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Wildthyme Beyond! (novel)

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***Wildthyme Beyond*** was an Iris Wildthyme novel. It was written by Paul Magrs.

## Publisher's summary

In this volume: Iris and her various friends are stranded on the perplexing and magical world of Hyspero. Ruled over by the all-knowing and all-powerful Scarlet Empress, this is a place where seemingly anything can happen. As Iris and her faithful companion, Panda, are drawn into a nightmarish subterranean adventure, their friends are captured by the guards of the Empress herself for nefarious reasons of her own. Iris descends into memories of her bizarre childhood in a universe far from here... a dreadful place that the despicable poet Anthony Marvelle is trying to unleash, convinced that great riches lie in that mythical region known only as the Obverse...

Friends old and new are along for the ride — including Barbra the brave vending machine, Jenny the ex-traffic warden and Kelly, the Goth girl from the bookshop who discovers she has a strange destiny as the mystical key to unlocking the dimensions. Hyspero itself awakens memories inside her... of a magical book she once read as a child... or, perhaps a book in which she once had her own adventures...

And meanwhile on Earth — two or three dimensions to the left, in the realm of fictionality — Iris's fans and fanfic writers are gathering and quibbling at the curious turn the lady's adventures are taking...

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme/Lilith
* Panda
* Kelly
* Simon
* Anthony Marvelle
* Jenny Winterleaf
* Barbra
* Dick
* Sammy
* Terry
* Eliot
* Fenster
* Hope
* Faith
* Susan
* Mary

## References

* Saga City is the home of the Clockworks in the Obverse.
* Wherewithal House was the house that Iris grew up in.
* There is a Greggs in Darlington.
* The Ringpull is a cosmic phenomenon that separates the universe from the Obverse.

## Continuity

* Iris recalls Panda once being in the possession of Tom. (AUDIO: *Wildthyme at Large*)

## External links

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The Slots of Giza (audio story)

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***The Slots of Giza*** was the fifth story of the fifth series of the Iris Wildthyme audio series, *Wildthyme Reloaded*.

## Publisher's summary

The Giza is the Hawkhead Nebula's premier casino experience: Vegas on an intergalactic scale! But when one of Iris's fellow slotters dies at her machine, she and Captain Turner quickly learn that the Giza's guests are gambling with their lives.

## Cast

* Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
* Captain Edwin Turner - Geoffrey Breton
* Seth the Sensational - Stephen Fewell
* Slot - Ian Hallard
* Mabel - Nicola Bryant
* Poker dealer - David Blackwell

## References

* The Giza is a casino in the Hawkhead Nebula inspired by Egyptian culture, including the Nile Rapids and the Pyramid Diner.

## Notes

* This story was recorded on 14, 15, 16 and 18 January at The Moat Studios.

## Continuity

* Iris gambled compulsively in a previous regeneration. (AUDIO: *Dark Side*)

## External links

* Official ***The Slots of Giza - Wildthyme Reloaded*** page at bigfinish.com

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The Sound of Fear (audio story)

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***The Sound of Fear*** was the third release in the Iris Wildthyme audio series. It was the first story of the second season. It was written by Mark Michalowski.

## Publisher's summary

With her red London bus on course for the future, Iris runs slap-bang into the past!
Materialising aboard Radio Yesterday, a space station broadcasting golden oldies to Earth's colonies, Panda finds something sinister in the air-conditioning and Iris comes face to face with her long-lost husband... (no, really!)
As Iris, Panda and the crew of Radio Yesterday experience the true power of music, the evil Naxian hordes are poised to transmit a groovy message of death... to the entire galaxy!

## Cast

* Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
* Panda - David Benson
* Sam Gold - Miles Richardson
* Leeza Lewis - Helen Goldwyn
* Janice - Jane Goddard
* Mohanalee - Scott Handcock

## References

* A cover of John Smith and the Common Men is played.
* Janice is Radio Yesterday's computer.
* Naxians are using Radio Yesterday's subspace broadcasts to brainwash the galaxy to prepare for their invasion.

## Notes

* This story is a parody of the numerous "base under siege" stories which were common in 1960s *Doctor Who*, particularly during the Second Doctor era.
* Miles Richardson is better known for his long running role as Irving Braxiatel in both the *Bernice Summerfield* and *Gallifrey* audio series.
* This audio drama was recorded on 31 May 2008.

## Continuity

* In AUDIO: *The Two Irises*, another Naxian named Roger appeared who was seemingly "the third Naxian on the left" during this story.
* Iris refers to her meeting with Noel Coward. (PROSE: *Mad Dogs and Englishmen*)
* Sam Gold met Iris at the Intergalactic Song Contest which Nicky Newman won. The Seventh Doctor met Newman and won the 309th contest himself on Dark Space 8. (AUDIO: *Bang-Bang-a-Boom!*)
* The Master Bakers of Barastabon were referred to in PROSE: *Special Occasions: 1. The Not-So-Sinister Sponge*.

## External links

* Official ***The Sound of Fear*** page at bigfinish.com
* ***The Sound of Fear*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
The Horrible Book of Terror

**The Horrible Book of Terror** was an anthology which contained thirteen short stories.

* 1st Grub Street by Vaughan Fretwell
* 4th The Moth Woman's Curse by Bella Andover (actually Edna Spedding)
* 6th by Lady Lucrezia Noggins
* Unknown by Sir Oswald Arthur
* Unknown by Sandra Templeton
* Unknown by the Joyce twins
* Unknown by Minty
* Unknown by Magda Soames
* 9th All Mod Cons by Dodie Golightly
* 12th to last Cornelia Lively
* 13th Unknown by Fox Soames
Mystery Lady: Episode Four (audio story)

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***Episode Four*** was the fourth release in the *Mystery Lady series* written by Paul Magrs and prominently featuring the character of Dodie Golightly originated in the 2013 *Iris Wildthyme* story *The Ninnies on Putney Common*.

