Urban Myths (audio story)

Urban Myths
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Peri
Main setting:	Austria Poytee
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish
Writer:	Paul Sutton
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Release details
Release number:	95b
Release date:	May 2007
Format:	1 episode
Production code:	6Q/AA
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-177-0
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Urban Myths is a one-part story featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown. There have been two one-part audio stories to feature this pairing. The other is Mission of the Viyrans.

Publisher's summary

Urban Myths (A One-Part Story)

In an expensive restaurant somewhere on Earth, three gourmets plan their evening. First item on the menu: the death of the Doctor.

Plot

to be added.

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
• Harom - Steven Wickham
• Edge - Douglas Hodge
• Kettoo - Nicola Lloyd
• Palgrave - Barry McCarthy
• Trooper - Clare Calbraith

References

• Harom is the Coordinator of the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA). Edge and Kettoo are his two of subordinates.
• Harom notes that goulash, which originated on Earth, is popular throughout Mutter's Spiral.
• In Edge's exaggerated version of the Doctor and Peri's actions on Poytee, the Doctor is a bloodthirsty renegade who keeps a cache of weapons in the TARDIS and destroys the entire surface of the planet by activating the chain of subsurface atomic reactors in revenge for one of the inhabitants firing a weapon at Peri. She is depicted as being equally bloodthirsty, delighting in the Doctor's merciless killing of Palgrave and the extent of the damage that Level 3 of her weapon can do to a humanoid body. After ensuring that all life on the planet would be eradicated, the Doctor proclaims, "The last one back to the TARDIS wipes the blood out of my shirt!"
• In Kettoo's version of the Doctor and Peri's actions on Poytee, the Doctor vents the cooling systems of all of the atomic reactors into the seas, causing the coolant to react with the hydrogen molecules and create an enormous gas cloud which suffocated every living creature on Poytee. When Palgrave objects, Peri incapacitates him and the Doctor completes the venting process. The Doctor and Peri, though nowhere near as bloodthirsty as in Edge's story, are both utterly convinced that eradicating the population of Poytee is the lesser of two evils if they want to ensure that the virus does not spread beyond the confines of the planet.
• According to Kettoo, the Doctor told Peri that he once bowled either W.G. Grace or W.C. Fields for a duck whereas Peri jokingly referred to him as Babe Ruth.
• In actuality, it was Poytee's Scientific Corps which developed the plan to vent selective subsurface atomic generators. The Corps planned to control the spread of the resultant radioactive clouds with a climate modulator and disperse them into the upper atmosphere. When examining a patient, the Doctor was accidentally infected with the Tul-Oz virus. Peri convinced the Corps to delay their plan while the Doctor developed a antidote to the virus from his own blood sample. He released the antidote into the atmosphere. There it was activated and dispersed across the surface of the planet using the climate modulator, curing the entire population.
• The Doctor asks Harom to put in a good word for him with the High Council of the Time Lords.
• The proprietor of the Austrian restaurant is an old friend of the Doctor's and a renegade Time Lady. She has run it since the time of the Habsburgs. To use the restaurant, the Doctor promised her that Peri would work as a waitress until the end of the week. However, he did not inform Peri of this until the CIA agents had left.
• The out-of-order walk-in fridge at the back of the restaurant's kitchen is actually the renegade Time Lady's TARDIS.

Notes

• Urban Myths is only one episode long. The other three episodes on the two discs are for the story AUDIO: Exotron.
• This release includes behind-the-scenes interviews with members of the cast.
• This audio drama was recorded on 8 February 2007.

Continuity

• The Doctor asks Coordinator Harom to put in a good word for him with the High Council when he returns to his home planet Gallifrey. (TV: Arc of Infinity, The Five Doctors)

External links

• Official Urban Myths page at bigfinish.com
• Urban Myths at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Urban Myths at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide