More actions
Dead Media was the ninth story of the ninth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series. It featured the Twelfth Doctor.
Publisher's summary
Like everyone else in 2017, the Doctor is doing a podcast.
Named the 'People of St Lukes', the podcast is about the everyday lives of students at the university. Only, with the Doctor involved, the everyday is dangerous and extraordinary.
Something's lurking in the A/V department, something that is trapped in old equipment... as the Doctor quickly discovers, outdated technology does have a role in the modern world.
That role? Ending it.
Plot
to be added
Characters
- Twelfth Doctor
- Petra
- Prof. Petra Elliot (alternate dimension)
References
- Petra belongs to the A/V club.
- The Doctor names this episode of the podcast, which he is presenting, "The Monster at the End of This Podcast". This is in tribute to a children's picture book which would become a major religion in the 2020s.
- This is in reference to The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover, the best-selling Sesame Street book in the franchise's history.
- The St Luke's University library once turned invisible for three days. The Doctor claims not to be entirely responsible.
- The Doctor mentions that Nardole has taken the TARDIS to see ABBA at Eurovision 1974.
- The Doctor refers to the trapped creature as a trans-dimensional cassette being, though he hopes to come up with a better name later.
- The alternate Petra has a degree in quantum physics. She mentions the observer effect and the Weizmann experiment.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- The Doctor finds it ironic that in his third incarnation, he was trapped on Earth without a working TARDIS, whereas now he has a working TARDIS but no intention of leaving. (TV: Spearhead from Space, et al.)
- The Doctor refers to the TARDIS' history of melting clocks, (TV: The Edge of Destruction) having Vortisaurs in the corridors, (AUDIO: Storm Warning, Sword of Orion, et al.) and middle-aged archaeologists being born to young women. (TV: The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to War)
- The Doctor regrets inadvertently bringing the Mandragora Helix to Italy, (TV: The Masque of Mandragora) and the Family of Blood to England. (TV: Human Nature / The Family of Blood)
External links
- Official Dead Media page at bigfinish.com