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Series 8 ( CC ) The fourth series in the " Companion Chronicles " range of audios was released by Big Finish Productions in 2013 and 2014 . Overview . " to be added " The stories were released monthly between July 2013 and June 2014 . Cast . " to be added " Notes . " to be added " Production . " to be added " External links . " to be added "
Jagaroth ship The Sephiroth was a spaceship used by the last of the Jagaroth to reach Earth 400 million years BC , when the planet was barren and dead . The Fourth Doctor believed that it landed in what would become the middle of the Atlantic Ocean . The ship was spherical , with three legs as landing gear . It had warp drive and secondary engines and was piloted by the Jagaroth Scaroth from the warp control cabin . Scaroth was to use warp thrust to take off , but at warp power three , which he knew was suicide without the ship ' s secondary engines functioning . When it took off , it entered a warp field and was ripped apart . The explosion of the Jagaroth ship splintered Scaroth into twelve different selves which were scattered across time , killed the rest of the Jagaroth and caused the radioactive explosion needed to start life on Earth . ( TV : " City of Death " )
43K2 . 1 In 4221 , recorded as 43K2 . 1 by the 43rd century dating system , ( AUDIO : " The Torchwood Archive " ) Sanctuary Base 6 was assaulted by the Beast , which was defeated by the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler . ( TV : " The Impossible Planet " / " The Satan Pit " ) Curiously , Sanctuary Base 6 held a complement of Ood slave s , despite the prior Ood liberation of 4126 with the help of the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " )
Las Vegas Las Vegas was a city located in Nevada . The Twelfth Doctor described it as " a place of shattered dreams , lost innocence , dashed hope , and frittered - away fortunes " . ( COMIC : " Gangland " ) The Brenda Soobie incarnation of Iris Wildthyme frequented Vegas . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " , " Bafflement and Devotion " , " Party Fears Two " ) After an incident in which Nyssa demonstrated a knowledge of the algorithmic principles of fruit machine s , the Fifth Doctor told her to remind him never to take her to Las Vegas - a sentiment Turlough disagreed with , preferring the opposite . ( AUDIO : " Eldrad Must Die ! " ) The Eleventh Doctor once unsuccessfully attempted to take Clara Oswald to Vegas . ( TV : " Cold War " ) History . Las Vegas was founded by Bugsy Siegel . ( COMIC : " Gangland " ) In 1960 , the Eighth Doctor dropped off Fitz Kreiner and Flossie in Vegas to investigate Brenda Soobie . They found Brenda at the Hotel Miramar and encountered agents of MIAOW . Fitz , Flossie , Brenda , and Noël Coward were captured by Mida Slike and taken to dogworld . After Margaret was defeated on dogworld , Coward used the Blithe Pinking Shears to bring Brenda , Flossie , the Doctor , Fitz , Anji Kapoor , and Fritter to Vegas . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) In 1971 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited Vegas . ( PROSE : " Priceless Junk " ) The Tenth Doctor and Heather McCrimmon visited Deep Ocean , a huge , Luxembourg - sized underground biosphere that had been constructed in the city . There , the duo encountered a Thalatth , a species capable of extraordinary metamorphosis . ( COMIC : " Hook , Line and Sinker " ) The Seventh Doctor once took Bernice Summerfield and Chris Cwej to Vegas . ( PROSE : " Too Rich for My Blood " )
