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|image           = Nevermore.jpg
|image = Nevermore-FORWEB.jpg.png
|range          = Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)
|name = Nevermore
|series in range = Series 4 (8DA)
|series = [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories#The New Eighth Doctor Adventures|The New Eighth Doctor Adventures]]
|series number in range = 4
|number = 4.3
|number in series = 3
|doctor = Eighth Doctor
|series         = ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''
|companions = [[Tamsin Drew]]
|number         = 4.3
|enemy = A shadow entity
|doctor         = Eighth Doctor
|setting = [[Nevermore (planet)|Nevermore]]
|companions     = [[Tamsin Drew|Tamsin]]
|writer = [[Alan Barnes]]
|featuring      = [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|enemy          = [[Raven (Nevermore)|Ravens]]
|publisher = Big Finish Productions
|setting        = [[Nevermore]]
|release date = [[August (releases)|August]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|writer         = Alan Barnes
|format = 1 CD - 2 parts
|director       = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|producer        = [[David Richardson]], [[Barnaby Edwards]]
|music          = [[Jamie Robertson]]
|sound          = [[Thea Cochrane]]
|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|epcount        = 2
|release date    = 12 August 2010
|format         = 1 CD<br/>Download
|production code = BFPDWCDMG027
|production code = BFPDWCDMG027
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-477-1
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-477-1
|prev = Situation Vacant (audio story)
|prev           = Situation Vacant (audio story)
|next = The Book of Kells (audio story)
|next           = The Book of Kells (audio story)
|sample = [[Category:Verbatim]]|sample name="Tamsin Drew's Theme"
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'''Nevermore''' was the third release of the fourth series of ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories#The New Eighth Doctor Adventures|The New Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''.
'''''Nevermore''''' was the third story in the [[Series 4 (8DA)|fourth series]] of the ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Niky Wardley]] as [[Tamsin Drew]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal [[Morella Wendigo]] — a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren’t Morella’s only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws…
A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal [[Morella Wendigo]] — a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren't Morella's only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws...


There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the [[19th century]] horror writer [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface — wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!
There's no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi's macabre obsession with the works of the [[19th century]] horror writer [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet's surface — wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Morella Wendigo]] - [[Fenella Woolgar]]
* [[Morella Wendigo]] - [[Fenella Woolgar]]
* Senior Prosecutor [[Uglosi]] - [[Michael J. Shannon]]
* Senior Prosecutor [[Uglosi]] - [[Michael J. Shannon]]
* Dr. [[Berenice Ward]] - [[Emilia Fox]]  
* Dr. [[Berenice Ward]] - [[Emilia Fox]]
* Pilot / [[Edgar Allan Poe]] - [[Eric Loren]]
* [[Pilot (Nevermore)|Pilot]] / [[Edgar Allan Poe]] - [[Eric Loren]]
* Ravens - [[John Banks]]
* Ravens - [[John Banks]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Astronomical objects ===
=== Astronomical objects ===
* Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in [[Cassiopeia]], which contained [[volcano]]es that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava. It became a playground for the rich and famous including General Verdagast. The general was involved in what the Doctor describes as a "particularly nasty factional war" against one of the rival Cassopeian colonies. His rival, General Morella Wendigo, detonated a biological weapon in Corinth Minor's troposphere. Faced with the outbreak of a previously unknown flesh-eating plague, the Galactic Authority sought the help of the [[Time Lord]]s. The Time Lords passed the planet through a belt of ultraviolet radiation, killing almost the entire population of the planet through the [[Red Death]]. The authorities renamed it "Nevermore" as a reminder of the folly of war. Wendigo was sentenced by a war crimes tribunal to a lifetime of exile to Nevermore so that she could contemplate her crimes.
* Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in [[Cassiopeia]], which contained [[volcano]]es that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava.
 
=== Culture ===
* During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', ''The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'' and ''The Mystery of Marie Rogêt''.
* Protocol Roderick is a reference to Poe's short story ''The Fall of the House of Usher''.
* A part from "A Dream Within a Dream" is also recited by Uglosi.


=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor quotes extensively from ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
* The Doctor quotes extensively from ''[[The Raven]]'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
* The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of [[1849]] in [[Baltimore]] where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober.
* The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of [[1849]] in [[Baltimore]].
* When Uglosi proclaims Poe the greatest writer ever, the Doctor observes that he's more partial to [[Enid Blyton]].


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes.
* The Doctor mentions [[Pol Pot]].
* Tamsin did a module on [[escapology]] in drama school.
* Tamsin did a circus arts module in drama school, which included [[escapology]] and contortionism.
* Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier. In private, he told Uglosi that he was a time traveller and that that General Verdagast would land on Corinth Minor three months later to broker a secret deal with the enemy side. This acquiescence would become infamous as the Corinth Compact. When the two forces came together, they would create an empire which would be a blight on the region. Uglosi released him but could not help wondering if he was telling the truth. When Verdagast travelled to Corinth Minor at the predicted time, he informed Wendigo of the secret deal. With this information, which had been confirmed by her agents on Corinth Minor, she released the biological weapon into the troposphere to ensure that no compact could ever be signed on the planet.
* Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier.
* Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation.
 
=== Locations ===
* Tamsin sarcastically asks if the Doctor has a [[furlong]] of [[Frinton]].


=== Robots ===
=== Popular culture ===
*The robot-like ravens are modelled after the relevant bird because of Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsession with Poe's works. Uglosi later quotes from Poe's ''The Black Cat'' and ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' whereas Berenice Ward quotes from ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''.
* After the black cat appears in the TARDIS console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''[[Animals Do the Funniest Things]]''.


