Crime of the Century (audio story)
Crime of the Century was the fourth story release in the second series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Andrew Cartmel, from the original script by Ben Aaronovitch, and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and introduced Beth Chalmers as Raine Creevy.
This story was originally intended to be the third story of the original Season 27, but was cancelled along with other planned stories when Doctor Who itself was cancelled in 1989.
Publisher's summary
The year is 1989. In London, safe cracker Raine Creevy breaks into a house — and finds more than the family jewels.
In the Middle East, the kingdom of Sayf Udeen is being terrorised by Soviet invaders and alien monsters.
And on the Scottish border, a highly guarded facility contains an advanced alien weapon.
These are all part of the Doctor's masterplan. But masterplans can go awry...
Plot
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Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Raine Creevy - Beth Chalmers
- Markus Creevy - Ricky Groves
- Nikitin/Parvez - Derek Carlyle
- Colonel Maxim Alexandrovitch Felnikov/Party Guest/Waiter - John Albasiny
- Metatraxi/Walnuf/Gunman - John Banks
- Prince Sayf Udeen/Valentin - Chris Porter
References
Notes
- This audio drama was recorded on 13 and 14 April 2010 at the Moat Studios.
- It was released on 18 May 2011.[1]
- Raine Creevy is based on Raine Cunningham, the companion who was intended to come after Ace in the then-unproduced Season 27. A feature in DWM 255 gave the character the name Kate Tollinger, but according to an interview with script editor Andrew Cartmel in DWM 433, the character was always going to be named Raine. The character has been renamed Raine Creevy, as Cartmel had since discovered someone of the name Raine Cunningham existed in real life.
- Notably, this story deliberately does not give the identity of the British Prime Minister in 1989 in the Doctor Who universe. In reality, it was Margaret Thatcher, who served in that office continuously from 4 May 1979 to 28 November 1990. This contrasts with several other audio dramas based in the 1980s, including The Ultimate Adventure (in which she is featured as a character) and Rat Trap (in which she is mentioned several times). The latter was released in June 2011, only one month after the release of Thin Ice.
Continuity
- Raine Creevy was delivered by the Doctor in the Soviet Union on 7 November 1967 (AUDIO: Thin Ice), almost twenty-two years before the events of this story. From the Doctor's perspective, those events occurred immediately before his encounter with the adult Raine on 13 October 1989.
- The Doctor and Ace previously met Markus Creevy and the then-Major Felnikov in Moscow in November 1967. Both Creevy and Felnikov take some time to realise that Ace is the same girl whom they had last seen more than two decades earlier, having not aged a day in the interim. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)
- Ace refers to her home of Perivale. (TV: Ghost Light, TV: Survival)
- Ace mentions that she has previously had bad experiences in caves. (TV: Dragonfire, TV: Battlefield)
- Ace hates being called "small." (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
- Felnikov calls Ace "tovarishch", a Russian word meaning comrade or friend or ally. The Fenric-possessed Captain Sorin also called her tovarishch. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
Footnotes
External links
- Official Crime of the Century page at bigfinish.com
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