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|image = The Red Lady cover.jpg | |image = The Red Lady cover.jpg | ||
| | |range = Doom Coalition (audio series) | ||
| | |series in range = Doom Coalition 1 | ||
|series number in range = 1 | |||
|number in series = 2 | |||
|audio anthology = Doom Coalition 1 | |||
|number = 1.2 | |number = 1.2 | ||
|doctor = Eighth Doctor | |doctor = Eighth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Liv Chenka]] | |companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] | ||
|enemy = | |featuring = [[Helen Sinclair]] | ||
|setting = [[ | |enemy = [[Caleera|The Red Lady]] | ||
|writer = | |setting = [[National Museum]], [[1963]] | ||
|writer = John Dorney | |||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |||
|music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | |music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | |sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|cover = [[Tom Webster]] | |cover = [[Tom Webster]] | ||
|release date = | |release date = 12 October 2015 | ||
|format = 1 X 1 hour | |format = 1 X 1 hour | ||
|production code = | |production code = | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-306-1 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-306-1 | ||
|series = ''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]'' | |||
|prev = The Eleven (audio story) | |prev = The Eleven (audio story) | ||
|next = The Galileo Trap (audio story) | |next = The Galileo Trap (audio story) | ||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story of ''[[Doom Coalition 1]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[John Dorney]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and introduced [[Hattie Morahan]] as the new companion [[Helen Sinclair]]. | ||
New [[companion]] [[Helen Sinclair]] was a character inspired by [[Verity Lambert]]. Also introduced here was the [[Caleera|Red Lady]] whose identity and true nature would not be discovered until ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]''. This would be the last story in which the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Liv Chenka]] travelled alone until ''[[Their Finest Hour (audio story)|Their Finest Hour]]''. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
An anomaly in time brings the Doctor and Liv to London in the 1960s, where they meet a young lady named Helen Sinclair - desperately trying to make a name for herself in the face of sexism and prejudice. | An anomaly in [[time]] brings [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] to [[London]] in the [[1960s]], where they meet a young lady named [[Helen Sinclair]] - desperately trying to make a name for herself in the face of [[sexism]] and [[prejudice]]. | ||
Whilst the Doctor tried to uncover the secrets of a mysterious artefact, a far deadlier mystery awaits Liv and Helen in the collection of a recently deceased antiquarian. | Whilst the Doctor tried to uncover the secrets of a mysterious artefact, a far deadlier mystery awaits Liv and Helen in the collection of a recently deceased antiquarian. | ||
Because that's where they find the Red Lady. Because if you do, you might not like what you see. | Because that's where they find [[Caleera|the Red Lady]]. Because if you do, you might not like what you see. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | [[Albert Kennedy]] shows [[Walter Pritchett|Professor Pritchett]] the collection left behind by [[Francis McCallum|Dr McCallum]], comprising a diverse range of antiquities depicting [[Caleera|a woman in a red mask]]. Professor Pritchett believes that the woman looks "wrong" somehow, but that she is entrancing. | ||
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] arrive in [[1963]] [[London]], detecting the [[temporal anomaly]] in the hopes of locating [[the Eleven]]. | |||
[[Helen Sinclair]] confronts [[Garland (The Red Lady)|Professor Garland]] about him giving a post to [[Timothy (The Red Lady)|an ineffectual colleague]], which he explains was due to the temperament of women and that she would soon be starting a family. She slams the door on her way out. | |||
The Doctor uses a beeping device which leads him and Liv to the [[National Museum]], which she almost remembers from her day with [[Martin Donaldson]]. The Doctor says that it might be caused by [[temporal radiation]] from the anomaly. | |||
Helen tells Professor Pritchett that she did not get the promotion, for which he is sorry, and is given some of Dr McCallum's collection to work on deciphering. The Doctor and Liv identify a [[tablet]] in her office as the temporal anomaly and realise that its text is not translated by the [[translation circuit]]. When Helen finds them, she calls security and they leave. | |||
The Doctor tells Liv how worried he is about the tablet and that they will soon be breaking into the museum to steal it. Liv insists on seeing it ''in situ'' and they instead go to [[107 Baker Street]]. | |||
Professor Pritchett receives a phone call from Kennedy, who hurriedly tells him to destroy the collection before dying. He hears a woman breathing before the phone is put down, after which he calls the [[police]]. | |||
