The Scream of Ghosts (audio story)
The Scream of Ghosts was the second and final story in the audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Five, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Tim Treloar as the Third Doctor, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Jon Culshaw as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and John Levene as Sergeant Benton.
It was added for free to the podcast Into the TARDIS as part of Big Finish's 25th anniversary of creating Doctor Who audio stories. It was released in four parts on 12, 19, 26 October and 2 November 2024 and hosted by Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
When the Brigadier and Jo are called in to look into a breakthrough in the field of portable communication, the Doctor has to stay behind with communications problems of his own – a strange signal coming through the TARDIS console that's burned out its circuits.
When Benton approaches the Doctor with an odd story about an old friend, the Time Lord realises his troubles and the Brigadier's investigations may be connected, and hot-foots it in pursuit.
Soon they discover that terrifying sounds are walking in the woods of the English countryside... but what lurks behind those sounds may be even more dangerous...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Tim Treloar
- Jo Grant - Katy Manning
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Jon Culshaw
- Sergeant Benton - John Levene
- Warren - Dominic Wood
- Caldicott - Rosalyn Landor
- Armitage - David Dobson
- The Vardans / Bob Ellis - Guy Adams
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Warren suggests using white noise to cancel out the Vardans while they are composed of sound.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Maurice the dog is named as such in reference to Maurice Martenot, an early pioneer in electronic music. (BFX: The Scream of Ghosts)
- Between 11 October and 1 November 2024, this story and its behind-the-scenes material were released as part of the Into the TARDIS podcast.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor recalls how an old friend of his discovered just how deadly the Vardans could be , referring to Oliver Harper's encounter with the Vardans in AUDIO: The First Wave [+]Loading...["The First Wave (audio story)"].
- Jo calls Tom Osgood for assistance, and recalls his retirement after the incident at Devil's End. She is referring to the events of Osgood's only television appearance, TV: The Dæmons [+]Loading...["The Dæmons (TV story)"].
- The Vardans tell the Doctor they want to invade time, making this a prequel to TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Scream of Ghosts page at bigfinish.com
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