The Dead Shoes (audio story)

The Dead Shoes
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Mike Yates
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
Release number:	2
Release date:	8 October 2009
Format:	CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-4084-2674-6
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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

References

• 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.

Continuity

• Yates mentions the business at Devil's End. (TV: The Dæmons)

External links

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