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* After regaining consciousness, the Doctor refers to the temporal storm in which his future self was caught and his subsequent arrival at the Villa Diodati near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]], where he met his former companion [[Mary Shelley]] for the first time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
* After regaining consciousness, the Doctor refers to the temporal storm in which his future self was caught and his subsequent arrival at the Villa Diodati near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]], where he met his former companion [[Mary Shelley]] for the first time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that he met [[Edgar Allan Poe]] three days prior to his death during his second exile on Earth earlier in his eighth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that he met [[Edgar Allan Poe]] three days prior to his death during his second exile on Earth earlier in his eighth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'')
* The Doctor tells Uglosi that he believes that there is only one [[renegade Time Lord]] who would manipulate others into wiping out the population of an entire planet and that he is "no longer around." This is a presumably a reference to {{Roberts}}, who met his death when he fell into the [[Eye of Harmony]] shortly after the Doctor's most recent [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') The Eighth Doctor would later encounter a Master resurrected by the Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'')
* The Doctor tells Uglosi that he believes that there is only one [[renegade Time Lord]] who would manipulate others into wiping out the population of an entire planet and that he is "no longer around." This is a presumably a reference to {{Roberts}}, who met his death when he fell into the [[Eye of Harmony]] shortly after the Doctor's most recent [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') The Eighth Doctor would later encounter {{Macqueen|n=an incarnation of the Master}} who had been resurrected by the Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'')
* The Doctor has allowed the colony of Fledershrews to live in the TARDIS since his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
* The Doctor would later learn the identity of the "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" who was responsible for the destruction of Corinth Minor on his visit to [[Ireland]] in [[1006]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]'')
* The Doctor would later learn the identity of the "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" who was responsible for the destruction of Corinth Minor on his visit to [[Ireland]] in [[1006]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]'')



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Nevermore was the third release of the fourth series of Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary

A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo — a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren't Morella's only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws...

There's no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi's macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet's surface — wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!

Plot

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Cast

References

Astronomical objects

  • Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in Cassiopeia, which contained volcanoes that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava.

The Doctor

  • The Doctor quotes extensively from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of 1849 in Baltimore where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober.

Individuals

  • Tamsin did a circus arts module in drama school, which included escapology and contortionism.
  • Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "strange little man" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier.

Literature from the Real World

  • The Doctor (et. al) recite much of the poem "The Raven" and some of the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Popular Culture from the Real world

  • After the black cat appears in the TARDIS console room, Tamsin refers to Bagpuss and Animals Do the Funniest Things.

TARDIS

Notes

  • The story has numerous influences from Poe's canon of work. 'Nevermore' is also the word the Raven caws in The Raven, whilst the robotic ravens derive from the same story; a black cat is the focus of The Black Cat; the mist of the Red Death is a reference to the titular plague of The Masque of the Red Death.
  • The story was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 9 January 2013.
  • The Doctor mentions being called to attend Poe, three days before his death in 1849. He died of an unknown illness on October 7th of that year, after being found delirious on a Baltimore street on October 3rd.

Continuity

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