## Publisher's summary

As they make their way to Edinburgh to continue their investigation, Cassandra is still recovering from a devastating secret that has changed her life. Can Sir Oswald Arthur, the famous writer and his aloof housekeeper, Jayne, shed any light on their enquiries? As mysteries threaten to engulf them all, will their beloved Timothy divulge his own secrets or will he keep everyone in the dark?

## Characters

* Cassandra
* Lady Lucrezia Noggins
* Jayne
* Timothy Bold
* Dodie Golightly
* Sir Oswald Arthur

## Notes

* Sir Oswald Arthur once wrote about a glowing skull in a hat shop and evil space rodents.
* According to Oswald it was bad luck for anyone but Fox Soames to read one of his anthologies' entire manuscripts before it was published, and that several editors, proof readers, typesetters and reviewers had died in mysterious circumstances. One person was mangled in a printing press, another poisoned by puffer fish, and one was trampled by rhinos.
Lolita

**Lolita** was an evolved Type 45 timeship.

## Biography

Lolita was present during the Great Houses's war with the Yssgaroth. She may have been infected by it during this time. (PROSE: *The Book of the War*, *Toy Story*)

Under her former master's control, Lolita claimed that he had partly severed her symbiotic relationship with him to allow him to use other timeships.

After being freed from her master's control, Lolita attempted to recruit her sister for House Lolita in the years before the War began. (PROSE: *Toy Story*)

Lolita created House Lolita to oppose Faction Paradox in the early years of the the War. She entered into an alliance with House Tracolix and the Sontarans to destroy the Eleven-Day Empire. During the invasion, Lolita turned on her allies and killed the entire Seventy Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps. After this Lolita swallowed the Eleven-Day Empire into her internal dimensions, killing the majority of Faction Paradox in the process. (AUDIO: *The Eleven Day Empire*, *The Shadow Play*)

Lolita refused to allow any other lifeform to join her house. She claimed that the places were reserved for her future children, who like her were timeships. (AUDIO: *In the Year of the Cat*)

During the War in Heaven, Lolita consumed the Eleven-Day Empire while under orders from the Great Houses to destroy Faction Paradox. Later she betrayed the Great Houses and consumed the War King of the Homeworld. In doing so she became the War Queen. (AUDIO: *Words From Nine Divinities*)

After becoming the War Queen, she allied herself with Sutekh against Faction Paradox, Anubis and the Great Houses. When Eliza gave her own body to complete Horus in a final attempt to defeat Sutekh, Lolita cut her wrist and put her own biodata in Eliza. This let Lolita control Horus and she gave the final blow against Sutekh. (AUDIO: *Body Politic*, *Words From Nine Divinities*)

However, Lolita had forgotten one detail; Cousin Justine of Faction Paradox had a safe path to the Homeworld. She led the Mal'akh to attack the Council chambers and Lolita herself directly. After Justine took over the Homeworld, Lolita was trapped in a pyramid by the Osirians as punishment for her crimes. (AUDIO: *Ozymandias*, *The Judgment of Sutekh*)

## Behind the scenes

### Character Notes by Lawrence Miles

Villainess. Aristocratic, but with no respect for tradition. Dangerous. Utterly amoral. Apparently in her thirties (though she's not human, so her actual age is open to debate). Political. Manipulative. Believes herself to be superior to most other life in the universe - as it turns out, there's a good reason for this - and regards everybody else with quiet amusement. Hard to imagine her taking anything seriously: everything she does is pre-planned, and therefore there's never any reason for concern. Gives the impression of being "untrustworthy" rather than "slimy". Doesn't really care one way or another.
Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)

In a divergent universe, the melancholic **ninth incarnation** of a Time Lord known as **the Doctor** met a barmaid Alison Cheney in the small Lancashire town of Lannet. Together, they fought to save the world, and defeated the silicon-based Shalka. Afterwards, Alison left with the Doctor in the TARDIS. (WC: *Scream of the Shalka*)

The two, along with the android Master, shared at least one more adventure together, involving vampires. (PROSE: *The Feast of the Stone*)

## Characteristics

This Doctor was serious, and often angry, but wasn't averse to the odd bit of fun. He kept an android version of the Master in his TARDIS. (WC: *Scream of the Shalka*)

## Habits and quirks

* This Doctor was known to drink alcohol. (PROSE: *The Feast of the Stone*)
* He carried a mobile phone, taken from a charging cradle hidden behind the telephone panel in the TARDIS' police box shell. Shaped like the TARDIS, the phone was in fact part of the TARDIS itself.
* This Doctor displayed a fondness for singing, and had a repertoire of showtunes.
* He was friends with Andy Warhol, who wanted to paint a picture of him and his eight previous incarnations.

## Behind the scenes

According to DWM 464, the Doctor had been a lover to his companion, the daughter of the Lord President and he had retired to Gallifrey. After some time, an unknown alien had invaded and killed all Time Lords. All except the Doctor's companion promptly retreated to the Matrix. The Doctor and the Master "sent the aliens packing", destroying the Master's final form in the process causing the Doctor to construct an android body confined to his TARDIS. The Time Lords use their power to "send the Doctor off to solve the most dangerous problems in the universe".
Lady Stardust (anthology)

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***Lady Stardust*** is an anthology of thirteen short stories featuring Iris Wildthyme.

## Publisher's summary

*Femme fatales emerged from shadows/*
To watch this creature fair

Iris Wildthyme and David Bowie – it’s the ideal match, a dream come true! Seriously – what could possibly go wrong?

## External links

* Lady Stardust on Obverse Books website.
Body Politic (audio story)

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## Publisher's summary

Facing a divided Council and fighting a nine-hundred-and-twenty-front war across time and space, the War King sends Ambassador Mortega from the Homeworld to the Osirian Court, to combat the new power that has risen in their midst that challenges the might of the Great Houses.

Meanwhile, by gathering the complete biodata of Osiris, Justine plans to resurrect the only Osirian capable of standing against Sutekh the Destroyer. But the forces at work on the Homeworld may soon intervene fatally in Justine's plans...

Faction Paradox was originally created by Lawrence Miles for the BBC's acclaimed Doctor Who series of novels.

## Cast

* Cousin Justine - Wanda Opalinska
* Sutekh - Gabriel Woolf
* War King - Philip Madoc
* Cousin Eliza - Jane Lesley
* Lolita - Jet Tattersall
* Anubis - Peter Halliday
* Mortega - Chris Tranchell

## References

* The Great Houses developed solar engineering early in their history.

## External links

* ***Body Politic*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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The King of Cats (audio story)

## Synopsis

Peevish actors are descending mournfully upon the remote English village of Happenstance for the funeral of TV legend Tom Baker.

His one-time costar Suzy Goshawk is sucked into a parochial vortex of intrigue involving the quailsome local vicar, Tom's acidulous housekeeper Mrs Frimbly and various other fruminous scumblebums. None of them can agree upon how Tom met his disastrous end, and Suzy is starting to suspect that something murksome and swervish is going on.

The snow comes down, and Suzy finds herself trapped at Baker's End for Christmas, with all the village's creepy pensioners enslaved by a strange, dancing dragon...and a Sinister Presence lurking on the sidelines.

Why are old ladies twerking their bottoms outside the post office-cum-mini-mart? Why is the vicar creeping about in the bushes in the dead of night? And why, just when all looks hopeless, does a strange, scobberlotching creature spring into view? Who exactly is the King of Cats in his furry costume and his battered crown?

## Plot

Having learnt of Tom Baker's passing, Suzy Goshawk boards a train destined for the remote English village of Happenstance. One of the passengers informs Suzy of her encounter with Tom at a meet-and-greet over the summer where he was convinced that some of the fans in attendance were in fact doppelgängers. The large lady revealed that she read tarot cards and offered to do Suzy a reading, and was surprised when she pulled out the 'large dancing cat' card.

At the Church the Reverend Ailing recalled his encounter with Tom from several days prior where he mentioned that he planned to transcend from the Earth. During the service Suzy questioned how Tom met his fateful end, an actor informed her that he had been inadvertently run over by a TV license detector van - however, the large lady suggested that he had been chasing the van as he suspected the television license people of being doppelgängers too.

Later, Suzy was perplexed when Tom's landlady Mrs Frimbly stated that he had met his end by falling from the post office-cum-mini-mart's roof. Reverend Ailing insisted that Mrs Frimbly was "stark-raving mad" and that Tom had only kept her on as his landlady as he was scared of her.

## Characters

* Suzy Goshawk - Katy Manning
* Large Lady - Lizzie Roper
* Tom Baker - Tom Baker
* Idiot Actor - Stuart Denman
* Reverend Ailing and Sinister Presence - David Benson
* Mrs Frimbly - Susan Jameson

## Notes

* The Large Lady had played a "voluptuously villainess painted green" in 1977.
* Tom Baker appeared in Celebrity cook-off.
Spicy Tea and Sympathy (audio story)

## Characters

* Brenda
* Poppy Keyes
* Effie Jacobs
* Marius Keyes
* Sheila Manchu
* Professor Reginald Tyler
* Henry Cleavis

## Notes

* Marius Keyes explored the world with his aunt and uncle.

## References

* In Brenda's dream Marius Keyes sees into Effie Jacobs' past including; a glowing cat growling the dark and mistry streets (AUDIO: *The Woman in the Black Beehive*) and an evil bat with long velvety ears. (AUDIO: *Bat Out of Hull*) He also predicts their future including; blood and suffering, meat pies and garden furniture that has been manufactured from evil bamboo. (PROSE: *Something Borrowed*) Effie had a similar dream but in hers Marius' predictions included; the undead rising from their tombs and seeking reckogning, Effie being turned into a vampire Queen, Brenda being whisked off her feet by a great big brute and the pair of them appearing on a television show about haunted houses. (PROSE: *Never the Bride*)
* Professor Henry Cleavis writes about Hyspero.
* Nancy was away at her sister's.
* Bitch's Maw.
Starfall (audio story)

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***Starfall*** is the fourth story in the Demon Quest arc, a series of five audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor alongside Richard Franklin as Mike Yates.

## Publisher's summary

Two things arrive on the same night in Central Park, New York, 1976, The first is a fireball from space, bringing with it a new identity for one Alice Trefusis. The second is the TARDIS, carrying the Doctor and his friends on the trail of an unusual comic book cover.

The Doctor’s strength is sapped by something in the New York air – but what could cause such a malaise? As he and Mike are first mixed up with the police and then taken on an aerial ride over the city, Mrs Wibbsey comes face to face with the legendary Talkies film star Mimsy Loyne.

And all the while, long multicoloured scarves and floppy felt hats are climbing the stairs of the Dakota building...

## Cast

* The Doctor - Tom Baker
* Mrs Wibbsey - Susan Jameson
* Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
* Buddy - Trevor White
* Alice - Laurel Lefkow
* Mimsy Loyne - Lorelei King
* Cop - Rupert Holliday Evans
* Cultist - John Chancer

## External links

* Official ***Starfall*** page on bigfinish.com
* ***Starfall*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
* DisContinuity for ***Starfall*** at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
List of audio releases

This is a **list of audio stories or anthologies**.

## 1976

* July - *Doctor Who and the Pescatons*
* 4 October - *Exploration Earth: The Time Machine*

## 1993

* 27 August - 24 September - *The Paradise of Death*

## 1996

* 20 January - 24 February - *The Ghosts of N-Space*

## 1998

* 2 March - *Short Trips*
* September - *Oh No It Isn't!*
* September - *Beyond the Sun*
* 7 September - *Earth and Beyond*
* November - *Walking to Babylon*
* 2 November - *Out of the Darkness*

## 1999

* February - *Birthright*
* July - *The Sirens of Time*
* August - *Just War*
* August - *Buried Treasures*
* October - *Phantasmagoria*
* November - *Whispers of Terror*

## 2017

* 11 April - *The Helm of Awe*
* 19 April - *Alien Heart* / *Dalek Soul*
Survivors in Space (audio story)

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***Survivors in Space*** was the fifth story in the Serpent Crest arc, a series of five audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

## Publisher's summary

It has been three months since the Hexford catastrophe, and Mike Yates is trying to show strength of leadership to the villagers. But with morale low and supplies running out, it is increasingly difficult to keep his own hopes up. Unless somebody finds them soon, the future looks bleak.

So when the TARDIS materialises on the village green, it seems that help has arrived at last. But with two Doctors apparently at large, there is still the small matter of what was buried under Nest Cottage - not to mention who is clamouring to break through the protective force field. Soon Hexford is under siege once again, and this time an ancient hunger will be sated. Time has run out for the keepers of the Skishtari egg…

## Cast

* The Doctor - Tom Baker
* The Doctor - David Troughton
* Mrs Wibbsey - Susan Jameson
* Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
* Rev. Tonge - Cornelius Garrett
* Deirdre - Nerys Hughes
* Tish - Joanna Tope
* Lucius - Sam Hoare
* The Tsar - Paddy Wallace

## References

* The "fake" Doctor is in fact a clone of the Doctor, and so this is still technically a "Multi-Doctor Story."

## Notes

* This story is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.
* The cloned Second Doctor in this story is played by David Troughton, son of the original Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton.

## Continuity

* Mike Yates states that the bees did not survive the trip into space. However, many bees are aliens. (TV: *The Stolen Earth*)
* Wibbsey is afraid of the bees, due to her previous encounters with the Hornets. (AUDIO: *Hornets' Nest*)
* To check the Second Doctor's credibility, the Fourth Doctor checks his Five Hundred Year Diary. He finds no reference to the events of his life. (TV: *The Power of the Daleks*)
* The Second Doctor referring to "outwitting the Cybermen as they rose from their tombs" (TV: *The Tomb of the Cybermen*) sealing away the Daleks (TV: *The Evil of the Daleks*) and defeating "those crabs too". (TV: *The Macra Terror*)

## External links

* "Past Times Special: Serpent Crest #5 - Survivors in Space" Review on Nebula One (News)
Evil Renegade

The **Evil Renegade** was an enigmatic rogue member of the Great Houses who left the Homeworld centuries before the start of the War. He often travelled with human pets, notably Chris Cwej. According to Cwej, he chose to call himself the Evil Renegade and kidnapped his companions, but it is possible that Cwej's memory had been altered when he began working for the Great Houses.

At one point, the Renegade decided to start a one-man war against the Gods. He succeeded in destroying many of the Gods' bases, before finally being defeated. Before fleeing from the Gods, he stole a bottle universe which he kept within the trophy room of his timeship. (*Dead Romance*)
The Broken Crown (audio story)

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***The Broken Crown*** was the second story in the Serpent Crest arc, a series of five audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

## Publisher's summary

The year is 1861, and the Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey find themselves in the right place at the wrong time. At the rectory they encounter the ill-tempered Reverend Dobbs and his young ward Andrew, whose paper faces hide whatever horrors lie beneath. Tutoring him is one Mr Bewley, whom Mrs Wibbsey is startled to recognise. In Hexford Woods, the Doctor uncovers a secret which Andrew and his friends have been keeping. As the truth begins to emerge about the rectory's occupants, it also becomes clear why so many people have disappeared from the village. Unless the Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey can help, the whole village will soon be terrorised by a child's imagination...

## Cast

* The Doctor - Tom Baker
* Mrs Wibbsey - Susan Jameson
* Reverend Dobbs - Terrence Hardiman
* Mrs Audley - Joanna David
* Andrew - Guy Harvey
* Mr Bewley - Simon Shepherd
* Jake - Charlie Mitchell
* Sally - Elinor Coleman
* Harold - Geoffrey Leesley (as Geoff Leesley)
* The Cook - Su Douglas

## Notes

* This story was available as a download from the AudioGo website until the company went into administration in 2013.

## External links

* "Past Times Special: Serpent Crest #2 - The Broken Crown" Non-Spoiler Review on Nebula One (News)
First Meetings (short story)

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***First Meetings*** was the tenth story in the anthology *Iris: Abroad*. It was written by Stuart Douglas.

## Summary

Iris Wildthyme recounts her first meeting with El Jefe, a refugee from a powerful race of time-travelling aliens.

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme
* Panda
* El Jefe

## Notes

* It is suggested that Iris is a member of the same race and El Jefe stole her diaries and presented them as his own.

## Continuity

*to be added*

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Theory:Timeline - Celestial Toymaker

This page attempts to list the **appearances of the Celestial Toymaker in the order in which he experienced them**.

## Limiting factors

The Toymaker's timeline does not necessarily derive from the order of the Doctor's encounters with him. His lives are akin to "incarnations," which he changes depending on how bored he gets of them, although presumably he does not switch between appearances.

## Timeline

### First incarnation

* PROSE: *The Quantum Archangel* (flashback)

The Toymaker helps to imprison Kronos the Chronovore.
* TV: *The Celestial Toymaker* / PROSE: *The Celestial Toymaker*
* COMIC: *Endgame*

The Toymaker encounters the Eighth Doctor for the first time.
* COMIC: *Relative Dimensions*

The Toymaker encounters the Twelfth Doctor and builds a new toyroom.
* COMIC: *The Greatest Gamble*

The Toymaker collects Gaylord Lefevre, who appears in *Divided Loyalties*.
* PROSE: *Divided Loyalties*

*Divided Loyalties* leads directly into *The Nightmare Fair*.
### Second incarnation

* PROSE: *The Nightmare Fair* / AUDIO: *The Nightmare Fair*

The Toymaker is now calling himself the Mandarin.
* PROSE: *Games*

The Mandarin plays Fenric.
* AUDIO: *The Magic Mousetrap*

The Toymaker encounters the Seventh Doctor.
* AUDIO: *Solitaire*
Battleship Anathema (short story)

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***Battleship Anathema*** was the fifth story in the anthology *Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus*. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme
* Panda
* Rex Halidom
* Dan Stela
* Trey Chomsky
* Lydia Philemon

## References

* Gongen is a neutral planet, a colony of Buddhist orangutan people.

## Continuity

*to be added*

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Now or Thereabouts (short story)

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## Summary

A young woman called Ceol undergoes a series of tests in the style of *The Apprentice* in order to become a Cousin in Faction Paradox; meanwhile, she receives disturbing visitations in her dreams and in reality.

## Characters

* Ceol
* Godfather Starch
* Father Heed
* Mother Anamnesis
* Little Brother Gull
* Little Sister Penelope
* Little Brother Fleece
* Little Brother Dominic
* Maria

## Continuity

Although it is not made explicit in the text, there are several suggestions that old friends Maria and Ceol are actually *The Sarah Jane Adventures* characters Maria Jackson and Kelsey Hooper, several years after SJA: *Invasion of the Bane*. Ceol's physical description matches Kelsey's appearance; the name Kelsey means "Ceol's Island"; Ceol refers to her "pink velour trackie"; and the story notes that "[t]hey had kept in touch after Maria had moved to the States, but this was the first time they had spoken face to face for several years."

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The Worlds of Big Finish (audio anthology)

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***The Worlds of Big Finish*** was a 2015 audio anthology from Big Finish Productions.

## Publisher's summary

From the streets of Edwardian London to the corridors of a near-infinite library in the distant future, a single book holds the key to the fate of life on Earth.

Some believe it predicts our future – and the apocalypse - with unnerving accuracy. Others will stop at nothing to destroy it, and will chase it from one side of the universe to the other; from a country house in the Roaring Twenties to the casinos of Mars, and from 221B Baker Street to the terrifying desert world of Sisyphus IX...

Featuring Abby and Zara, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Iris Wildthyme, Vienna Salvatori and Bernice Summerfield, The Worlds of Big Finish brings together some of Big Finish's best-loved characters in an adventure spanning thousands of years!

## Stories

* *The Archive*
* *The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber*
* *The Feast of Magog*
* *Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379)*
* *The Lady from Callisto Rhys*
* *The Phantom Wreck*

## Cast

* Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
* Sherlock Holmes - Nicholas Briggs
* Zara - Laura Doddington
* Abby - Ciara Janson
* Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
* Vienna Salvatori - Chase Masterson
* Dorian Gray - Alexander Vlahos

## Notes

* This anthology was recorded on 11 May, 15 June, and 12 September 2014 at The Moat Studios.
* Charlotte Pollard and Mervyn Stone were also considered for inclusion. (*Vortex* 75)

## External links

* Official ***The Worlds of Big Finish*** page at bigfinish.com

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The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)

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***The Eleven Day Empire*** was the first audio Faction Paradox audio story, and — along with *The Shadow Play* — half of the series' first chapter.

## Publisher's summary

PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)

1: FACTION PARADOX

Era: Non-specific.

Technology: Post-linear (subtle), time-active.

Even before the outbreak of the "War in Heaven", Faction Paradox was regarded as the most unpredictable (and opportunistic) of the time-active powers. Aware of the precarious nature of history -- but under no obligation to protect it -- while the other Great Houses were still attempting to uphold a "universal order", the Faction was following its own, far more ambiguous, protocols. Ruthless, secretive and at times difficult to understand, it's hardly surprising that the Faction should have eventually found itself under siege from its rival powers...

## Cast

* Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
* Godfather Morlock - Ellis Pike
* Lolita - Caroline Burns-Cook
* Cousin Eliza / Godmother Quelch - Emma Kilbey
* Lord Ruthven / General Kine - Nigel Fairs
* The Voice - Linda Bartram

## References

* The Sontarans often steal time-technology..
* The Unkindnesses lived in the Eleven Day Empire before Faction Paradox moved there.
* Morlock uses a Tracking-knife.
* House Tracolix

## Continuity

* It is later revealed that the War King hired Lolita to destroy the Eleven-Day Empire. (*Words from Nine Divinities*)

## External links

* ***The Eleven Day Empire*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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***Short Trips: Snapshots*** was the twenty-first *Short Trips* anthology published by Big Finish Productions.

## Publisher's summary

A mysterious ghost haunts a hotel in India. The terrifying alien C'rizz attacks commuters in King's Cross station. Beneath a London council estate, a creature is waiting to be born. And on a distant world, an old man trades stories with a strange time traveller.

Throughout his adventures in time and space, the Doctor meets so many people and each one is affected in some way. The waiter who keeps a special table for the Time Lord's granddaughter, Susan. The American student who befriends lost Lucie Miller. The teenage girl who discovers that she may be something more than human.

What is it like when that strange blue box appears in your life? What is it like when your eyes are opened to so much more?

What is it like when everything changes?

## Notes

* This collection features the first appearance of the Eighth Doctor's companion Lucie Miller in print.

## External links

* ***Short Trips: Snapshots*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
TSPS 553 – Last Will and Testament

Roy Gerbil is dead and it’s time to pay our last respects to him. This memorial is brought to you by our loving sponsors Boca Recovery Center, SixWeekTenure, FOD87, Brennan, and kuraz. RIP, Roy!

* Intro song by Zombie Cat
* Background music during opening prank is by microKORGI and Quickfireyt, background music during the pranks is by Bonecage, background music during voicemails is Josh Cohen’s original composition called Comfortably Numb, the ending song is Phone Trips Song by Evan Doorbell
This Town Will Never Let Us Go (novel)

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## Publisher's summary

From up here you can see it all, hear it all, taste most of it and feel the rest when the electric lights and the satellite signals prickle against your skin. The town, from midnight to six, marked out in headlights and the flash-fire of a culture in War-time. Séance-messages written in the patterns of the road signs, and ghost-transmissions scrambled into the background noise of the traffic. Animal scent-signals from the fried food stands. All describing something, buried under the tarmac and the street-geometry.

Down there, a girl in a fake-bone mask is working on a ritual to bring it to the surface. A popular performing artiste with a navel stud and serious identity problems is finding herself stalked — literally — by her own image. An ambulance crewman is about to find his own way of getting involved in the War.

And bringing them all together, in one neat little urban mythology, there's Faction Paradox - part cult, part subculture, part pop phenomenon, and part criminal syndicate, either watching-without-being-seen or simply not existing at all (at least until someone invents it). Assuming they're not wholly imaginary, the archons of the Faction seem like the only ones who know what this town really is - what every town really is — and what's bound to happen when it wakes up.

## Characters

* Inangela
* Horror
* Valentine
* Coz
* Tiffany Korta
* Miss Ruth
* The Executive

## References

* Ships of War were advanced timeships that were bred for war.
* The story provides an explanation of the Ghost Point in human history first mentioned in The Book of the War.

## Notes

* The publisher identifies this as a stand-alone book.
* This book was edited by Lars Pearson.
* The hardback was a limited signed edition and the second ISBN given above currently links to a book about the *Angel* tv series.

## External links

* Prologue to **This Town Will Never Let Us Go** from the Mad Norwegian site
* ***This Town Will Never Let Us Go*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
* The Discontinuity Guide to: **This Town Will Never Let Us Go** at The Whoniverse

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Most Horrid (short story)

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***Most Horrid*** was the second story in the anthology *Wildthyme on Top*. It was written by Justin Richards.

## Summary

Iris becomes involved in a ghost hunt with a popular TV show, *Most Horrid*. She finds she was involved in the murder of the person who became the ghost.

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme
* Felicity Browning
* Mildred
* Peter
* Stanley Harris
* Margaret Schuman

## Continuity

*to be added*

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A Lift in Time (audio story)

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***A Lift in Time*** is the third story of the fourth series of Big Finish Productions' *Iris Wildthyme* audio series.

## Publisher's summary

Ever get a tune stuck in your head? Annoying, isn't it? Especially when it transforms you into a mindless, murderous zombie. After years of righting wrongs and wronging rights, is the fat lady about to sing for Iris Wildthyme? As Panda becomes the next big thing and the bus is stolen by an insane artificial intelligence, Iris's future finally catches up with her. Ding ding, going down...

## Cast

* Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
* Panda - David Benson
* Lift - Simon Fisher-Becker
* Susie Hepcat - Rebecca Gethings
* Roland - Scott Handcock

## External links

* Official ***A Lift in Time*** page at bigfinish.com

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Mystery Lady: Episode Eight (audio story)

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***Episode Eight*** was the fourth release in the *Mystery Lady series* written by Paul Magrs and prominently featuring the character of Dodie Golightly originated in the 2013 *Iris Wildthyme* story *The Ninnies on Putney Common*.

