A Death in the Family (audio story)

A Death in the Family (audio story)

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A Death in the Family
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace Hex Evelyn Smythe (guest, dies)
Main enemy:	Nobody No-One
Main setting:	Earth Pelachan
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Steven Hall
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	Richard Fox & Lauren Yason
Release details
Release number:	140
Release date:	October 2010
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7W/N
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-499-3

Publisher's summary

"The future folds into the past. The homeless hero has fallen. Now begins the time of three tales: The Tale of the Herald. The Tale of the Hidden Woman. The Tale of the Final Speaker. When the last tale is told, all the lights shall fail. The world will end."

21st century London: Nobody No One, the extra-dimensional Word Lord, is again running amok. Only this time, he's unbeatable – and a terrible tragedy is about to unfold.

It is written.

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• Nobody No-One - Ian Reddington
• Corporal/Novice/Henry Noone - John Dorney
• Ayl-San/Faber/Nurse - Alison Thea-Skot
• Captain Stillwell/Applin/Tour Guide - Andrew Dickens
• Ann-the-Van/Story Speaker/Webster - Harriet Kershaw

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor has something like a calendar of when his friends will die.

Individuals

• The Doctor dies, killed by Nobody No One.
• Evelyn dies of a heart attack, capturing Nobody No One as she does though.
• Henry Noone writes a story of what he thinks Ace would be like in ten years, if they married, and through a complicated process through time, creates Dr. Dorothy Noone, a being capable of combating the Word Lord; Nobody No One.

Locations

• The Doctor and Ace search the remains of the Forge's building for alien technology with Captain Stillwell of UNIT.
• Ace meets up with Henry Noone on a couple of occasions in the The White Rabbit pub in London, 2027.
• By 2027, the United Kingdom is ruled by a king.

TARDIS

• The Doctor's TARDIS is still white.
• Ace can't fly the TARDIS.

Time travel

• Evelyn Rossiter was transported from Világ to the planet Pelachan via a temporal device.
• The people of Pelachan are descendants of a time ship that crashed on their planet.

Notes

• This release includes behind-the-scenes interviews with members of the cast.
• This release includes isolated music as an extra track.

Continuity

• Nobody No One previously appeared in BFA: Forty-Five.
• Evelyn mentions meeting Julius Caesar's parents (BFA: 100 BC) and Charles Darwin (BFA: Bloodtide), "leaping from steam trains in the Wild West" (CC: A Town Called Fortune) and spending time "in a spacesuit bouncing about Axos with that poor boy Brewster." (BFA: The Feast of Axos)
• Evelyn previously met the Seventh Doctor in BFA: Thicker Than Water and saw him, Ace and Hex from afar in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor.

Timeline

• A Death in the Family occurs after: BFA: Project: Destiny
• A Death in the Family occurs before: BFA: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

External links

• Official A Death in the Family page at bigfinish.com
• A Death in the Family at the Doctor Who Reference Guide