Black Thursday (audio story)

Black Thursday was the first of two stories comprising the two hundred and forty-eighth release in Big Finish's Main Range. It was written by Jamie Anderson and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough and Jon Culshaw as Kamelion.

Publisher's summary
1902. Deep beneath the Welsh village of Abertysswg, men have worked the black seam for generations. Until the day of the disaster. The day that a blue box from the future materialised inside the mine.... and things would never be the same again.

Part one
The Doctor, whose back is almost completely healed following the crash of Orna's ship, pilots the TARDIS to 1902 Abertysswg so that he, Tegan, Turlough and Kamelion can have some fresh air and relax. The ship materialises in a coal mine and is hit by a natural gas explosion, the survivors of which the group go to assist. To blend in, the Doctor has Kamelion take on the appearance of a generic human labourer.

Whilst Tegan and Turlough work to get those who can walk to the mineshaft, the Doctor and Kamelion are directed by Geoff Evans to the seriously wounded John Hughes, whose legs have been crushed, and his son Gwyn. Gwyn dies with Kamelion, but the Doctor comforts John in his final moments by telling him that Gwyn will make a full recovery. This confuses Kamelion. When Tegan informs the Doctor of the build-up of afterdamp, the Doctor amends the evacuation plan and tells Tegan and Kamelion to go with the first group to leave; he will then have everyone else taken into the TARDIS.

Mr Matson is more concerned with the mine than the wellbeing of the survivors and refuses to let his daughter, Judith, go to help them. Tegan and Kamelion reach the surface with Geoff and tell the lift manager, William Doughty, that he should expect a "container" in the lift when it next comes up. Geoff tells Eira Hughes about the deaths of her son and husband and Kamelion, sensing Eira's grief, transforms back into his true self. Geoff takes Eira home out of the cold when she refuses to leave until the bodies are brought up and Kamelion follows.

After the Doctor and Turlough bring up the miners, Mr Matson accuses them of trespassing and has the TARDIS confiscated due to his assumption that it has been stolen from the police. They realise that Kamelion has disappeared and Tegan suggests that he might have become a slave to Eira's grief.

Kamelion transforms into John and, when Geoff leaves the house, he enters and surprises Eira. Switching between John and Gwyn, he tells her, having heard her say that Mr Matson is responsible and that an eye should be taken for an eye, that he is going to kill Mr Matson.

Part two
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
 * Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
 * Kamelion - Jon Culshaw
 * Eira Hughes - Lizzie Roper
 * John Hughes / Robert Matson - Tim Treloar
 * Gwyn Hughes - Matthew Aubrey
 * Geoff Evans - Derek Hutchinson
 * Judith Matson - Bettrys Jones
 * James Hudd - Christopher Naylor

Continuity
to be added