The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster introduces John Pickard as Thomas Brewster and begins a series of stories featuring Brewster. Released in April 2008, it was the one hundredth and seventh monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions.
Publisher's summary
A new adventure in time and space for the Fifth Doctor and his companion Nyssa.
Thomas Brewster is haunted by the ghost of his drowned mother. But she is not the only apparition to disturb his dreams. Every few years, he is visited by a mysterious blue box...
Helped by his new assistant, the young Scottish scientist Robert McIntosh, the Fifth Doctor struggles to unravel the twisted knot of temporal implausibilities which bind the TARDIS to Thomas Brewster. Meanwhile, lost in the stews of Victorian London, Nyssa must face a host of spectral creatures, gathering in the fog.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Mother - Leslie Ash
- Robert McIntosh - Christian Coulson
- Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
- Creek - Barry McCarthy
- Pickens - Sid Mitchell
- Shanks - Trevor Cooper
References
London locations
- The Doctor lives in a house at 107 Baker Street in Victorian London from November 1866 to November 1867.
Individuals
- Over the course of the year which he spent living in Victorian London, the Doctor becomes a well known and well respected figure in scientific circles under the name of Dr. Walters, in spite of his apparent youth. He grew a beard to make himself appear older than his youthful appearance suggested. Nyssa finds his new facial hair laughable. He has engaged Dr. Robert McIntosh as his new assistant. However, McIntosh remains ignorant of the Doctor's status as a Time Lord until after Nyssa's arrival in 1867.
- Brewster's first memory is of his mother's funeral in 1851.
- Brewster is able to access the TARDIS by stealing the key which Nyssa keeps in her left breast pocket.
Notes
- Given that the events of AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight take place in April 1865, this is the first of two consecutive audio dramas based predominantly in the 1860s.
- Christian Coulson (Robert McIntosh) previously played King Pelleas of Peladon, Erimem's eventual husband, in AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon.
- Barry McCarthy (Creek) previously played Palgrave in AUDIO: Urban Myths and John Dubrin in AUDIO: Son of the Dragon and would later play Bulek in AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame / The Vengeance of Morbius and Vincent Linfoot in AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks.
- This audio drama was recorded on 13 and 14 December 2007 at The Moat Studios.
Continuity
- Nyssa mentions the death of her parents. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
- The Daleks, Edward Waterfield and Theodore Maxtible similarly used mirrors and lenses for the purposes of time travel in 1866. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
- The Doctor mentions that the destiny of Earth is "ash and clinker." (TV: The Mutants)
- The TARDIS creates a breeze as it materialies. (TV: Doctor Who (1996), TV: Rose, TV: The Unquiet Dead)
- During his sixth incarnation, the Doctor would later return to the Great Portland Street Tube in the company of DI Patricia Menzies in 2010, where he was reunited with Brewster. (AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster)
- By 1972, 107 Baker Street was the site of the Ides Scientific Institute. (AUDIO: Fugitives)
External links
- Official The Haunting of Thomas Brewster page at bigfinish.com
- The Haunting of Thomas Brewster at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
