Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)
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Publisher's Summary
1997... and a lone exile arrives on Earth, years later than planned.
On the eve of the Handover, an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong. The discredited United Nations Intelligence Taskforce has just 24 hours to steal the technology, rescue the passenger and flee to international waters.
Down by the harbour, there’s big trouble in Little England -- a bar owned by an old soldier who simply wants to forget the past. But an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace.
The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror. A world that has lived without him for years. A world that is frighteningly like our own...
Cast
- The Doctor - David Warner
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
- Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood - David Tennant
- Ke Le / The Master - Sam Kisgart
- Ling - Liz Sutherland
- The Abbot - Trevor Littledale
- Marcus - Mark Wright
- Captain Zerdin - Peter Griffiths
- Adam - Stuart Piper
References
- The Doctor says he can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Man-chu, Mongolian and Haikun.
- To the Chinese he is known as Hu (the Tiger, for his courage), Hu (the Fox, for his cunning) and Xue (Doctor (he who tends to the sick)).
- The Boxer Rebellion is said to have been the result of the Mind parasites.
Notes
- This is the first on audio regeneration.
Continuity
- The events of DW: The War Games have just taken place with the Doctor being exiled to Earth.
- Alternate versions of Third Doctor stories include: the Autons resulting in the "plastic purges", an economically damaging action; the Invasion of the Dinosaurs was an attack by the Silurians ("the lizards"), stopped by Mike Yates travelling back in time to nuke the Silurians before they awoke in the 70s (at the cost of a crater in the middle of London); the events of The Ambassadors of Death lead to a line of mile-wide craters across America; Stahlman Gas (Inferno) is still an ongoing project.
- Wood states that lives were lost whenever UNIT handled a peace conference this could be a reference to either (or both) DW: The Mind of Evil or Day of the Daleks.
- The Mind parasites and the Keller process are references to DW: The Mind of Evil.
- The Master briefly worked as a United Nations advisor before defecting to China, which (along with UNIT's actions) imply China has left the UN.
- A character refers to watching Professor X.
- The Doctor, in an earlier incarnation, knew Chairman Mao when he was a librarian.
Timeline
- Sympathy for the Devil occurs (potentially) after: (the events of an alternate) DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
- Sympathy for the Devil occurs before: DWU: Masters of War
