Phantasmagoria (audio story)
Phantasmagoria is the second in the series of Doctor Who CD Audio Dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. Written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Nicholas Briggs, the story features the Fifth Doctor and Turlough, with Peter Davison and Mark Strickson respectively reprising their roles from the original television series. Strickson becomes the first of many companion actors to reprise his TV role for Big Finish. It was recorded on the 26th and 27th of June, 1999.
Publisher's summary
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Turlough to the London of 1702 where a mysterious highwayman roams the streets, a local occultist has made contact with the dead and gentlemen of fashion are disappearing, only to find themselves in a chamber whose walls weep blood...
The time travellers become enmeshed in the hideous plans of Sir Nikolas Valentine, a gambler at the mysterious Diabola Club who always seems to have a winning hand...
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Turlough - Mark Strickson
- Sir Nikolas Valentine - David Ryall
- Dr. Samuel Holywell - Steven Wickham
- Quincy Flowers / Ned Cotton - David Walliams
- Edmund Carteret - Jonathan Rigby
- Jasper Jeake - Mark Gatiss
- Poltrot / Major Billy Lovemore / Librarian - Jez Fielder
- Hannah Fry - Julia Dalkin
- Henry Gaunt - Nicholas Briggs
References
- Hannah is given brandy to settle her nerves.
- The Doctor gives Turlough his 1928 edition of Wisden's Almanac.
Notes
- This story was originally released as a double cassette as well as double CD. It was one of very few Big Finish audio dramas to released on cassette.
- David Walliams would later play Gibbis in DW: The God Complex.
Continuity
- The Doctor finds a cricket ball and a ball of string in his pocket. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
- The Doctor tells Turlough that has seen and was very impressed by a Type 70 TARDIS. (BFA: The Sirens of Time.
Timeline
- Phantasmagoria occurs after VD: Zeitgeist
- Phantasmagoria occurs before BFA: Loups-Garoux
