Phantasmagoria (audio story)
Phantasmagoria was the second in the series of Doctor Who CD audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Nicholas Briggs. It featured the Fifth Doctor and Turlough. This meant that Mark Strickson got the honour of being the first televised companion to reprise his role for Big Finish, since The Sirens of Time was a companion-less adventure.
Publisher's summary
The TARDIS takes the Fifth Doctor and Turlough to the London of 1702 where a mysterious highwayman roams the streets, a local occultist has made contact with the dead and gentlemen of fashion are disappearing, only to find themselves in a chamber whose walls weep blood...
The time travellers become enmeshed in the hideous plans of Sir Nikolas Valentine, a gambler at the mysterious Diabola Club who always seems to have a winning hand...
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Turlough - Mark Strickson
- Sir Nikolas Valentine - David Ryall
- Dr. Samuel Holywell - Steven Wickham
- Quincy Flowers / Ned Cotton - David Walliams
- Edmund Carteret - Jonathan Rigby
- Jasper Jeake - Mark Gatiss
- Poltrot / Major Billy Lovemore / Librarian - Jez Fielder
- Hannah Fry - Julia Dalkin
- Henry Gaunt - Nicholas Briggs
References
- Hannah is given brandy to settle her nerves.
- The Doctor gives Turlough his 1928 edition of Wisden Almanack.
- The Doctor considers cricket to be "the greatest game in the universe", and gives Turlough a bit of an extended lecture about it. Writer Mark Gatiss has a bit of fun with the obscurity of some cricketing terms.
- The story takes place on the day that William of Orange died: 8 March 1702.
- The Doctor and Valentine play patience.
Notes
- This story was originally released as a double cassette as well as a double CD. It was one of very few Big Finish audio dramas to be released on cassette.
- This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 June 1999 at The Nu Groove Studios.
Continuity
- Turlough enjoyed studying history at Brendon Public School on Earth. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
- The Doctor finds a cricket ball and a ball of string in his pocket. (TV: Four to Doomsday)
- The Doctor tells that Turlough he has seen — and was very impressed by — a Type 70 TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time)
External links
- Official Phantasmagoria page at bigfinish.com
- Phantasmagoria at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Phantasmagoria at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide