The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (audio story)
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The Vardan Invasion of Mirth was the third story in The First Doctor: Volume Three.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Steven think they've arrived in London 1956, but the TARDIS disagrees. When both the Doctor and his craft are lost, it's down to Steven to solve a mystery that holds his fate in its grasp. With the help of comic Teddy Baxter, Steven's going to have to find a way into Television...
Plot
Something in Television (1)
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"It's Teddy Baxter!" (2)
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Cast
Additional Voices
References
- Steven finds himself in Studio 1 at ATW, or Associated Tele-Wave.
- Steven regards slapstick comedy as less sophisticated than the comedy of his era. Teddy Baxter later reveals that giving and receiving punches sometimes play a part in slapstick.
- Teddy Baxter used to be in a double act with Stan. Since losing Stan, his career has been in decline, and he mostly provides comic relief in films. Steven becomes Baxter's new straight man, now for a television audience.
- Steven searches the studio, between sketches, during a camera rehearsal. Locations searched include the entrance from the dressing rooms and the set of doors leading to the scene dock. The TARDIS police box prop is held in the scene dock.
- Emma Birch disappeared in West London, last seen attending a recording of The Tommy Allan Show. She was the sixth person to have gone missing this month.
- The Tommy Allan Show was recorded in the studio next to Steven and Teddy's at ATW.
- The Free Trade Hall in Manchester was bombed in December 1940, destroying the surrounding area with it.
- Emma Birch is turned into a Vardan whilst she is helpless is laughter.
- The Vardans have discovered the wavelengths put out into space by humanity. They plan to attack Earth using laughter, in their estimation one of humanity's greatest vulnerabilities. They plan to unleash a virus disguised as laughter.
- The Doctor is at the Vardan Mediasphere, which has been in orbit around Saturn for 20 years.
- In Teddy's potential future relative to the 1950s, seen in a biodata projection, he stars in It's Teddy Baxter! as a stand-up comedian.
Notes
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Continuity
- The Vardan Mediasphere was previously central to their plots. When Benny and the Seventh Doctor encountered this technology, it allowed entrance into the Mediascape, which was similar in conceit and technology to the Land of Fiction. (PROSE: No Future)
- Steven remembers having to live in the 1950s on a previous occasion, although that time he'd had with him a friend, Sara. (AUDIO: An Ordinary Life)
- Steven tries selling a Magpie Tele-Wave 2000. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)
External links
- Official The Vardan Invasion of Mirth page at bigfinish.com
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