The Creeping Death (audio story)

The Creeping Death
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Donna
Main enemy:	Fumifugium
Main setting:	London, 5 December 1952
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Roy Gill
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	3.3
Part of:	The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume Three
Release date:	16 May 2019
Format:	1 Episode on 1 CD; Download
Production code:	BFPDW10TH03C
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-763-2
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The Creeping Death was the third and final story in The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume Three, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Roy Gill and featured David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

Publisher's summary

London, 1952, and a deadly smog envelops the capital. But something even more dangerous - and alien - is hiding within the mists.

When the Doctor and Donna get lost in the fog, they find a motley group of Londoners trying to make their way home.

Soon the stakes are raised, as death creeps along fume-choked streets, and not everyone will make it out alive....

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
• Ivy Clark - Lauren Cornelius
• Terry Hopkins - Theo Stevenson
• Richard Cooper - Kieran Bew
• Malcolm Wishart - Stephen Critchlow
• Alice Aiken / Fumifugium - Helen Goldwyn

References

• The musical film Singin' in the Rain was released in 1952.
• Ivy mentions the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.
• In England, it is illegal to be homosexual in 1952.
• Alice claims to be the star of West End theatre.
• Richard says he only goes to pantos.

Notes

• In 2019, this story was re-released on vinyl in a limited run of 1000 copies.

Cover gallery

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  Original cover.

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  Alternate cover.

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  Vinyl cover.

Continuity

• The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane were also in London during the Great Smog (although they remained for the whole experience, while the Tenth Doctor and Donna departed after the first day). (PROSE: Amorality Tale)
• The Doctor and Donna discuss Pompeii when the Doctor initially tells Donna about the historical inevitability of the coming Great Smog, with the Doctor assuring Donna that he will try to save as many lives as history will 'allow' him to save. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)
• The Doctor says that he and heights didn't always end well. The Fourth Doctor fell off the Pharos Project tower, causing him to regenerate. (TV: Logopolis)
• The Doctor tells Ivy that the moon is full of "angry space rhinos". (TV: Smith and Jones)
• Ivy tells Donna "there's something on your back". (TV: Turn Left)
• When stealing a bus, Ivy mentions to the Doctor that he might be starting a trend of stealing buses. The Tenth Doctor would later help Lady Christina de Souza to steal the 200 bus after escaping San Helios in Easter 2009. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
• The Fumifugium animate a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa previously encountered animated dinosaur skeletons in Alaska in 1994. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead)

External links

• Official The Creeping Death page at bigfinish.com