## Characters

* Dodie Golightly
* Fox Soames
* Cassandra
* Magda Soames
* Henry Duke
* Timothy Bold
* Joyce twins
* Sandra Templeton
* Sir Arthur Oswald
* Edna Spedding
* Cornelia Lively
* Minty
* Butler

## References

* Hecate - the triple breasted goddess.
* 27 was the holy number of the she-beast.
* Children's Amazing Encyclopedia of Wonder Volume Five
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The **Celestis** (or **House Celestial**) were the Celestial Intervention Agency after they had removed themselves from the universe and became conceptual entities to preemptively escape temporal damage in the Second War in Heaven.

## Nature

The Celestis removed themselves from history and detached themselves from the physical plane of existence, making themselves ideas, and therefore much harder to destroy than a physical body (which is tied down to a timeline). They inhabited a world outside the physical universe called Mictlan, a place constructed using the Matrix. During the War, they were split on whether to support the Enemy or the Great Houses of the Time Lords. (PROSE: *Alien Bodies*) They supplied help and technology to both sides.

Since they existed solely as a network of ideas, their survival depended on minds to believe in them, so Lords of the Celestis would frequently manifest to lesser species as gods and demons. (PROSE: *The Book of the War*) One common trick was to take those on the brink of death to Mictlan. (PROSE: *Autumn Mist*) There, they would be offered an extended lifespan in return for eternal servitude in Mictlan after their eventual death.

Besides, the Lords and Ladies of the Celestis rarely left Mictlan, usually acting in the outside universe through their fearsome proxies, the Investigators. (PROSE: *The Book of the War*) However, many lesser races like the Sidhe were aware of the Celestis. (PROSE: *Autumn Mist*)

The Celestis were virtually all destroyed when their former agent, One, arranged for the Memeovore to devour Mictlan and be subsequently cut away from the rest of the Universe by the Doctor and a fleet of War TARDISes, when he learned that Mictlan could attract the vast Swimmers to this universe (PROSE: *The Taking of Planet 5*).

## Behind the scenes

* Rassilon's plan for the Time Lords to survive the Ultimate Sanction at the end of the Last Great Time War by becoming "creatures of pure consciousness" resembles the actions taken by the CIA during the Second War in Heaven in becoming the Celestis. (TV: *The End of Time*)
Sabbath Dei (audio story)

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## Publisher's summary

PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)

3: SABBATH DEI (1740 - 1782 AD?)

Era: Human historical (pre-industrial period).

Technology: Acquired, ritual time-awareness.

Right from its creation, the secret intelligence service of Great Britain was touched by a streak of ritual: its initiations were usually occult, its codes based on astrological or alchemical cyphers. When Faction Paradox first entered Earth history in the 1700s, the Service took an immediate interest in the new arrivals' own ritual practices, and in the inevitable feud between British and Faction agents no single figure was as important as Sabbath. He’s now remembered as one of the few individuals to bring his own agenda to the War...

## Cast

* Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
* Lord Sandwich - Michael Chance
* The Sieur d'Eon - Jo Castleton
* Cousin Eliza - Emma Kilbey
* Mistress Culver - Jackie Skarvellis
* King George III - Eric MacLennan
* Queen Charlotte - Caroline Burns-Cook
* The Earl of Bute - Mark Grieg
* The Lady / Annabel - Linda Bartram
* Sabbath - Saul Jaffe

## External links

* ***Sabbath Dei*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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Looking for a Friend (audio story)

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***Looking for a Friend*** was the eighth and final story of the fifth series of the Iris Wildthyme audio series, *Wildthyme Reloaded*.

## Publisher's summary

In a bar in central London, a strangely-dressed woman reappears night after night, drowning her sorrows and searching for a friend she left behind…

## Cast

* Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
* Andy - Chris Rankin
* Barman - Scott Handcock
* Arthur Bayer - David Benson

## References

* Iris spent several years going to *Stella's* pub in Soho waiting to meet Panda again. She gave relationship advice to Andy four years ago which resulted in him meeting his partner.
* Iris travelled with Panda for years.
* Arthur Bayer is the inversion of Panda, a theatre critic compared to Panda who only pretends to be.
* Iris gives Arthur a Polaroid of her and Panda on Christmas Eve 1926.

## Notes

* This story was recorded on 14, 15, 16 and 18 January at The Moat Studios.
* This story largely occurs in flashback.

## Continuity

* Iris invites Andy to travel with her. The story closes with a reprise of Brian Bonamy's song *Girl You're My A-Side*. (AUDIO: *Comeback of the Scorchies*)

## External links

* Official ***Looking for a Friend - Wildthyme Reloaded*** page at bigfinish.com

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Cousin Justine

**Cousin Justine** (or **Cousin Justine**) was a minor cousin of Faction Paradox before she gained prominence by inheriting the shadow of the Grandfather.

