Bad Day in Tinseltown (audio story)

The Doctor and Mel drop in on the frontier town of Brightedge - dubbed ‘Tinseltown’ after the curious by-products from its depleted mine. The Mayor thinks the future lies in entertainment, but as the locals start behaving oddly, a hidden force of Cybermen has other plans...

Plot

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Cast

The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
Melanie Bush – Bonnie Langford
Mitzi Cinque – Jasmin Hinds
Carol Protraxus – Jeany Spark
Mungo – Dan Starkey
Nelson / Big Gerald / The Cybermen – Nicholas Briggs

References

The Doctor states it's "the wrong side of the 30th century."
He refers to himself as a "jack of all spades."
The Cybermen located a dimensional phase shifter weapon after the Last Great Cyberwar.
The Doctor states that cyber-technology has "a mind of it's own."
The Cybermen have passed into myth.
The Colonial Wars are said to be over, and apparently occurred after the Cyber-Wars.
Everything covered in tinsel comes alive, and Mel remarks that they move like sea anemones.
The Cyber-Warship's destruction by the phase shifter, with co-ordinates programmed to the Inner Worlds, leaves a "scar in hyperspace" that's essentially a wormhole shortcut.

Notes

This story was written to match the Season 24 feel of the Silver and Ice boxset.

Continuity

The Doctor still speaks in malapropisms. (TV: Time and the Rani)
Carol is, and Mel pretends to be, from Galactic Central. (TV: The Happiness Patrol)
The Cybermen tried using a new weapon and ended up phasing out of reality and being stuck, similar to the Philadelphia Experiment. (AUDIO: The Macros)

External links

Official Bad Day in Tinseltown page at bigfinish.com

Footnotes

The Seventh Doctor Adventures

Single releases

Last of the Titans • Return of the Daleks • Dominion • The Last Day

The Seventh Doctor:
The New Adventures

Volume One

The Trial of a Time Machine • Vanguard • The Jabari Countdown • The Dread of Night

Silver and Ice

Bad Day in Tinseltown • The Ribos Inheritance

Sullivan and Cross - AWOL

London Orbital • Scream of the Daleks

Far From Home

Operation Dusk • Naomi's Ark

The Doctor and Carnacki

The Haunter of the Shore • The House • The Institute of Forgotten Souls

Cyberman stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Cyberman story" is one in which one living, authentic Cyberman plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as Dalek are absent due to only featuring deceased Cybermen on display. Stories like Carnival of Monsters, A Good Man Goes to War and The Vanquishers are also not included due to the Cybermen's appearance being of little consequence to the plot of the story.

Television

The Tenth Planet • The Moonbase • The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Wheel in Space • The Invasion • Revenge of the Cybermen • Earthshock • The Five Doctors • Attack of the Cybermen • Silver Nemesis • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday • Cyberwoman • The Next Doctor • The Pandorica Opens • Closing Time • Nightmare in Silver • The Time of the Doctor • Dark Water / Death in Heaven • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls • The Haunting of Villa Diodati • Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children • Flux: Once, Upon Time • The Power of the Doctor

Webcast

TARDIS Cam No.1 - The Moonscape • Real Time • Tardisode 6 • Tardisode 13 • Monster File: Cybermen • What if robots replaced teachers?

Audio

Sword of Orion • Spare Parts • Real Time • The Harvest • Silver Lining • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus • The Reaping • The Gathering • The Blue Tooth • Human Resources • The Girl Who Never Was • The Ultimate Adventure • Kingdom of Silver • Legend of the Cybermen • The Silver Turk • Last of the Cybermen • Return to Telos • The Isos Network • The Tyrants of Logic • Code Silver / Master of Worlds • Hour of the Cybermen • Conversion • Return of the Cybermen • The Gates of Hell • Scourge of the Cybermen • Altered Status • Monsters in Metropolis • Secrets of Telos • Way of the Burryman / The Forth Generation • Bad Day in Tinseltown • Willkommen • Wulf • Übermensch • Auf Wiedersehen • The Great Cyber-War • Sins of the Flesh

Cyberman

Scorpius • Fear • Conversion • Telos • Outsiders • Terror • Machines • Extinction

Prose

Novels	Iceberg • Killing Ground • Illegal Alien • Warmonger • Loving the Alien • Made of Steel • Plague of the Cybermen • Dr. First • Scratchman • The Self-Made Man

Short stories	Birth of a Renegade • Heliotrope Bouquet • Scientific Adviser • Vrs • Going Off the Rails • Cybermen: Status Update • The Piper • The Mondas Touch • The Patchwork Pierrot • Consultation Exercise • Alit in Underland • Ghost in the Machine • The Heist • A Girl Called Doubt

Features	Cybermen

Comics

The Coming of the Cybermen • Flower Power • Cyber-Mole • The Cyber Empire • Eskimo Joe • Masquerade • The Time Museum • Test Flight • Junk-Yard Demon • Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Deathworld • Black Legacy • Revelation! • Genesis! • The World Shapers • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • The Good Soldier • Dreadnought • The Flood • The Power of the Cybermen / Drones of Doom / Enemy Mine / Time of the Cybermen • Assimilation² • Doctor Who and the Last Stand • The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who • Conversion • Untitled • Cyber Crisis • Supremacy of the Cybermen • The Bidding War • The Lost Dimension • High Noon in Hollywood

The Cybermen	The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

Supremacy of the Cybermen prologues	The First Doctor • The Second Doctor • The Third Doctor • The Fourth Doctor • The Fifth Doctor • The Sixth Doctor • The Seventh Doctor • The Eighth Doctor • The War Doctor

Video
games

Destiny of the Doctors • Airships • Cyber Assault • Ghostwatch • Eye of the TARDIS • Return to Earth • The Mazes of Time • Blood of the Cybermen • Dalek Supremacy • The Eternity Clock • The Doctor and the Dalek • Lost in Time • Hidden Mysteries

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