You Are the Doctor (audio story)

You Are the Doctor
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	Chimbly, Keith
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Steve Foxon
Sound:	Steve Foxon
Release details
Release number:	207a
Part of:	You Are the Doctor and Other Stories
Release date:	16 December 2015
Format:	1 X 25 minutes
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-875-2
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You Are the Doctor was a 2015 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace, released as part of the You Are the Doctor and Other Stories anthology. It took the form of a "choose-your-own-adventure" story.

Publisher's summary

YOU are the Doctor, a mysterious traveller in time and space. Will YOU succeed in foiling the ghastly plans of the horrible Porcians, the most inept invaders in all the cosmos? Or will you get yourself killed, over and over again?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Chimbly - Kim Wall
• Keith/Guard - Jon Culshaw
• Katrice - Nadine Marshall
• The Resurrectionist/Clerk - Amrita Acharia

References

A Resurrectionist.

• Ace says that Chimbly's ship smells like "King Kong's gym locker".
• Ace was attempting to pilot the TARDIS to Australia.
• The Doctor describes the Porcians as "the most inept alien invaders in history".
• Keith is Chimbly's wife.

Notes

• This story uses the conventions of a "choose-your-own-adventure" story, a device that has previously been used in the Decide Your Destiny and Make Your Own Adventure/Find Your Fate series. However, unlike with those books, this story uses the deviations based on the listener's choices a part of the narrative through the use of the Resurrectionist, meaning there are no alternative sequences of events.
• John Dorney, the writer, originally planned on using a different villain for this story. However, this "obvious" villain was being used in a one of Dorney's stories in a different range. The identity of this enemy is currently unknown.

Continuity

• The Doctor first met Chimbly during his sixth incarnation on Transmission. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)
• Chimbly refers to a pair of humans who sold them rotten food. (TV: Dragonfire) The Doctor would later determine that the two humans who escaped from Chimbly the previous week were Melanie Bush and Sabalom Glitz. (AUDIO: A Life of Crime)
• The Doctor is teaching Ace how to fly the TARDIS. She would later be in control of her own TARDIS. (AUDIO: Intervention Earth) The Tenth Doctor would later teach his companion Donna Noble how to control the TARDIS. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
• The TARDIS is in its form adopted by the Doctor's seventh and eighth incarnations. (AUDIO: The Settling, TV: Doctor Who et al.)