Urgent Calls (audio story)

Urgent Calls
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Main enemy:	A bio-engineered telephone virus
Main setting:	England, 1974
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Eddie Robson
Director:	John Ainsworth
Post production:	Steve Foxon
Release details
Release number:	94b
Release date:	April 2007
Format:	1 episode
Production code:	7CPRE-A/A
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-247-0
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Urgent Calls was the part of the ninety-fourth monthly Doctor Who audio release produced by Big Finish Productions. It is the first single part story included with a three part story and the first solo Sixth Doctor story that was part of the monthly series since The Sirens of Time in 1999.

Publisher's summary

Urgent Calls (A One-Part Story)

Earth, 1974. An innocent phone call. Okay, it was a wrong number, but there can't be any harm in that. Can there?

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Lauren Hudson - Kate Brown
• DJ - David Dobson
• Connie Pickerill - Kerry Skinner

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor does not believe in fate.
• The Doctor quotes Thomas Jefferson when he says, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
• The Doctor is jailed on a charge of trespass at Green Street Police Station under the name of Dr. John Smith.

Individuals

• Lauren signs the Official Secrets Act.

Organisations

• It is implied that the "army man" and doctor who visit Lauren in hospital are with UNIT. The Doctor asks Lauren if the latter was "a tall chap with white hair and rather flamboyant clothes". However, this doctor was short, bald and wore ordinary clothes.

Technology

• The virus, transmittable through telephone conversations, manifested as a six-inch long, metallic-looking worm or snake which wrapped itself around its host's spine. If the worm had not been removed from Lauren's spine, she would have been transformed into a giant slug creature.
• It is implied that the virus was bio-engineered by the Viyrans.

Music

• The DJ plays "Blue Starlight" by Steve Silver.

Notes

• Urgent Calls is only one episode long. The other three episodes on the discs are of the story I.D..
• This story is part of the "Virus Strain" arc.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Lauren that he has met Thomas Jefferson. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment)

External links

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