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* Tegan tells the [[Hypnosis|hypnotised]] Nyssa that she knows what it is like to be under someone else's control, having been controlled by the [[Mara]] on [[Deva Loka]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')
* Tegan tells the [[Hypnosis|hypnotised]] Nyssa that she knows what it is like to be under someone else's control, having been controlled by the [[Mara]] on [[Deva Loka]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')
* Tegan refers to the Master killing Nyssa's father [[Tremas]] and stealing his body ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and killing her aunt Vanessa ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'').
* Tegan refers to the Master killing Nyssa's father [[Tremas]] and stealing his body ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and killing her aunt Vanessa ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'').
* The Master is trying to reconstitute his body after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''.
* The Master is trying to reconstitute his body after being trapped in a collapsing dimension on Castrovalva. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')


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Smoke and Mirrors was the fifth release of the Destiny of the Doctor audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions for AudioGO.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor answers a psionic distress call being sent from England in the 1920s. There, in the environs of a fairground, he is reunited with an old friend: Harry Houdini. To Adric and Nyssa the name means very little, but to the Doctor’s companion Tegan he is a legend. Escape artist extraordinaire, Houdini’s reputation will last for decades.

But how come Harry knows so much about Tegan herself? Is it really just guesswork, as he says? Is Harry right to be concerned about the fairground’s fortune teller, who claims to have supernatural skills? Both he and the Doctor suspect an alien influence they know of old.

What neither the Doctor nor his friends realise is that, somewhere in the shadows, a far more sinister and familiar presence is lying in wait for them…

Plot

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Cast

References

  • Nyssa and Adric consider the fairground carousel to be rather frivolous and silly.
  • Harry Houdini has met the Doctor on several previous occasions and is aware of regeneration. As he once met Jo Grant, one of these encounters took place during his third incarnation. He learned of the existence of the Bay City Rollers from Jo.
  • The Ovids are beings of pure thought who travel from world to world in crystal spheres. Four of them became trapped in New York City in the 1890s. They can give form to dreams and nightmares. Houdini helped the First Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright free the Ovids.
  • Houdini is the first historical figure that Tegan has met since beginning her travels with the Doctor.
  • There were no zoos on Traken.
  • Houdini's wife is deceased.
  • There is a tiger and a leopard in the fairground menagerie.
  • The Doctor receives a message from his eleventh incarnation through an Ovid sphere.
  • The Tremas Master refers to Adric, Nyssa and Tegan's as "the Doctor's whelps."

Notes

  • Excluding his brief off screen appearance in Circular Time: Winter, this is the first audio drama in which the Master (Anthony Ainley version) appears in the Fifth Doctor era.

Continuity

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According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.

Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.

One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.

According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.

While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
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