The Magic Mousetrap (audio story): Difference between revisions

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|series          = [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]]

|enemy          = [[Celestial Toymaker]]

|setting        = [[Celestial Toyroom]], [[Switzerland]], [[1926]]  

|writer          = [[Matthew Sweet]]

|post production = [[Richard Fox]], [[Lauren Yason]]

|release date    = [[April (releases)|April]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]

|format          = 4 Episodes on 2 CDs

|production code = 7W/J

|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-84435-408-5

|prev = The Chaos Pool (audio story)

|next     = Enemy of the Daleks (audio story)

Ludo Comfort, Swapnil Khan, Harry Randall and Mrs Kerniddle are all in the middle of a game of Scrabble. When it comes to Harry, he places down the word 'TARDIS' on the board, claiming it's something 'you climb inside'. As the others scold him for cheating, he states that he feels some strange, mysterious pain at the back of his head. The others urge him to ignore the pain and they proceed into a game of Consequences.

As the others within the Sanatorium play a small game of Musical Chairs, the cable car stops outside. The Doctor and Queenie note that bizarrely, their isn't anyone to operate the stopping mechanism or open the door, and all of the other carriages are empty. Approaching the sanatorium, the Doctor is electrocuted by the doorknocker, which leaves him temporarily unconscious. Ludo, Harry and Mrs Kerniddle tend to the Doctor, whilst Swapnil informs someone mysterious in the attic the new arrivals. He is given instructions of what to do with the Doctor, stating that 'that will surely finish him off!'.

Downstairs, Swapnil reunites with Queenie, his daughter, and the patients see that the cable car has started up again, now carrying passengers Lola Luna and Herbert Randall. Ludo now goes up to the attic to speak to the unseen people. He is disturbed when Swapnil rushes up, telling him that Harry is having some sort of fit. Ludo and Mrs Kerniddle take Harry off to the treatment room where he is administered shock therapy. The Doctor barges in and destroys the equipment, leaving Ludo enormously distressed. In his moment of triumph, he runs up to the attic to uncover what secret Ludo is hiding. Ludo tries to stop him, but the Doctor is let in by whoever is hiding there. He feels as if he recognises the figures, and they are in fact Ace and Hex. However, they suddenly speaks up with a mock posh accent, saying that they have absolutely no idea who the Doctor is...

== References ==

* The Doctor states that the last time that he went to the dentist was [[1881]]. ([[The Gunfighters (TV story)|TV: ''The Gunfighters'']])

* This story features the first appearance of the [[Celestial Toymaker]] in a BBC-licensed audio play. He had appeared earlier in a charity audio version of ''The Nightmare Fair'', and would return again in late 2009 for the official, [[Big Finish]] [[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|version of the same story]]. However, this was the first officially-licensed audio story using the Toymaker that was available for public purchase.

* This audio story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]].

* The [[First Doctor]] visited the [[Celestial Toyroom]], the domain of the Celestial Toymaker, in the company of [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'') In the interim, the Doctor encountered the Toymaker in [[Blackpool]] in [[1986]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') He would later return to the Toyroom in the company of [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] during his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'')

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