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The Fourth Wall

Key crew

Publisher:

Big Finish Productions

Writer:

John Dorney

Director:

Nicholas Briggs

Release details

Release number:

157

Release date:

February 2012

Format:

2 CDs, 4 parts

Production code:

7C/NAB

ISBN:

ISBN 978-1-84435-605-8

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The Fourth Wall is the second story in the 2012 Sixth Doctor audio trilogy.

Publishers summary

Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul Augustus Scullop, whose Trans-Gal empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show... is Laser.

Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the Doctor is interested only in watching Test Match cricket... but finds himself drawn into Scullop's world when his new travelling companion, Flip, is snatched from inside the TARDIS.

So, while the Doctor uncovers the terrible secret of Trans-Gal's new tech, Flip battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord Krarn and his pig-like servants, the Warmongers. And the name of that wilderness... is "Stevenage".

Plot

to be added

Cast

The Doctor - Colin Baker
Flip Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
Augustus Scullop - Julian Wadham
Dr. Helen Shepherd - Yasmin Bannerman
Nick Kenton/Jack Laser - Hywel Morgan
Matthew Howland/Lord Krarn - Martin Hutson
Olivia Sayle/Jancey - Tilly Gaunt
Chimbly/Head Warmonger - Kim Wall
Junior/Warmonger - Henry Devas

References

Individuals

The Doctor tells Flip that he is not as interested in cricket as his previous incarnation and notes that many of his other incarnations are "astonishingly irritating."
The Doctor is impressed by a reverse sweep in the match.
The Doctor previously encountered Chimbly on Ballastron VII as well as several other planets.
Xander Drexel was Augustus Scullop's business partner before he left Trans-Gal and created his own company, which proved to be considerably more successful.

Foods and beverages

Flip makes popcorn using the TARDIS' food machine.

Planets

Augustus Scullop has a home on an artificial planetoid called Transmission.
The Porcians once attempted to invade Skaro.

Cultural references from the real world

Flip compares Transmission to the Death Star from Star Wars.
Flip refers to the James Bond film franchise.
Flip states that the Warmongers are not exactly crack shots, comparing them to "terrorists trying to attack Bruce Willis".
Flip tells Lord Krarn that she has seen more realistic looking weapons than the Warmongers' on Blue Peter.
Flip states that Jancey's description of Earth's fate since the Warmonger invasion five years earlier sounds as if she was reading a summary of the plot on Wikipedia.
The Doctor enjoys the "fifth One Day International between Australia and South Africa 2006" on the Time-Space Visualiser.

Time technology

Trans-Gal's reality generator utilises dimensional transcendentalism to create the dimensional bubble.

Textless cover art

Notes

This audio drama was recorded on 14 and 15 June 2011.

Continuity

Flip mentions her encounter with the Daleks and Napoléon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros)
Nick Kenton refers to the Acteon Galaxy. (TV: Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders)
The Porcians said that they shouldn't have taken a left turn at Delta Magna (TV: The Power of Kroll)

External links

Official The Fourth Wall page at bigfinish.com
DisContinuity for The Fourth Wall at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide

Big Finish Main Range

Fifth Doctor

	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan	The Star Men • The Contingency Club • Zaltys • Kingdom of Lies • Ghost Walk • Serpent in the Silver Mask

	Nyssa	The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time (Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter) • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories • (The Demons of Red Lodge • The Entropy Composition • Doing Time • Special Features) • 1001 Nights (1001 Nights, My Brother's Keeper, The Interplanetarian, Smuggling Tales) • 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men • Alien Heart • Dalek Soul

	Nyssa, Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster • The Boy That Time Forgot • Time Reef • A Perfect World

	Nyssa, Hannah	Moonflesh • Tomb Ship • Masquerade

	Nyssa, Tegan	The Waters of Amsterdam • Aquitaine • The Peterloo Massacre

	Nyssa, Tegan, Marc	Tartarus • Interstitial • Feast of Fear • Warzone • Conversion • Madquake

	Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough	Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat Trap • The Emerald Tiger • The Jupiter Conjunction • The Butcher of Brisbane • Eldrad Must Die! • The Lady of Mercia • Prisoners of Fate • Mistfall • Equilibrium • The Entropy Plague

	Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion	Devil in the Mist • Black Thursday • Power Game • The Kamelion Empire

