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|cd name        = Death in Blackpool
{{Infobox Story SMW
|series         = [[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Big Finish - Doctor Who Audio Dramas#The_New_Eighth_Doctor_Adventures|The New Eighth Doctor Adventures]]
|image           = Death in Blackpool cover.jpg
|number         = 4.01
|range          = Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)
|doctor         = [[Eighth Doctor]]
|series in range = Series 4 (8DA)
|companions     = [[Lucie Miller]] (leaves)
|series number in range = 4
|writer         = [[Alan Barnes]]
|number in series = 1
|publisher      = [[Big Finish Productions]]
|series         = ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''
|release date  = [[December]] [[2009]]
|number         = 4.01
|format         = 1 CD
|doctor         = Eighth Doctor
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-401-6
|companions     = [[Lucie Miller|Lucie]]
|previous story = [[Worldwide Web]]
|featuring      = [[Haygoth]]
|next story    = [[Situation Vacant]]
|enemy          = [[Landak]]
}}
|setting         = [[Blackpool]], [[24 December|24]]-[[25 December]] [[2008]]
==Publisher's Summary==
|writer          = Alan Barnes
Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. And in the afternoon, Aunty Pat, haring up to the house on the back of a moped weighed down with ridiculous presents.
|director        = [[Barnaby Edwards]]
|producer        = [[David Richardson]], Barnaby Edwards
|music          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|sound          = Howard Carter
|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|epcount        = 1
|release date    = 9 December 2009
|format         = 1 CD<br/>Download
|production code = BFPDWCDMG025
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-401-6 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-806-5 (digital)
|prev            = Worldwide Web (audio story)
|next           = Situation Vacant (audio story)
}}{{audio stub}}
'''''Death in Blackpool''''' was the first story in the [[Series 4 (8DA)|fourth series]] of the ''[[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 [[Sheridan Smith]] as [[Lucie Miller]].


Christmas 2009 didn't turn out like that.
Even though she would make an appearance in five more stories, this story marked the end of Lucie's travels aboard the TARDIS, and also closed the "Aunty Pat" story-arc.


Christmas 2009, the Doctor turned up…
== Publisher's summary ==
Lucie Miller always loved [[Christmas]] back home in [[Blackpool]]. Her Mum running a still-frozen [[Turkey (bird)|turkey]] under the hot tap at ten. [[Lucie Miller's great-grandma|Great-Grandma Miller]] half-cut on cooking [[sherry]] by eleven. Her [[Lucie Miller's father|Dad]] and her [[Lucie Miller's uncle|uncle]] arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best [[James Bond]] all through dinner. And in the afternoon, [[Haygoth|Aunty Pat]], haring up to the house on the back of a [[moped]] weighed down with ridiculous presents.


==Cast==
Christmas [[2009]] didn't turn out like that.
 
Christmas 2009, [[the Doctor]] turned up...
 
== Plot ==
''to be added''
 
== Cast ==
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
* [[Lucie Miller]] - [[Sheridan Smith]]
* [[Lucie Miller]] - [[Sheridan Smith]]
* Aunty Pat - [[Helen Lederer]]
* [[Haygoth|Auntie Pat]] - [[Helen Lederer]]
* Billy - [[David Schofield]]
* [[Billy Burnham|Billy]] - [[David Schofield]]
* Father Christmas - [[Jon Glover]]
* [[Father Christmas (Death in Blackpool)|Father Christmas]] / [[Security guard (Death in Blackpool)|Security Guard]] - [[Jon Glover]]
* Natasha/Marika - [[Harriet Kershaw]]
* [[Natasha (Death in Blackpool)|Natasha]] / [[Marika]] / [[Receptionist (Death in Blackpool)|Receptionist]] - [[Harriet Kershaw]]
* [[Shopkeeper (Death in Blackpool)|Shopkeeper]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
 
== Crew ==
 
* Cover Art - [[Simon Holub]]
* Director - [[Barnaby Edwards]]
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Music and Sound Designer - [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
* Producer - Barnaby Edwards and [[David Richardson]]
* Script Editor Alan Barnes
* Writer - [[Alan Barnes]]
* Zygons created by [[Robert Banks Stewart]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* "Billy" mentions the [[NHS]].
* The Doctor suggests Pat use [[adrenaline]] on him.
* The Doctor claims he knew a flying [[yogi]] who could switch his consciousness on and off.
* Pat grazes her [[coccyx]] - something which the Doctor didn't know [[Zygon]]s had.
* Lucie registers at 4 on the [[Glasgow coma scale]].
* "Billy" claims to be a [[Porter]].