=== TARDIS ===
=== TARDIS ===
* The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[seagull]]s, a laundry, a greenhouse and a [[sauna]].
* The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[gull|seagulls]], a laundry, a greenhouse and a [[sauna]].
* After the black cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''Animals Do the Funniest Things''.
* The Doctor has a colony of [[Fledershrew]]s in the TARDIS.
* The Doctor has a colony of [[Fledershrew]]s in the TARDIS.


=== Time Lords ===
== Notes ==
* The black cat is a messenger from the Time Lords and is far more intelligent than she appears. She tells the Doctor that he must apprehend the renegade Time Lord who told Uglosi of the Corinth Compact twenty years earlier.
* The story has numerous influences from Poe's canon of work. 'Nevermore' is also the word the Raven caws in ''[[The Raven]]'', whilst the robotic ravens derive from the same story; a black cat is the focus of {{wi|The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat}}; the mist of the Red Death is a reference to the titular plague of {{wi|The Masque of the Red Death}}.
* The story was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on [[9 January (releases)|9]] [[7 January (releases)|January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]].
* The Doctor mentions being called to attend Poe, three days before his death in 1849. He died of an unknown illness on October 7th of that year, after being found delirious on a [[Baltimore]] street on October 3rd.
* This story was recorded on [[28 October (production)|28 October]] [[2009 (production)|2009]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* This story was originally released on CD and download on [[12 August (releases)|12 August]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100330173828/http://www.bigfinish.com:80/whatsnew.aspx LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 21-08-2010]</ref>


== Notes ==
* The story has numerous influences from Poe's canon of work. 'Nevermore' is also the word the Raven caws in ''[[wikipedia:The Raven|The Raven]], ''whilst the robotic ravens derive from the same story; a black cat is the focus of ''[[wikipedia:The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat]]; ''the mist of the Red Death is a reference to the titular plague of ''[[wikipedia:The Masque of the Red Death|The Masque of the Red Death]].''
* The story was broadcast on [[wikipedia:BBC Radio 4 Extra|BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on [[9 January (releases)|9]] [[7 January (releases)|January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]].
== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Between this and the previous audio story, ''[[Situation Vacant (audio story)|Situation Vacant]]'', Tamsin forgets how to open the TARDIS doors from the console.
* The Doctor tells Tamsin that [[Gallifreyan cat|cats]] are very popular on [[Gallifrey]] and that it was standard for [[Lord President]]s to have cats until the incident with the [[Mouse|giant mice]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'')
* The Doctor tells Tamsin that [[Gallifreyan cat|cats]] are very popular on [[Gallifrey]] and that it was standard for [[Lord President]]s to have cats until the incident with the [[Mouse|giant mice]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that he was the protégé of the American escapologist [[Harry Houdini|Harry "Handcuff Harry" Houdini]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') His [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] had previously told the [[Iceni]] cook [[Bragnar]] that Houdini kept numerous lock picks on his person. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrath of the Iceni (audio story)|The Wrath of the Iceni]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that he was the protégé of the American escapologist [[Harry Houdini|Harry "Handcuff Harry" Houdini]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') His [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] had previously told the [[Iceni]] cook [[Bragnar]] that Houdini kept numerous lock picks on his person. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrath of the Iceni (audio story)|The Wrath of the Iceni]]'')
* After regaining consciousness, the Doctor refers to the temporal storm in which his future self was caught and his subsequent arrival at the Villa Diodati near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]], where he met his former companion [[Mary Shelley]] for the first time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
* After regaining consciousness, the Doctor refers to the temporal storm in which his future self was caught and his subsequent arrival at the Villa Diodati near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]], where he met his former companion [[Mary Shelley]] for the first time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that he met [[Edgar Allan Poe]] three days prior to his death during his second exile on Earth earlier in his eighth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'')
* According to a document Poe wrote, he had met the [[First Doctor]] two days prior to his encounter with the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] during a supernatural encounter which infected his mind, leading to his mental state in the flashback in this story. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull (short story)|The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull]]'')
* The Doctor tells Uglosi that he believes that there is only one [[renegade Time Lord]] who would manipulate others into wiping out the population of an entire planet and that he is "no longer around." This is a presumably a reference to {{Roberts}}, who met his death when he fell into the [[Eye of Harmony]] shortly after the Doctor's most recent [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') The Eighth Doctor would later encounter a Master resurrected by the Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'')
* The Doctor has allowed the colony of Fledershrews to live in the TARDIS since his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
* The Doctor would later learn the identity of the "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" who was responsible for the destruction of Corinth Minor on his visit to [[Ireland]] in [[1006]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]'')
* The Doctor would later learn the identity of the "{{Garden|n=strange little man}}" who was responsible for the destruction of Corinth Minor on his visit to [[Ireland]] in [[1006]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]'')
 
== Footnotes ==
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== External links ==
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Nevermore was the third story in the fourth series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alan Barnes and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Niky Wardley as Tamsin Drew.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo — a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren't Morella's only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws...

There's no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi's macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet's surface — wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Astronomical objects[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in Cassiopeia, which contained volcanoes that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava.

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor mentions Pol Pot.
  • Tamsin did a circus arts module in drama school, which included escapology and contortionism.
  • Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "strange little man" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier.

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Popular culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The story has numerous influences from Poe's canon of work. 'Nevermore' is also the word the Raven caws in The Raven, whilst the robotic ravens derive from the same story; a black cat is the focus of The Black Cat; the mist of the Red Death is a reference to the titular plague of The Masque of the Red Death.
  • The story was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 9 January 2013.
  • The Doctor mentions being called to attend Poe, three days before his death in 1849. He died of an unknown illness on October 7th of that year, after being found delirious on a Baltimore street on October 3rd.
  • This story was recorded on 28 October 2009 at the Moat Studios.
  • This story was originally released on CD and download on 12 August 2010.[1]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 21-08-2010

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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