Dead London (audio story)

Dead London
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie
Main enemy:	Sepulchre
Main setting:	Inside Sepulchre's mind
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Pat Mills
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	David Richardson, Sharon Gosling
Music:	Simon Robinson
Sound:	Simon Robinson
Cover by:	Grant Kempster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	2.1
Release date:	January 2008
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG009
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-308-8 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78178-484-6 (digital)
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Dead London was the first story in the second series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Pat Mills and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

Publisher's summary

Someone's playing with us. Manipulating time and space for their own ends.

The TARDIS lands in London. But which one? The Doctor and Lucie find themselves trapped in a maze of interlocking Londons from Roman times to the present day.

But they are not alone in this labyrinth: a killer is on their trail.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Sepulchre - Rupert Vansittart
• Spring-Heeled Sophie - Clare Buckfield
• Clerks - Richard Laing
• Yellow Beryl - Katarina Olsson

References

• Don Quixote is mentioned.

The Doctor

• The Doctor mentions the bad fashion sense of his previous incarnations, in particular the brightly-coloured clothes of the Sixth Doctor.
• The Doctor mentions once being grabbed by a Sea Devil.

Clothes and fashion

• Lucie Miller wears a Beatles vest top.

Objects

• The Cista Mystica is a Roman artefact used by the followers of Dionysus.

Planets

• Quagreeg is a marsh world in the Sirius system inhabited by unpleasant reptilian life forms who are a gestalt being.

Recreation

• Spring-Heeled Sophie is a funambulist.

Science

• Telmonium is an incredibly durable and rare extra-terrestrial metal.

Film

• Lucie has seen the movie The Wicker Man.

Notes

Promotional art for the series by Anthony Dry, printed in Doctor Who Magazine

• This audio drama was recorded on 21 August 2007 at The Moat Studios.
• This story debuts a new theme arrangement for the Eighth Doctor, arranged by Nicholas Briggs and based on the Delia Derbyshire theme tunes. This replaces the David Arnold theme used from Storm Warning through to Human Resources.
• The story was broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 19 October 2008.
• The audio's title originated as that of a chapter in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898), where it referred to a London left desolate by the Martian invasion; the title had since been used more prominently for a song in Jeff Wayne's 1978 musical adaptation.

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions the cult of Mithras. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear)
• Different time zones has been created in a similar fashion as in TV: The War Games.
• The Doctor uses his cravat to create a zip wire and slide in a rope from the Wicker Man in the same fashion he does in COMIC: The Forgotten, shouting Geronimo (one of the catchphrases of the Eleventh Doctor).

External links

• Official Dead London page at bigfinish.com
• Dead London at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Dead London at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide