White Ghosts (audio story)

White Ghosts
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Leela
Main setting:	Unnamed planet, edge of the known universe
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Alan Barnes
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Jamie Robertson
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Number of parts:	2
Release number:	3.02
Release date:	14 February 2014
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPTOMCD015
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-291-0 (physical); 978-1-78178-991-9 (digital)
The Fourth Doctor Adventures
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White Ghosts was the second story in the third series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alan Barnes and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela.

Publisher's summary

A close encounter with a stray missile leads the Doctor to materialise his TARDIS on a planet that hangs in the dark at the edge of the known universe. A planet so dark that it exists in near-permanent night. A planet that enjoys just a single day's light once every thousand years...

Exactly what happens on the planet in its rare daylight hours – that's what a geographical survey headed by Senior Tutor Bengel is stationed here to establish. They, the Doctor and Leela are about to discover that when daylight comes, the White Ghosts rise...

So don't be afraid of the dark. The cover of night is a mercy.

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Bengel - Virginia Hey
• Aranda - Bethan Walker
• Morandi - Gbemisola Ikumelo
• Candelli / Harvester - James Joyce

Crew

• Cover Art - Anthony Lamb
• Director - Nicholas Briggs
• Executive Producer - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music and Sound Designer - Jamie Robertson
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - John Dorney
• Writer - Alan Barnes

Worldbuilding

• Leela refers to Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Babes in the Wood and Little Red Riding Hood.

Notes

Textless cover art

• This story was recorded on 2 July 2012 at Audio Sorcery.

Continuity

• The Doctor refers to the TARDIS swimming pools. (TV: The Invasion of Time)
• Leela knows how to read. (PROSE: People of the Trees; AUDIO: The Time Vampire)
• Leela refers to her decision to kill Strang's clones on Dowcra. (AUDIO: The King of Sontar)
• The Doctor has an oil lamp which once belonged to Florence Nightingale. His seventh incarnation's companion Hex would later work with her in Scutari in October and November 1854. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari)
• The Doctor yells "Geronimo!", as he would later many times during his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The End of Time, et. al)
• The Doctor refers to the Time Lords' hatred of vampires. Gallifrey had fought a war against the Great Vampires. (TV: State of Decay)
• Leela wears gumboots and says they will protect her from electrocution. (AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm)

External links

• Official White Ghosts page at bigfinish.com