Dead London (audio story)

Dead London
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie Miller
Main enemy:	Sepulchre
Main setting:	Inside Sepulchre's mind
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Pat Mills
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Music:	Simon Robinson
Sound:	Simon Robinson
Cover by:	Grant Kempster
Release details
Release number:	2.1
Release date:	January 2008
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG009
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-308-8
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Dead London was the first release of the second series of Big Finish Productions' The New Eighth Doctor Adventures audio stories.

Publisher's summary

Someone's playing with us. Manipulating time and space for their own ends. The TARDIS lands in London. But which one? The Doctor and Lucie find themselves trapped in a maze of interlocking London's from Roman times to the present day. But they are not alone in this labyrinth: a killer is on their trail.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Sepulchre - Rupert Vansittart
• Spring-Heeled Sophie - Clare Buckfield
• Clerks - Richard Laing
• Yellow Beryl - Katarina Olsson

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor mentions the bad fashion sense of his previous incarnations, in particular the brightly coloured clothes of the Sixth Doctor.

Objects

• The Cista Mystica is a Roman artefact used by the followers of Dionysus.

Planets

• Quagreeg is a marsh world in the Sirius system inhabited by unpleasant reptilian life forms who are a gestalt being.

Religion

• Spring-Heeled Sophie is a funambulist.

Science

• Telmonium is an incredibly durable and rare extra-terrestrial metal that can only be found on Quagreeg.

Notes

• Rupert Vansittart (Sepulchre) previously played General Asquith in TV: Aliens of London / World War Three.
• Clare Buckfield (Spring-Heeled Sophie) previously played Sally-Anne Stubbins in AUDIO: The One Doctor.
• This audio drama was recorded on 21 August 2007 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions the cult of Mithras. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear)
• Different time zones has been created in a similar fashion as in the The War Games (TV story)

External links

• Dead London at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Official Dead London page at bigfinish.com
• DisContinuity for Dead London at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide