Nevermore (audio story)

Nevermore was the third release of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary
A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo – a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren’t Morella’s only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws…

There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface – wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Tamsin Drew - Niky Wardley
 * Morella Wendigo - Fenella Woolgar
 * Senior Prosecutor Uglosi - Michael J. Shannon
 * Dr. Berenice Ward - Emilia Fox
 * Pilot - Eric Loren
 * Ravens - John Banks

Continuity

 * The Doctor tells Tamsin that cats are very popular on Gallifrey and that it was standard for Lord Presidents to have cats until the incident with the giant mice. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)
 * The Doctor mentions that he was the protégé of the American escapologist Harry "Handcuff Harry" Houdini. (DW: Planet of the Spiders)
 * After regaining consciousness, the Doctor refers to the temporal storm in which his future self was caught and his subsequent arrival at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816, where he met his former companion Mary Shelley for the first time. (BFA: Mary's Story)
 * The identity of the "strange little man" who set these events in motion is revealed in BFA: The Book of Kells.
 * The Doctor mentions that he met Edgar Allan Poe three days prior to his death during his second exile on Earth earlier in his eighth incarnation. (EDA: The Deadstone Memorial)

Timeline

 * Nevermore occurs after BFA: Situation Vacant
 * Nevermore occurs before BFA: The Book of Kells