The Unknown (audio story)

The Unknown
Main character(s):	River Song
Featuring:	Seventh Doctor
Main setting:	The Saturnius
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Guy Adams
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	2.1
Release date:	25 December 2016
Format:	1 X 1 hour
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The Unknown was the first full cast audio story in the second series of The Diary of River Song, released in December 2016 by Big Finish Productions.

Publisher's summary

A planetary anomaly. A scientific impossibility. A mystery to be solved.

Of course, River Song expects to be consulted. She expects her valuable knowledge and experience will help the crew of the Saturnius unlock the strange phenomenon that has appeared in Earth’s solar system.

But what River doesn’t expect is a stowaway. An infuriating little man, calling himself the Doctor.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• River Song - Alex Kingston
• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Maddie Bower - Anna Maxwell-Martin
• Ellen Byrne - Gemma Saunders
• Robert Murphy - Justin Avoth
• Computer - Dan Starkey
• Rachel - Salome Haertel

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor stated that he was "overdue a nap", referring to him rarely needing sleep.
• The Doctor says that one of his best friends was an archeologist

River Song

• Even when her memories are interrupted by the numerous temporal anomalies, the name "the Doctor" rings a bell somehow.

Technology

• According to the Doctor, he patented the Sonic Screwdriver.

Plants

• According to River, during cultivation of Earth plant species on other worlds, the oak tree could never thrive.

Notes

• As a possible joke on the actor's surname, in conversation with the Seventh Doctor, she remarks "you're rather coy".
• The character of Maddie Bower was named after a fan called "Maddy Bower". Guy Adams met her aunt, and decided to do this because he though it would have been something that would have pleased him, if he had her age. (VOR 95)

Continuity

• The Doctor recognises that's River's device is a Sonic Screwdriver. (TV: The Husbands of River Song, Silence in the Library et al)
• The closer the crew gets to the Doctor's TARDIS, the more the walls of the two ships have combined. One crewmember notices "the round things". (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• River Song is able to pilot the TARDIS with ease, even when her memory has been interrupted. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler et al)
• The temporal anomalies are made worse by two time vessels colliding in the Time Vortex. One is the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Time Crash)
• The future timeline of Earth has been altered. (TV: The Mysterious Planet)
• The TARDIS has fused with a spaceship before, similarly mixing up their architecture. (TV: Terminus)

External links

• Official The Diary of River Song Series Two page at bigfinish.com