The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)

The Boy That Time Forgot
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Nyssa
Main enemy:	The Scorpion King
Main setting:	Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish]]
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	Steve Foxon
Release details
Release number:	110
Release date:	July 2008
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	6C/L
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-319-4

Publisher's summary

In a weird jungle valley, the Victorian explorer Rupert Von Thal saves Bloomsbury novelist Beatrice Mapp from a ghastly death in the grip of a monstrous mantis. But this is no Lost World of the dinosaurs. According to their travelling companions, the Doctor and Nyssa, all four have been transported back to a primitive Earth that should never have existed!

Further down the valley is the vast city where the scorpions live. Walking, talking, intelligent scorpions, ruled over by their cruel and sinister master. The Doctor and Nyssa are being drawn ever tighter into the clutches of... the boy that time forgot.

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• The Scorpion King - Andrew Sachs
• Mrs Beatrice Mapp - Harriet Walter
• Rupert Von Thal - Adrian Scarborough
• Kranlee - Oliver Senton
• Madam Teegarana - Claire Wyatt

References

• The Scorpion King mentions the Doctor's TARDIS has a flux capacitor. (This may or may not be referencing Back to the Future.)
• Nyssa mentions the Doctor and her leaving Tegan at Heathrow, which places this adventure sometime between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity.
• The Doctor attempts to use Block Transfer Computations to time travel, it requires a quorum (12 people).
• During the block transfer computations the Doctor's sub-conscious sleep walks through time to the freighter, assisting Adric in breaking the computations on the Cybermen's computer.
• Teegarna means "mouth on legs", Tegan Jovanka's description of herself.
• The Scorpion King creates a city out of pure computations a City of Excellence, watched over by Star, the remains of the alien computer the Cybermen used aboard the freighter.
• Kranlee is probably named for Lord Cranleigh.
• The Doctor mentions Iris would be around in the Victorian times, but they wouldn't ask her for help.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Adric last appeared in DW: Earthshock.
• Tegan was left at Heathrow at the end of DW: Time-Flight.
• The Doctor states that 'time is circular' possible alluding to the BFA: Circular Time.
• The Doctor, Nyssa and Adric all speak of Logopolis and the Logopolitans from DW: Logopolis.
• Thomas Brewster stole the TARDIS in BFA: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster.

Timeline

• The Boy that Time Forgot occurs after BFA: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
• The Boy that Time Forgot occurs before BFA: Time Reef

External links

• Big Finish The Boy that Time Forgot page
• Doctor Who Reference Guide: Detailed Synopsis - The Boy That Time Forgot