Invaders from Mars (audio story)
Publisher's summary
Hallowe'en 1938.
A month after a mysterious meteorite lit up the skies of New York State, Martian invaders laid waste to the nation. At least, according to soon-to-be infamous Orson Welles they did. But what if some of the panicked listeners to the legendary The War of the Worlds broadcast weren’t just imagining things?
Attempting to deliver Charley to her rendezvous in Singapore 1930, the Doctor overshoots a little, arriving in Manhattan just in time to find a dead private detective. Indulging his gumshoe fantasies, the Doctor is soon embroiled in the hunt for a missing Russian scientist whilst Charley finds herself at the mercy of a very dubious Fifth Columnist.
With some genuinely out of this world 'merchandise' at stake, the TARDIS crew are forced into an alliance with a sultry dame claled Glory Bee, Orson Welles himself and a mobster with half a nose known as 'The Phantom'.
And slowly and surely, something is drawing plans against them. Just not very good ones...
Cast
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Charley Pollard - India Fisher
- Orson Welles - David Benson
- Glory Bee - Jessica Stevenson
- Cosmo Devine - John Arthur
- Don Chaney - Simon Pegg
- John Houseman - Jonathan Rigby
- Mouse / Winkler - Ian Hallard
- Ellis - Mark Benton
- Bix Biro - Paul Putner
References
- The War of the Worlds is mentioned and referenced, several times.
- Orson Welles doesn't know who Shakespeare is.
- Reggins are the invaders.
Notes
- Simon Pegg would later play the Editor in DW: The Long Game, and narrate a series of Doctor Who Confidential.
- This was specially released as a bonus on the original CD of The Ratings War.
Continuity
- Why Orson Welles doesn't know who Shakespeare is, is revealed in BFA: The Time of the Daleks.
- In BFA: Neverland it is revealed why there are 49 states in America (instead of 48 in 1938) and how the CIA can exist in 1938.
Timeline
- Invaders from Mars occurs after: ST: Second Chances
- Invaders from Mars occurs before: BFA: The Chimes of Midnight
