Invaders from Mars (audio story)
Publisher's Summary
Hallowe'en 1938.
A month after a mysterious meteorite lit up the skies of New York State, Martian invaders laid waste to the nation. At least, according to soon-to-be infamous Orson Welles they did. But what if some of the panicked listeners to the legendary War of the Worlds broadcast weren’t just imagining things?
Attempting to deliver Charley to her rendezvous in Singapore 1930, the Doctor overshoots a little, arriving in Manhattan just in time to find a dead private detective. Indulging his gumshoe fantasies, the Doctor is soon embroiled in the hunt for a missing Russian scientist whilst Charley finds herself at the mercy of a very dubious Fifth Columnist.
With some genuinely out of this world 'merchandise' at stake, the TARDIS crew are forced into an alliance with a sultry dame claled Glory Bee, Orson Welles himself and a mobster with half a nose known as 'The Phantom'.
And slowly and surely, something is drawing plans against them. Just not very good ones...
Cast & Characters
- The Doctor is a fan of Orson Wells.
Charley Pollarad - India Fisher
- Cosmo is a gossip colomist for The Tattler.
John Houseman - Jonathan Rigby
Mouse / Winkler - Ian Hallard
Ellis - Mark Benton
Bix Biro - Paul Putner
References
- War of the Worlds is mentioned and referenced, several times.
- Orson Wells doesn't know who Shakespeare is.
Continuity
- Why Orson Wells doesn't know who Shakespeare is is revealed in The Time of the Daleks.
- In Neverland it is revealed why for instance there are; 49 states in America (instead or 48 in 1938) and how the CIA can exist in 1938.
Timeline
This story takes place after Minuet in Hell.
