Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)
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 & Characters
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 'plastic purges' is most likely a refernce to the Autons.
- The Doctor 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).
Notes
- This is the first on audio regeneration.
Continuity
- The events of The War Games have just taken place with the Doctor being exiled to Earth.
- Wood states that lives were lost whenever UNIT handled a peace conference this could be a reference to either (or both) The Mind of Evil or Day of the Daleks.
- The Mind parasites and the Keller process are references to The Mind of Evil.
Timeline
- Sympathy for the Devil occurs (potentially) after: (the events of an alternate) Invasion of the Dinosaurs