Liv talks to the Doctor about how different [[London]] is compared to the [[1940s]] and asks about famous people's professional aliases, making the Doctor realise what the writing on the tablet really is. | |||
At a party, Helen receives a call from Professor Pritchett, who tells her about what he has heard over the phone. She rushes to see him and learns that Kennedy died in his study holding a child's drawing and he shows her the Red Lady in a [[tapestry]], which Helen is barely able to see. She keeps him from destroying it and says that she will lock it away the following day. | |||
The next day, [[Ralph (The Red Lady)|Ralph]] tells Helen that two people are waiting for her in her office. She finds the Doctor and Liv, who tell her that the text is an [[Greece|Ancient Greek]] record and, as a gesture of good faith, use the translation circuit to translate all of the other McCallum pieces. The Doctor uses [[Eighth Doctor's pattern analyser|a pattern analyser]] to translate the tablet. | |||
Liv notices the Red Lady in all of the written pieces, leading Helen to tell her about the recurring image and Kennedy's [[death]]. Liv and Helen go to the collection where they find Professor Pritchett, who has become obsessed with the Red Lady and insists that she is moving closer. They take him to the Doctor and tell him about the Red Lady. The Doctor and Liv look back at the first documents they read that mentioned her and find that they have changed, now saying that she is closer. Helen, however, has not looked at any pieces that nobody else has. | |||
On the way home with Helen, Professor Pritchett runs off upon seeing the Red Lady in a shop window. The Doctor has posed as a policeman and learnt that Kennedy died holding a child's drawing and that he is survived by [[Rachel (The Red Lady)|a cousin]]. At the museum, Helen hears Professor Pritchett being killed as she tries to knock down the locked door to the collection. | |||
The Doctor and Liv meet Dr McCallum's cousin, Rachel, who tells them that he was blind and that the works had never been looked upon since they were made. The Doctor, Liv and Helen find that the Red Lady has disappeared from the tapestry that Professor Pritchett had looked at and that the documents the Doctor and Liv had looked at had her even closer. They realise that the Red Lady had killed [[Francis McCallum's mother|McCallum's mother]] and [[Francis McCallum's father|father]]. | |||
Liv picks up the parchment and, entranced, says that she can see the Red Lady's [[eye]]s. The Doctor looks at his own parchment and, realising that Dr McCallum must have blinded himself, Helen covers their eyes with their [[scarf|scarves]]. Despite this, they still sense her presence. The Doctor determines that the artists had trapped the Red Lady with their art and draws a [[stick figure]] of her whilst Liv writes a [[poem]], saving them. | |||
Helen tells Professor Garland that she cannot explain how Dr McCallum's collection has vanished and is fired. She returns home, where the Doctor and Liv wait for her, having hidden the art away. He uses the pattern analyser to play the tablet, which is a message for the Doctor from [[Galileo Galilei]] in [[1639]], and invites Helen, soon to be arrested for art theft, to join them in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. She accepts, saying that she thinks she might be making a huge mistake. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Liv Chenka]] - [[Nicola Walker]] | * [[Liv Chenka]] - [[Nicola Walker]] | ||
* [[Helen Sinclair]] - [[Hattie Morahan]] | * [[Helen Sinclair]] - [[Hattie Morahan]] | ||
* [[Caleera|The Red Lady]] / [[Rachel (The Red Lady)|Rachel]] - [[Caroline Langrishe]] | |||
* [[Walter Pritchett]] - [[David Yelland]] | * [[Walter Pritchett]] - [[David Yelland]] | ||
* [[Albert Kennedy]] / [[Garland (The Red Lady)|Professor]] - [[John Voce]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[Tom Jones]] | * Professor Pritchett mentions [[John Dickson Carr]]. | ||
* The Doctor | * Liv misquotes "[[discretion]] might be the better part of valour", which the Doctor says is a line from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. | ||
* Musicians such as [[Billy Fury]], [[Tommy Steele]] and [[Tom Jones]] are popular in this period. | |||
* A man speaking to Helen says the [[New Wave]] is becoming less popular, citing ''[[This Sporting Life]]'' as a film he dislikes. He prefers ''[[James Bond|From Russia with Love]]''. | |||
* The Doctor refers to [[Steve Jobs]] as an individual who devised a way of recording things on "[[iPad|a tablet]]". | |||
* The Doctor tells Liv that he was one of [[Robert Peel|Sir Robert]]'s first peelers. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]]. | * This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]]. | ||
* The story won the 2016 Scribe Award for the best tie-in fiction in the category "Audio".<ref>http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/scribe-awards---doctor-who-doom-coalition</ref> | |||
* In the behind the scenes extras, producer [[David Richardson]] cites [[Verity Lambert]] as a source of inspiration for the character of [[Helen Sinclair]], something acknowledged in the setting of the story being [[1963]]. | |||
* The Doctor says that Helen's door reads "Helen Sinclair, language scholar, [[British Museum]]", which she does not deny. However, she works at the [[National Museum]]. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Liv remembers [[Martin Donaldson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]'') | * Liv remembers [[Martin Donaldson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]'') | ||
* The Doctor and Liv | * The Doctor reminds Liv that she has previously visited [[London]] in the [[1920s]] and [[1970s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') | ||
* The Doctor says he has lived in [[1963]] several times before. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)|1963: The Assassination Games]]'') In this particular incarnation he spent a period of time trapped on Earth in the [[20th century]], and would have lived through 1963. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Casualties of War (novel)|Casualties of War]]'', ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]'', ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'', ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') | |||
* The Doctor and Liv return to the Doctor's house at [[107 Baker Street]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]], [[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]], [[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]], [[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') | |||
* Although the Doctor and Liv never discover this, the Red Lady is eventually revealed to be [[Caleera]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'') | |||
* The Doctor and Liv visit the [[National Museum]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:53, 29 January 2024
The Red Lady was the second story of Doom Coalition 1, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by John Dorney and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka and introduced Hattie Morahan as the new companion Helen Sinclair.
New companion Helen Sinclair was a character inspired by Verity Lambert. Also introduced here was the Red Lady whose identity and true nature would not be discovered until Stop the Clock. This would be the last story in which the Eighth Doctor and Liv Chenka travelled alone until Their Finest Hour.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
An anomaly in time brings the Doctor and Liv to London in the 1960s, where they meet a young lady named Helen Sinclair - desperately trying to make a name for herself in the face of sexism and prejudice.
Whilst the Doctor tried to uncover the secrets of a mysterious artefact, a far deadlier mystery awaits Liv and Helen in the collection of a recently deceased antiquarian.
Because that's where they find the Red Lady. Because if you do, you might not like what you see.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Albert Kennedy shows Professor Pritchett the collection left behind by Dr McCallum, comprising a diverse range of antiquities depicting a woman in a red mask. Professor Pritchett believes that the woman looks "wrong" somehow, but that she is entrancing.
The Doctor and Liv arrive in 1963 London, detecting the temporal anomaly in the hopes of locating the Eleven.
Helen Sinclair confronts Professor Garland about him giving a post to an ineffectual colleague, which he explains was due to the temperament of women and that she would soon be starting a family. She slams the door on her way out.
The Doctor uses a beeping device which leads him and Liv to the National Museum, which she almost remembers from her day with Martin Donaldson. The Doctor says that it might be caused by temporal radiation from the anomaly.
Helen tells Professor Pritchett that she did not get the promotion, for which he is sorry, and is given some of Dr McCallum's collection to work on deciphering. The Doctor and Liv identify a tablet in her office as the temporal anomaly and realise that its text is not translated by the translation circuit. When Helen finds them, she calls security and they leave.
The Doctor tells Liv how worried he is about the tablet and that they will soon be breaking into the museum to steal it. Liv insists on seeing it in situ and they instead go to 107 Baker Street.
Professor Pritchett receives a phone call from Kennedy, who hurriedly tells him to destroy the collection before dying. He hears a woman breathing before the phone is put down, after which he calls the police.
Liv talks to the Doctor about how different London is compared to the 1940s and asks about famous people's professional aliases, making the Doctor realise what the writing on the tablet really is.
At a party, Helen receives a call from Professor Pritchett, who tells her about what he has heard over the phone. She rushes to see him and learns that Kennedy died in his study holding a child's drawing and he shows her the Red Lady in a tapestry, which Helen is barely able to see. She keeps him from destroying it and says that she will lock it away the following day.
