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| cd name= No Place Like Home

| image=[[File:No_Place_Like_Home_cover.jpg|250px]]

| doctor= [[Fifth Doctor]]

| companions= [[Erimem]]<br />[[Antranak]]<br />[[Shayde]]

| enemy= [[The Rovie]]

| year=Inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]

| writer= [[Iain McLaughlin]]

| director= [[Gary Russell]]

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| publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]]  

| release date= [[January]] [[2003]]

| format= 1 Episode on 1 CD

| production code= DWMCD04

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| previous story= [[The Ratings War]]

| next story= [[Living Legend]]

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'''''No Place Like Home''''' was a 2003 [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] audio drama, featuring the [[Fifth Doctor]] and new [[companion]] [[Erimem]]. Originally included in [[DWM 326|Doctor Who Magazine #326]], it was later offered [http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Podcast-No-Place-Like-Home-24-August-2011 free to the public] on the [http://www.bigfinish.com/podcastfeed Big Finish Podcast] 24th August [[2011]].

Whilst showing his latest companion, Erimem, around her new home, the Doctor discovers that the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] seems remarkably keen to be as unhelpful as possible. Almost as if it wants rid of its occupants...

* [[The Rovie]] / [[Shayde]] - [[Mark Donovan]]

== References ==

* [[Shayde]] first appeared in the [[Fifth Doctor comic stories|Fifth Doctor comic strip]], ''[[The Tides of Time]]''. He later developed a more complicated relationship with the Doctor in the [[Eighth Doctor comic stories]], beginning with ''[[The Final Chapter]]''.

* This is the only audio drama to feature Shayde.

* This is the only story in which Erimem appears but [[Peri Brown]] does not.

* Shayde's warning to the Doctor is a direct homage to [[Time Lord (Genesis of the Daleks)|the Time Lord]]'s warning to the [[Fourth Doctor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]''. Again, the [[Time Lord]]s "foresee a time" when a race will conquer the universe — only this time, it is the Rovies.

* As in [[DW]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'' and, later, [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', the TARDIS wardrobe features the outfits of several earlier incarnations. In particular, Erimem encounters the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s scarf and hat, the [[Second Doctor]]'s furry overcoat ([[DW]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'') and the [[Third Doctor]]'s ruffled shirts and smoking jackets ([[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'', et. al). Of the three, the Fifth Doctor seems fondest of the scarf — which he describes as "useful" but cumbersome as he tended to trip over it. The furry coat is described as being made of polyester, rather than animal skin and as having come from the [[planet]] [[Thraxis]]. He expresses positive embarrassment at her having discovered the kind of clothes he wore in his third life.  

* A number of [[companion]]s' clothes are also discovered in the wardrobe, including a dress worn by both [[Victoria Waterfield]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]''), a kilt worn by [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and one set of [[Leela]]'s skins, which the Doctor says Peri once considered wearing.

* The TARDIS is said to have the ability to automatically reconfigure its internal arrangement of rooms, leaving the Doctor temporarily unaware of where the rooms had been moved. This was later touched upon in [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' and [[IDW]]: ''[[Tesseract]]''.

* Shayde is again seen here as an agent of the Time Lords, working both for them and, to an extent, ''with'' the Doctor. He is described as having the ability to remove his dome-like "head" and absorb things into himself. He is given a male voice, a gender assignment not entirely clear in the comics, especially after he merged with [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] to become the more feminine combined being, [[Feyde]].

* Similar to a conversation between the Second Doctor and Victoria in [[DW]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', the Fifth Doctor speaks to Erimem about his memories of his family. He says that he does not, in fact, think of his family very much at all, save for occasional thoughts of [[Susan Foreman|Susan]].

* The Fifth Doctor expresses a disdain of [[cat]]s, which was a running gag in his adventures with [[Erimem]], at least until [[Antranak|her cat]]'s death. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Nekromanteia]]'')

* The Doctor claims that he delivered the Terracota Army to the first Emperor of [[China]], Qin Chi Huangdi, during his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]]. His [[Second Doctor|previous incarnation]] had encountered the Emperor towards the end of his life in [[BC|210 BC]]. Since his companions, [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Victoria Waterfield]], discovered the Terracota Army on that occasion, this would seem to indicate that the Doctor delivered them at an earlier point in the Emperor's personal timeline. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Emperor of Eternity]]'')

 

== [[Fifth Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] ==

* ''No Place Like Home'' occurs after [[BFA]]: ''[[The Church and the Crown]]''

* ''No Place Like Home'' occurs before [[BFA]]: ''[[Nekromanteia]]''

* {{dwrefguide|who_dwm3.htm|No Place Like Home}}