Night Thoughts (audio story)

Night Thoughts
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace Hex
Main enemy:	Major Dickens
Main setting:	Sibley Hall on Gravanox Island in the Outer Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, 2006
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Edward Young
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Andy Hardwick and Gareth Jenkins
Release details
Release number:	79
Release date:	February 2006
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7W/C
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-167-X
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Night Thoughts was the seventy-ninth Big Finish monthly Doctor Who audio story. It was the fifth audio story featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex.

Publisher's summary

'I warn you, things could get very nasty here before they get better.'

A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex.

Hex, already troubled by a vivid nightmare, is further disturbed by the night-time appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition.

Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed -- she prefers to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit.

And then the killing begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and his friends to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and -- as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present -- to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to life...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Major Dickens - Bernard Kay
• The Bursar - Joanna McCallum
• Dr O'Neil - Andrew Forbes
• Sue - Lizzie Hopley
• The Deacon - Ann Beach
• Joe Hartley - Duncan Duff

References

Individuals

• Ace's maternal grandmother, Kathleen Dudman, died in 1973. She remembered that her mother Audrey cried for days afterwards.
• Hex was raised by his father and maternal grandmother, the mother of Cassie Scholefield whom the Sixth Doctor and his companion Evelyn Smythe had met on two occasions, in 1999 and November 2004. They witnessed her death at the hands of Nimrod on the latter occasion. Hex believed that his grandmother was actually his mother until he was six years old.

Notes

• Night Thoughts was originally a story that would have been part of Season 27, had Doctor Who continued beyond Survival. It would have been a three-part story.
• Bernard Kay (Major Dickens) previously played Carl Tyler in DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in DW: The Crusade, Detective Inspector Crossland in DW: The Faceless Ones and Caldwell in DW: Colony in Space.
• Andrew Forbes (Dr. O'Neil) previously played Omril in DW: Full Citcle.
• Duncan Duff (Joe Hartley) previously played a newsreader from a parallel universe in DW: Rise of the Cybermen.
• An illustrated preview for this story appeared in issue 366 of Doctor Who Magazine illustrated by Martin Geraghty.
• This audio drama was recorded on 7 and 8 November 2005.

Continuity

• The Doctor and Ace met her maternal grandmother Kathleen Dudman at Maiden's Point in 1943. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

Timeline

For the Doctor

• Night Thoughts occurs after ST: Presence
• Night Thoughts occurs before BFA: Thicker than Water

For Ace and Hex

• Night Thoughts occurs after ST: Presence
• Night Thoughts occurs before BFA: The Veiled Leopard

External links

• Official Night Thoughts page at bigfinish.com
• Night Thoughts at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Night Thoughts at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide