The Widow's Assassin (audio story)

The Widow's Assassin was the one hundred and ninety-second story in Big Finish's monthly range.

Publisher's summary
Once, long ago, in a land of monsters and corridors, a fair maiden was captured, and placed in a deep sleep.

She was used to being captured, and she had a hero who rescued her on just such occasions. But this time the hero never came.

And the fair maiden slept on.

Eventually, a King rescued the maiden, and made her his bride, which many wise old women might tell you is just another way of capturing fair maidens.

And still the fair maiden slept on.

Then, the hero had another stab at rescuing the maiden from her prison, but he was too late. And, more importantly, he had forgotten the rules of fairy tales.

He didn’t slay the dragon.

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Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
 * Wolsey/Mandrake - Tim Chipping
 * Baron Pteratrark/Guard Two/Prince Most-Deepest-All-Yellow - John Banks
 * Reverend Flitamus/Guard One - Andrew Dickens
 * Princess Dirani - Fiona Sheenan
 * Harcross the Ever-Patient/Pheen-Tu/Flunkey - Glynn Sweet

Continuity

 * This story creates an additional account of Peri's life after TV: The Trial of a Time Lord. AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox revealed that there are a quantum number of Peris, created through Time Lord interference. In this version of events, King Yracnos was killed seven days after their wedding by the Mandrake.
 * Whilst travelling with him, Flip Jackson hinted at the Doctor's desire to find Peri once again. (AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion, The Brood of Erys, Scavenger) The Doctor reveals that he saved her life by using the TARDIS to slow her descent to Earth. (AUDIO: Scavenger) Peri declined his invitation to join him for Jared and Flip's wedding, prompting him to return for her one day.
 * The Sixth Doctor previously visited Peri's future in COMIC: The Age of Chaos and AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox. 
 * Peri imprisons the Doctor for five years out of contempt for him leaving her. Similarly, when the Seventh Doctor found Peri again on Krontep, she could not forgive him for abandoning her. (PROSE: Reunion)