Horror of Glam Rock (audio story)

Horror of Glam Rock
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie Miller
Main enemy:	The Only Ones
Main setting:	Nadir Motorway Service Station, Bramlington, UK, 1974
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	1.3
Premiere broadcast:	7 and 14 January 2007
Release date:	March 2007
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG003
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-257-9
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Horror of Glam Rock was the second story, though third release part of Big Finish Productions' The New Eighth Doctor Adventures audio stories that were co-produced with BBC 7. This story aired on 7 and 14 January 2007 and then was released two months later in March.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and Lucie go glam when the TARDIS makes an unexpected landing in 1974. Slade, the Sweet and Suzi Quatro are Top of the Pops — and brother-and-sister duo the Tomorrow Twins will soon be joining them, if Arnold Korns, a starmaking Svengali, has his way. But will their dreams turn to dust at a service station somewhere on the M62, besieged by a pack of alien monsters?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Arnold Korns - Bernard Cribbins
• Flo - Una Stubbs
• Tommy Tomorrow - Stephen Gately
• Trisha Tomorrow - Clare Buckfield
• Pat Ryder - Lynsey Hardwick
• Headhunter/The Only Ones - Katarina Olsson

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor says he was in the "Hell's Angels" Martian chapter.

Individuals

• The Doctor refers to his second incarnation's companions Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot
• Lucie's mother is named Mary.

Technology

• Tommy Tomorrow plays the stylophone, and the instrument is used by the Only Ones to contact and influence him.

Notes

• The title alludes to the Fourth Doctor story Horror of Fang Rock.
• This play includes the original song "Children of Tomorrow." The music is by Tim Sutton; the lyrics by Barnaby Edwards; and it was performed by Stephen Gately and Clare Buckfield. The play closes with a glam rock version of the Doctor Who theme, also arranged by Tim Sutton. Both songs are included in full as extras on the story's CD release.
• This audio drama was recorded on 25 and 29 August 2006 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor and Lucie would once again encounter Pat in Kendal in 1984. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth)

External links

• Official Horror of Glam Rock page at bigfinish.com
• Horror of Glam Rock at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Horror of Glam Rock at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide