Scherzo was the fifty-second monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. Released in 2003, this was the first Big Finish audio drama to only feature two cast members, the whole story is carried by Paul McGann and India Fisher as the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard. This story also serves as the first story of eight that form part of the Divergent Universe arc, although it is the next story where the Doctor and Charley first interact with major elements of the Divergent Universe.
Publisher's summary
Once upon a time...
There were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining.
But every good story has to come to an end.
With no times or places left to explore, all the two friends have now are each other. But maybe that's one voyage too many. Maybe they'll discover things they'd rather have left undisturbed... hidden away in the suffocating, unfeeling, deafening brightness.
Once upon a time. Far, far away.
Plot
to be added
Cast
References
The Doctor
- The Doctor has lived for a thousand years.
- The Doctor claims that when he dies, he wishes to do so alone.
Time Lords
- Time Lords have senses other than the usual five, all of which are related to time.
- Time Lords are capable of living for thousands of years.
Notes
- At the time it was released, this was the only piece of performed Doctor Who fiction since TV: The Edge of Destruction in 1964 to feature only the regular cast.
- This story features the Doctor and Charley in one of the most intimate exchanges between a companion and Doctor in performed Doctor Who.
- An illustrated preview for this story appeared in DWM 338 by Martin Geraghty.
- This audio drama was recorded on 16 May 2003 at The Moat Studios.
Continuity
- Charley refers to the fact that she should have died in the crash of the British airship R101 on 5 October 1930. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
- Paradoxically, due to the timeless nature of the Divergent Universe, the Doctor refers to the Kromon and the Kro'ka (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon), the Censor (AUDIO: The Natural History of Fear), and Major Koth (AUDIO: The Twilight Kindgom), all of whom he and Charley will encounter at a later point in their personal timelines.
External links
- Official Scherzo page at bigfinish.com
- Scherzo at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Scherzo at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide