The Dead Shoes (audio story)

The Dead Shoes

Key crew

Publisher:

BBC Audio

Writer:

Paul Magrs

Director:

Kate Thomas

Producer:

Kate Thomas

Music:

Simon Power

Release details

Number of parts:

Release number:

Release date:

8 October 2009

Format:

1 CD
2nd of 5 stories

ISBN:

ISBN 978-1-4084-2674-6

Hornets' Nest
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The Dead Shoes is the second story in the Hornets' Nest arc, a series of five audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as Fourth Doctor alongside Richard Franklin as Mike Yates.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Visiting the English seaside town of Cromer in the summer of 1932, the Doctor happens upon the strange world of the Cromer Palace of Curios. The young Ernestina Scott is unusually beguiled by one of the museum's exhibits, and when the Doctor befriends her, they unwittingly embark upon a terrifying escapade. Chased by animated dolls through a nightmarish model house, the Doctor realises he is being hunted by a familiar enemy. The unmistakable sound of hornets is in the air, and they are keen to speak to him. Overseeing this game of cat and mouse is the Palace of Curios' curator — a certain Mrs Wibbsey...

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Small was in the Far East.

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This story was recorded at Electric Airwaves and Motivation Sound Studios.
The story title is a reference to the film The Red Shoes.
This story was later included in The Nest Cottage Chronicles.
The Doctor trying to pay Wibbsey in Denobian Slime Dollars is reminiscent of his interaction with a shopkeeper in COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion involving Zaggan pound notes.
A free download of this story was given away with The Guardian newspaper on 22 February 2011.^[1]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Yates mentions the business at Devil's End. (TV: The Dæmons)
A year later, the Eleventh Doctor would encounter similar dolls in a housing estate. (TV: Night Terrors)
Iris Wildthyme would later use a Denobian Slime Dolar to pay a Parisian waiter in Montmartre. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

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↑ The Guardian. Press Reader (22 February 2011). Retrieved on 19 March 2021.

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