Pier Pressure (Doctor Who audio)

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title=Pier Pressure
series="Doctor Who"
number=78
featuring=Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe


writer=Robert Ross
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
executive_producer=
production_code=7CMA
set_between="Medicinal Purposes" and "The Nowhere Place"
length=2 hrs 4 mins
date=January 2006|

"Pier Pressure" is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".

Plot

In 1936 Brighton, strange lights and terrible sounds are coming from beneath the pier, and the dead are unusually ambulatory. The only hope is the Doctor, Evelyn and — Max Miller?

Cast

*The Doctor — Colin Baker
*Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
*Professor Talbot — Doug Bradley
*Max Miller — Roy Hudd
*Billy — Martin Parsons
*Albert Potter — Chris Simmons

Notes

#One of the characters in this story is a young actor called Billy, who has just made a film called "While Parents Sleep" [imdb title|id=0168257|title=While Parents Sleep] and also starred in "I'm an Explosive". [imdb title|id=0137011|title=I'm an Explosive] These 1930s films do exist, and contain early appearances by a certain "Billy Hartnell", who would later play the First Doctor.
#At the beginning of the story, Evelyn suggests a trip to Blackpool, but the Doctor refuses because of what happened to him last time he visited that town. This is a reference to the unmade Sixth Doctor serial "The Nightmare Fair", which was to be the first serial in season 23 - the show went on hiatus for a year instead.
#The story ends with an alien energy becoming trapped in the metal structure of the West Pier, which will corrode the structure in "60 to 70 years." This refers to the fact that the Pier suffered several collapses throughout the 1990s and 2000s, eventually destroying the structure beyond repair.

References

External links

* [http://www.bigfinish.com/78-Doctor-Who-Pier-Pressure Big Finish Productions - "Pier Pressure"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_bf78 | title=Pier Pressure

Reviews

*OG review | id=bf-78 | title=Pier Pressure
*DWRG | id=pierpressure | title=Pier Pressure