A Town Called Fortune (audio story)

A Town Called Fortune
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Evelyn Smythe
Key crew
Writer:	Paul Sutton
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Release details
Release number:	5.05
Release date:	November 2010
Format:	1 disc
Production code:	BFPDWCC37
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-487-0

Synopsis

“Wanted dead or alive for the murder of… William Donovan!”

Problems beset the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe as they travel by train to the Wild West town of Fortune. A young woman is investigating the murder of her father nine years earlier, and a wanted poster indicates that the Doctor is the killer!

With the TARDIS lost to them and the law on their tail, can the travellers unravel the mystery – or will Rachel Ann Donovan take her revenge first?

Cast

• Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• Sam - Richard Cordery

References

• Evelyn uses the Doctor's cat brooch, sharpened on a cave wall, to cut ropes binding the Doctor and Maisie to chairs.

Story notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 16 March 2010.

Continuity

• Evelyn complains to the Doctor that, because of him, she is making a habit of jumping from trains. (BFA: The Nowhere Place)
• Many years later, the Seventh Doctor and Evelyn would reminisce about the events of this story which involves the two time travellers "leaping from steam trains in the Wild West." (BFA: A Death in the Family)
• The Doctor previously visited the Wild West in DW: The Gunfighters and would later do so again in NSA: Peacemaker.

Timeline

• A Town Called Fortune occurs after ST: The Crackers
• A Town Called Fortune occurs before BFA: Thicker than Water (flashback)

External links

• Official A Town Called Fortune page at bigfinish.com
• A Town Called Fortune at the Doctor Who Reference Guide