The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)

The Girl Who Never Was
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Charley Pollard (Departs)
Main enemy:	Byron Cybermen
Main setting:	Singapore, Earth 1931 Earth, 1942 Earth, 500,002
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish]]
Writer:	Alan Barnes
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	Andy Hardwick and Gareth Jenkins
Release details
Release number:	103
Release date:	December 2007
Format:	4 episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	8Q/E
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-287-6

Publisher's Summary

'Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot. Someone's listening. Somewhere.'

A ghost ship. A girl with no memory, adrift in time. An old enemy. This could be Charlotte Pollard's finest hour - or her last.

Set course for Singapore, 1931. Journey's end.

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• Byron - Danny Webb
• Miss Pollard - Anna Massey
• Madeleine Fairweather - Amanda Root
• Curly - David Yip
• Borthwick - Robert Duncan
• Receptionist - Natelie Mendoza
• Colville - Tim Sutton
• Young Man - Jake McGann
• Soldier - Nicholas Briggs

References

• There is a Cyber-planner present.
• Charley mentions the Garazone system.
• There are several Cybermen present.
• The Doctor has had a room at the Singapore Hilton since 1926.
• Both the Doctor and Charley mention the Web of Time.
• Charley mentions going to Venice with the Doctor and also meeting Orson Welles.
• Charley mentions C'rizz.
• The ship they're on is transferred through time to Earth after the solar flares.

Notes

• This is the final Eighth Doctor audio drama to feature Charley Pollard.
• There is an epilogue at the end of the second disc (part four) with Charley on a desert island, a TARDIS turns up, from the theme music at the end it is the Sixth Doctor.
• Jake McGann is Paul McGann's son.

Charley going off with the Sixth Doctor creates an interesting paradox as even though she meets Six after she has left Eight for Six this is the first time he met her and he should have recognised her when he met her aboard the R101 as one of his past companions even though she would not know him

Continuity

• Charley first met the Doctor in Storm Warning.
• They tried to get to the right Singapore in Seasons of Fear.
• They went to Venice in The Stones of Venice.
• Met Orson Wells in Invaders from Mars.
• Encountered the Cybermen in Sword of Orion.

Timeline

Timeline - for the Doctor

• The Girl Who Never Was occurs after: Absolution
• The Girl Who Never Was occurs before: Blood of the Daleks

Timeline - for Charley Pollard

• The Girl Who Never Was occurs after: Absolution
• The Girl Who Never Was occurs before: The Condemned

External Links

• Big Finish The Girl Who Never Was page