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|range            = Main Range
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|number            = 235
|number            = 235
|doctor            = Fifth Doctor
|doctor            = Fifth Doctor
|companions        = [[Adric]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Nyssa]]
|companions        = [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]]
|enemy            = [[Sabaoth]]
|enemy            = [[Sabaoth]]
|setting          = [[Yorkshire]], [[17th century]], [[1738]], [[1804]], [[1981]] and [[21st century]]<br/>[[The Doctor's TARDIS]]
|setting          = [[City (Ghost Walk)|City]], [[17th century]], [[1738]], [[1804]], [[1981]] and [[21st century]]<br/>[[The Doctor's TARDIS]]
|writer            = [[James Goss]]
|writer            = James Goss
|director          = [[Barnaby Edwards (actor)|Barnaby Edwards]]
|director          = [[Barnaby Edwards]]
|producer          = [[David Richardson]]
|producer          = [[David Richardson]]
|music            = [[Benji Clifford]]
|music            = [[Benji Clifford]]
|sound            = [[Daniel Burnett]]
|sound            = [[Daniel Burnett]]
|cover            = [[Simon Holub]]
|cover            = [[Simon Holub]]
|epcount          = 4
|publisher        = Big Finish Productions
|publisher        = Big Finish Productions
|release date      = [[13 February (releases)|13 February]]  [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
|release date      = 13 February 2018
|format            = 2 CDs<br/>Download
|format            = 2 CDs<br/>Download
|production code  = BFPDWCD235
|production code  = BFPDWCD235
|isbn              = 978-1-78178-819-6
|isbn              = ISBN 978-1-78178-819-6 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78178-820-2 (digital)
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|epcount = 4}}'''''Ghost Walk''''' was the two hundred and thirty-fifth story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[James Goss]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Matthew Waterhouse]] as [[Adric]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]] and [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]].
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'''''Ghost Walk''''' was the two hundred and thirty-fifth story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[James Goss]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Matthew Waterhouse]] as [[Adric]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]] and [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
This is a [[city]] of [[ghost]]s and no-one knows them better than [[Leanne]]. Twice a night she leads tourists to visit the most haunted sites - the [[Hanging Yard]], the [[Witch Pool]], the [[Screaming House]], and, of course, the [[Catacombs (Ghost Walk)|Catacombs]].
This is a [[city]] of [[ghost]]s and no-one knows them better than [[Leanne (Ghost Walk)|Leanne]]. Twice a [[night]] she leads [[tourist]]s to visit the most haunted sites - the [[Hanging Yard]], the [[Witch Pool]], the [[Screaming House]], and, of course, the [[Catacombs (Ghost Walk)|Catacombs]].


Leanne’s realised the ghosts of the city are real. Something’s lurking in the Catacombs - an ancient force that has been growing in the darkness for centuries. Sabaoth is returning and they must be stopped before they devour the world. Leanne knows this, because a ghost told her.
Leanne's realised the ghosts of the city are real. Something's lurking in the Catacombs - an ancient force that has been growing in the darkness for centuries. [[Sabaoth]] is returning and they must be stopped before they devour the world. Leanne knows this, because a ghost told her.


A ghost called [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]].
A ghost called [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]].
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
=== Part one ===
[[Leanne]] leads a guided tour of the [[Catacombs]]. Initially successful, things spiral out of control when they hear strange sounds, and other frightening events begin to occur... when suddenly, Leanna hears the voice of the [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] in her head.
Whilst [[Leanne (Ghost Walk)|Leanne]] is giving a [[ghost tour]] at the [[catacombs (Ghost Walk)|catacombs]] beneath [[city (Ghost Walk)|a city]] on [[Earth]], a man runs to an [[altar]] in a forbidden room and declares that the hungry [[Sabaoth]] is coming and needs Leanne. She hears the [[voice]] of [[Fifth Doctor|the Doctor]] in her mind, [[apology|apologising]] for the theatrics and asking if she believes in [[ghost]]s.


The [[TARDIS]] crew land in the[[ 17th century ]]searching to help the senders of a distress call they intercepted. They split up and [[Adric]] and [[Nyssa]] are attacked by something unseen. [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and the Doctor discover a wall with [[blood]] markings on it and a pile of [[Bone|bones]] that shown sign of damage at the deepest [[Molecule|molecular]] level. Adric, having fallen down the stairs in a panic, hears Nyssa call to him that she can't move as the creature seems to be holding on to her and instilling fear in her against her will. Adric tries to save her but also becomes stuck when the creature holds on to him. Tegan and the Doctor find the two frozen on the floor shivering, and prop them up, and they explain that the alien subdued them to lead the Doctor to it. They hear the creature's roar and run back to the TARDIS. Once inside, they realize the TARDIS is dead, and was trying to leave which is why it was making groaning noises before when they first arrived. The Doctor explains he can get it working again but they need to go back outside. They get a [[displacement generator]] working and he transports Nyssa, Tegan and Adric elsewhere. Just as he prepares to take on the creature, it is revealed Tegan didn't listen and left the circle for the generator at the last second to stay and help the Doctor, suspecting he didn't actually have a plan. He admits she's right. Leanna asks the Doctor if this is how he got stuck here, which he admits it is, but when she asks how he got out he reveals he never did and that he [[Death|died]] here...
The Doctor answers a [[distress call]] and pilots [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to the catacombs in the [[17th century]] instead of aiming for [[Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]]. The travellers split up and [[Nyssa]] senses something which attacks [[Adric]] and pushes into her mind to make her feel afraid and hungry. After leaving a room with markings written in [[chicken]] [[blood]] and [[bone]]s drained of [[energy]], the Doctor and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] find Adric and Nyssa shivering on the floor and get them back to the TARDIS, but the ship is dead and the Doctor instead uses an [[emergency temporal shift]] to send his [[companion]]s to safety. Tegan, however, chooses to stay and help.
 
