Mary's Story (audio story)

Mary's Story (audio story)

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Mary's Story
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Mary Shelley (introduction, joins)
Main setting:	near Lake Geneva, Switzerland in 1816
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music:	Matthew Cochrane
Sound:	Matthew Cochrane
Release details
Release number:	123d
Part of:	The Company of Friends
Release date:	July 2009
Format:	1 X 25 min.
Production code:	8Z
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-411-5

Mary's Story (audio story) was a 2009 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story, featuring the eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley. It was the fruition of a nearly decade-long gag that had been running through the eighth Doctor's audio adventures. Since his first adventure, Storm Warning, he had been dropping hints of a friendship with Shelley, but that relationship had never been depicted until this story.

This story is notable for the fact that the eighth Doctor acknowledges comics, prose, and audio continuities. It is the first, and as of 2011 only, story to explicitly and unambiguously combine the continuities of these three media.

Publisher's summary

Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron's house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.

Cast

• The Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann
• Mary Shelley - Julie Cox
• Percy Shelley - Anthony Glennon
• Lord Byron - Robert Forknall
• John Polidori - Ian Hallard
• Claire Clairmont - Katrina Cooke

References

• The Doctor cries out for Gemma, Destrii and Compassion to help him.
• The Doctor mentions some of his previous companions, seemingly in order: Ssard, Trix, Charley, Lucie, Alex, Tar and Rita.
• The Doctor and Mary met Cybermen, Axons and King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. Their encounter with the Cybermen would later be portrayed in BFA: The Silver Turk.

Notes

• A future version of the eighth Doctor names some of his previous companions all from different ranges of stories, such as Compassion (books), Lucie (audios) and Destrii (comics), in one of the rare occasions in which the different continuities are acknowledged together.

Continuity

• The Doctor left his companions Samson and Gemma Griffin in Vienna before travelling with Mary only to pick them up later. Samson and Gemma first appeared in BFA: Terror Firma. While they have yet to make a second audio appearance, they were depicted travelling with the Doctor in ST: The Long Midwinter and ST: Dear John.
• The Doctor's TARDIS regenerates with the help of the Doctor; the TARDIS would later do this in DW: The Eleventh Hour.
• The Doctor uses a small green crystal to regenerate the TARDIS which is similar, if not identical to the one used in DW: Rise of the Cybermen.

Timeline

• Mary's Story occurs after: ST: Dear John (present Doctor) and ST: Suns and Mothers (future Doctor).
• Mary's Story occurs before: BFA: The Silver Turk (present Doctor) and ST: Museum Peace (future Doctor).

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