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|adapted from      = The Nightmare Fair (TV story)
|adapted from      = The Nightmare Fair (TV story)
|companions        = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]  
|companions        = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]  
|enemy            = [[The Toymaker|The Celestial Toymaker]]  
|enemy            = [[Celestial Toymaker]]  
|setting          = [[Blackpool]], [[1986]]
|setting          = [[Blackpool]], [[1986]]
|writer            = [[Graham Williams]]
|writer            = [[Graham Williams]]
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the [[Series 1 (TLS)|first series]] of ''[[The Lost Stories]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was adapted by [[John Ainsworth]], from the original script by [[Graham Williams]], and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]] and introduced [[David Bailie]] as [[The Toymaker|the Celestial Toymaker]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the [[Series 1 (TLS)|first series]] of ''[[The Lost Stories]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was adapted by [[John Ainsworth]], from the original script by [[Graham Williams]], and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]] and introduced [[David Bailie]] as [[the Celestial Toymaker]].


This story was originally intended to be the first story of the original [[Season 23]], but was cancelled along with other planned stories when ''Doctor Who'' went on a production hiatus.
This story was originally intended to be the first story of the original [[Season 23]], but was cancelled along with other planned stories when ''Doctor Who'' went on a production hiatus.
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
The TARDIS falls through a time well, landing in modern-day Blackpool at an amusement fair. The Doctor and Peri, finding nothing else amiss, start to enjoy the fair's attractions. They are separated on an amusement ride; the Doctor's car is directed into the depths of the fair, while Peri encounters Kevin, a teenaged-boy looking for his brother who is missing but had last been seen at the fair weeks ago. The two are also eventually captured and brought to a prison where the Doctor has also been caged.
=== Part one ===
After [[the TARDIS]] is pulled to [[Blackpool]] in [[1986]] by a [[space/time vortex]], [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] takes [[Peri Brown|Peri]] up [[Blackpool Tower]] and around the [[Blackpool Pleasure Beach|amusement park]]. Peri is not initially enamoured by the experience, but they enjoy a [[rollercoaster]] ride together and go for a walk, during which the Doctor [[telepathy|telepathically]] hears a [[voice]] he had previously mistaken for Peri saying his name. He senses that something is wrong as they watch [[Woman (The Nightmare Fair)|a woman]] find [[Tyrone (The Nightmare Fair)|her missing son]] and traces the voice to the [[Galactic Adventure]] ride to which they are followed by [[Kevin Stoney|Kevin]], who has been watching the pair.


They discover their captor is the Celestial Toymaker, who has been stuck on Earth for several millennia, tricking a few unsuspecting humans into playing games with him and losing, become his perpetual servants. The Toymaker created the time well to bring the Doctor here, and added elements to the fair to help capture the Doctor. The Toymaker is on the verge of completing his "great work": an arcade game that feeds on the souls that lose to it, which then can generate powerful creatures with which the Toymaker plans to take over Earth. He is prepared to have the game mass-produced in America to complete his plan. The Doctor, who knows that the Time Lords do not fully know who or what the Toymaker is, learns that he is a powerful psychic being from another dimension where time moves much slower, giving him his seemingly immortality. Knowing that he cannot hurt the Toymaker physically, he works with Peri, Kevin, a Venusian engineer and a human android who is also one of the Toymaker's captives, to construct a device to disrupt the Toymaker's psychic field. The Doctor then traps him in a time field of his device that prevents the Toymaker from being able to control anyone outside of it and that will last forever. The other creatures captured by the Toymaker are freed, including Kevin's brother. The Doctor decides to return with Peri back to enjoy the fair a bit more.
The [[attendant (The Nightmare Fair)|attendant]] puts Peri and Kevin in one carriage and the Doctor in one to himself despite his protestations. When Peri disembarks at the end of the ride, she notices that the Doctor has disappeared and goes with Kevin to speak to security about his whereabouts, but a man with a [[gun]] captures them and leads them away until Kevin manages to get the weapon and shoot at him, injuring himself with a ricocheting [[bullet]]. The man runs away and Peri and Kevin, with no alternative, head down a tunnel.
 
''to be completed''
 
=== Part two ===
''to be added''


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] – [[Colin Baker]]
* [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] – [[Colin Baker]]
* [[Peri Brown]] – [[Nicola Bryant]]
* [[Peri Brown]] – [[Nicola Bryant]]
* [[The Toymaker|The Celestial Toymaker]] - [[David Bailie]]
* [[The Celestial Toymaker]] - [[David Bailie]]
* [[Kevin Stoney|Kevin]] - [[Matthew Noble]]
* [[Kevin Stoney|Kevin]] - [[Matthew Noble]]
* [[Stefan (The Nightmare Fair)|Stefan]] - [[Andrew Fettes]]
* [[Stefan (The Nightmare Fair)|Stefan]] - [[Andrew Fettes]]
* [[Woman (The Nightmare Fair)|Woman]] - [[Louise Faulkner]]
* [[Woman (The Nightmare Fair)|Woman]] - [[Louise Faulkner]]
* [[Shardlow]]/[[Attendant (The Nightmare Fair)|Attendant]] - [[William Whymper]]
* [[Shardlow]] / [[Attendant (The Nightmare Fair)|Attendant]] - [[William Whymper]]
* [[Yatsumoto]]/[[Truscott]]/[[Manager (The Nightmare Fair)|Manager]]/[[Man (The Nightmare Fair)|Man]] - [[Toby Longworth]]
* [[Yatsumoto]] / [[Truscott]] / [[Manager (The Nightmare Fair)|Manager]] / [[Man (The Nightmare Fair)|Man]] - [[Toby Longworth]]
* [[Humandroid]]/[[Security man (The Nightmare Fair)|Security Man]]/[[Geoff Bickerstaff|Geoff]]/[[Guard (The Nightmare Fair)|Guard]] - [[Duncan Wisbey]]
* [[Humandroid]] / [[Security man (The Nightmare Fair)|Security Man]] / [[Geoff Bickerstaff|Geoff]] / [[Guard (The Nightmare Fair)|Guard]] - [[Duncan Wisbey]]


== Crew ==
== Crew ==
* Cover Art - [[Alex Mallinson]]
* Cover Art - [[Alex Mallinson]]
* Director - [[John Ainsworth]]
* Director - [[John Ainsworth]]
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