Leanne now understands how the Doctor ended up being stuck in the catacombs and that all of the talk of hauntings over the [[century|centuries]] have indeed been real. She does not know how he got out, however, and he answers that he did not. He says that he [[death|died]] in the catacombs.


=== Part two ===
=== Part two ===
Nyssa lands in a village and the townsfolk are convinced she's a [[witch]] and attempt to burn her, however, she is saved by [[Matthew Doyle]] the Reverend who takes her on horseback back to the vicarage. The Doctor and Tegan theorise how the creature managed to feed on the TARDIS, and the Doctor tries to help Tegan regain composure after she becomes tired, where the Doctor realizes the creature is feeding on her. He gets her to safety.
Having appeared in [[1738]], Nyssa is rescued from being burnt as a [[witch]] by [[Matthew Doyle]] and taken to his [[vicarage]] where she tells him about [[time travel]] and learns that the catacombs are currently owned by the reclusive [[Brotherhood of Sabaoth]]. Matthew visits them to find her friends and is kept waiting in the cold for hours, after which he kisses Nyssa and is rejected when he offers her a quiet life with him. [[Stubbs (Ghost Walk)|Mrs Stubbs]] spreads the rumour that Matthew has been bewitched by Nyssa and, heartbroken and kept from his [[church]], he stops defending her and she is to be drowned, watched by the Brotherhood.


Adric, having landed in the same village at a different point in time, is put on trial for stealing some [[bread]] but this is interrupted when he spots someone wearing a [[cloak]], revealed to be a member of the [[Brotherhood of Sabaoth]]. Matthew and Nyssa have a chat where she also learns about the Brotherhood of Sabaot and she learns she has been moved forward in [[time]] but not [[space]] and they plan to have Matthew go and visit their temple to see if there's anything they can learn. Tegan and the Doctor discuss about what they will do now and how they will escape. They learn that the creature's name is [[Sabaoth]]. Matthew returns having been unsuccessful in talking with the brotherhood, and being [[Egg |egged]] by children. The more time she and Matthew spend together, more rumours, spread by [[Mrs. Stubbs]], the Reverend's housekeeper at the vicarage, fly around the village that the Reverend has been bewitched by her. Matthew eventually reveals he has fallen in [[love]] with Nyssa but she turns down his advances due to the situation. Adric finds some people, having fled the trial, and asks them to tell the Doctor he's here, however, they are confused as they know no one of that name. Just then they are interrupted by cloaked men of the brotherhood and Adric tries talking to the cloaked men on behalf of the frightened villagers, while the events are recorded by a "[[journalist]]" on the scene while Adric is taken to his execution, his fate decided.
The Doctor is without a plan and realises from Tegan's lethargy that she is being fed on by the alien. To keep her awake, he makes her walk with him around the catacombs.


Nyssa and Reverend Matthew arrive at the [[church]] where he is to give a [[sermon]], however, the villagers block him from entering until he recants and rids himself of Nyssa. Matthew attempts to defend her and her actions but the villagers are unconvinced and attempt to burn her. Matthew, in a change of heart, sides with the villagers (having had his heart broken by Nyssa) and they attempt to drown her in a river as the Brotherhood of Sabaoth encroach on her position. Meanwhile, Adric is placed in the [[gallows]] to be hanged, and the floor beneath him is dropped...
Adric confesses in [[court]] to stealing a [[loaf]] of [[bread]] and is imprisoned pending [[execution]]. The cloaked Brotherhood attend his execution, drawn by the [[temporal energy]] around him and intending to feed it to Sabaoth, and he ensures that his name is mentioned in the [[newspaper]]. A [[noose]] is placed around Adric's neck and, despite his request for a few minutes more in the hopes that the Doctor might save him at the last minute, the floor beneath him drops as the crowd cheers.


=== Part three ===
=== Part three ===
Leanne in the present explains that a boy named Derrick was hung from the gallows but mysteriously disappeared during the hanging and takes out a newspaper article and picture to show it, which the Doctor, in Leanne's head, tries to get her to give him a good look. They get into an argument and she tries to ignore him. He tries to convince her to explore the catacombs she gave a tour at earlier but instead continues her tour to show the "The Witch of the Lake". Meanwhile the Doctor and Tegan, in the past, continue to try and figure out what to do. Tegan, realizing a pick-axe would be helpful for a plan she has to tunnel out, goes looking for one inside the TARDIS but Sabaoth, projecting itself through the consumed TARDIS conscious, traps her inside the TARDIS and the Doctor tries to get inside but gets locked out. Tegan and the creature talk and it flings her mind forward in time as it drains her energy.
Leanne goes to the Doctor's [[tomb]] in the catacombs and starts breaking into it using a [[fire extinguisher]], but the Doctor stops her so as to prevent the question of whether he is alive or dead from being answered. She runs when the Brotherhood appear and the Doctor informs her that they are [[wraith]]s, come to use her as a psychic anchor for Sabaoth due to her having worn a groove in [[reality]] with her tours of places connected to him.


Doctor managed to get inside the TARDIS and finds Tegan collapsed on the floor and he finally confronts Sabaoth. In the present, he guides Leanne through the catacombs where they find his tomb, where his body is buried. However, he stops Leanne from breaking it open, explaining that currently he's both dead and alive, like a [[Schrödinger's cat|Schrodinger's ghost]], as they neither know whether he is actually dead or alive (he's supposedly dead, but she can still hear his voice so he might be alive and neither believes in ghosts) and that observing the body of him actually being dead will create a [[fixed point in time]], ensuring his death. The Doctor hopes to find a way to avoid this but Leanne is still considering breaking in if it means she will be rid of the voice in her head.
Tegan goes looking for a [[pickaxe]] in a TARDIS storeroom and is locked inside by the alien, who is able to speak using the ship and tells her that he wants to be reborn and devour the world. He sends her spirit ahead in time to the [[1980s]] using her own energy and the [[telepathic circuits]] to serve as his anchor and she tries to warn people, but returns to her body unaware of how successful she was before apparently dying in the Doctor's arms. He puts her body into a [[stasis chamber]] and fights to stay awake.


Tegan slowly reawakens and explains to the Doctor she went to the future and tried to warn them but is not sure it worked. The last of her energy drains away and the two share a heart-felt moment before she passes on. The Doctor explains in the present to Leanne that he realizes now he's here to save her and they hear a voice calling from around them. The Brotherhood of Sabaoth surrounds them and encroaches on them, however, he tries to calm her down explaining that they're not real in the ordinary sense and are more like smoke and mirrors/illusions projected by Sabaoth and Leanne makes a run for it.
[[Katya (Ghost Walk)|Katya]] and [[Martin (Ghost Walk)|Martin]] play with a [[ouija board]] and Katya becomes [[possession|possessed]], leading Martin to seek out [[Angelo (Ghost Walk)|Father Angelo]] to [[exorcism|exorcise]] her. Whilst the Brotherhood stand outside the building, Father Angelo performs the ritual and she gives a warning about Sabaoth, saying that her name is Tegan Jovanka.
 
Some time ago, a boy and his girlfriend Katya play a game with a [[Ouija board]] and Katya becomes possessed, warning them that "Sabaoth is coming".
 
In the past the Doctor berates Sabaoth for killing Tegan and prepares to suffer his fate. Sabaoth continues to taunt the Doctor and slowly drain his energy while he continues walking around and staying active to not succumb to sleep and have the rest of his energy swiped by Sabaoth. The two continue to talk as the Doctor walks through the dead TARDIS and Sabaoth explains he plans to keep feeding on everything else by bringing himself into the universe from his spectral form.
 
In the present Leanne continues to run from the illusory cloaked men and the Doctor explains that she has traversed so much of the sites and crossed the many psychic barriers that Sabaoth is using her as an anchor. Meanwhile Katya is brought to an expert exorcist by her boyfriend and the exorcist lulls her into a trance where she attempts to warn them that they must not let Sabaoth free. She cries that they must find the Doctor while the expert attempts to perform an exorcism, when suddenly the voice inhabiting Katya cries that they need to listen to her and that they don't understand as her name is Tegan Jovanka...


=== Part four ===
=== Part four ===
Leanne awakens the next morning to find that she has managed to escape the Brotherhood but the Doctor explains that she was supposed to and explains that Sabaoth planted a trigger in her mind and that going back into the catacombs will be catastrophic, however, she berates him, explaining she needs to pay her rent even if the world will end because of it (as he explained) and will be going back again to give a tour tonight. In the past, the Doctor builds a wall around himself and the dead TARDIS as he dies, explaining to Sabaoth that he cannot allow people to get their hands on the body of a dead [[Timelord]]. Leanne has [[lunch]] in a [[cafe]] and when she refuses to follow the Doctor's advice he begins to cause things in the cafe to shatter, break or rumble. Overwhelmed, Leanne tries to shut him down and accidentally manifests telekinetic powers, blowing out the city's [[electricity]] supply but at the very least she can no longer hear the voice of the Doctor in her head.
The Doctor temporarily disappears from Leanne's mind because of her [[fear]] overloading her [[telepathy|telepathic]] channels and tells her the next day that Sabaoth has put a trigger in her mind, meaning that she will be in danger if she returns to the catacombs. He tries to make Leanne help him by causing [[poltergeist]] activity, but she blocks him out and psychically blows up a [[café]]. At work, she is approached by the Brotherhood and takes them to the Temple of Sabaoth in the catacombs, accepting that Sabaoth will return and she will die.


