Shadow of the Past (audio story)

Shadow of the Past (audio story)

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Shadow of the Past
Doctor:	[[doctor::Third Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Liz Shaw
Main enemy:	The Mimm
Key crew
Writer:	Simon Guerrier
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	Richard Fox, Lauren Yason
Release details
Release number:	4.9
Release date:	30th April 2010
Format:	1 disc
Production code:	BFPDWCC29
ISBN:	978-1-84435-465-8

Shadow of the Past was the ninth 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 the Doctor turn on his friends?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Liz Shaw - Caroline John
• 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

The Time Lord in a bowler hat appears in the TARDIS, after last appearing to the Doctor before the second attempted invasion by the Nestene Consciousness. (DW: Terror of the Autons)

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'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-Ellerysh.com/409-Doctor-Who-The-Companion-Chronicles-Shadow-of-the-Past Shadow of the Past's Big Finish page