The Contingency Club (audio story)

 was the two hundred and twenty-second story in Big Finish's monthly range.

Publisher's summary
London, 1864 - where any gentleman befitting the title ‘gentleman’ belongs to a gentlemen’s club: The Reform, The Athenaeum, The Carlton, The Garrick... and, of course, The Contingency. Newly established in St James’, The Contingency has quickly become the most exclusive enclave in town. A refuge for men of politics, men of science, men of letters. A place to escape. A place to think. A place to be free.

The first rule of the Contingency is to behave like a gentleman. The second is to pay no heed to its oddly identical servants. Or to the horror in its cellars. Or to the existence of the secret gallery on its upper floor... Rules that the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan are all about to break.

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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
 * Adric - Matthew Waterhouse
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Tegan - Janet Fielding
 * George Augustus - Clive Merrison
 * Mr Peabody - Philip Jackson
 * The Red Queen - Lorelei King
 * Granville Wakefield/Cabby/Stonegood - Tim Bentinck
 * Marjorie Stonegood/Computer - Alison Thea-Skot
 * Edward/The Knave - Olly McCauley

Continuity

 * Tegan refers to Adric's home planet Alzarius. (TV: Full Circle)
 * The Doctor is still attempting to return Tegan to Heathrow Airport in 1981. (TV: Four to Doomsday, Kinda, The Visitation; AUDIO: Psychdrome, Iterations of I, The Star Men, Smoke and Mirrors)
 * Tegan refers to the bubonic plague outbreak in England in 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
 * Nyssa refers to Traken. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
 * The Doctor once again expresses a fondness for trains. (TV: Black Orchid)
 * The Red Queen comments that the Doctor plays the fool but is extremely intelligent. Sharaz Jek later made a similar observation. (TV: The Caves of Androzani)
 * The Doctor says that he "must dash". (TV: Time-Flight, The Five Doctors)