Urgent Calls (audio story)

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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. On 27 May 2013, it was released for free on Big Finish's Sound Cloud page.

Publisher's summary

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

Full audio

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Plot

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Cast

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.
  • The doctor who helps Lauren remove the metallic creature from her spine is implied to be the Seventh Doctor.

Individuals

Organisations

Technology

  • Several people became the victims of a parasite that looked like a six-inch long, metallic-looking worm or snake and 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.
  • The virus, transmittable through telephone conversations, causes its carriers to dial a wrong number and call someone they could help or someone who could help them. It is implied that the virus was bio-engineered by the Viyrans.

Music

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

External links


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