediate predecessor, thus setting this story before ''[[The Ambassadors of Death]]''.*Liz comments wryly upon the oddly British practice employed by UNIT of "hot sweet tea" salving all wounds.*The Doctor is said to still be deeply offended at being imprisoned on Earth.*The older Liz telling the story is aware that there are "half a dozen" other incarnations of the Doctor which followed "hers".== Timeline==*''Shadow of the Past'' occurs after: [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. *''Shadow of the Past'' occurs before: [[DW]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death]]'' ==External links==*[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]sh.com/409-Doctor-Who-The-Companion-Chronicles-Shadow-of-the-Past '''''Shadow of the Past'''''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Big Finish page]{{DEFAULTSORT:}}