Mary's Story (audio story)

 was a 2009 Big Finish 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 adventure, Storm Warning, he had been dropping hints of a friendship with Shelley, but that relationship had never been depicted until this story.

This story is notable for the fact that the eighth Doctor acknowledges comics, prose, and audio continuities. It is the first, and as of 2011 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.

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 left Samson and Gemma in Vienna before travelling with Mary only to pick them up later. Samson and Gemma first appeared in BFA: Terror Firma.
 * The Doctor's TARDIS regenerates with the help of the Doctor; the TARDIS would later do this in DW: The Eleventh Hour.
 * The Doctor uses a small green crystal to regenerate the TARDIS, similar, if not identical to the one used in DW: Rise of the Cybermen.

Timeline

 * Mary's Story occurs after: ST: Dear John (present Doctor) ST: Suns and Mothers (future Doctor)
 * Mary's Story occurs before: BFA: Terror Firma flashback (present Doctor) ST: Museum Peace (future Doctor)