The Carrionite Curse (audio story)

The Carrionite Curse
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Katy
Main enemy:	Carrionites
Main setting:	Birmingham, England, October, the 1980s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Simon Guerrier
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Part of:	Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two
Release date:	27 July 2017
Format:	1 episodes on 1 CD (3rd of 4 stories)
Production code:	BFPDWNEWMON02
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78575-427-2 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-428-9 (digital)
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The Carrionite Curse was the third story in Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Simon Guerrier and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

Katy Bell returns to her Midlands home to find strange goings-on at the buskers fair. A witch trial in the 1980s. A bonfire ready to be lit...

Luckily, a colourful visitor is already investigating, and the local vicar, Katy's dad, is versed in tales of the macabre. Terrifying forces are on the loose, and the town hall holds a secret. There is black magic in the Black Country, and the Doctor has the name of his enemy on the tip of his tongue...

Something wicked this way comes.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Mary Sissinghurst - Andrée Bernard
• Eileen Nelthorpe - Adèle Anderson
• Katy Bell - Maya Sondhi
• Rev. Douglas Bell - Michael Fenton-Stevens

Uncredited cast

• Carrionites - Adèle Anderson, Maya Sondhi

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor finds a book titled Reminiscences of the Peculiar, written by George Litefoot.
• The Doctor finds books written by an author named Rowling in the Demonology and Witchcraft section of the TARDIS library.
• "Roundel" is among the words used by the Doctor to impede the Carrionites.
• The Doctor compares clicking on a hyperlink to turning words into actions.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions that his coat comes from Kolpasha. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness et al.)
• Reverend Bell recalls a tale from Killingworth of Ravensworth and Stephenson foiling an old lady who made men violent by drinking from their brains in the 19th century. The Doctor assures him that she was not a witch. (TV: The Mark of the Rani)
• The Doctor tells Reverend Bell that he is aware of George Litefoot. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, et. al)
• There is a section in George Litefoot's book Reminiscences of the Peculiar entitled "The Adventure of the Lonely Clock." (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock)
• The Doctor keeps a "C chest" in the TARDIS, (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp) inside of which he keeps a Cryon pendant. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)
• Katy finds a crystal ball in the C chest that the Doctor says he can't remember where he picked it up, "or haven't yet." (TV: The Shakespeare Code, The Unicorn and the Wasp) 
• Sissinghurst knows that the Doctor is President of the High Council of the Lords of Time on Gallifrey. (TV: The Five Doctors)
• Sissinghurst refers to the Doctor as "Valeyard". (TV: Trial of a Time Lord)
• The Doctor saved several scrolls from the fire at the Library of Alexandria in the 5th century. (AUDIO: The Library of Alexandria)
• The Doctor considers George Orwell to be an old friend. During his eighth incarnation, he would meet Orwell again in Spain during its civil war in 1937. (PROSE: History 101)
• The Doctor refers to the fact that the Globe Theatre was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. It had been set by Francis Pearson, who was jealous of William Shakespeare's success. (PROSE: Managra)
• The Doctor would encounter the Carrionites again in London in 1599 during his tenth incarnation. The Carrionites know this and wish to exploit the time paradox that would arise from confronting his past self, using stones from the now ruined Globe Theatre where they were defeated. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)

External links

• Official The Carrionite Curse page at bigfinish.com