Nevermore (audio story)

Nevermore was the third release of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary
A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo – a prisoner of this devastated planet. But the Doctor and his new companion aren’t Morella’s only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws…

There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface – wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Tamsin Drew - Niky Wardley
 * Morella Wendigo - Fenella Woolgar
 * Senior Prosecutor Uglosi - Michael J. Shannon
 * Dr. Berenice Ward - Emilia Fox
 * Pilot / Edgar Allan Poe - Eric Loren
 * Ravens - John Banks

Continuity

 * The Doctor tells Tamsin that cats are very popular on Gallifrey and that it was standard for Lord Presidents to have cats until the incident with the giant mice. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)
 * The Doctor mentions that he was the protégé of the American escapologist Harry "Handcuff Harry" Houdini. (DW: Planet of the Spiders) His fourth incarnation had previously told the Iceni cook Bragnar that Houdini kept numerous lock picks on his person. (BFA: The Wrath of the Iceni)
 * After regaining consciousness, the Doctor refers to the temporal storm in which his future self was caught and his subsequent arrival at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816, where he met his former companion Mary Shelley for the first time. (BFA: Mary's Story)
 * The Doctor mentions that he met Edgar Allan Poe three days prior to his death during his second exile on Earth earlier in his eighth incarnation. (EDA: The Deadstone Memorial)
 * The Doctor tells Uglosi that he believes that there is only one renegade Time Lord who would manipulate others into wiping out the population of an entire planet and that he is "no longer around." This is a presumably a reference to the Master, who met his death when he fell into the Eye of Harmony shortly after the Doctor's most recent regeneration. (DW: Doctor Who (1996)) However, during his tenth incarnation, the Doctor would encounter the Master once again. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, he had been resurrected by the Time Lords to fight the Daleks during the Last Great Time War. (DW: Utopia, DW: The Sound of Drums)
 * The Doctor would later learn the identity of the "strange little man" who was responsible for the destruction of Corinth Minor on his visit to Ireland in 1006. (BFA: The Book of Kells)

Timeline

 * Nevermore occurs after BFA: Situation Vacant
 * Nevermore occurs before BFA: The Book of Kells