The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)

 was the one hundred and third monthly Doctor Who audio release produced by Big Finish Productions. This was the last audio story to feature the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard travelling together. However it is not the final appearance for Charlotte Pollard who goes on to travel with the Sixth Doctor beginning with The Condemned.

Publisher's summary
"Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot. Someone's listening. Somewhere."

A ghost ship.

A girl with no memory, adrift in time.

An old enemy.

This could be Charlotte Pollard's finest hour - or her last.

Set course for Singapore, 1931.

Journey's end.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Charley Pollard - India Fisher
 * Byron - Danny Webb
 * Miss Pollard - Anna Massey
 * Madeleine Fairweather - Amanda Root
 * Curly - David Yip
 * Borthwick - Robert Duncan
 * Receptionist - Natelie Mendoza
 * Colville - Tim Sutton
 * Young Man - Jake McGann
 * Soldier - Nicholas Briggs

Astronomical objects

 * Charley mentions the Garazone system.

Cybermen

 * There is a Cyber-Planner present.
 * There are several Cybermen present.

The Doctor

 * The Doctor has had a room at the Singapore Hilton since 1872.

Individuals

 * Charley mentions C'rizz.

Technology

 * The Doctor and Charley saw a form of radar-jamming device on Quaxan IV.

Theories and concepts

 * Both the Doctor and Charley mention the Web of Time.

Time travel

 * The ship is transferred through time to Earth after a solar flare.
 * Temporal corrosion is a fungal organism which grows in the Time Vortex.

Continuity

 * Charley first met the Doctor aboard the British airship R101 on 5 October 1930. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
 * The Doctor tried to get Charley to the right Singapore in AUDIO: Seasons of Fear.
 * The Doctor and Charley refer to their trip to Venice in 2294 (AUDIO: The Stones of Venice) and their encounter with Orson Welles on 30 October 1938 (AUDIO: Invader from Mars).
 * Charley first encountered the Cybermen aboard a Telosian star destroyer in the Garazone system in 2503. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion)
 * Charley mentions her uncle Jacques. (AUDIO: Memory Lane)
 * The Doctor and Charley discuss Daleks boarding the Mary Celeste in 1872, and Charley guesses correctly that Daleks invaded it. (TV: The Chase)
 * HADS kicks in and sends Charley, who's inside, away to 17 January 1942. (TV: The Krotons)
 * The Doctor employs the technique of wiping Charley's mind but is unsuccessful as she almost immediately remembers everything. The Tenth Doctor later did the same thing to Donna Noble, though in her case the process was more successful. (TV: Journey's End)
 * Upon entering the TARDIS and seeing the Sixth Doctor, Charley tells him that she was "expecting someone else." (TV: The Caves of Androzani)
 * Later in his personal timeline, the Doctor would meet Charley on one further occasion when he and Lucie Miller encountered his younger self while he was travelling with her and C'rizz in an American frontier town in the 1870s. This encounter was observed by the Sixth Doctor and his companion Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
 * When the Doctor returns to the hotel, the receptionist says the clocks can't be wrong, because they all have beryllium chips. (TV: Doctor Who)