The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (audio story)

The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Dr. Evelyn Smythe
Main enemy:	Sancreda
Main setting:	Lanyor Moor, West Cornwall, the 1990s Greece, the 1990s
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Nicholas Pegg
Director:	Nicholas Pegg
Producer:	Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	9
Release date:	June 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7C/B
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-070-1
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The Spectre of Lanyon Moor was the first Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio story to feature Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and the first 'official' meeting of the characters with the actors playing their characters. Nicholas Courtney had previously played the Brigadier in audio form in the two BBCR radio plays The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space opposite Jon Pertwee and Elisabeth Sladen.

Publisher's summary

In a desolate Cornish landscape littered with relics of prehistoric man, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn uncover a catalogue of mysteries.

What is the secret of the fogou? Can the moor be haunted by a demonic host of imps? And what is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart doing in Pengriffen?

Teaming up with his old friend, the Doctor realises that an ancient conflict is nearing its conclusion -- and Lanyon Moor is set to be the final battleground.

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Dr. Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• The Brigadier - Nicholas Courtney
• Mrs. Moynihan - Susan Jameson
• Philip Ludgate - Barnaby Edwards
• Professor Morgan - Toby Longworth
• Sir Archibald Flint - James Bolam
• Nikki Hunter - Helen Goldwyn

References

The Doctor

• The Brigadier recognises the Doctor by how outrageously he is dressed.
• The poem quoted by the Doctor is The Fairies by William Allingham.

Human organisations

• The Brigadier is doing a little bit of undercover work for UNIT.

Locations

• The Doctor once visited the Parthenon in Athens while it was being built.

Species

• Around eighteen thousand years ago, a Trigannon spaceship crash landed in what would become England.

Technology

• The Doctor has a metadimensional rheostat in his pocket.
• Sancreda's menantolian induction loop is made of menantol bisilicate.

Notes

Art by Lee Sullivan from DWM 292

• This is Nicholas Courtney's first appearance as the Brigadier in a Big Finish Productions audio drama. He had previously appeared as Wolsey the cat in BFBS: Oh No It Isn't!.
• This story was featured in Doctor Who Magazine issue 292 with an illustration by Lee Sullivan.
• The moorland picture used on the background on the CD cover, which also appears reversed and substantially tinted on the cover of Red Dawn, is a photograph of Dartmoor in Devon. The rocky outcrop just visible on the horizon beside the Brigadier's cap is Hound Tor, the location used for The Sontaran Experiment.
• This audio drama was recorded on 5 and 6 February 2000.

Continuity

• The Doctor finds out that the Brigadier is married for the 'first time' in DW: Battlefield.
• The Brigadier is still doing occasional UNIT undercover work, as he continues to do in BFU: The Wasting.

Timeline

For the Doctor and Evelyn

• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor occurs after BFA: The Sirens of Time
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor occurs before BFA: The Apocalypse Element

For the Brigadier

• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor occurs after PDA: Business Unusual
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor occurs before RP: Downtime

External links

• Official The Spectre of Lanyon Moor page at bigfinish.com
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide