The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (audio story)

The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (audio story)

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The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Dr Evelyn Smythe Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Main enemy:	Sancreda
Main setting:	Earth, England, Pengriffen
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Nicholas Pegg
Director:	Nicholas Pegg
Producer:	Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	9
Release date:	June 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7C/B
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-070-1

Publisher's summary

In a desolate Cornish landscape littered with relics of prehistoric man, the Doctor and Evelyn uncover a catalogue of mysteries.

What is the secret of the fogou? Can the moor be haunted by a demonic host of imps? And what is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart doing in Pengriffen?

Teaming up with his old friend, the Doctor realises that an ancient conflict is nearing its conclusion -- and Lanyon Moor is set to be the final battleground.

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Dr. Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• The Brigadier - Nicholas Courtney
• Mrs. Moynihan - Susan Jameson
• Philip Ludgate - Barnaby Edwards
• Professor Morgan - Toby Longworth
• Sir Archibald Flint - James Bolam
• Nikki Hunter - Helen Goldwyn

References

• The Doctor once visited the Parthenon in Athens while it was being built.
• The Brigadier recognises the Doctor by how outrageously the Doctor is dressed.
• The poem quoted by the Doctor is The Fairies by William Allingham.

Human organisations

• The Brigadier is doing a little bit of undercover work for UNIT.

Races and species

• Around 18,000 years ago a Trigannon spaceship crash landed in what would become England.

Technology

• The Doctor has a metadimensional rheostat in his pocket.
• Sancreda's menantolian induction loop is made of menantol bisilicate.

Notes

Art by Lee Sullivan from DWM 292

• This is Nicholas Courtney's first appearance as the Brigadier in a Big Finish Productions audio story, he had previously appeared as Wolsey the cat in BFBS: Oh No It Isn't!.
• This story was featured in Doctor Who Magazine issue 292 with an illustration by Lee Sullivan.
• The moorland picture used on the background on the CD cover, which also appears reversed and substantially tinted on the cover of Red Dawn, is a photograph of Dartmoor in Devon. The rocky outcrop just visible on the horizon beside the Brigadier's cap is Hound Tor, the location used for The Sontaran Experiment.

Continuity

• The Doctor finds out that the Brigadier is married for the 'first time' in DW: Battlefield.
• The Brigadier is still doing occasional UNIT undercover work, as he continues to do in BFU: The Wasting.

Timeline

• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor occurs after: BFA: The Sirens of Time
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor occurs before: BFA: The Apocalypse Element

External links

• Official The Spectre of Lanyon Moor page at bigfinish.com
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide