Pier Pressure (audio story)

 was the seventy-eighth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Robert Ross and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe.

Publisher's summary
Brighton, Sussex, 1936

"Ere, listen listen, I've got one for you. There once was this bloke, you see. Good-looking sort of chap. Lovely, brightly coloured coat. No rubbish. Quality gear. Never bought a drink neither... or so they say. But his name wasn't Miller. Oh no, there'll never be another Cheeky Chappie, lady, there'll never be another. They broke the mould when they made me you know.

No, this bloke called himself the Doctor. Doctor who you ask? And may well you. Don't know me self. No one ever knew. Funny that. He was a real strange one. Odd things happened when he arrived.

Mind you, them were dark days. No one was laughing. And these were my people. My public. It was like playing first house at the Glasgow Empire. Just like the entire town was cursed it was. Cursed by something not of this world..."

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Max Miller - Roy Hudd
 * Professor Talbot - Doug Bradley
 * Albert Potter - Chris Simmons
 * Emily Bung - Sally Ann Curran
 * "Billy" - Martin Parsons

Crew

 * Cover Art - Stuart Manning
 * Director - Gary Russell
 * Music - Andy Hardwick
 * Producers - Gary Russell and Jason Haigh-Ellery
 * Sound Design by Gareth Jenkins
 * Writer - Robert Ross

Culture

 * The Doctor mentions Creature from the Black Lagoon.
 * Albert's idols are the 1930s film stars Lionel Atwill, Colin Clive, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
 * The Doctor refers to several British literature writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers and Edmund Crispin.

Metals

 * Gallifreyan zinc is one of the strongest metals in the universe.

Continuity

 * The Doctor does not want to go to Blackpool and the TARDIS itself will not go back there again. (AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair)
 * The Doctor mentions visiting Sirius IV (TV: Frontier in Space) and Metebelis III (TV: The Green Death, Planet of the Spiders).
 * Evelyn refers to their encounter with Dr. Robert Knox in Edinburgh in December 1828. (AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes)
 * In an attempt to jog Evelyn's memory, the Doctor mentions the Silurians. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
 * The Doctor and Evelyn would later encounter the Indo once again in Washington DC in April 1865. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight)
 * Evelyn notes that the Doctor lost his sonic screwdriver years ago. It was destroyed by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
 * Billy was later buried next to Ijezie Obiefune sometime by the 1980s, (COMIC: Whodunnit?) though another account showed him alive and well in the 2060s. (PROSE: Lady Penelope Investigates the stars of the Sensational new film Dr. Who and the Daleks!)
 * The Doctor also visited Brighton in his fourth incarnation twice, (TV: The Leisure Hive, AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls) and once in his ninth incarnation. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)