House of Cards (audio story)

House of Cards was the sixty-fourth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the eighth story of season 7. It was written by Steve Lyons and featured Jamie McCrimmon and Polly Wright.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS has landed in a futuristic space casino, where the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie find fun, games… and monsters everywhere. There are vicious robot dogs, snake-headed gangsters from the Sidewinder Syndicate and a mysterious masked woman called Hope.

In this place, time travellers are to be tracked down and arrested. Yet, as events spiral out of control, time may be Polly's only ally…

Cast

 * Polly Wright / The Sidewinders - Anneke Wills
 * Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines

Continuity

 * Jamie refers to being attacked by a Selachian in the Galacti-Bank. (AUDIO: The Selachian Gambit)
 * Jamie mentions that he has fought "metal beasties" before. (TV: The Moonbase)
 * Polly tells Hope that she has learned her lesson about attempting to change history. (AUDIO: Resistance)
 * Jamie tells Ben that the last time that the Doctor gambled, he lost the TARDIS to Kublai Khan, the Emperor of China, in a game of backgammon. (TV: Marco Polo)
 * The Tenth Doctor, Jamie's descendant Heather McCrimmon and Wolfgang Ryter would later encounter the Sidewinder Syndicate in the United States (COMIC: Snakes Alive!) while the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond would encounter them in a Ratlings bank in circa 40,412 (COMIC: Money Troubles).