Past Lives (audio story)

Past Lives was the first story in the Once and Future audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Robert Valentine and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Sadie Miller as Sarah Jane Smith, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood and Rufus Hound as The Monk.

	Fourth Doctor
	Sarah, Kate, Osgood
	The Monk
	Tower of London
	Big Finish Productions
	Robert Valentine
	Helen Goldwyn
	David Richardson
	Howard Carter
	Howard Carter
	Lee Johnson
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	3 May 2023
	1 CD Download 1st of 8 stories
	BFPDW60OAFCD01
	ISBN 978-1-80240-076-2 (physical) ISBN 978-1-80240-077-9 (digital)
Once and Future
Next →	The Artist at the End of Time

Publisher's summary

The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form – instead, the Doctor's past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly between incarnations...

Staggering to his TARDIS, the Doctor sets out to solve the mystery of his 'degeneration'. Who has done this to him? How? And why? From the Earth to the stars, across an array of familiar times and places, he follows clues to retrace his steps, encountering old friends and enemies along the way. Tumbling through his lives, the Doctor must stop his degeneration before he loses himself completely...

Settling as his Fourth incarnation, the Doctor goes in search of the Monk, with a vague memory that he had something to do with his 'degeneration'.

On Earth, the Monk is meddling, bringing Sarah Jane Smith to the future UNIT HQ to steal a device for an alien race. The Doctor must help Kate Stewart and Osgood foil an invasion before he can confront the Monk about what he knows…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Sarah Jane Smith - Sadie Miller
• Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
• Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
• The Monk - Rufus Hound
• "Mr Mallory" / Galavant / Baravoar - Ewan Bailey
• Field Surgeon / Black Market Merchant - Dan Starkey
• First Doctor - Stephen Noonan
• Second Doctor - Michael Troughton
• Third Doctor - Tim Treloar
• Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
• Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
• Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy

References

• Whilst degenerating, the Third Doctor refers to the Cybermen.
• The Monk mocks the chameleon circuit of the Doctor's TARDIS.
• The Monk gains access to the Black Archive, where his TARDIS is disguised as a guard hut.
• Among the items in the Black Archive includes Sontaran grenades, Bannerman assault rifles, an Auton wrist gun and a damaged control sphere.
• Kate and Osgood are aware of the Monk.
• The Doctor mistakenly refers to Kate as 'Brigadier.'

Notes

• The working title for this story was Once and Future before it became the title for the overall story arc. (DCOM: Past Lives)
• The story doesn't specify if it's the Eighth Doctor or the War Doctor that is degenerating, although the TARDIS hum in the pre-titles and the video trailer suggests it may be the Eighth Doctor.
• The story recreates Sarah's departure scene from TV: The Hand of Fear.
• This story depictes the Doctor's first chronological visit to the Black Archive.

Continuity

• Sarah had just left the Fourth Doctor moments earlier when she confronts the Monk. (TV: The Hand of Fear)
• The Monk has put the money he had stolen into a Swiss bank account. (TV: The Time Meddler)
• Sarah had met the Monk before. (AUDIO: How to Win Planets and Influence People)
• The Doctor admires the celery on Osgood's jacket. (TV: Castrovalva, et al)
• The Monk is aware that the Doctor will have a daughter, much to the Doctor and Sarah's surprise. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter)

External links

• Official Past Lives page at bigfinish.com