City of Spires (audio story)

City of Spires
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Jamie
Main enemy:	TBC
Main setting:	Scotish Higlands, circa 1746
Key crew
Writer:	Simon Bovey
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Andy Hardwick
Release details
Release number:	133
Release date:	30th April 2010
Format:	2 discs
Production code:	7C/PI
ISBN:	978-1-84435-457-3

City of Spires was the first part of Big Finish's wholly original season for the Sixth Doctor in 2010. It was notable for being the first performed Doctor Who story which featured any incarnation of the Doctor reuniting with Jamie at a time after Jamie had his memories of the Doctor wiped by the Time Lords. As such, it was a sequel to The War Games.

Synopsis

Arriving in a hail of musket fire, the Doctor unexpectedly finds himself in the highlands of Scotland, where the ruthless Black Donald and his band of rebels are fighting the Redcoats. But the highland warriors no longer fight for the Jacobite cause and the English officers answer only to the mysterious Overlord. What has happened to Scotland and why are its moors littered with advanced, oil-pumping technology?

Reunited with his faithful companion Jamie McCrimmon, the Doctor must venture into the sinister City of Spires to find the answers. But standing in his way is the deadly Red Cap…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
• Jamie - Frazer Hines
• Alice - Georgia Moffett
• Victor - Richard Earl
• Major Heyward - James Albrecht
• Sergeant Rilke - Russell Floyd
• Guthrie - Sam Graham
• Rob - Charlie Ross
• Red Cap - John Banks

Production crew

• Writer - Simon Bovey
• Director - Nicholas Briggs
• Producer - TBC
• Sound design - Andy Hardiwck
• Cover art - Simon Holub
• Music - Andy Hardwick

References

• The events of DW: The Highlanders and DW: The War Games are mentioned, along with companions Ben and Polly.
• The Phantom Piper is mentioned with reference made to DW: The Moonbase.
• The Doctor informs Jamie that "the asembled hoardes of Genghis Khan couldn't open the TARDIS", much as the the Ninth Doctor told Rose Tyler in Rose.

Story notes

• This story was recorded on 12th and 13th October 2009
• Being the first in a trilogy, some of the story threads introduced are left unresolved at this stage.
• The Red Caps undergo a conversion process similar to that of the Cybermen. The end result, however, is not the same.

Continuity

• Jamie's memory of The Doctor, apart from their first adventure, was wiped by the Time Lords at the end of DW: The War Games.

Timeline

• City of Spires occurs before: BFA: The Wreck of the Titan
• The Wreck of the Titan occurs after: DW: The War Games, for Jamie and The Two Doctors, for the Doctor.

External links

• City of Spires Big Finish page