Stage Fright ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . The Doctor and Flip visit Victorian London , where investigators Jago and Litefoot explore theatrical performances that have echoes of the Doctor ' s past lives . . . Plot . The story opens on the Valeyard staging a theatre play about a group of people experiencing their friend dying . He explains that he will himself be playing the dying man and then goes on to instruct the actors , Susie , Sylvie , and Tommy , in their roles . During all this a weird machine keeps humming in the background . As the Valeyard lays out the scene , Sylvie interrupts him with questions , noticing that another actor , Johnny , has mysteriously disappeared since the first rehearsal , but the Valeyard responds that it is normal for actors to come and go , and she accepts the explanation though she still finds it strange . She then asks about the plot of the play , pointing out that when she rehearsed it alone with the Valeyard it was about man dying from being poisoned , but now it has changed to be about a man dying after falling from a great height , to which the Valeyard answers that the final act is always the most important one and sometimes you have to rewrite it several times to get it right . He then asks everyone to take their places and begin the rehearsal . It soon becomes clear that the scene is actually an re - enactment of the Fourth Doctor ' s regeneration , though with slightly altered lines . As the actors play their roles and begs the Doctor not to die , the strange machine begins humming with increasing intensity , and soon the actors start screaming in extreme agony . Elsewhere in London , the Doctor and Flip arrives in the TARDIS . Wanting to show Flip the cultural side of Victorian London , the Doctor takes her to the New Regency Theatre , but they find it to be to locked with a sign explaining that the building is temporarily closed for private use . The Doctor decides that they should instead try to find the owner of the theatre , his old friend Henry Gordon Jago , and the Doctor has a good idea where to start . The Doctor and Flip finds Jago , along with the Doctor ' s other old friend , Professor George Litefoot , at the Red Tavern as they are being served a lavish lunch by Ellie Higson . After he has introduced Flip to Jago and Litefoot , the latter tells the Doctor about some rather mysterious murders involving some impossibly old bodies he has been investigating lately , which intrigues the Doctor who offers his help . Jago , meanwhile , offers to show Flip around the New Regency Theatre while the Doctor and Litefoot visits the morgue . " more to be added "
Ian McIntire Ian McIntire contributed to " The Book of the War " . He also wrote short stories for several Doctor Who charity anthologies , including " Schrodinger ' s Botanist " in " Perfect Timing " ( notable for introducing the character of Carmen Yeh ) and " Unlimited " for " Perfect Timing 2 " ( about Aaron Blinovitch and his involvement with Faction Paradox ) .
Beta - force field The beta - force field was a device fitted on the Vagan inter - dimensional craft by the Doctor . It allowed it to prematurely detonate the warheads on a space - shark , destroying it . ( PROSE : " The Key of Vaga " )
Norman Bates Ng compared the hotel where Jack Harkness dated Duncan B . and was built with the one run by Norman Bates . ( AUDIO : " Love Rat " ) Behind the scenes . Norman Bates was the psychotic killer from Alfred Hitchcock ' s film " Psycho " .
Block transfer sculpture Block transfer sculptures were an art form based on Block Transfer Computation . Their creation required great concentration and awareness of quantum foam harmonics . Zhe Ikiyuyu was trained on Logopolis to make and manipulate block transfer sculptures . She mostly created figurative sculpture but also abstract ones . ( COMIC : " The Arts in Space " )
Mackenzie Brooks Mackenzie Brooks was in Courtney Woods ' year at Coal Hill School . He frequently slipped Zehra Jalindra notes , often reminders of how desperately in love with her he was , which Zehra always took with a sigh and nothing else . In 2013 , Clara Oswald took his class outdoors to learn about tardigrade s . Once they got settled on the grass , she instructed them to look up at the sky for ten seconds , then to shut their eyes , count to five , open them again and tell her what they see . ( PROSE : " Normality " )
David Gooderson David Gooderson ( born 24 February 1941 ) played Davros in the " Doctor Who " television story " Destiny of the Daleks " . He also provided uncredited Dalek voices in the same story . ( DWM 283 ) He later voiced Gavin Dexter in the audio stories " Buried Secrets " and " Fatal Consequences " . He also contributed to the Davros Connections documentary .
