Urban Myths is a single part story featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown. It is one of two single-part audio stories to feature this pairing. The other is Mission of the Viyrans.
Publisher's summary
Urban Myths (A One-Part Story)
In an expensive restaurant somewhere on Earth, three gourmets plan their evening. First item on the menu: the death of the Doctor.
Plot
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Cast
References
- Harom is the Coordinator of the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA). Edge and Kettoo are his two of subordinates.
- Harom notes that gouloush, which originated on Earth, is popular throughout Mutter's Spiral.
- In Edge's exaggerated version of the Doctor and Peri's actions on Poytee, the Doctor is a bloodthirsty renegade who keeps a cache of weapons in the TARDIS and destroys the entire surface of the planet by activating the chain of subsurface atomic reactors in revenge for one of the inhabitants firing a weapon at Peri. She is depicted as being equally bloodthirsty, delighting in the Doctor's merciless killing of Palgrave and the extent of the damage that Level 3 of her weapon can do to a humanoid body. After ensuring that all life on the planet would be eradicated, the Doctor proclaims, "The last one back to the TARDIS wipes the blood out of my shirt!"
- In Kettoo's version of the Doctor and Peri's actions on Poytee, the Doctor vents the cooling systems of all of the atomic reactors into the seas, causing the coolant to react with the hydrogen molecules and creating an enormous gas cloud which suffocated every living creature on Poytee. When Palgrave objects, Peri incapacitates him and the Doctor completes the venting process. The Doctor and Peri, though nowhere near as bloodthirsty as in Edge's story, are both utterly convinced that eradicating the population of Poytee is the lesser of two evils if they want to ensure that the virus does not spread beyond the confines of the planet.
- According to Kettoo, the Doctor told Peri that he once bowled either W.G. Grace or W.C. Fields for a duck whereas Peri jokingly referred to him as Babe Ruth.
- In actuality, it was Poytee's Scientific Corps which developed the plan to vent selective subsurface atomic generators. The Corps planned to control the spread of the resultant radioactive clouds using a climate modulator and then disperse them into the upper atmosphere. When examining a patient, the Doctor was accidentally infected with what he determined to be the Tul-Oz virus. Peri convinced the Corps to delay the implementation of their plan while the Doctor developed a antidote to the virus from his own blood sample. He then released the antidote into the atmosphere where it was activated and dispersed across the surface of the planet using the climate modulator, thus curing the entire population.
- The Doctor requests that Harom put in a good word for him with the High Council of the Time Lords.
- The proprietor of the Austrian restaurant is an old friend of the Doctor's and a fellow renegade Time Lord who has operated it since the time of the Habsburgs. In order to make use of the restaurant, the Doctor promised her that Peri would work as a waitress until the end of the week. He did not inform Peri of this until after the CIA agents had left.
- The out-of-order walk-in fridge at the back of the restaurant's kitchen is the renegade Time Lords' TARDIS.
Notes
- Urban Myths is only one episode long. The remaining three episodes on the two discs are for the story Exotron.
- This release includes behind-the-scenes interviews with members of the cast.
- Douglas Hodge (Edge) would later play Radu in BFA: Son of the Dragon.
- Barry McCarthy (Palgrave) would later play John Dobrin in BFA: Son of the Dragon, Creek in BFA: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Bulek in BFA: Sisters of the Flame / The Vengeance of Morbius and Vincent Linfoot in BFA: Plague of the Daleks.
- This audio drama was recorded on 8 February 2007.
Continuity
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Timeline
- This story occurs after BFA: Exotron
- This story occurs before PDA: The Ultimate Treasure