- Crime of the Century (Doctor Who audio)
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Big Finish Productions audio play Crime Of The Century Series Doctor Who: The Lost Stories Release number 12 Featuring Seventh Doctor
Ace
Raine CreeveyWriter Andrew Cartmel Director Ken Bentley Executive producer(s) Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-EllerySet between Thin Ice and Animal Release date 31 May 2011 Crime Of The Century 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
The Doctor has a masterplan that begins in London, Friday the 13th of October, 1989. Cat burglar Raine Creevey infiltrates a fancy dinner party to crack open their safe. That's where she discovers the Doctor. He is gathering rare artifacts and distributing them carefully. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is invading a country in the Middle East. But a third army has been attacking both sides: nobel, insectoid aliens known as the Metatraxi.
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Raine Creevey - Beth Chalmers
- Markus Creevy - Ricky Groves
- Nikitin/Parvez - Derek Carlyle
- Colonel Felnikov/Party Guest/Waiter - John Albasiny
- Metatraxi/Walnuf/Gunman - John Banks
- Sayf Udeen/Valentin - Chris Porter
Continuity
- Markus met the Doctor 22 years earlier in the previous story Thin Ice.
- The Doctor helped deliver his daughter, Raine.
- Felnikov, and many of the alien artifacts, also featured in Thin Ice.
- Margrave University is investigated, 12 years in the future, in the next story, Animal.
- The Metatraxi return in Earth Aid and have a cameo before that in Animal.
Notes
- Andrew Cartmel was the script editor for the last three seasons of the original television series. He was known to fans as the architect of the proposed Cartmel Masterplan. For Big Finish Productions, he previously wrote Winter for the Adept.
External links
Seventh Doctor audio dramas Mel Ace & Raine Crime of the Century • Animal • Earth AidAce The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture • The Prisoner's Dilemma • Thin IceAce & Hex The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-five • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's EdgeAce & Benny Benny Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal CodeKlein A Thousand Tiny Wings • Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story • The Architects of HistoryAlone The Sirens of Time • Last of the Titans • Excelis Decays • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake • A Death in the Family • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • House of Blue FireOther Death Comes to Time • Zagreus • The Wormery • Thicker than WaterCategories:- Seventh Doctor audio plays
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