Unregenerate! (audio story)

Unregenerate! is a Seventh Doctor full-cast audio from Big Finish Productions. It is significant for being the only Big Finish story to be explicitly set immediately after a Doctor's regeneration. Occurring in the wake of Time and the Rani, it is the Big Finish story which happens earliest in the Seventh Doctor's timeline. Moreover, it's likely the third Seventh Doctor story in all licensed fiction, behind only Rani and BE: The Useful Pile. It provides an account of greater post-regenerative distress than was indicated in Rani, suggesting that the Doctor's sixth regeneration was at least as problematic as his previous two.

The story is also significant for its thematic connections to DW: The Doctor's Wife. As in the 2011 story, Unregenerate! deals with the difficulties of transferring the consciousness of TARDISes into the brains of other species.

Publisher's summary
In a run-down asylum, screams echo in the halls as mysterious creatures roam, terrorising the staff. Patients complain of betrayal rather than illness, and no-one is quite what they seem.

Mel knows that the Doctor is the best person to find the answers -- but she is stranded on Earth, and the TARDIS has returned without him...

Why does a medical facility need to be under armed guard? What procedures are the staff carrying out, and to what purpose? What is the price that must be paid for making an agreement with those who run the asylum?

As the answers begin to be uncovered, the Doctor finds that the past may yet come back to haunt him...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
 * Louis #2 - John Aston
 * Rigan - Gail Clayton
 * Johannes Rausch - Hugh Hemmings
 * Shokhra - Sam Peter Jackson
 * Professor Klyst - Jennie Linden
 * The Cabbie - Toby Longworth
 * Louis - Jamie Sandford

Continuity

 * The Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his recent regeneration.  (DW: Time and the Rani)  The fact that the Doctor is close to his regeneration is confirmed by the presence of the lindos hormone in his system.  (DWN: The Twin Dilemma)
 * Mel mentions her encounter with the Rani on Lakertya. (DW: Time and the Rani)
 * As would be seen repeatedly in the BBC Wales series, the Doctor here records a non-interactive TARDIS hologram for the benefit of his temporarily stranded companion.

Timeline

 * Unregenerate! occurs after BE: The Useful Pile
 * Unregenerate! occurs before BFA: Red