Mary's Story (audio story)

 was a 2009 Big Finish full-cast audio short story, featuring the eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley. It was the fruition of a nearly decade-long gag that had been running through the eighth Doctor's audio adventures. Since his first adventure, Storm Warning, he had been dropping hints of a friendship with Shelley, but that relationship had never been depicted until this story.

This story is notable for the fact that the eighth Doctor acknowledges comics, prose, and audio continuities. It is the first, and as of 2011 only, story to explicitly and unambiguously combine the continuities of these three media.

Publisher's summary
Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron's house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Mary Shelley - Julie Cox
 * Percy Shelley - Anthony Glennon
 * Lord Byron - Robert Forknall
 * John Polidori - Ian Hallard
 * Claire Clairmont - Katrina Cooke

Continuity

 * A future version of the eighth Doctor names some of his previous companions all from different ranges of stories, such as Compassion (books), Lucie (audios) and Destrii (comics), in one of the rare occasions in which the different continuities are acknowledged together.
 * The Doctor drops Samson and Gemma  off at a carnival before travelling with Mary.
 * The Doctor's TARDIS regenerates with the help of the Doctor; the TARDIS would later do this in The Eleventh Hour.

Timeline

 * Mary's Story occurs after: ST: Dear John (present Doctor) ST: Suns and Mothers (future Doctor)
 * Mary's Story occurs before: BFA: Terror Firma flashback (present Doctor) ST: Museum Peace (future Doctor)