Anthony Jones Anthony Jones directed the 1980 science fiction film " Prey for a Miracle " , in which Peter Cushing played the lead role of " the mysterious government adviser , Doctor Who , " a character loosely based on the First Doctor . ( PROSE : " Salvation " )
Sparrow & Nightingale Sparrow & Nightingale was a shop owned by Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale beginning in 2007 . The store sold antiquarian book s and rare DVD s . Before the two business partners took over , it was Banto ' s DVD store . ( TV : " Blink " )
Levithia Levithia was a planet in the Seven Systems . When the emperor of the Levithian Empire was killed by his brother Grath , his children , Asher and Ella , fled Levithia to Gallifrey to escape a similar fate . When the twins came of age , the emperor ' s advisor , Rigel came for them and returned them home , where they took back their empire . ( PROSE : " The Twins in the Wood " ) The planet was in league with the Cyrrhenic Empire . It was originally led by Graff Vynda - K , but when he went off to fight in the Frontier wars , his half - brother took over the throne . When Graff Vynda - K attempted to take back his kingship , the people did not support him , the Alliance refused to back him and his mind snapped . He went off to search for a means to take back the planet by force . ( TV : " The Ribos Operation " ) Levithia was one of the planets that did not accept the format of star map produced by Kasterborous , preferring to make their own system . ( PROSE : " " )
Trilanic activator A trilanic activator was a device created and used by the Zygon s to control their Skarasen s . When activated , it sent out a signal and called the Skarasen to wherever the control was . Like most Zygon technology , the trilanic activator was biological in design . It was hand - sized and had a texture like wet skin . It would activate and could be regenerated when in an area of high diastellic transmission s . A group of Zygons used a trilanic activator in 1909 to control their two Skarasens . The Tenth Doctor later stole it and planned to use it to put the Skarasens to sleep . It was regained by the Zygons after the Doctor ' s capture . ( PROSE : " Sting of the Zygons " ) A trilanic activator was used by Zygons in the 1970s . Madra was sent to retrieve it from the Fourth Doctor , using the body - print of Harry Sullivan to avoid detection . However , Sarah Jane Smith noticed his altered behaviour and pursued him , a chase that led to his fall from the rafters of a barn and his impaling . The Fourth Doctor used the activator to lead the Skarasen away from UNIT ' s temporary base . It bonded to his hand , preventing him from casting it away and he was almost killed by the creature , but Harry used the controls in the Zygon ship to detach it . The Skarasen destroyed the activator , prompting it to return to Loch Ness . ( TV : " Terror of the Zygons " )
Kevin Arkwright Kevin Arkwright was a twelve year old boy on a school trip to Xirrinda to research for an exam . He and his friend Matty George volunteered to help the Eleventh Doctor to control the boiler pressure of the monorail to allow them and all the passengers to escape to Ortagon City . His liquorish sweets helped Rory to distract the creatures as they blew up the train . ( PROSE : " Rain of Terror " )
Sharon Kreig Sharon Kreig was an IMC shock trooper . She had a collection of thirty - eight ear s , one from each action she participated in . One was from the daughter of the chairman of InterSpace Incorporated , which she helped IMC take over in Tokyo in 2156 . When IMC bought the mining rights to the Lucifer system in 2157 , she shared quarters aboard the " Insider Trading " with Jay Ardamal and Jason Dommer . She and Ardamal were sent to investigate the Mushroom Farm on Belial by Ace . When they got there , they found Alex Bannen using the machinery to alter reality by modifying morphic field s . Kreig ' s voice turned to liquid , her skin became purple and spiny , and her body fused with Ardamal ' s , with both of them going mad . Bernice and Ace later found their mangled bodies . ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " )
Yvonne ( Everything Changes ) Yvonne was a colleague of Gwen Cooper ' s at the Cardiff police department . In 2007 , Gwen asked her to search for a Captain Jack Harkness on the police database . She told Gwen the only person with that name and title was an American who went missing in 1941 . ( TV : " Everything Changes " )
Mount McKerry Mount McKerry was a twelve - thousand - foot high mountain on the island of St Alban . There was an observatory near the top during the early 21st century . The Fourth Doctor and Leela crash - landed near the mountain after the TARDIS was struck by the Stormcrow . ( AUDIO : " Night of the Stormcrow " )
