- City of Spires
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For the city known as "The city of dreaming spires", see Oxford.
Big Finish Productions audio play 
City of Spires Series Doctor Who Release number 133 Featuring Sixth Doctor
Jamie McCrimmonWriter Simon Bovey Director Nicholas Briggs Executive producer(s) Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-EllerySet between Blue Forgotten Planet and Night's Black Agents. Release date April 2010 City of Spires is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.
Contents
Plot
In the Scottish Highlands, Black Donald is fighting the Redcoats to halt the Clearances. But time itself seems to be confused. And the mysterious Red Cap has built anachronistic machines that are extracting the blood of the land.
Cast
- The Doctor - Colin Baker
- Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
- Alice - Georgia Moffett
- Victor - Richard Earl
- Major Heyward - James Albrecht
- Sergeant Rilke - Russell Floyd
- Guthrie - Sam Graham
- Rob - Charlie Ross
- Red Cap - John Banks
Continuity
- City of Spires is followed by the Companion Chronicles story Night's Black Agents, with the Doctor and Jamie still in Scotland. Some elements, such as the mention of "the man of your god" (Reverend Merodach), are foreshadowing for this next tale.
- Jamie McCrimmon was originally a companion of the Second Doctor, until the Time Lords returned him to Scotland and erased his memories of travelling in the TARDIS (but retained their initial adventure, The Highlanders). The Sixth Doctor previously encountered Jamie on screen in The Two Doctors (while still with the Second Doctor).
- Jamie briefly had his memories restored by a Time Lord in the Companion Chronicles story The Glorious Revolution, but ultimately chose to have them erased again.
- Jamie's vision of the "Phantom Piper" (actually a Cyberman) occurred in The Moonbase.
- The Doctor's line about the assembled hordes of Genghis Khan not being able to break into the TARDIS is also what the Ninth Doctor told Rose Tyler in the first episode of the revived TV series Rose.
- The black water is seen again in The Wreck of the Titan and Legend of the Cybermen, where its secrets are revealed.
- This story arc concludes in Legend of the Cybermen, which also reveals the origin of the aliens in City of Spires.
Cast Notes
- Georgia Moffett, daughter of Peter Davison, was in the 2000 Doctor Who audio story Red Dawn, alongside her father as the Fifth Doctor. In 2008, she was in the Doctor Who TV story The Doctor's Daughter, in the titular role, Jenny. She also voiced a role in the 2009 Doctor Who animated story Dreamland.
External links
Sixth Doctor audio dramas Peri Slipback • Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Davros • Her Final Flight • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • The Nightmare Fair • Mission to Magnus • Leviathan • The Hollows of Time • Paradise 5 • Point of Entry • The Song of Megaptera • The Macros • Recorded Time and Other Stories • The Guardians of Prophecy • Power Play • The First SontaransFrobisher Evelyn Smythe The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Real Time • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 • Assassin in the Limelight • A Town Called Fortune • The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial EvolutionCharley The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten PlanetJamie City of Spires • Night's Black Agents • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the CybermenFlip The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn IsleMel The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • The Wishing Beast & The Vanity BoxAlone The Sirens of Time • The Ratings War • Excelis Rising • The Wormery • I.D. & Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • Peri and the Piscon ParadoxOther Zagreus • The Ultimate Adventure • Beyond the Ultimate AdventureCategories:- 2010 audio plays
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