The Headless Ones (audio story)

The Headless Ones was the first story in the audio anthology The Sixth Doctor and Peri: Volume One. It was written by James Parsons and Andrew Stirling-Brown and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown.

Publisher's summary
When a distress call from an unknown source threatens to rip the TARDIS from the vortex, the Doctor and Peri arrive in nineteenth-century Africa hoping to find the cause of the disturbance. Instead, they meet a British expedition searching for a long lost tribe: the B'lemyae... better known to the locals as the Headless Ones.

Plot
As the TARDIS flies past hundreds of wrecked spacecraft, the Doctor and Peri hear a deafening signal. The Doctor tries to trace the source, but it fights for control of the TARDIS and the central column begins to crack, the first sign of the TARDIS being ripped apart. He shuts the ship down and they find themselves in a rainforest; before they can reactivate the ship, they will have to deactivate the nearby signal which they can detect with a tracking device. They smell smoke.

On 16 February 1896, Amanda Latimer writes in her journal about how she arrived in Port-Gentil from Portsmouth as part of an expedition to the centre of the continent, funded by Oliver Erpingham.

The Doctor and Peri arrive at the camp and find a caged lion and a newspaper article covering an attempted assassination of Queen Victoria. They are caught and taken to Erpingham, to whom they pretend to be in search of a lost people; as a result, they are sent to speak with Amanda Latimer, the leader of the expedition.

to be completed

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
 * Amanda Latimer - Deirdre Mullins
 * Lord Oliver Erpingham - Hugh Skinner
 * Siyanda - Vivienne Acheampong
 * Kaylin - Javone Prince

Continuity

 * The Doctor has to use a crank handle to open the TARDIS doors. (TV: Death to the Daleks)
 * The Doctor and Peri read an article in the newspaper from February 1895 reporting on an attempt on Queen Victoria's life and that the perpetrators are still on the run from the law. (AUDIO: The Trial of George Litefoot)