Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)
Smoke and Mirrors was the fifth release of the Destiny of the Doctor audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions for AudioGO.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor answers a psionic distress call being sent from England in the 1920s. There, in the environs of a fairground, he is reunited with an old friend: Harry Houdini. To Adric and Nyssa the name means very little, but to the Doctor’s companion Tegan he is a legend. Escape artist extraordinaire, Houdini’s reputation will last for decades.
But how come Harry knows so much about Tegan herself? Is it really just guesswork, as he says? Is Harry right to be concerned about the fairground’s fortune teller, who claims to have supernatural skills? Both he and the Doctor suspect an alien influence they know of old.
What neither the Doctor nor his friends realise is that, somewhere in the shadows, a far more sinister and familiar presence is lying in wait for them…
Plot
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Cast
References
- Nyssa and Adric consider the fairground carousel to be rather frivolous and silly.
- Harry Houdini has met the Doctor on several previous occasions and is aware of regeneration. As he once met Jo Grant, one of these encounters took place during these third incarnation. He learned of the existence of the Bay City Rollers from Jo.
- The Ovids are beings of pure thought who travel from world to world in crystal spheres. Four of them became trapped in New York City in the 1890s. They can give form to dreams and nightmares. Houdini helped the First Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright free the Ovids.
- Houdini is the first historical figure that Tegan has met since beginning her travels with the Doctor.
Notes
- Excluding his brief off screen appearance in Circular Time: Winter, this is the first audio drama in which the Master (Anthony Ainley version) appears in the Fifth Doctor era.
Continuity
- Tegan is still wearing her Air Australia uniform. (TV: Logopolos, Castrovalva, Four to Doomsday, Kinda, The Visitation)
- The Doctor has once again failed to return Tegan to Heathrow Airport in 1981. (TV: Four to Doomsday, Kinda, The Visitation)
- Houdini tells Tegan that her aunt Vanessa would be proud of her as she had always wanted to travel. (TV: Logopolis)
- The Doctor also encountered Houdini in his first (PROSE: Houdini and The Space Cuckoos), eighth (PROSE: The Great Escapes) and eleventh (PROSE: Houdini and The Space Cuckoos) incarnations. From Houdini's point of view, the latter was the first encounter with the Doctor.
- The Doctor's sonic screwdriver was recently destroyed by the Terileptil leader in London in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
- Nyssa refers to the Fourth Doctor's recent regeneration. (TV: Logopolis)
- Tegan mentions knowing what it's like to be under someone else's control. (TV: Kinda)
- Like in AUDIO: Shadow of Death, AUDIO: Vengeance of the Stones, and AUDIO: Babblesphere, the Eleventh Doctor makes a surprise appearance. This time, he contacts the Fifth Doctor through the Ovid sphere.
- The Master is trying to reconstitute his body after the events of TV: Castrovalva.
External links
- Official Smoke and Mirrors page at bigfinish.com
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