My Dinner with Andrew (audio story)
My Dinner with Andrew was the third full cast audio story in the third series of The Diary of River Song, released in January 2018 by Big Finish Productions.
Publisher's summary
Welcome, Mesdames et Messieurs, to The Bumptious Gastropod.
The most exclusive, most discreet dining experience outside the universe. For the restaurant exists beyond spacetime itself, and the usual rules of causality do not apply. Anything could happen.
It is here that the Doctor has a date. With River Song. And with death.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- River Song - Alex Kingston
- Madame Kovarian - Frances Barber
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Brooke - Joanna Horton
- Andrew Edwardson - Peter Davison
- Maitre D' / Chef - Jonathan Coote
- Assassin - Jonathan Coote
- Brooke 2 - Nina Toussaint-White
References
- Among the dishes served at the Bumptious Gastropod is poached leg of Mire Beast.
- Andrew uses the Doctor's unlimited credit slip from the Galactic Century Bank to buy the the Bumptious Gastropod when it was a cafe.
Notes
- The title of the story is a reference to the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre.
Continuity
- River tells Andrew he looks just like her fifth husband. (TV: The Wedding of River Song et al)
- River says she's a professor. (TV: Silence in the Library et al)
- River kisses the Doctor and Brooke with her hallucinogenic lipstick to make them forget meeting her. (TV: The Time of Angels et al) She also tells the Doctor he'll get used to kissing her. (TV: Day of the Moon, Let's Kill Hitler, The Wedding of River Song, The Name of the Doctor)
- River shoots the Fifth Doctor. She also shot the Eleventh Doctor at earlier points in her timeline. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- River tells Brooke the Doctor was a good boy because he "did as he was told". The Eleventh Doctor previously told River to do as she was told in order to follow his plan on their wedding day. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)
- River tells the Maitre D' to tell her past self that things are about to get complicated. Her mother often said the same thing when she ended up meeting versions of herself. (TV: The Big Bang, Space)
- River says the Doctor can't die at The Bumptious Gastropod because his "death" is a fixed point in time at Lake Silencio. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)
- River uses her vortex manipulator. (TV: The Pandorica Opens et al)
- Madame Kovarian scoffs at the celery on the Doctor's clothes. (TV: Castrovalva et al)
External links
- Official The Diary of River Song Series Three page at bigfinish.com
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