Scream of the Daleks (audio story)

Scream of the Daleks was the second and final story in the audio anthology Sullivan and Cross - AWOL, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan and Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross.

Publisher's summary
Halloween 1969. The Doctor, Harry and Naomi respond to a scream for rescue. They find that people have been dying on the same spot on this day across millennia.

But in their bid to stop the nightmare, the travellers have unleashed the Doctor’s old enemy. This may be one cry for help better left unanswered...

Part one
The Doctor decides to take Harry and Naomi to Aquilina, but the TARDIS picks up the sound of screams and they decide to go and help. They arrive near Chester in 1969 and flee from a demonic creature and ghosts before realising that they are at Shockstock, a Halloween festival. They help Cavan find Gilly, his sister, who has found a skeletal human hand in the woods. The Doctor feels that there is something malevolent in the air and uses his sonic screwdriver to locate other bones, dating back centuries.

The Doctor hurries to the TARDIS with Naomi and dematerialises before realising that Harry is not on board. He researches the area, learning that many unexplained deaths and disappearances have been reported on Halloween, and travels back three thousand years when the area was settled by Celts. He and Naomi join the Celts in their Samhain ritual and witness spectres of headless women and fire horses appear, after which they help a woman search for her daughter, Wynna, whom they find sleeping in the woods. They come across the remains of the first victim, reduced to bones despite having been killed recently, and return to the TARDIS.

Harry, Cavan and Gilly see a crack in the air which the other festival-goers crowd around. Harry believes that it is a breach in spacetime.

Arriving during the Romans' Feralia in 79 AD, Naomi sees a spectre of her deceased cousin. They find the skeleton of another victim and travel to All Saints' Day during the Dark Ages when the Catholic Church was in control and see a rift in spacetime open. Initially believing that fear is pouring out, the Doctor realises that it is hatred. A Dalek emerges and, recognising the Doctor, fires its weapon.

Part two
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
 * Harry Sullivan – Christopher Naylor
 * Naomi Cross - Eleanor Crooks
 * Gilly – Carly Day
 * Cavan - Cameron Percival
 * The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Continuity

 * The Doctor mentions the Robot Yeti. (TV: The Web of Fear)