	Tegan, Leela	Time in Office

	Turlough	Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • Singularity • The Memory Bank and Other Stories (The Memory Bank • The Last Fairy Tale • Repeat Offender • The Becoming) • The Blazing Hour • The End of the Beginning

	Peri	Red Dawn • Exotron • Urban Myths • Mission of the Viyrans

	Peri, Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye • The Bride of Peladon

	Amy	The Judgement of Isskar • The Destroyer of Delights • The Chaos Pool

	Vicki, Steven	The Secret History

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Omega • The Gathering • The Four Doctors • The Burning Prince • The Secret History • And You Will Obey Me • The Helliax Rift • Time Apart (Ghost Station • The Bridge Master • What Lurks Down Under • The Dancing Plague) • Thin Time • Shadow of the Daleks 1 (Aimed at the Body • Lightspeed • The Bookshop at the End of the World • Interlude) • Shadow of the Daleks 2 (Echo Chamber • Towards Zero • Castle Hydra • Effect and Cause)

Sixth Doctor

	Peri	Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • Recorded Time and Other Stories (Recorded Time • A Most Excellent Match • Question Marks • Paradoxicide) • 1963: The Space Race • Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories (Breaking Bubbles • Of Chaos Time The • An Eye For Murder • The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time) • The Widow's Assassin • Masters of Earth • The Rani Elite • Memories of a Tyrant • Emissary of the Daleks • Harry Houdini's War • Plight of the Pimpernel

	Evelyn	The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 (100 BC • My Own Private Wolfgang • Bedtime Story • The 100 Days of the Doctor) • Assassin in the Limelight

	Evelyn, Brewster	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial Evolution

	Frobisher	The Holy Terror • The Maltese Penguin

	Charley	The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten Planet

	"Jamie"	City of Spires • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen

	Flip	The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn Isle • Antidote to Oblivion • The Brood of Erys • Scavenger • Vortex Ice • Cortex Fire

	Constance	Criss-Cross • Planet of the Rani • Shield of the Jötunn • Order of the Daleks • Absolute Power • Colony of Fear • The End of the Beginning

	Constance, Flip	Quicksilver • The Behemoth • The Middle • Static • Cry of the Vultriss • Scorched Earth • The Lovecraft Invasion

	Mel	The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker Than Water • The Wishing Beast • The Vanity Box • The Wrong Doctors • Spaceport Fear • The Seeds of War

	Jamie, Zoe	Last of the Cybermen

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Davros • The Wormery • Her Final Flight • I.D. • Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • The Acheron Pulse • Trial of the Valeyard • Last of the Cybermen • Vampire of the Mind • The Lure of the Nomad • Iron Bright • Hour of the Cybermen • The Hunting Ground

Seventh Doctor

	Mel	The Fires of Vulcan • Bang-Bang-a-Boom! • Flip-Flop • Unregenerate! • Red • We Are The Daleks • The Warehouse • Terror of the Sontarans

	Ace	The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture • 1963: The Assassination Games • You Are the Doctor and Other Stories (You Are the Doctor • Come Die With Me • The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel • Dead to the World) • The Grey Man of the Mountain

	Ace, Hex	The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-Five (False Gods • Order of Simplicity • Casualties of War • The Word Lord) • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project: Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge • Protect and Survive • Revenge of the Swarm • Mask of Tragedy • Shadow Planet • World Apart • Muse of Fire • The Flying Dutchman • Displaced

	Ace, Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge • The Dark Flame

	Sally	House of Blue Fire

	Ace, Hex, Lysandra, Sally	Black and White • Gods and Monsters

	Ace, Hex, Sally	Afterlife • Signs and Wonders

	Ace, Mel	A Life of Crime • Fiesta of the Damned • Maker of Demons • The High Price of Parking • The Blood Furnace • The Silurian Candidate • Red Planets • The Dispossessed • The Quantum Possibility Engine

	Mags	The Monsters of Gokroth • The Moons of Vulpana • An Alien Werewolf in London

	Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings • Klein's Story • Survival of the Fittest • The Architects of History • Warlock's Cross

	Klein, Will	Persuasion • Starlight Robbery • Daleks Among Us

	Jo	The Defectors

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • Death Collectors • Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver • Keepsake • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • The Shadow Heart • The Two Masters • Dark Universe • The Psychic Circus • Subterfuge • The End of the Beginning

