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|image          = Nevermore.jpg
|image          = Nevermore.jpg
|range          = Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)
|range          = Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)
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|enemy          = [[Raven (Nevermore)|Ravens]]
|enemy          = [[Raven (Nevermore)|Ravens]]
|setting        = [[Nevermore]]
|setting        = [[Nevermore]]
|writer          = [[Alan Barnes]]
|writer          = Alan Barnes
|director        = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|director        = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|producer        = [[David Richardson]], [[Barnaby Edwards (actor)|Barnaby Edwards]]
|producer        = [[David Richardson]], [[Barnaby Edwards]]
|music          = [[Jamie Robertson]]
|music          = [[Jamie Robertson]]
|sound          = [[Thea Cochrane]]
|sound          = [[Thea Cochrane]]
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|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|epcount        = 2
|epcount        = 2
|release date    = [[12 August (releases)|12 August]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|release date    = 12 August 2010
|format          = 1 CD<br/>Download
|format          = 1 CD<br/>Download
|production code = BFPDWCDMG027
|production code = BFPDWCDMG027
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* 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.
* Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in [[Cassiopeia]], which contained [[volcano]]es that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava.
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* 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]].
* 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]].
* When Uglosi proclaims Poe the greatest writer ever, the Doctor observes that he's more partial to [[Enid Blyton]].


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
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* The story was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on [[9 January (releases)|9]] [[7 January (releases)|January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]].
* 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.
* 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 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>
* 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>


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* 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]]'')
* 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 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 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 ==
== Footnotes ==
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Latest revision as of 23:16, 17 November 2024

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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!

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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.

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  • 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]]

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