## Biography

Justine was present during the Faction's activities on Dronid, fifty years after the first battle in the Second War in Heaven, and helped perform the ritual that sent the Relic into the Time Vortex. Together with Little Brother Manjuele, the Faction dispatched her to Mr Qixotl's auction to buy back the Relic, but she failed in her mission when the Eighth Doctor arrived and removed it. (PROSE: *Alien Bodies*)

Justine later played a central role in the Faction's battles against House Lolita. When Lolita ate the Eleven Day Empire, Justine was one of only two survivors, together with Cousin Eliza. (AUDIO: *The Eleven Day Empire*, *The Shadow Play*) She was later imprisoned on the Great Houses' prison planet, but escaped with the help of Eliza and other members of the Faction. (AUDIO: *Movers*, *A Labyrinth of Histories*) Justine eventually led an attack on Lolita, who became War Queen of the Homeworld, managing to break her control of the planet. (AUDIO: *The Judgment of Sutekh*)

## Behind the Scenes

* Lawrence Miles' character notes for Justine described her as, "Faction Paradox recruit. Young, probably early twenties. Recruited from nineteenth-century England, and it shows. Polite. Demure. Tends to be overly formal, and therefore an unusual candidate for a time-travelling voodoo cult. Probably quite uncertain about her new role in life. Nineteenth-century upbringing means that she's ashamed and embarrassed by the fact that she comes from a family of witches, even though it's the reason the Faction's interested in her. Actually capable of being quite aggressive, but only when she's sure of what she's doing. At the moment, she isn't."

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The Shadow Play (audio story)

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***The Shadow Play*** was the second *Faction Paradox* story to be released, and the second part of the first chapter of *The Faction Paradox Protocols*.

## Publisher's summary

PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)

2: THE SONTARANS

Era: Last thirteen-million years.

Technology: Military (blatant), limited time-awareness.

It's perhaps unwise to think of the Sontarans as a species, as such. A homunculus breed, hatched by the million and engineered for full-engagement warfare, the Sontaran military machine is regarded by many time-active cultures as an "occupational hazard": a force of nature rather than a race, compelled by duty and genetics to acquire new technologies for its endless war effort. It should be remembered, however, that with the backing of a higher power even the crudest of breeds can become something quite different.

## Cast

* Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
* Godfather Morlock - Ellis Pike
* Lolita - Caroline Burns-Cook
* Cousin Eliza / Godmother Quelch - Emma Kilbey
* Lord Ruthven / General Kine - Nigel Fairs
* The Voice - Linda Bartram

## References

* Seventy Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps
* House Tracolix

## External links

* ***The Shadow Play*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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Project Wildthyme (short story)

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***Project: Wildthyme*** was the sixth story in the anthology *Iris: Fifteen*. It was written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme
* Nimrod
* Oracle

## Continuity

*to be added*

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The Devil Wears Panda (short story)

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***The Devil Wears Panda*** was the thirteenth story in the anthology *Wildthyme in Purple*. It was written by Cody Quijano-Schell.

## Summary

Evil winged jackalope attempt to take over the fashion world.

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme
* Panda
* April Jean
* Jim Pistel
* The Jackalope
* Liza Minelli
* Tomato

## Notes

* This story is a pulp pastiche of Girl's Adventure type stories as well as inspired by the American television program *Project Runway*.

## Continuity

*to be added*

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The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme (audio story)

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***The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme*** was the second release in the Big Finish Iris Wildthyme audio series. It was written by Stephen Cole.

## Publisher's summary

*‘So in this adventure, we meet Dr Zachariah Marwick. Dear Tom finds out that he has started a special clinic for people with mysterious lumps -- but how come he knows exactly what they are before he’s even examined them? And why is he so insistent that his patients join an exclusive speed-dating club?*

*Trans-temporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme, meanwhile, is not herself. She’s scared of her own shadow, it seems. Indeed, she’s even afraid to leave her wretched bus. I, naturally, am terribly worried about her -- and about Tom as well. You see, he seems to have straw coming out of his head, like old stuffing. How can that be? And then they have the temerity to accuse me of getting all emotional about everything? Me! I ask you...*

*Anyway, together we three brave heroes must face demons from Iris’s past, as an outrageous presence begins to assert itself over reality -- one that seems to have been reading far more Dennis Wheatley than is strictly necessary.’*

- Panda (X)

## Cast

* Iris Wildthyme - Katy Manning
* Tom - Ortis Deley
* Panda - David Benson
* Doctor Marwick - Michael Hobbs
* Alice Elbaum - Lizzie Hopley
* Spectres - Simon Guerrier

## References

* Iris once travelled with a woman named Jenny; she got diarrhoea whenever they went through the vortex.

## Notes

* This audio drama was recorded on 15 September 2005.

## Continuity

* Tom first appeared in PROSE: *Verdigris*.
* This regeneration of Iris first appeared in AUDIO: *Excelis Dawns*.

## External links

* Official ***The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme*** page at bigfinish.com
* ***The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme*** at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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The Unhappy Medium (short story)

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***The Unhappy Medium*** was the third story in the anthology *Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus*. It was written by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott.

## Characters

* Iris Wildthyme
* Panda
* Hilary Mercer

## References

* Iris leaves a note telling Hilary to send the damaged time scanner to the Forge on Dartmoor.
* Hilary has a book in ASDA's best seller list, appeared on Richard and Judy and Dead Scary, a paranormal investigation show on True Life TV.
* Hilary met the Chuckle Brothers at Weston-super-Mare Playhouse.
* Ectovores dwell in the shadow dimensions.
* Panda mentions John Le Mesurier.
* Iris once spent three weeks in Heaven trying to win back the Ark of the Covenant from the angel Gabriel in a game of gin rummy.

## Continuity

* Iris tries to use her bus's communicator to contact Hilary Wildthyme for help. (AUDIO: *The Two Irises*)

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