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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor tells Leela that [[William Shakespeare]] is the greatest poet in the English language "with [his] assistance." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor (short story)|The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') However, the [[Fifth Doctor]] later described him as a "hack" to his companions [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'') By the time of his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], his opinion of Shakespeare's work had considerably improved as he spoke of it in glowing terms to his companion [[Martha Jones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
* The Doctor tells Leela that [[William Shakespeare]] is the greatest poet in the English language "with [his] assistance." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'', ''[[The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor (short story)|The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') However, the [[Fifth Doctor]] later described him as a "hack" to his companions [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'') By the time of his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], his opinion of Shakespeare's work had considerably improved as he spoke of it in glowing terms to his companion [[Martha Jones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
* Leela once again refers to members of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] as "blue guards." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Energy of the Daleks (audio story)|Energy of the Daleks]]'')
* Leela once again refers to members of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] as "blue guards." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Energy of the Daleks (audio story)|Energy of the Daleks]]'')
* After hearing his voice over the intercom in his house, Leela states that Jalnik "speaks through the air like [[Xoanon]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'')
* After hearing his voice over the intercom in his house, Leela states that Jalnik "speaks through the air like [[Xoanon]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'')

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The Foe from the Future was originally submitted as the possible conclusion to season 14. When writer Robert Banks Stewart was called away from Doctor Who by Verity Lambert to guide the writing of a troubled soap opera at Thames Television, however, the story lapsed and script editor Robert Holmes instead wrote The Talons of Weng-Chiang as the season-ender. (DOC: The Foe from the Future)

About 40 years later, Big Finish Productions resurrected the original script idea and adapted it to audio. It was then released as a six-part adventure starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. As a sort of in-joke to the relationship between Foe and Talons, Big Finish adapter John Dorney explicitly set it immediately prior to the events of Talons.

Publisher's summary

The Grange is haunted, so they say. This stately home in the depths of Devon has been the site of many an apparition. And now people are turning up dead. The ghosts are wild in the forest. But the Doctor doesn't believe in ghosts.

The TARDIS follows a twist in the vortex to the village of Staffham in 1977 and discovers something is very wrong with time. But spectral highwaymen and cavaliers are the least of the Doctor's worries.

For the Grange is owned by the sinister Jalnik, and Jalnik has a scheme two thousand years in the making. Only the Doctor and Leela stand between him and the destruction of history itself. It's the biggest adventure of their lives – but do they have the time?

Plot

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Part five

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Part six

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Cast

References

Notes

  • This is the first Lost Story to adapt a script which was originally to have been made during the 1970s.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 September 2011.

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