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*The [[Fifth Doctor]] previously expressed a desire to meet Mary's husband [[Percy Shelley]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Castle of Fear]]'')
*The [[Fifth Doctor]] previously expressed a desire to meet Mary's husband [[Percy Shelley]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Castle of Fear]]'')


==Timeline==
==[[Eighth Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
* ''Mary's Story'' occurs after: [[ST]]: [[Dear John|''Dear John'']] (present Doctor) and [[ST]]: ''[[Not in My Back Yard]]'' (future Doctor).
===For the present Doctor===
* ''Mary's Story'' occurs before: [[BFA]]: ''[[The Silver Turk]]'' (present Doctor) and [[ST]]: ''[[The End]]'' (future Doctor).
*''Mary's Story'' occurs after [[ST]]: ''[[Dear John]]''
*''Mary's Story'' occurs before [[BFA]]: ''[[The Silver Turk]]''
 
===For the Future Doctor===
*''Mary's Story'' occurs after [[ST]]: ''[[Not in My Back Yard]]''
*''Mary's Story'' occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[The End]]''


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 11:20, 21 October 2011

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Mary's Story (audio story) was a 2009 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley. It was the fruition of a nearly decade-long gag that had been running through the Eighth Doctor's audio adventures. Since his first such adventure BFA: Storm Warning, he had been dropping hints of a friendship with Shelley, but that relationship had never been depicted until this story.

This story is notable for the fact that the Eighth Doctor acknowledges comics, prose, and audio continuities. It is the first and only story, as of 2011, to explicitly and unambiguously combine the continuities of these three media.

The story was originally released as part of the 2009 omnibus BFA: The Company of Friends. In October 2011, to tie in with a new series of audio dramas featuring Mary as a companion, Big Finish released Mary's Story as a limited-time standalone download.[1]

Publisher's summary

Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron's house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.

Cast

References

Illustration featured in DWM 410.

Notes

  • A future version of the Eighth Doctor names some of his previous companions all from different ranges of stories, such as Compassion (books), Lucie Miller (audios) and Destrii (comics), in one of the rare occasions in which the different continuities are acknowledged together.
  • Although Percy and Mary Shelley are depicted as husband and wife in June 1816, they did not actually get married until 30 December of that year in real life.

Continuity

Timeline

For the present Doctor

For the Future Doctor

External links

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