Later, Leanne gives a tour of the catacombs but begins hearing whispers and voices that she cannot block out. She explains that in the residence built on top of them, two students playing with a [[Ouija board]] in one apartment lead them to rediscover the catacombs running underneath the entire street (Katya and her boyfriend). She then leads them to the Temple of Sabaoth, and her patrons are revealed to be the Brotherhood of Sabaoth. As she prepares for her fate, the Doctor reveals himself just as Sabaoth appears.
In the catacombs, the dying Doctor builds a wall to prevent himself and the TARDIS from being discovered and deduces from Tegan's transportation that his ship remains in the catacombs in the future. He enters a [[healing coma]] and interfaces with the TARDIS's telepathic circuits to project himself into Leanne's mind, but she sends him back in the café and he uses the recharged TARDIS to collect Adric, Nyssa and Tegan and join Leanne in the catacombs, disguised as members of the Brotherhood. Thanks to a telepathic trigger that the Doctor placed in Leanne's mind, she is able to use his power to prevent his return.


The Doctor reveals he escaped death by going into a healing coma (an ability of Timelords) after he had sealed himself inside and projected himself into the head of the person that Sabaoth was using to be bring himself back into the world, Leanne. The Doctor and Leanne face Sabaoth together.
Leanne realises that the Doctor arranged Adric and Nyssa's mysterious disappearances to create two of the stops on her ghost tour and learns that Tegan was placed in a stasis chamber before death to keep Sabaoth from feeding on her, the Doctor waking her up some time after rescuing his other two companions. With the TARDIS no longer projecting, the [[city]] will no longer be home to ghostly goings-on; Leanne does not mind, however, as she has never really believed in ghosts.
 
The Doctor awakens to discover himself in a fully operational and energized TARDIS which he used to go back and save Nyssa from being drowned and Adric from being hanged, as it turns out Leanne's telekinetic outburst was channeling Sabaoth's power and managed to send him back in time and restore some power to the TARDIS, allowing him to go save the others. In the present the Doctor, Nyssa, Adric and Tegan encourage Leanne to fight Sabaoth and she manages to suppress his return. They manage to vanquish him and the Doctor explains when he projected his mind into Leanne's he implanted a "virus" in it that she passed on to Sabaoth and coupled with having access to his powers as the two were linked, Sabaoth had set itself up for destruction.
 
The Doctor  further explains that he ensured Nyssa and Adric were sent to points that would eventually lead to them becoming spots on her ghost walk and that he lied to Sabaoth about Tegan and put her into a [[cryo-pod]] so she could heal and it wouldn't feed on her, then woke her up "almost" immediately  after. They then dressed up in cloaks to blend in with the brotherhood that followed Leanne through her tour and that was when they appeared to help her defeat Sabaoth. He then explains that things should be back to normal from now with no more [[supernatural]] occurrences, which Leanne is thankful for, saying "she never really believed in ghosts".


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Adric]] - [[Matthew Waterhouse]]
* [[Adric]] - [[Matthew Waterhouse]]
* [[Nyssa]] - [[Sarah Sutton]]
* [[Nyssa]] - [[Sarah Sutton]]
* [[Tegan]] - [[Janet Fielding]]
* [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] - [[Janet Fielding]]
* [[Leanne]] - [[Fenella Woolgar]]
* [[Leanne (Ghost Walk)|Leanne]] - [[Fenella Woolgar]]
* [[Matthew Doyle|Matthew]] - [[Sacha Dhawan]]
* [[Matthew Doyle|Matthew]] - [[Sacha Dhawan]]
* [[Sabaoth]] - [[Stephen Greif]]
* [[Sabaoth]] - [[Stephen Greif]]
* [[Stubbs (Ghost Walk)|Mrs Stubbs]] - [[Carolyn Seymour]]
* [[Stubbs (Ghost Walk)|Mrs Stubbs]] - [[Carolyn Seymour]]
* [[Giles (Ghost Walk)|Giles]] - [[Philip Childs]]
* [[Giles (Ghost Walk)|Giles]] - [[Philip Childs]]
* [[Louie]] - [[John Banks]]
* [[Louie (Ghost Walk)|Louie]] - [[John Banks]]
* [[Nancy (Ghost Walk)|Nancy]] - [[Rebecca Tromans]]
* [[Nancy (Ghost Walk)|Nancy]] - [[Rebecca Tromans]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The character Sabaoth derives its name from a Latinised spelling of one of the Hebrew names of God found in the Bible, "Tzeva'ot".
* The character Sabaoth derives its name from a Latinised spelling of one of the Hebrew names of God found in the Bible, "Tzeva'ot".
* Tegan asks the Doctor if he has ever seen a [[Peter Cushing]] film. The Doctor replies "Well actually..." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* Tegan asks the Doctor if he has ever seen a [[Peter Cushing]] film. The Doctor replies "Well actually..." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor explains that the TARDIS is good at traveling, but the more exact point in [[time]] they can try to reach, the more unlikely the TARDIS is to find it. Nyssa comments "that's silly" but Adric retorts that it's not at a [[Quantum physics|quantum]] level. He is, of course, referring to the famous [[Heisenberg's uncertainty principle]], which says that the more certain one is of a particle's momentum, the less certain one is of its position or vice-versa.
* The Doctor explains that the TARDIS is good at travelling, but the more exact point in [[time]] they can try to reach, the more unlikely the TARDIS is to find it. Nyssa comments "that's silly" but Adric retorts that it's not at a [[Quantum physics|quantum]] level. He is, of course, referring to the famous [[Heisenberg's uncertainty principle]], which says that the more certain one is of a particle's momentum, the less certain one is of its position or vice-versa.
* The Doctor claims he's always thought of the TARDIS as a "[[Pronoun|she]]", not an "[[Pronoun|it]]".
* The Doctor claims he's always thought of the TARDIS as a "[[Pronoun|she]]", not an "[[Pronoun|it]]".
* Adric quotes some sentences written on the TARDIS such as on the front [[door]]: "[[Police officer|officers]] and [[Police car|cars]] respond to urgent [[Telephone|calls]]".
* Adric quotes some sentences written on the TARDIS such as on the front [[door]]: "[[Police officer|officers]] and [[Police car|cars]] respond to urgent [[Telephone|calls]]".
* [[Traken]] [[Staircase|staircases]] were very straight and regular.
* [[Traken]] [[staircase]]s were very straight and regular.
* The Doctor explains that something is attacking the [[Valence level|valency]] of the [[Molecular bond|bonds]] in the [[Molecular bond|molecules]].
* The Doctor explains that something is attacking the [[Valence level|valency]] of the [[Molecular bond|bonds]] in the [[Molecular bond|molecules]].
* On [[Traken]], [[fear]] is felt but [[Trakenite|Trakenites]] try not to show it.
* On [[Traken]], [[fear]] is felt but [[Trakenite]]s try not to show it.
* The Doctor compares an [[interface]] between [[Mental energy|mental]] and [[Energy|atomic]] energy to the energy used to boil a [[kettle]] translating into a nice cup of [[tea]].
* The Doctor compares an [[interface]] between [[Mental energy|mental]] and [[Energy|atomic]] energy to the energy used to boil a [[kettle]] translating into a nice cup of [[tea]].
* The Doctor claims he "[[Gabb|gabbles]]" when he's nervous.
* The Doctor claims he "[[gabb]]les" when he's nervous.
* The [[Telepathic circuits|TARDIS telepathic circuits]] are mentioned and featured heavily in the story.
* The [[Telepathic circuits|TARDIS telepathic circuits]] are mentioned and featured heavily in the story.
* Tegan helps Adric stand using her "[[drunk]] passenger" training from her [[air stewardess]] training.
* Tegan helps Adric stand using her "[[drunk]] passenger" training from her [[air stewardess]] training.
* The [[HADS]] doesn't always activate because it is selective.
* The [[HADS]] doesn't always activate because it is selective.
* Tegan mentions [[Captain Nemo]] and the [[Nautilus|''Nautilus'']], both featured in the book [[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea|''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'']].
* Tegan mentions [[Captain Nemo]] and the ''[[Nautilus]]'', both featured in the book ''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]''.
* Adric mentions Tegan is from [[Australia]].
* Adric mentions Tegan is from [[Australia]].
* The [[author]] [[Dan Brown]] is mentioned.
* The [[author]] [[Dan Brown]] is mentioned.
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* Tegan asks if the Doctor is "something like [[8000]] years old" to which the Doctor replies "more-or-less".
* Tegan asks if the Doctor is "something like [[8000]] years old" to which the Doctor replies "more-or-less".
* [[Artron energy]] and [[psychic spores]] are mentioned.
* [[Artron energy]] and [[psychic spores]] are mentioned.
* [[Winston Churchill]] liked [[Brick|bricklaying]].
* [[Winston Churchill]] liked [[brick]]laying.
* When Louie tells Leanne that [[Hospital|hospitals]] are using [[Candle|candlelight]] for light after she blows out the city's power supply, she says it's a very "[[Florence Nightingale]] thing to do".
* When Louie tells Leanne that [[hospital]]s are using [[candle]]light for light after she blows out the city's power supply, she says it's a very "[[Florence Nightingale]] thing to do".
* The movie [[Poltergeist]] is mentioned.
* The movie [[Poltergeist]] is mentioned.
* The Doctor is impressed with himself in that he managed to save Nyssa using [[Materialisation|underwater materialisation]].
* The Doctor is impressed with himself in that he managed to save Nyssa using [[Materialisation|underwater materialisation]].
* [[Email|Emailing]] was banned on Traken for being too distracting.
* [[Email]]ing was banned on Traken for being too distracting.
* Tegan says [[coffee]] is expensive in the future.
* Tegan says [[coffee]] is expensive in the future.
* [[Humphrey Moore]] dies of [[ague]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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* This story was recorded on [[17 July (production)|17]] and [[19 July (production)|19 July]] [[2017 (production)|2017]] at [[The Moat Studios]], London.
* This story was recorded on [[17 July (production)|17]] and [[19 July (production)|19 July]] [[2017 (production)|2017]] at [[The Moat Studios]], London.
* Adric and Nyssa do not appear in the third episode.
* Adric and Nyssa do not appear in the third episode.
* Although the concept of the [[Heisenberg's uncertainty principle]] is used here, a proper distinction needs to be made between its depiction in the real world and its depiction in the story. In the real world, the principle typically refers to non-relativistic [[Quantum physics|Quantum Mechanics]], in which time is usually treated as merely a type of parameter rather than an observable. It also has a somewhat analogous uncertainty relation, usually dubbed the "Time-energy uncertainty relation".<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Examples</ref><ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/</ref> Note that this uncertainty relation is different to the one Heisenberg formulated, although they are related. This is different yet again in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. In the context of the story, it is only used as an analogy to explain why the TARDIS over-shoots its destinations a lot. It should not be taken literally.  
* Although the concept of the [[Heisenberg's uncertainty principle]] is used here, a proper distinction needs to be made between its depiction in the real world and its depiction in the story. In the real world, the principle typically refers to non-relativistic [[Quantum physics|Quantum Mechanics]], in which time is usually treated as merely a type of parameter rather than an observable. It also has a somewhat analogous uncertainty relation, usually dubbed the "Time-energy uncertainty relation".<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Examples</ref><ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/</ref> Note that this uncertainty relation is different to the one Heisenberg formulated, although they are related. This is different yet again in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. In the context of the story, it is only used as an analogy to explain why the TARDIS over-shoots its destinations a lot. It should not be taken literally.
