White Ghosts (audio story)

White Ghosts was the second story in the third series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alan Barnes and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela.

	Fourth Doctor
	Leela
	Unnamed planet, edge of the known universe
	Big Finish Productions
	Alan Barnes
	Nicholas Briggs
	David Richardson
	Jamie Robertson
	Jamie Robertson
	Anthony Lamb
	2
	3.02
	14 February 2014
	1 CD Download
	BFPTOMCD015
	ISBN 978-1-78178-291-0 (physical); 978-1-78178-991-9 (digital)
The Fourth Doctor Adventures
← Previous	The King of Sontar
Next →	The Crooked Man

Publisher's summary

A close encounter with a stray missile leads the Doctor to materialise his TARDIS on a planet that hangs in the dark at the edge of the known universe. A planet so dark that it exists in near-permanent night. A planet that enjoys just a single day's light once every thousand years...

Exactly what happens on the planet in its rare daylight hours – that's what a geographical survey headed by Senior Tutor Bengel is stationed here to establish. They, the Doctor and Leela are about to discover that when daylight comes, the White Ghosts rise...

So don't be afraid of the dark. The cover of night is a mercy.

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Bengel - Virginia Hey
• Aranda - Bethan Walker
• Morandi - Gbemisola Ikumelo
• Candelli / Harvester - James Joyce

References

• Leela refers to Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Babes in the Wood and Little Red Riding Hood.

Notes

Textless cover art

• This story was recorded on 2 July 2012 at Audio Sorcery.
• This story was originally released on CD and download.

Continuity

• The Doctor refers to the TARDIS swimming pools. (TV: The Invasion of Time)
• Leela knows how to read. (PROSE: People of the Trees; AUDIO: The Time Vampire)
• Leela refers to her decision to kill Strang's clones on Dowcra. (AUDIO: The King of Sontar)
• The Doctor has an oil lamp which once belonged to Florence Nightingale. His seventh incarnation's companion Hex would later work with her in Scutari in October and November 1854. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari)
• The Doctor yells "Geronimo!", as he would later many times during his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The End of Time, et. al)
• The Doctor refers to the Time Lords' hatred of vampires. Gallifrey had fought a war against the Great Vampires. (TV: State of Decay)
• Leela wears gumboots and says they will protect her from electrocution. (AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm)

External links

• Official White Ghosts page at bigfinish.com