Crime of the Century (audio story)

Crime of the Century was the fourth release in the second series of Big Finish Productions' The Lost Stories range. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Raine Creevy, as played by Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Beth Chalmers. It was based upon a television story of the same name, which was not produced due to the series' cancellation in 1990.

Publisher's summary
The year is 1989. In London, safe cracker Raine Creevy breaks into a house — and finds more than the family jewels.

In the Middle East, the kingdom of Sayf Udeen is being terrorised by Soviet invaders and alien monsters.

And on the Scottish border, a highly guarded facility contains an advanced alien weapon.

These are all part of the Doctor's masterplan. But masterplans can go awry...

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
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Raine Creevy - Beth Chalmers
 * Markus Creevy - Ricky Groves
 * Nikitin/Parvez - Derek Carlyle
 * Colonel Maxim Alexandrovitch Felnikov/Party Guest/Waiter - John Albasiny
 * Metatraxi/Walnuf/Gunman - John Banks
 * Prince Sayf Udeen/Valentin - Chris Porter

Continuity

 * Raine Creevy was delivered by the Doctor in the Soviet Union on 7 November 1967 (AUDIO: Thin Ice), almost twenty-two years before the events of this story. From the Doctor's perspective, those events occurred immediately before his encounter with the adult Raine on 13 October 1989.
 * The Doctor and Ace previously met Markus Creevy and the then-Major Felnikov in Moscow in November 1967. Both Creevy and Felnikov take some time to realise that Ace is the same girl whom they had last seen more than two decades earlier, having not aged a day in the interim. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)
 * Ace refers to her home of Perivale. (TV: Ghost Light, TV: Survival)
 * Ace mentions that she has previously had bad experiences in caves. (TV: Dragonfire, TV: Battlefield)
 * Ace hates being called "small." (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Felnikov calls Ace "tovarishch", a Russian word meaning comrade or friend or ally. The Fenric-possessed Captain Sorin also called her tovarishch. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)