* The Doctor explains that certain events in time can become [[fixed points in time]] if they are observed, however, if they are not observed they can potentially be changed. The Doctor wasn't sure whether he was dead or alive while inside Leanne's head and so claimed that they couldn't see his body to check whether he was dead or alive, lest he really be dead and they create a fixed point in time. He refers to the situation as a "Schrodinger's ghost", a reference to the famous Quantum Mechanics thought experiment [[Schrödinger's cat|Schrodinger's cat]].
* The Doctor explains that certain events in time can become [[fixed points in time]] if they are observed, however, if they are not observed they can potentially be changed. The Doctor wasn't sure whether he was dead or alive while inside Leanne's head and so claimed that they couldn't see his body to check whether he was dead or alive, lest he really be dead and they create a fixed point in time. He refers to the situation as a "Schrodinger's ghost", a reference to the famous Quantum Mechanics thought experiment [[Schrödinger's cat|Schrodinger's cat]].
* Tegan mentioning a [[Peter Cushing]] film is actually a meta-reference as Peter Cushing himself played a version of [[The Doctor|Doctor Who]] in the films [[NOTVALID]]: [[Dr. Who and the Daleks|''Dr. Who and the Daleks'']]'' ''and [[NOTVALID]]:'' [[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]''
* Tegan mentioning a [[Peter Cushing]] film is actually a metafictional reference to the films {{cs|Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)}} and {{cs|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)}}, where Cushing portrayed the mysterious [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Dr. Who]].
* The Doctor asks rhetorically that if Leanne does "ghost walks" for a living, why would she not want to mention she has an actual ghost in her head? "Ghost Walk" is, of course, the title of the story.
* The Doctor asks rhetorically that if Leanne does "ghost walks" for a living, why would she not want to mention she has an actual ghost in her head? "Ghost Walk" is, of course, the title of the story.
* [[Sacha Dhawan]], who voices the characters Reverend Matthew Doyles and Katya's boyfriend, would later go on to play the [[The Master|Master]] in [[2020]] for [[Series 12]] opposite [[Jodie Whittaker]] as the [[thirteenth Doctor]]. Interestingly, this audio contains more than one actor to have appeared in some capacity on the show (besides the main cast) as [[Fenella Woolgar]] voices the central character Leanne and had previously played [[Agatha Christie]] in [[TV]]: [[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|''The Unicorn and the Wasp'']].
* [[Sacha Dhawan]], who voices the characters Reverend Matthew Doyles and Katya's boyfriend, would later go on to play the [[The Master|Master]] in [[2020]] for [[Series 12]] opposite [[Jodie Whittaker]] as the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. Interestingly, this audio contains more than one actor to have appeared in some capacity on the show (besides the main cast) as [[Fenella Woolgar]] voices the central character Leanne and had previously played [[Agatha Christie]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]''. In fact three people from Ghost Walk would later be in the same TV episode The Power of the Doctor that of Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sacha Dhawan. With Dhawan playing the Master, only Davison and FIelding plays the same characters that they had played in Ghost Walk.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Nyssa tells Matthew about the death of her father [[Tremas]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and an encounter with a "[[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|giant frog]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')
* Nyssa tells Matthew about the death of her father [[Tremas]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and an encounter with a "[[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|giant frog]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')
* The Doctor refers to the TARDIS as a "[[Pronoun|she]]". The TARDIS would later inhabit the body of a female named [[Idris]]. He also mentions that it is a living [[entity]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The Doctor refers to the TARDIS as a "[[Pronoun|she]]". The TARDIS would later inhabit the body of a female named [[Idris]]. He also mentions that it is a living [[entity]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The Doctor mentions the [[HADS]]. ([[TV]]: [[The Krotons (TV story)|''The Krotons'']], [[Cold War|''Cold War'']]'' et al.'')
* The Doctor mentions the [[HADS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]'', ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'' ''et al.'')
* When preparing for the worst, the Doctor offers some comfort at the sudden change by saying "Deep breath!". This exclamation was used as the title for the first episode of the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s era. ([[TV]]: [[Deep Breath (TV story)|''Deep Breath'']])
* When preparing for the worst, the Doctor offers some comfort at the sudden change by saying "Deep breath!". This exclamation was used as the title for the first episode of the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s era. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
* Tegan once again exclaims, "[[Rabbits!]]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'', ''et al.'')
* Tegan once again exclaims, "[[Rabbits!]]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'', ''et al.'')
* Tegan is still trying to get to [[Heathrow Airport]] ([[TV]]: [[Logopolis (TV story)|''Logopolis'']], ''et al''.)
* Tegan is still trying to get to [[Heathrow Airport]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''et al''.)
* Nyssa falls in love again when she and the Doctor visit [[Stockbridge]] in the [[21st century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: [[Circular Time (audio anthology)|''Circular Time'']]: [[Autumn (audio story)|''Autumn'']])
* Nyssa falls in love again when she and the Doctor visit [[Stockbridge]] in the [[21st century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Circular Time (audio anthology)|Circular Time]]'': ''[[Autumn (audio story)|Autumn]]'')
* Nyssa is put on trial for being a [[witch]] and the villagers attempt to dunk her by putting her in a [[ducking stool]]. A similar trial is performed on the [[thirteenth Doctor]] when she is also accused of being a witch. ([[TV]]: [[The Witchfinders (TV story)|''The Witchfinders'']])
* Nyssa is put on trial for being a [[witch]] and the villagers attempt to dunk her by putting her in a [[ducking stool]]. A similar trial is performed on the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] when she is also accused of being a witch. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witchfinders (TV story)|The Witchfinders]]'')
* After Tegan's [[energy]] is drained and she dies, the Doctor puts her body in [[stasis]] and says "[[Brave heart]] Tegan". ([[TV]]: [[Earthshock (TV story)|''Earthshock'']] ''et al.'')
* After Tegan's [[energy]] is drained and she dies, the Doctor puts her body in [[stasis]] and says "[[Brave heart]] Tegan". ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'' ''et al.'')
* The Doctor creates a tomb for himself so that his body will not be found, as the body of a [[Timelord]] can be turned into a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands. The [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh Doctor's]] body had to be burned after he was killed on [[Lake Silencio]], as even a single Timelord [[Cell (biology)|cell]] could be dangerous in the wrong hands. The [[Tenth Doctor]] burned the [[The Master|Master]]'s body after he refused to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] from a [[bullet]] [[wound]] in order to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|The Last of the Time Lords]],'' [[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|''The Impossible Astronaut'']])
* The Doctor creates a tomb for himself so that his body will not be found, as the body of a [[Timelord]] can be turned into a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands. The [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s body had to be burned after he was killed on [[Lake Silencio]], as even a single Timelord [[Cell (biology)|cell]] could be dangerous in the wrong hands. The [[Tenth Doctor]] burned [[the Master]]'s body after he refused to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] from a [[bullet]] [[wound]] in order to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|The Last of the Time Lords]],'' ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')


