The Dead Shoes (audio story)

The Dead Shoes
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Yates
Featuring:	Mrs Wibbsey
Main enemy:	Hornets, peg dolls, China doll
Main setting:	Sussex, 24 December 2010 Cromer, July 1932
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Audio
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Kate Thomas
Producer:	Kate Thomas
Music:	Simon Power
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	2
Release date:	8 October 2009
Format:	1 CD 2nd of 5 stories
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-4084-2674-6
Hornets' Nest
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The Dead Shoes is the second story in the Hornets' Nest arc, a series of five audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as Fourth Doctor alongside Richard Franklin as Mike Yates.

Publisher's summary

Visiting the English seaside town of Cromer in the summer of 1932, the Doctor happens upon the strange world of the Cromer Palace of Curios. The young Ernestina Scott is unusually beguiled by one of the museum's exhibits, and when the Doctor befriends her, they unwittingly embark upon a terrifying escapade. Chased by animated dolls through a nightmarish model house, the Doctor realises he is being hunted by a familiar enemy. The unmistakable sound of hornets is in the air, and they are keen to speak to him. Overseeing this game of cat and mouse is the Palace of Curios' curator — a certain Mrs Wibbsey...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
• Mrs Wibbsey - Susan Jameson
• Ernestina - Clare Corbett
• Reverend Small - Christian Rodska

Worldbuilding

• Small was in the Far East.

Notes

• This story was recorded at Electric Airwaves and Motivation Sound Studios.
• The story title is a reference to the film The Red Shoes.
• This story was later included in The Nest Cottage Chronicles.
• The Doctor trying to pay Wibbsey in Denobian Slime Dollars is reminiscent of his interaction with a shopkeeper in COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion involving Zaggan pound notes.
• A free download of this story was given away with The Guardian newspaper on 22 February 2011.

Continuity

• Yates mentions the business at Devil's End. (TV: The Dæmons)
• A year later, the Eleventh Doctor would encounter similar dolls in a housing estate. (TV: Night Terrors)
• Iris Wildthyme would later use a Denobian Slime Dolar to pay a Parisian waiter in Montmartre. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

External links

• DisContinuity for The Dead Shoes at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
• The Dead Shoes at the Doctor Who Reference Guide