Eighth Doctor

	Mary Shelley	Mary's Story • The Silver Turk • The Witch from the Well • Army of Death

	Charley	Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell • Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland • Zagreus • Scherzo • The Girl Who Never Was • The End of the Beginning

	Charley, C'rizz	The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom • Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life • Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane • Absolution

	Solo & other travels	The Company of Friends (Benny's Story • Fitz's Story • Izzy's Story) • An Earthly Child • The Four Doctors

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 |doctor = Sixth Doctor
 |companions = [[Flip Jackson|Flip]]
-|enemy = Lord [[Krarn]]<br />The Warmongers<br />[[Chimbly]]<br />The [[Porcian]]s
+|enemy =  [[Krarn]], Warmongers, [[Chimbly]], [[Porcian]]s
 |setting = [[Transmission (planetoid)|Transmission]]
 |writer = [[John Dorney]]
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 == Publishers summary ==
-Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul [[Augustus Scullop]], whose [[Trans-Gal]] empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show… is Laser.
+Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul [[Augustus Scullop]], whose [[Trans-Gal]] empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show... is Laser.
-Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the [[Sixth Doctor|Doctor]] is interested only in watching Test Match [[cricket]]… but finds himself drawn into Scullop’s world when his new travelling companion, [[Flip Jackson|Flip]], is snatched from inside [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].
+Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the [[Sixth Doctor|Doctor]] is interested only in watching Test Match [[cricket]]... but finds himself drawn into Scullop's world when his new travelling companion, [[Flip Jackson|Flip]], is snatched from inside [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].
-So, while the Doctor uncovers the terrible secret of Trans-Gal’s new tech, Flip battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord [[Krarn]] and his pig-like servants, the Warmongers. And the name of that wilderness… is "[[Stevenage]]".
+So, while the Doctor uncovers the terrible secret of Trans-Gal's new tech, Flip battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord [[Krarn]] and his pig-like servants, the Warmongers. And the name of that wilderness... is "[[Stevenage]]".
 == Plot ==
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 === Cultural references from the real world ===
-* Flip compares Transmission to the [[starwars:DS-1 Orbital Battle Station|Death Star]] from ''[[Star Wars]]''. The Doctor expresses the hope that it is "not quite so ominous."
+* Flip compares Transmission to the [[starwars:DS-1 Orbital Battle Station|Death Star]] from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
-* Flip refers to the ''[[James Bond]]'' film franchise and describes Lord Krarn as being "like every ''Bond'' villain you've ever seen."
+* Flip refers to the ''[[James Bond]]'' film franchise.
-* Flip states that the Warmongers are not exactly crack shots, comparing them to "terrorists trying to attack [[Bruce Willis]]" from the {{wi|Die Hard (franchise)|Die Hard}} film series.
+* Flip states that the Warmongers are not exactly crack shots, comparing them to "terrorists trying to attack [[Bruce Willis]]".
 * Flip tells Lord Krarn that she has seen more realistic looking weapons than the Warmongers' on ''[[Blue Peter]]''.
 * Flip states that Jancey's description of Earth's fate since the Warmonger invasion five years earlier sounds as if she was reading a summary of the plot on [[Wikipedia]].
-* What the Doctor calls the "[[fifth One Day International between Australia and South Africa 2006]]" is a real world cricket match that the Doctor enjoys on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]].
+* The Doctor enjoys the "[[fifth One Day International between Australia and South Africa 2006]]" on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]].
 === Time technology ===
-* The Doctor watches the [[2006]] cricket Test Match between [[Australia]] and [[South Africa]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]]. Flip describes it as a "manky old thing" and criticises it for being in black and white.
+* Trans-Gal's reality generator utilises [[Dimensionally transcendental|dimensional transcendentalism]] to create the dimensional bubble.
-* Trans-Gal's reality generator utilises [[Dimensionally transcendental|dimensional transcendentalism]] to create the dimensional bubble. The Doctor derides the use of the technology for the purposes of "mere entertainment." The reality generator was created by the Dream Spinners of Dashra, a long extinct species who inhabited the ninth galaxy. It was acquired by Dr. Helen Shepherd, who told Augustus Scullop that it was her own invention.
 [[File:The Fourth Wall-0.jpg|thumb|Textless cover art]]

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