The next day, Ralph tells Helen that two people are waiting for her in her office. She finds the Doctor and Liv, who tell her that the text is an Ancient Greek record and, as a gesture of good faith, use the translation circuit to translate all of the other McCallum pieces. The Doctor uses a pattern analyser to translate the tablet.
Liv notices the Red Lady in all of the written pieces, leading Helen to tell her about the recurring image and Kennedy's death. Liv and Helen go to the collection where they find Professor Pritchett, who has become obsessed with the Red Lady and insists that she is moving closer. They take him to the Doctor and tell him about the Red Lady. The Doctor and Liv look back at the first documents they read that mentioned her and find that they have changed, now saying that she is closer. Helen, however, has not looked at any pieces that nobody else has.
On the way home with Helen, Professor Pritchett runs off upon seeing the Red Lady in a shop window. The Doctor has posed as a policeman and learnt that Kennedy died holding a child's drawing and that he is survived by a cousin. At the museum, Helen hears Professor Pritchett being killed as she tries to knock down the locked door to the collection.
The Doctor and Liv meet Dr McCallum's cousin, Rachel, who tells them that he was blind and that the works had never been looked upon since they were made. The Doctor, Liv and Helen find that the Red Lady has disappeared from the tapestry that Professor Pritchett had looked at and that the documents the Doctor and Liv had looked at had her even closer. They realise that the Red Lady had killed McCallum's mother and father.
Liv picks up the parchment and, entranced, says that she can see the Red Lady's eyes. The Doctor looks at his own parchment and, realising that Dr McCallum must have blinded himself, Helen covers their eyes with their scarves. Despite this, they still sense her presence. The Doctor determines that the artists had trapped the Red Lady with their art and draws a stick figure of her whilst Liv writes a poem, saving them.
Helen tells Professor Garland that she cannot explain how Dr McCallum's collection has vanished and is fired. She returns home, where the Doctor and Liv wait for her, having hidden the art away. He uses the pattern analyser to play the tablet, which is a message for the Doctor from Galileo Galilei in 1639, and invites Helen, soon to be arrested for art theft, to join them in the TARDIS. She accepts, saying that she thinks she might be making a huge mistake.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
- Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
- The Red Lady / Rachel - Caroline Langrishe
- Walter Pritchett - David Yelland
- Albert Kennedy / Professor - John Voce
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Professor Pritchett mentions John Dickson Carr.
- Liv misquotes "discretion might be the better part of valour", which the Doctor says is a line from Shakespeare.
- Musicians such as Billy Fury, Tommy Steele and Tom Jones are popular in this period.
- A man speaking to Helen says the New Wave is becoming less popular, citing This Sporting Life as a film he dislikes. He prefers From Russia with Love.
- The Doctor refers to Steve Jobs as an individual who devised a way of recording things on "a tablet".
- The Doctor tells Liv that he was one of Sir Robert's first peelers.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story was recorded at The Moat Studios.
- The story won the 2016 Scribe Award for the best tie-in fiction in the category "Audio".[1]
- In the behind the scenes extras, producer David Richardson cites Verity Lambert as a source of inspiration for the character of Helen Sinclair, something acknowledged in the setting of the story being 1963.
- The Doctor says that Helen's door reads "Helen Sinclair, language scholar, British Museum", which she does not deny. However, she works at the National Museum.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Liv remembers Martin Donaldson. (AUDIO: A Life in the Day)
- The Doctor reminds Liv that she has previously visited London in the 1920s and 1970s. (AUDIO: A Life in the Day, Eyes of the Master)
- The Doctor says he has lived in 1963 several times before. (TV: An Unearthly Child, PROSE: Time and Relative; AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games) In this particular incarnation he spent a period of time trapped on Earth in the 20th century, and would have lived through 1963. (PROSE: Casualties of War, The Turing Test, Endgame, Father Time)
- The Doctor and Liv return to the Doctor's house at 107 Baker Street. (AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Fugitives, The White Room, Eyes of the Master)
- Although the Doctor and Liv never discover this, the Red Lady is eventually revealed to be Caleera. (AUDIO: Stop the Clock)
- The Doctor and Liv visit the National Museum. (TV: The Big Bang)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Red Lady page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
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