Fiesta of the Damned (audio story)

 was the two hundred and fifteenth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Mel reunited after Dragonfire.

Publisher's summary
In search of "a taste of the real Spain", the TARDIS transports the Doctor, Ace and rejoined crewmember Mel not to sizzling Fuerteventura, or the golden sands of the Costa Brava – but to 1938, amid the horrors of the Spanish Civil War.

Having fallen in with a rag-tag column of Republican soldiers, the time and space travellers seek shelter from Franco's bombers in the walled town of Farissa – only to discover themselves besieged by dead men returned to life...

Part one
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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 - Sylvester McCoy
 * Mel - Bonnie Langford
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Juan Romero - Enzo Squillino Jnr
 * George Newman - Christopher Hatherall
 * Antonio Ferrando/Control Unit - Owen Aaronovitch
 * Luis/Phillipe - Tom Alexander

Continuity

 * The Seventh Doctor previously visited Spain during the Civil War and saved Gustavo Riviera's life. (AUDIO: The Rapture)
 * Mel refers to Ricosta. (AUDIO: A Life of Crime)
 * Ace once again refers to Mel as "Donut". (TV: Dragonfire; AUDIO: A Life of Crime)
 * The Doctor uses K9's dog whistle to control the lynx. (TV: The Ribos Operation, et. al)
 * Ace still carries a ladder. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
 * The Doctor tells Ace and George that the Time Lords wiped out most of the Great Vampires. (TV: State of Decay)
 * Mel and Ace discuss the Doctor's propensity to play the spoons. (TV: Time and the Rani, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy; AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, Colditz)
 * During his eighth incarnation, the Doctor and his companions Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor likewise became caught up in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and 1937. (PROSE: History 101)