==References==
=== Food and beverages ===
''to be added''
* Bramlington services sell [[Frappe Latte]]s and toasted [[panini]]s.
* Father Christmas says people used to put out a [[mince pie]] and a glass of [[sherry]] on a [[Christmas Eve]].
* Lucie suggests going to the [[Labour Club]] for a bottle of [[cider]].
* A receptionist recommends a patient use [[goose fat]] to ease their arm free from a [[turkey (bird)|turkey]].
* Lucie has [[chocolate]] by her bedside.
 
=== Individuals ===
* Billy had a teacher called [[Williams (Death in Blackpool)|Mrs Williams]].
* Billy has a [[Billy Burnham's son|son]].
* Lucie sarcastically refers to the barista as [[Paolo Panini]].
* The Doctor wonders if [[Flo (Horror of Glam Rock)|Flo]] still works at the services.
* Lucie used to have a [[Lucie Miller's boyfriend|boyfriend]] who was [[diabetes|diabetic]].
* Pat has previously taken [[Sven (Death in Blackpool)|Sven]] and [[Wolfie]] to Blackpool at Christmas.
* [[Millington (Death in Blackpool)|Doctor Millington]] works at [[Blackpool General]].
* [[Bill (Death in Blackpool)|Bill]] is a patient at Blackpool General.
** His friends include [[Stubbsy]], [[Banksy (Death in Blackpool)|Banksy]] and [[Barnesy]].
* The Doctor mentions [[Trevor (The Zygon Who Fell to Earth)|Trevor]].
 
=== Species ===
* Lucie remembers the [[Only One]]s.
* "Billy" uses [[cat]]s as an example of a different state of awareness.
* [[Photomelanoma]] occurs when a Zygon stays in the same body too long, causing it to look older.
* A [[banshee]] foretells the death of someone living.
* A [[Zynog]] is a Zygon which can no longer change its form, after having broken Zygon law by shifting into the form of another Zygon.
* Pat mentions the [[Skarasen]].
 
=== Locations ===
* Billy mentions [[Roedean]].
* Billy travels to [[Warrington]].
** He plans to drop Natasha there, from where she can take the [[M6]] north to [[Blackpool]].
* Billy has a motor business in [[Sydenham]].
* [[Bramlington]] is located just of the [[M62]].
* Lucie says that spelling her name with a Y, instead of IE, makes it "all [[Home Counties]] and horsey".
* Lucie lives at [[46 Cheney Road]], Blackpool.
* Father Christmas mentions [[Blackpool Tower]].
* Lucie mentions the [[Golden Mile]].
* Father Christmas mentions the [[Pennines]].
* The Doctor says he once rode a [[magic carpet]] over the [[Khyber Pass]].
* Lucie mentions [[Saint Annes]].
* The Doctor suggests taking Lucie to [[Kal-Med One]] or the [[Bi-Al Foundation]].
 
=== Technology ===
* Billy's son used play with a yellow [[Dinky]] [[hot rod]], so Billy's bought him "the big version".
* Pat drives a [[blue]] [[Chevrolet Nova|Nova]].
* Pat used a [[Parabolic diverter]] to pull the TARDIS out of the vortex into [[2008]].
* Billy's [[hot rod]] has the registration [[FW15BB]].
* Father Christmas suggests checking [[CCTV]].
* "Billy" uses a [[Zynog diadem]] to get inside Lucie's head.
 
=== Popular culture ===
* Lucie mentions [[James Bond]].
* Lucie mentions [[Del Boy]].
* [[Father Christmas (Death in Blackpool)|Father Christmas]] is looking for his [[reindeer]]: [[Dasher]], [[Dancer (reindeer)|Dancer]], [[Prancer]], [[Vixen]], [[Comet (reindeer)|Comet]], [[Cupid (reindeer)|Cupid]], [[Donner]] and [[Blitzen]]. He also mentions [[Rudolph (Last Christmas)|Rudolph]].
* Lucie jokingly refers to Pat as [[Parker (character)|Parker]].
* Lucie mentions [[Holby City]].
* Lucie compares "Billy" to [[Saint Peter]].
* "Billy" mentions ''[[Casualty]]''.
 
=== Music ===
* Billy sings "[[While shepherds washed their socks]]", a variation of "[[While shepherds watched their flocks]]".
** The variation of the song mentions [[Sunlight Soap]].
* Pat likes [[James Blunt]].
** Pat tells Lucie "You're beautiful", making her think of the [[You're Beautiful|James Blunt song]].
* Lucie has never heard of [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]].
* Father Christmas sings "[[In the Bleak Midwinter]]".
 
== Notes ==
* This story is the conclusion for the story arc of Lucie Miller's aunt 'Pat' and her complex relations with the [[Zygon]] race.
* There is some confusion as to the timeline placement of this story. The Publisher's Summary gives a year of [[2009]]. In the story itself, the Doctor is aiming for Lucie's time and ends up one year earlier, in [[2008]].
* This story was recorded on [[21 September (production)|21 September]] [[2008 (production)|2008]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* It was first released on [[9 December (releases)|9 December]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091226214936/http://www.bigfinish.com:80/whatsnew.aspx LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 26-12-2009]</ref>
* The story was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on [[7 January (releases)|7 January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]].


==Notes==
== Continuity ==
*This was the last story to feature [[Sheridan Smith]] as [[Lucie Miller]], who has been an audio companion of the 8th doctor for over 3 seasons.
* The TARDIS materialises in the same service station in [[Bramlington]] as it previously visited in [[1974]] during an earlier audio drama in this series, {{cs|Horror of Glam Rock (audio story)}}
*It is also the conclusion for the story arc of Lucie Millar's aunt 'Pat' and her complex relations with the [[Zygon]] race.
* Lucie discovers that her aunt [[Patricia Ryder]] died in [[1984]] and that her identity was assumed by her [[Zygon]] husband [[Haygoth|Trevor]], as happened in {{cs|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)}}
* The Doctor refers to [[Cal-Med One]] from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'' and the [[Bi-Al Foundation]] from [[TV]]: ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'').


==Continuity==
== Footnotes ==
*[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]] is occurring at the same time as this. Unless this is set before 25th December, it is unexplained why no one in the story [[The Master Race|turned into a version]] of [[The Master|The Mast]][[The Master|er]]''. As "Aunty Pat" pulled the TARDIS back to Christmas 2008 using the parabolic diverter, not the Christmas to which the Doctor had intended to travel, the events of The End of Time would have had no bearing on this story. This, of course, means that the events of [[Voyage of the Damned]] should have been occurring at the same time as this story. Either the Doctor simply did not realize what was going on (he was somewhat preoccupied at the time) or the events of the [[Last Great Time War]] altered Christmas 2008 following this story. The Cracks may explain the entire problem, as well.''
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==Timeline==
== External links ==
* Death in Blackpool occurs after: [[Worldwide Web]]
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* Death in Blackpool occurs before: [[Situation Vacant]]
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==External Links==
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Death in Blackpool was the first 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 Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

Even though she would make an appearance in five more stories, this story marked the end of Lucie's travels aboard the TARDIS, and also closed the "Aunty Pat" story-arc.

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

Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. And in the afternoon, Aunty Pat, haring up to the house on the back of a moped weighed down with ridiculous presents.

Christmas 2009 didn't turn out like that.

Christmas 2009, the Doctor turned up...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • "Billy" mentions the NHS.
  • The Doctor suggests Pat use adrenaline on him.
  • The Doctor claims he knew a flying yogi who could switch his consciousness on and off.
  • Pat grazes her coccyx - something which the Doctor didn't know Zygons had.
  • Lucie registers at 4 on the Glasgow coma scale.
  • "Billy" claims to be a Porter.

Food and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Lucie remembers the Only Ones.
  • "Billy" uses cats as an example of a different state of awareness.
  • Photomelanoma occurs when a Zygon stays in the same body too long, causing it to look older.
  • A banshee foretells the death of someone living.
  • A Zynog is a Zygon which can no longer change its form, after having broken Zygon law by shifting into the form of another Zygon.
  • Pat mentions the Skarasen.

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Music[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This story is the conclusion for the story arc of Lucie Miller's aunt 'Pat' and her complex relations with the Zygon race.
  • There is some confusion as to the timeline placement of this story. The Publisher's Summary gives a year of 2009. In the story itself, the Doctor is aiming for Lucie's time and ends up one year earlier, in 2008.
  • This story was recorded on 21 September 2008 at the Moat Studios.
  • It was first released on 9 December 2009.[1]
  • The story was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 7 January 2013.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 26-12-2009

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

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