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Ghost Walk was the two hundred and thirty-fifth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by James Goss and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.

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

This is a city of ghosts and no-one knows them better than Leanne. Twice a night she leads tourists to visit the most haunted sites - the Hanging Yard, the Witch Pool, the Screaming House, and, of course, the Catacombs.

Leanne's realised the ghosts of the city are real. Something's lurking in the Catacombs - an ancient force that has been growing in the darkness for centuries. Sabaoth is returning and they must be stopped before they devour the world. Leanne knows this, because a ghost told her.

A ghost called The Doctor.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

Whilst Leanne is giving a ghost tour at the catacombs beneath a city on Earth, a man runs to an altar in a forbidden room and declares that the hungry Sabaoth is coming and needs Leanne. She hears the voice of the Doctor in her mind, apologising for the theatrics and asking if she believes in ghosts.

The Doctor answers a distress call and pilots the TARDIS to the catacombs in the 17th century instead of aiming for Heathrow. The travellers split up and Nyssa senses something which attacks Adric and pushes into her mind to make her feel afraid and hungry. After leaving a room with markings written in chicken blood and bones drained of energy, the Doctor and Tegan find Adric and Nyssa shivering on the floor and get them back to the TARDIS, but the ship is dead and the Doctor instead uses an emergency temporal shift to send his companions to safety. Tegan, however, chooses to stay and help.

Leanne now understands how the Doctor ended up being stuck in the catacombs and that all of the talk of hauntings over the centuries have indeed been real. She does not know how he got out, however, and he answers that he did not. He says that he died in the catacombs.

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

Having appeared in 1738, Nyssa is rescued from being burnt as a witch by Matthew Doyle and taken to his vicarage where she tells him about time travel and learns that the catacombs are currently owned by the reclusive Brotherhood of Sabaoth. Matthew visits them to find her friends and is kept waiting in the cold for hours, after which he kisses Nyssa and is rejected when he offers her a quiet life with him. Mrs Stubbs spreads the rumour that Matthew has been bewitched by Nyssa and, heartbroken and kept from his church, he stops defending her and she is to be drowned, watched by the Brotherhood.

