The Holy Terror (audio story)

 featured the Sixth Doctor's companion Frobisher, a character who first appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic story The Shape Shifter. This is the second of Big Finish's "Side Steps" exploring other elements of the Doctor Who universe chronology. This story is also Robert Shearman's first contribution to audio-based Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval. The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered. Obviously it isn't the sort of thing which would happen there every day -- just every few years or so.

Soon after the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers from heaven, they become vital to opposing factions in their struggle for power. But will they be merely the acolytes of the new order -- or will they be made gods themselves?

Evil is growing deep within the crypt. And the pair soon find out that they will be lucky to escape their new immortality with their lives.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Frobisher - Robert Jezek
 * Captain Sejanus - Daniel Hogarth
 * Eugene Tacitus - Sam Kelly
 * Berengaria - Roberta Taylor
 * Livilla - Helen Punt
 * Childeric - Peter Guinness
 * Pepin VII - Stefan Atkinson
 * Clovis - Peter Sowerbutts
 * Arnulf - Bruce Mann

Culture

 * In most cultural references, immortal means undying, as opposed to invincible being un-killable. Here it seems to mean both.

Individuals

 * Pepin VI drowned after he fell asleep in his bathtub. He was followed by Pepin VII.
 * The Doctor refers to his TARDIS as she. He also states "she's had enough" after the TARDIS "goes on strike".

Species

 * Frobisher hunts for a gumblejack that he creates in the TARDIS. He prefers to hunt live fish rather than eat the canned Tuna the Doctor stores for him.

TARDIS

 * The dimensional stabilisers gives the TARDIS its form and supplies the interior with gravity and oxygen.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * The Holy Terror occurs after PDA: Mission: Impractical
 * The Holy Terror occurs before ST: The Last Emperor