Mars Bubble The Mars Bubble was a hundred - mile - wide atmospheric pocket capable of sustaining life and one of the natural wonders of the universe . Located within the bubble were the surviving Martian s and Martian Sphinx . ( NOTVALID : " Daleks Versus the Martians " )
Eric Ritchie Junior Eric Ritchie Junior was the name or alias of a poet , whose poetry was included in at least some of the Christmas cracker s that Linda bought for Christmas . Clara brought the cracker with her to the town Christmas , opened it with the Eleventh Doctor and revealed extracts of the poem by Eric Ritchie Junior , " Thoughts on a Clock " . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " )
Kruger Kruger was a member of the Stasi . He interrogated Lara Zannis after she was arrested in East Berlin in 1961 . He also interrogated the War Doctor who tried to find out why he was there . He helped the Doctor follow Zannis to West Berlin to stop her from creating the Shadow Vortex . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow Vortex " )
Protractor A protractor was a mathematical instrument used in school s . According to Susan Foreman ' s diary , Francis Minto shoved a protractor into Gillian Roberts ' s buttocks in mid - March 1963 , and she destroyed her desk in rage . Mr Grange strapped her three times across the palm of her hand for vandalising school property . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " )
Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins was a British scientist . In 1997 , he and his wife were among the celebrities observing the Mars 97 mission at the National Space Museum . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) In 2003 , the Sixth Doctor expected Richard Dawkins to be among the " greats " of science present at the centenary of the National Foundation for Scientific Research in Berkshire . ( AUDIO : " Catch - 1782 " ) In 2009 , when Earth was taken to the Medusa Cascade by the Dalek s , Dawkins appeared on television to discuss the phenomenon . He pointed out that , as could be seen from the new constellation s visible , the Earth had indeed travelled . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) After his death and resurrection in the City of the Saved , Richard believed that the City ' s existence disproved the idea of Heaven . Professor Vril disagreed , saying , " If he met a lunatic claiming to be Napoleon , he ’ d say it proved there ’ d never been a real one . " Richard and his charming wife attended Allisheer St Marx ' s masked ball on View Point in AF 291 . ( PROSE : " Unification Theory " ) Alternate timeline . In 1996 , he was possibly the leader of a cult which still believed in stars . Aunt Sharon worried about Amy Pond joining it , saying that she didn ' t trust " that Richard Dawkins " . ( TV : " The Big Bang " )
Zanak Zanak was a planet with green fields , lush vegetation and friendly , humanoid natives . It was quite prosperous until the reign of Queen Xanxia . The queen launched galactic wars to demonstrate her powers , which ultimately ended up ruining Zanak and left only a few nomadic tribes alive . Later , the Captain crash - landed on Zanak in his ship , the " Vantarialis " . He hollowed out the planet , which , using powerful engines , could materialise around other planet s and steal their mineral wealth . It would then crush the planets into small , compressed cores . The Captain ruled from a mountain fortress known as the Bridge . He , in turn , answered to Xanxia , who had recreated him in his current cyborg form . Xanxia had gutted her entire planet to provide the power needed to control the time dam s that kept her body frozen in its last few seconds of life . Her consciousness was then projected into a new , virtually - generated body in the form of the Captain ' s nurse . The Captain destroyed many planets with Zanak , including Bandraginus V , Tridentio III , Granados , Temesis , Lowiteliom , Bibicorpus , Aterica , Discurus , and Collactin . Publically , this transition allowing Zanak to draw on the mineral wealth of these worlds , but they also served the purpose of draining these planets of energy that Xanxia could use to maintain the time dams . The Fourth Doctor visited Zanak and helped the Mentiad s overthrow the Captain and Xanxia . The Bridge was destroyed , allowing Zanak to settle in the position that had once been occupied by the planet Calufrax . Its interior mass was replaced by the remnants of the planets ( with the exception of Calufrax ) that Zanak had destroyed , which the Captain had preserved as part of a plan to destroy Xanxia . ( TV : " The Pirate Planet " ) In 2009 K9 Mark IV told Clyde Langer about " a hollow world called Zanak " , which was a pirate planet . Clyde learned that the planet jumped through space around other planets and drained them dry . ( PROSE : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) Behind the scenes . No explicit narrative connection has ever been made between Zanak and Zanak IV , a planet featured in the audio story " The Wreck of the Titan " .
Fenner Fenner was a crewmember of the methane refinery on Delta III . After a ship landed on Delta III , Fenner and his superior , Thawn , went to to seek the craft . They came across the TARDIS and mistook the Fourth Doctor for the gun runner , Rohm - Dutt . They took him prisoner and returned to the refinery with him . While they were distracted by their machinery , the Doctor escaped . Fenner thought the Swampie s might as well be slave s , caring little for their livelihood . This affected his treatment of Mensch , who was indeed a slave . Neither Fenner nor Thawn considered the Swampies people . Nevertheless , when Thawn murdered Dugeen and tried to destroy Kroll and the Swampies , Fenner was not willing to go along with Thawn until he threatened to kill him too . After Thawn and Kroll were killed , the Doctor told Fenner to spend his time wisely until a rescue mission from Delta Magna arrived . ( TV : " The Power of Kroll " )
Halicarnassus Halicarnassus , later called Bodrum , was the location of the funerary temple of King Mausolus . The tomb was designated as one of the Seven Wonders of the World and was unearthed by Charles Newton in the 19th century . ( PROSE : " The Eighth Wonder of the World " )
Uptime Gate The Uptime Gate was a powerful time corridor that connected the City of the Saved to the universe . In the City , it took the form of a mile - high block of stone situated in the Erstwhile Plaza in Central District . While open , it was often the site of reunions , partings , pageants and expeditions , but it was eventually closed and sealed . ( PROSE : " Of the City of the Saved . . . " ) Though the term technically only applied to the terminus inside the City , it was generally used to refer to the other end as well . The in - universe end was situated on a mountain on a distant planet close to the frontier in time , so far from the Wartime powers that the entire area almost existed in a state of truce . The area around the Uptime Gate became a posthuman settlement called Ascension . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " Of the City of the Saved . . . " )
Untitled ( 12D comic story ) An untitled " " comic story was published in 2014 . Plot . The Doctor considers if all people have the same taste buds - - if they all taste food the same . He decides that it is impossible for this to be so , and that everyone must have a different , only emotions connecting the experience . He then considers how alien every single person is to another , and exclaims that throughout all of his travels , what he is currently living through is the greatest victory to him . Clara and the Doctor are sitting on top of The TARDIS in space , eating chips . Notes . " to be added " Original print details . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "
12 July In 1674 , Abigail Williams was born in Hadley , Massachusetts . She would be a key witness in the witch trials in Salem Village in 1692 . ( PROSE : " The Witch Hunters " ) Ben Jackson met Polly Wright at the Inferno nightclub in Covent Garden in 1966 . ( TV : " The War Machines " )
Bev Stanley Bev Stanley was Ianto Jones ' boss at Torchwood One . She was the head of Information Retrieval in the Institute . Bev was described by Ianto in as being a woman who only smiled when she wanted something done . Ianto also said that Bev tried to emulate Yvonne Hartman , wearing the same clothes and doing her hair exactly like Yvonne ' s . Bev had high ambitions and would perhaps one day have liked to take over Torchwood One . Bev met her end while showing Charles Cromwell an intruder in the Institute ' s holding rooms some time before the Battle of Canary Wharf . According to Ianto ' s account , Bev Stanley was replaced by the afternoon of her death , and she was never mentioned again . ( PROSE : " Trace Memory " )
Liam Jarrow Liam Jarrow was a resident of Marpling . Liam wanted to be in the army like his father . Charles Rigby attempted to convince him otherwise with tales of the war , but they only encouraged him . Charles showed him a black box he had found . As he did , they were beset by wasp s and they fled . He treated Hilary Pink as a coward as he was a Quaker . He later found out Hilary was his father as he had been with his mother while her husband was at war . ( PROSE : " Eater of Wasps " )
Yulian The Yulians were the native inhabitants of Yula . A species of psychic snail men , the Yulians possessed a Communal Will , to which each individual fed their psyche and in turn fed from the psyches of the others . They were peaceful and very hospitable , and welcomed all visitors to their world . At the time the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited Yula , the Communal Will , which was hundreds of thousands of years old , was beginning to destabilise , a result of a psychic attack from space . The Doctor traced the source to the planet Crellium , where he defeated Krem - ling ' s plan to feed off the Yulians ' minds and take over their bodies . Afterwards , the Doctor noticed a change in the Communal Will , a new sense of urgency and purpose . ( PROSE : " The Vampires of Crellium " )
Did You See ? Main subject . " to be added " Additional topics covered . " to be added " People interviewed . " to be added " Home video releases . This documentary was included on the DVD release of the " Doctor Who " story " Earthshock " .
Harry Melling Harry Melling played Hervey in the Big Finish " Doctor Who " audio serial " The Whispering Forest " . He is the grandson of Patrick Troughton and the nephew of David Troughton and Michael Troughton . He is well - known for playing in the Harry Potter franchise .
Spiral Chamber The Spiral Chamber was an item of Time Lord design and was present on Gallifrey . The machine was ancient and acted as a portal into the Spiral at the nexus of the Time Vortex . Rummas stole it from Gallifrey and took it to Carsus . The Sixth Doctor used the Chamber to trap Monica Lamprey and destroy her . ( PROSE : " Spiral Scratch " )
Alf ( Deep Breath ) Alf was a man living in Victorian London . He told his partner Elsie that the appearance of a Tyrannosaur in the River Thames was part of a government conspiracy . He encountered the Half - Face Man , who complimented Alf on his eyes . The Half - Face Man attacked Alf , taking his eyes and burning the rest of his body as he had done with his other victims . ( TV : " Deep Breath " )