A Perfect World (audio story)

A Perfect World
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Nyssa, Brewster
Main setting:	London, 2008
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Simon Robinson
Sound:	Simon Robinson
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	113b
Part of:	Time Reef
Release date:	September 2008
Format:	1 CD Download 2nd of 2 stories
Production code:	6C/M
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-322-4 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-660-3 (digital)
Main Range
← Previous	Time Reef
Next →	Brotherhood of the Daleks

A Perfect World was the following one-part story comprising part of the one hundred and thirteenth release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and John Pickard as Thomas Brewster.

Brewster returned in the 2011 story The Crimes of Thomas Brewster alongside the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe.

Publisher's summary

Who wouldn't want a perfect world? Thomas Brewster for one.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
• Phil - Nicholas Farrell
• Taz / Connie's mother - Beth Chalmers
• Trev - Sean Connolly
• Connie - Rebecca Callard

Worldbuilding

Culture

• Connie describes the inhabitants of the alternative timeline as Pod people, referring to the 1956 science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and later compares them to characters from a Richard Curtis film.
• Connie says that the Jubilee line was like Dawn of the Dead.

Conflicts

• Connie mentions the Iraq War, referring to it as "a war which shouldn't have happened."

History

• Brewster is amazed by how clean the air is in 2008 when compared to 1867.

Individuals

• Taz is Connie's unemployed flatmate, whom Connie describes as being built like a "brick privy." In the alternative timeline, she refers to herself by her full name of Tasmin and works as a management consultant, having spent three years at university.
• When she first meets the Doctor, Connie assumes that he is going to a fancy dress party dressed as Bertie Wooster, referring to the "idle rich" English gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels.

Locations

• The Doctor left strict instructions to his solicitor that his house, 107 Baker Street, was not to be sold or let, and it has thus lain undisturbed since 1867. The inside of the house is covered in cobwebs and much of the furniture has rotted due to woodworm.

Music

• Connie had tickets to a Kaiser Chiefs concert in 2004, but accidentally went to the wrong Newcastle.

Politics

• The Health Minister resigned due to the spread of hospital-based infections. In the alternative timeline, he announces that such infections had been completely eradicated in Britain.
• In the alternative timeline, a peace treaty has been signed in Palestine, inflation has fallen and Pakistan has avoided widespread flooding.

Sports

• In the "perfect" version of 2008, cricketer Graeme Swann was "100 not out" — which proved to the Fifth Doctor that something was "off" with the world.

Notes

• This audio story was recorded at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Brewster tells Connie that he used to work as a mudlark near London Bridge and that he has visited the 2008 of an alternative timeline. This all took place in AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster ^[+]Loading...["The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"].
• Brewster refers to the Time Reef, where the TARDIS crew were in the previous story, AUDIO: Time Reef ^[+]Loading...["Time Reef (audio story)"].
• Brewster leaves the TARDIS at 107 Baker Street. Brewster had stolen the TARDIS in 1866 at the end of AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster ^[+]Loading...["The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"]. He would later be reunited with the Doctor in his sixth incarnation in 2010, in AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster ^[+]Loading...["The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"].
• It is later revealed in AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster ^[+]Loading...["The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"] that, prior to 2010, Connie was killed in a hit-and-run.

External links

• Official A Perfect World page at bigfinish.com
• A Perfect World at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for A Perfect World at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide