Moonflesh (audio story)

 was the one hundred and eighty-fifth story in Big Finish's monthly range.

The story introduced new companion Hannah Bartholemew, played by Francesca Hunt.

Publisher's summary
One wouldn't normally expect to find elephants, gorillas and rhinoceroses roaming free in Suffolk in the year 1911. One wouldn't normally expect to find an extra-dimensional police box at the same time/space location either. Two aliens, named the Doctor and Nyssa, exit said box, only to find themselves pursued by a hungry lioness – for they've landed in the private hunting grounds of the famous explorer Nathaniel Whitlock, who's brought together a motley group of friends and acquaintances for a weekend's shooting.

But one of Whitlock's guests isn't all they seem. One of them wants the secrets of the Moonflesh, the mystic mineral looked after by Whitlock's retainer, a Native American known as Silver Crow. Because the Moonflesh is reputed to have the power to call down spirits from another realm...

...and soon, the hunters will become the hunted.

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 - Peter Davison
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Nathaniel Whitlock - Tim Bentinck
 * Phoebe Whitlock - Rosanna Miles
 * Silver Crow - John Banks
 * Hannah Bartholemew - Francesca Hunt
 * Edwin Tremayne - Hugh Fraser
 * Hector Tremayne - Geoffrey Breton

Continuity

 * Nyssa tells Phoebe that she started travelling with the Doctor after the death of her father Tremas and stepmother Kassia on Traken in 1981. (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis)
 * Whitlock's father served in the Crimean War and fought in the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November 1854. Mollie Dawson's uncle was killed in the same battle. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
 * After the TARDIS door was left open due to a malfunctioning latch, Hannah Bartholomew stowed away and travelled with the Doctor and Nyssa to the Arrit tomb ship, becoming one of his companions in the process. (AUDIO: Tomb Ship)