The Doctor is without a plan and realises from Tegan's lethargy that she is being fed on by the alien. To keep her awake, he makes her walk with him around the catacombs.

Adric confesses in court to stealing a loaf of bread and is imprisoned pending execution. The cloaked Brotherhood attend his execution, drawn by the temporal energy around him and intending to feed it to Sabaoth, and he ensures that his name is mentioned in the newspaper. A noose is placed around Adric's neck and, despite his request for a few minutes more in the hopes that the Doctor might save him at the last minute, the floor beneath him drops as the crowd cheers.

Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]

Leanne goes to the Doctor's tomb in the catacombs and starts breaking into it using a fire extinguisher, but the Doctor stops her so as to prevent the question of whether he is alive or dead from being answered. She runs when the Brotherhood appear and the Doctor informs her that they are wraiths, come to use her as a psychic anchor for Sabaoth due to her having worn a groove in reality with her tours of places connected to him.

Tegan goes looking for a pickaxe in a TARDIS storeroom and is locked inside by the alien, who is able to speak using the ship and tells her that he wants to be reborn and devour the world. He sends her spirit ahead in time to the 1980s using her own energy and the telepathic circuits to serve as his anchor and she tries to warn people, but returns to her body unaware of how successful she was before apparently dying in the Doctor's arms. He puts her body into a stasis chamber and fights to stay awake.

Katya and Martin play with a ouija board and Katya becomes possessed, leading Martin to seek out Father Angelo to exorcise her. Whilst the Brotherhood stand outside the building, Father Angelo performs the ritual and she gives a warning about Sabaoth, saying that her name is Tegan Jovanka.

Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor temporarily disappears from Leanne's mind because of her fear overloading her telepathic channels and tells her the next day that Sabaoth has put a trigger in her mind, meaning that she will be in danger if she returns to the catacombs. He tries to make Leanne help him by causing poltergeist activity, but she blocks him out and psychically blows up a café. At work, she is approached by the Brotherhood and takes them to the Temple of Sabaoth in the catacombs, accepting that Sabaoth will return and she will die.

In the catacombs, the dying Doctor builds a wall to prevent himself and the TARDIS from being discovered and deduces from Tegan's transportation that his ship remains in the catacombs in the future. He enters a healing coma and interfaces with the TARDIS's telepathic circuits to project himself into Leanne's mind, but she sends him back in the café and he uses the recharged TARDIS to collect Adric, Nyssa and Tegan and join Leanne in the catacombs, disguised as members of the Brotherhood. Thanks to a telepathic trigger that the Doctor placed in Leanne's mind, she is able to use his power to prevent his return.

Leanne realises that the Doctor arranged Adric and Nyssa's mysterious disappearances to create two of the stops on her ghost tour and learns that Tegan was placed in a stasis chamber before death to keep Sabaoth from feeding on her, the Doctor waking her up some time after rescuing his other two companions. With the TARDIS no longer projecting, the city will no longer be home to ghostly goings-on; Leanne does not mind, however, as she has never really believed in ghosts.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

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  • This story was recorded on 17 and 19 July 2017 at The Moat Studios, London.
  • Adric and Nyssa do not appear in the third episode.
  • Although the concept of the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is used here, a proper distinction needs to be made between its depiction in the real world and its depiction in the story. In the real world, the principle typically refers to non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics, in which time is usually treated as merely a type of parameter rather than an observable. It also has a somewhat analogous uncertainty relation, usually dubbed the "Time-energy uncertainty relation".[1][2] Note that this uncertainty relation is different to the one Heisenberg formulated, although they are related. This is different yet again in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. In the context of the story, it is only used as an analogy to explain why the TARDIS over-shoots its destinations a lot. It should not be taken literally.
  • The Doctor explains that certain events in time can become fixed points in time if they are observed, however, if they are not observed they can potentially be changed. The Doctor wasn't sure whether he was dead or alive while inside Leanne's head and so claimed that they couldn't see his body to check whether he was dead or alive, lest he really be dead and they create a fixed point in time. He refers to the situation as a "Schrodinger's ghost", a reference to the famous Quantum Mechanics thought experiment Schrodinger's cat.
  • Tegan mentioning a Peter Cushing film is actually a metafictional reference to the films Dr. Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)"] and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [+]Loading...["Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)"], where Cushing portrayed the mysterious Dr. Who.
  • The Doctor asks rhetorically that if Leanne does "ghost walks" for a living, why would she not want to mention she has an actual ghost in her head? "Ghost Walk" is, of course, the title of the story.
  • Sacha Dhawan, who voices the characters Reverend Matthew Doyles and Katya's boyfriend, would later go on to play the Master in 2020 for Series 12 opposite Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor. Interestingly, this audio contains more than one actor to have appeared in some capacity on the show (besides the main cast) as Fenella Woolgar voices the central character Leanne and had previously played Agatha Christie in TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp. In fact three people from Ghost Walk would later be in the same TV episode The Power of the Doctor that of Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sacha Dhawan. With Dhawan playing the Master, only Davison and FIelding plays the same characters that they had played in Ghost Walk.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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