Mary's Story (audio story)

 was a 2009 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley. It was the fruition of a nearly decade-long gag that had been running through the Eighth Doctor's audio adventures. Since his first such adventure, Storm Warning, he had been dropping hints of a friendship with Shelley, but that relationship had never been depicted until this story.

The story was originally released as part of the 2009 omnibus The Company of Friends. In October 2011, to tie in with a new series of audio dramas featuring Mary as a companion, Big Finish released Mary's Story as a standalone download.

This story is notable for the fact that the Eighth Doctor acknowledges comics, prose and audio continuities. As of 2016, it is the first and only story to explicitly and unambiguously combine the continuities of these three media.

Publisher's summary
Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron's house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Mary Shelley - Julie Cox
 * Percy Shelley - Anthony Glennon
 * Lord Byron - Robert Forknall
 * John Polidori - Ian Hallard
 * Claire Clairmont - Katrina Cooke

Continuity

 * The Doctor explains that he is currently travelling with Samson and Gemma Griffin, and has dropped them off in Vienna, and will pick them up later. (AUDIO: Terror Firma)
 * During the events of the story, Mary is 18 years old. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)
 * The future Doctor's TARDIS regenerates with the help of the present Doctor. It would later do so again in the aftermath of his regeneration into his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
 * The small green crystal the Doctor uses to regenerate the TARDIS is similar in description to the one used in TV: Rise of the Cybermen.
 * The future Doctor recalls that he and Mary encountered the Cybermen in Vienna on 11 September 1873. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)
 * The future Doctor claims that he and Mary had met Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. The First Doctor and his companions Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor thwarted a plot by the Doctor's fellow renegade Time Lord, the Monk, to change the outcome of the battle in the Saxons' favour by thwarting an invasion of northern England by the Vikings. (TV: The Time Meddler) Furthermore, during his sixth incarnation, he and Peri Brown met Harold who was operating under the alias of "Hereward the Wake" in the aftermath of the battle. (PROSE: The Real Hereward)
 * The future Doctor recalls his former companions Gemma, (AUDIO: Terror Firma) Charley, (AUDIO: Storm Warning) Ssard, (COMIC: Descendance) Compassion, (PROSE: Interference - Book One) Trix, (PROSE: Time Zero) Destrii, (COMIC: Ophidius) Lucie, (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks) and his great-grandson Alex (AUDIO: An Earthly Child). Previously, the Doctor mentioned Gemma, Destrii and Compassion in half delirium.
 * The Fifth Doctor previously expressed a desire to meet Mary's husband Percy Shelley. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear)
 * During the experiment on the Doctor, Percy cries: "He's alive." During the regeneration of the Seventh Doctor into the Eighth, a morgue attendant was watching the episode of the 1931 film version of Frankenstein depicting the same experiment and featuring the cry "It's alive!" (TV: Doctor Who)