Publisher's summary
When a newspaper reporter goes missing, the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa uncover a case of alien abduction. The trail leads them to the planet Luparis, and a city that appears to be a replica of Tudor London.
What are the monsters that lurk in the shadows? And what is the terrible secret at the heart of Luparis? To save a world, the Doctor must try and defeat the evil plans of Queen Zafira.
And one of her plans is to marry him...
Plot
to be added
Cast
- Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
- Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Queen Zafira / Bev - Jacqueline Pearce
- Mike Bretherton - Toby Hadoke
- Lord Jezzavar - Richard Mark
- Lord Zellenger / Bill - Dan Starkey
- Astorius - Sean Brosnan
References
- Tegan and Mike Bretherton, who were next door neighbours, went to high school together in Brisbane. They were taught physics and chemistry by Miss Anderson. When she was fifteen, she broke her toe during track and gym and Mike carried her books home for her.
- Lord Zellenger is one of Queen Zafira's husbands and Consort Counsellors. She eventually tired of him and married Lord Jezzavar, who replaced him as her primary Consort Counsellor. She had several other husbands before them but likewise tired of them in time.
- Luparis is a replica of Tudor London, featuring reproductions of the River Thames (which has frozen over due to the planet's rapidly falling temperatures, leading to a frost fair), London Bridge and the Palace of Whitehall.
- The Doctor once sparred with Errol Flynn.
- The Doctor says Gallifreyans can live for "millennia".
- Luparis is the third planet of Proxima Centauri, and is supposed to be overgrown with no intelligent life.
Notes
- Jacqueline Pearce (Queen Zafira) previously played Chessene in TV: The Two Doctors, Sherilyn Harper in AUDIO: The Fearmonger, Admiral Mettna in WC: Death Comes to Time and the Keeper during the second series of the Sarah Jane Smith audio series. She is best known for her role as Supreme Commander / President Servalan in Blake's 7.
- Dan Starkey (Lord Zellenger) previously played numerous Sontarans in the revived series, namely Commander Skorr and Lieutenant Skree in TV: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky, Commander Jask in TV: The End of Time and Commander Strax in TV: A Good Man Goes to War, as well as Plark in TV: The Man Who Never Was.
- After AUDIO: Prison in Space, this is the second Lost Story in which a female ruler seeks to marry the Doctor. Babs, the Chairman of the World Federation of Womanhood, became infatuated with the Second Doctor immediately after meeting him in that story.
- Sean Brosnan (Astorius) previously played Hamilton Seymour in AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari.
- This audio drama was recorded on 10 and 11 February 2011.
Continuity
- The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan spend several days on holiday in Brisbane, Australia following their ordeal with the Elite on Florana. (AUDIO: The Elite) The three of them and Turlough would subsequently visit Brisbane during World War VI in the early 51st century. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) Later in his personal timeline, the Doctor would return to the city on 22 September 2006, where he would be reunited with Tegan, approximately 22 years after she had left the TARDIS following an encounter with the Daleks in London in 1984. (AUDIO: The Gathering)
- The Doctor tells Lord Jezzavar of the destruction of Traken while Nyssa obliquely refers to the death of her father Tremas. (TV: Logopolis)
- Tegan refers to the Great Fire of London in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
- The Doctor tells Queen Zafira that he once visited the Palace of Whitehall. He did so in November 1688 during his second incarnation in the company of Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution)
- The Doctor mentions that he has witnessed humans thriving during one of Earth's Ice Ages. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
- Tegan refers to Nyssa being brainwashed by the Elite on Florana. (AUDIO: The Elite)
External links
- Official Hexagora page at bigfinish.com