Phantasmagoria (audio story)

It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Nicholas Briggs. It featured the Fifth Doctor and Turlough. This meant that Mark Strickson became the first televised companion to reprise his role for Big Finish, as the preceding Big Finish audio, The Sirens of Time, was a companion-less adventure.

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...

Plot

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Part 4

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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

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References

Hannah is given brandy to settle her nerves.
The Doctor gives Turlough his 1928 edition of Wisden Almanack.
The Doctor considers cricket to be "the greatest game in the universe", and gives Turlough an extended lecture about it.
The story takes place on the day that William of Orange died: 8 March 1702.
The Doctor and Valentine play patience.
Jasper learned of Edmund's death from Mother Connitt.

Notes

This story was originally released as a double cassette as well as a double CD. It was one of very few Big Finish audio dramas to be released on cassette.
This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 June 1999 at The Nu Groove Studios.
Charles Dickens refers to the titular word in Mark Gatiss' first TV story, The Unquiet Dead.
Alistair Lock's soundtrack to the story was released on CD in Music from the New Audio Adventures Volume 1, alongside the scores for The Fearmonger, The Marian Conspiracy and The Spectre of Lanyon Moor.

Continuity

Turlough enjoyed studying history at Brendon Public School on Earth in 1983. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
The Doctor finds a cricket ball and a ball of string in his pocket. (TV: Four to Doomsday)
The Doctor tells Turlough that he has seen — and was very impressed by — a Type 70 TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time)

External links

Official Phantasmagoria page at bigfinish.com; note that it is out of print and is available as download only.
Phantasmagoria at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
DisContinuity for Phantasmagoria at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide