The Foe from the Future (audio story)

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The Foe from the Future was originally submitted as the possible conclusion to season 14. When writer Robert Banks Stewart was called away from Doctor Who by Verity Lambert to guide the writing of a troubled soap opera at Thames Television, however, the story lapsed and script editor Robert Holmes instead wrote The Talons of Weng-Chiang as the season-ender. (DOC: The Foe from the Future)

About 40 years later, Big Finish Productions resurrected the original script idea and adapted it to audio. It was then released as a six-part adventure starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. As a sort of in-joke to the relationship between Foe and Talons, Big Finish adapter John Dorney explicitly set it immediately prior to the events of Talons.

Publisher's summary

The Grange is haunted, so they say. This stately home in the depths of Devon has been the site of many an apparition. And now people are turning up dead. The ghosts are wild in the forest. But the Doctor doesn't believe in ghosts.

The TARDIS follows a twist in the vortex to the village of Staffham in 1977 and discovers something is very wrong with time. But spectral highwaymen and cavaliers are the least of the Doctor's worries.

For the Grange is owned by the sinister Jalnik, and Jalnik has a scheme two thousand years in the making. Only the Doctor and Leela stand between him and the destruction of history itself. It's the biggest adventure of their lives – but do they have the time?

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Part five

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Part six

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Cast

References

  • Charlotte mentions the Hammer Horror films, Monty Python and the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.
  • The Doctor attempts to teach Leela about poetry by introducing her to Hamlet.
  • Father Harpin compares the sound of the TARDIS materialising to "an elephant in a shed." He initially believes that the Doctor and Leela are spirits and attempts to exorcise them.
  • Fragmentary historical records available in the year 4000 erroneously state that the television presenter Bruce Forsyth was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1977. Charlotte jokingly asks the Doctor if they thought that the President of the United States was the American film star Gene Kelly.
  • The vintage Ford Cortina which Charlotte steals from Instructor Shibac's driving class has the registration number BFP 189S.
  • Charlotte plans to introduce Shibac to the music of David Bowie.

Notes

  • This is the first Lost Story to adapt a script which was originally to have been made during the 1970s.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 September 2011.

Continuity

External links

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Fifth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
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