All of Time and Space (audio story)
All of Time and Space was the first story in the audio anthology All of Time and Space, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Jacob Dudman as the Eleventh Doctor and Safiyya Ingar as Valarie Lockwood.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
As concepts for shows go, it's a good one. An adventurer and his friend travelling through all of time and space, righting wrongs and defending those who can't defend themselves. Yet, as its creator is about to discover, there are those who'd rather this show never existed.
What's so dangerous about 'Doctor Who'?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ellery Quest pitches a play to Mr Darling at the Regal Theatre about the two-hearted Doctor and his new travelling companion. Although Mr Darling is unimpressed due it being neither grounded nor gritty, Quest continues to read sequences from his script until Mr Darling gets a telephone call and orders him to leave, although he initially asks for him to leave his script behind. He is unsure why he made that request.
Quest returns to his home in Soho and hears the Doctor and Valarie on the radio. They warn him that he is in danger and asks him to meet them at Covent Garden, but he flips his lucky coin and decides to stay. Two identical Mr Darlings burst in and chase him onto the street where he is stopped in the street by half a dozen other Mr Darlings. He jumps onto a bus and travels to Covent Garden where he meets the Doctor and Valarie, who are talking puppets in a booth, and claim that they are inside his mind. When Mr Darlings approach, Quest runs with the two puppets but drops the Doctor.
Hiding in a bar, Quest receives a blank telegram from Jeremy Castle, the same man who called Mr Darling, and Valarie tells him not to look at it. Mr Darlings arrive and Valarie distracts them whilst Quest escapes and finds a newspaper in which the Doctor has appeared as part of a comic strip, explaining that he and Valarie can manifest wherever there is a narrative thanks to psychic energy. Valarie too appears in the strip and they tell him to find a police box and fill it with his stories to restore the two of them. When he returns home, a Mr Darling reveals that he and Quest are fictional characters created by Jeremy Castle.
Overwhelmed, Quest enters a space of negative perception and Valarie, appearing on one side of his lucky coin, confirms that he is not real. On the other side is the Doctor, who explains that he and Valarie were beamed into a computer by the TARDIS's telepathic circuits and that Castle had been writing a biography on him in addition to writing about Quest. He asks Quest to erase any mention of him from the computer, leading Quest to return to the story and continue the narrative with Valarie's help. He runs from the Mr Darlings to a police box and time is rewritten by the erasure of the data on the Doctor, meaning that whoever caused the TARDIS to explode did not have access to the necessary information. As a result, the ship is saved.
The Doctor takes Valarie to the TARDIS library and shows her the new section dedicated to novels about Quest, originally written by Castle but later taken up by other authors. Although they were able to change time due to time being in flux, he cannot go back to save her mother.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Jacob Dudman
- Valarie Lockwood - Safiyya Ingar
- Ellery Quest / Alien Diner - Leroy Bonsu
- Mr Darling - Richard Hope
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ellery Quest invents theme music for Doctor Who.
- The Doctor asks if The Archers exists in 1956. He says that he has never really listened to it.
- According to the Doctor, River says that he is always "explaining and flailing".
- Quest drinks ginger pop.
- Daniel went to war and sent his lucky coin to Quest.
- Quest says that Valarie will have to learn to tell stories and will one day go on a second date.
- The Doctor and Valarie are looking for Clara.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Writer Tim Foley is credited as "Ellery Quest".
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor's TARDIS crashes after being hijacked. (AUDIO: The End)
- The Doctor quotes Punch and Judy. (TV: The Snowmen)
- Castle wrote a chapter on the First Doctor's half-hour on Desperus. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
- The Doctor has been erasing himself from records. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
- The Doctor knows that "Doctor who?" is a question that should never be asked. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
- The Doctor and Valarie are looking for the woman who has been calling the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Inheritance, The End)
- While looking through the TARDIS library, the Doctor points out his model of the Nightjar. (AUDIO: Pursuit of the Nightjar)
- The Doctor told Valarie that they could not go back to save her mother. (AUDIO: The Inheritance)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official All of Time and Space page at bigfinish.com
