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The Institute of Forgotten Souls was the third story in the audio anthology The Doctor and Carnacki, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Barnes and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Dan Starkey as Thomas Carnacki.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the heart of England in 1936 there lies a home for wounded men. It is a strange, shadowed place, full of secrets.
Terrible beasts prowl the grounds, as if guarding something dreadful. Inmates are disappearing, picked off one by one, while a singular resident - a certain, now retired ghost finder - bravely staves off the darkness.
Yet tonight is the night when it's all going to end. For tonight is the night when the Doctor comes to call...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Carnacki - Dan Starkey
- Sergeant Winston Price - Alan Cox
- Joyce Harrison - Rebecca Crinnion
- Club Member / Fur-Beasts - Ewan Thomson
Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Actuary - Rebecca Crinnion (BFX: The Institute of Forgotten Souls)
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Actuary represents the White Guardian.
- Carnacki is 59 in 1936, but was meant to die in the trenches in April 1918, in Ypres.
- The Doctor thinks the real Institute might be in Berkshire. Where he finds Carnacki, however, is merely a thought-form.
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Carnacki uses his "trusty electric pentacle". This invention previously appeared in AUDIO: The House [+]Loading...["The House (audio story)"].
- Carnacki says the Doctor is "look[ing] a little greyer", indicating that this story takes place closer to the end of the Seventh Doctor's life, as depicted in AUDIO: Dark Universe [+]Loading...["Dark Universe (audio story)"], The Last Day [+]Loading...["The Last Day (audio story)"], and TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"].
- He has stopped looking at the scanner before leaving the TARDIS. In TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"], this will see him killed, as he walks out into a rain of gunfire in San Francisco, 1999.
- The Doctor says he considered if he might be inside a splinter of the Land of Fiction. This realm first appeared in TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Institute of Forgotten Souls page at bigfinish.com