Iterations of I (audio story)

Iterations of I
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Main enemy:	The I Predator, Robert DeValley
Main setting:	Fleming's Island, August and December 1981; Ireland, December 1981
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Fool Circle Productions
Sound:	Fool Circle Productions
Release details
Release number:	2
Release date:	12 August 2014
Format:	4 Parts, 2 CDs
The Fifth Doctor Box Set
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Iterations of I was the second story in The Fifth Doctor Box Set.

Publisher's summary

The house on Fleming's Island had been left to rot. Ever since a strange and unexplained death soon after it was built, and plagued with troubling rumours about what lurked there, it remained empty and ignored for decades until the Cult moved in. As twenty people filled its many rooms, the eerie building seemed to be getting a new lease of life.

But now it is empty again. The cult found something in its corridors... and then vanished.

Trapped on the island one dark night, the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric look into the building's mysteries, its stories of madness and death. Their only chance is to understand what terrible thing has been disturbed here... before it consumes them utterly.

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Adric - Matthew Waterhouse
• Aoife Dineen - Sinead Keenan
• Jerome Khan - Joseph Radcliffe
• Robert DeValley - Andrew Macklin
• Donal Dineen - Teddy Kempner
• Imogen Frazer - Allison McKenzie

References

• The computers in the house on Fleming's Island have a capacity of two Megahertz. The Doctor correctly dates them to the early 1980s.
• Jerome Khan studies English while his girlfriend Imogen Frazer studies Maths. Both attend university in London.
• Tegan describes the Doctor and Adric's bickering as "the 'Elementary, Dear Watson' routine."
• Tegan refers to the Loch Ness Monster.
• Neither Tegan nor Nyssa believe in ghosts.
• Branwell Damien Fleming was born in 1878 and died in 1935.
• Sinead Iona Fleming was born in 1905 and died in 1930.
• Martin Tuck was born in 1962 and died in August 1981.
• Robert DeValley and Aoife Dineen went to school together.
• In 1980, a cult, which believed that God was an impossibly long number, took up residence on Fleming's Island.
• DeValley refers to Adric as "pyjama game."

Notes

• This story was recorded on 13 and 14 November 2013 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Adric refers to the fact that he once piloted the TARDIS (TV: The Visitation) while Tegan reminds him that she once did as well (TV: Castrovalva).
• The Doctor is the TARDIS library reading Black Orchid by George Cranleigh, which was given to him by the author's mother Lady Madge Cranleigh on 11 June 1925. (TV: Black Orchid) He would later describe it as being very interesting. (TV: Earthshock)
• Adric attempts to materialise the TARDIS at Heathrow Airport in 1981, as the Doctor had failed to do on numerous previous occasions. (TV: Four to Doomsday, Kinda, The Visitation; AUDIO: Psychodrome, Smoke and Mirrors)
• Adric refers to the Logopolitans' use of computers to warp space time. (TV: Logopolis)
• The Doctor laments the destruction of his sonic screwdriver by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
• Nyssa refers to the death of her father Tremas at the hands of the Tremas Master. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
• Tegan tells the Doctor that she has not been able to keep up with the Doctor since he had "curly hair and a scarf." (TV: Logopolis)
• Tegan refers to Agatha Christie. During his tenth incarnation, the Doctor and Donna Noble met Christie at Eddison Manor on 8 December 1926. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
• Adric refers to the fact that Alzarians heal much more quickly than humans. (TV: The Visitation)

External links

• Official Iterations of I page at bigfinish.com