The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)

 was the second story in a series of stories featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Thomas Brewster, although Brewster's appearance in the story is limited to a cameo near the end. This story also marks the first time a main TV companion was re-cast for audio.

Publisher's summary
In a weird jungle valley, the Victorian explorer Rupert Von Thal saves Bloomsbury novelist Beatrice Mapp from a ghastly death in the grip of a monstrous mantis. But this is no Lost World of the dinosaurs. According to their travelling companions, the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, all four have been transported back to a primitive Earth that should never have existed!

Further down the valley is the vast city where the scorpions live. Walking, talking, intelligent scorpions, ruled over by their cruel and sinister master. The Doctor and Nyssa are being drawn ever tighter into the clutches of... the boy that time forgot.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * The Scorpion King - Andrew Sachs
 * Mrs Beatrice Mapp - Harriet Walter
 * Rupert Von Thal - Adrian Scarborough
 * Kranlee - Oliver Senton
 * Madam Teegarana - Claire Wyatt
 * Thomas Brewster - John Pickard (cameo)

The Doctor

 * During the block transfer computations the Doctor's subconscious sleepwalks through time to the freighter, assisting Adric in breaking the computations on the Cybermen's computer.

Individuals

 * The Doctor mentions Iris Wildthyme would be around in London in 1867, but they wouldn't ask her for help.
 * Teegarna means "mouth on legs", Tegan Jovanka's description of herself. (DW: Earthshock)
 * Kranlee is probably named for Lord Cranleigh. (DW: Black Orchid)

Locations

 * The Scorpion King creates a city out of pure computations, the City of Excellence, watched over by Star, the remains of the alien computer the Cybermen used aboard the freighter.

TARDISes

 * The Scorpion King mentions the Doctor's TARDIS has a "flux capacitor," a time-travel component from Back to the Future.

Time travel

 * The Doctor attempts to use Block Transfer Computations to time travel. It requires a quorum of twelve people.

Continuity

 * The Doctor recalls Adric's supposed death in DW: Earthshock.
 * Tegan was left at Heathrow at the end of DW: Time-Flight.
 * The Doctor states that 'time is circular', possibly alluding to the BFA: Circular Time.
 * The Doctor, Nyssa and Adric all speak of Logopolis and the Logopolitans. (DW: Logopolis)
 * Thomas Brewster stole the TARDIS in BFA: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster.
 * Later in his personal timeline, specifically during his seventh incarnation, the Doctor would meet Adric on one further occasion in MA: Cold Fusion. Those events occurred shortly after the events of DW: Castovalva and therefore prior to Adric's apparent death from the perspective of his fifth incarnation, whom he also met on that occasion.

Timeline

 * Nyssa mentions the Doctor and her leaving Tegan at Heathrow Airport, which places this adventure sometime between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity.


 * The Boy that Time Forgot occurs after BFA: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * The Boy that Time Forgot occurs before BFA: Time Reef