Castle of Fear (audio story)

 was the one hundred and twenty-seventh monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the first in a series of three linked audio stories centred around the village of Stockbridge. The village first appeared in Doctor Who Magazine's comic stories and made its Big Finish debut in Autumn.

Publisher's summary
1199: Returning from the Crusades, Hubert, the new Earl of Mummerset, comes to take possession of Stockbridge Castle, his ancestral home. The only trouble is, in his absence, demons took possession of his Castle...

1899: The Stockbridge mummers’ play takes a wholly unexpected turn, when the Dragon slays St George.

These events are not unconnected, the Doctor and Nyssa discover. There's an alien presence squatting in Stockbridge Castle, and it's their job to expose it. If Turkish knights, killer boars and a gang of rogue paladins don't stop them first...

Plot
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Cast

 * Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Roland of Brittany/Mummer - John Sessions
 * Hubert, Earl of Mummerset/Mummer - Joe Thomas
 * Osbert/Mummer/Yokel/Demon - Richard Cotton
 * Maud the Withered/Yokel - Susan Brown
 * Yavuz/Mummer/Yokel/Demon - Teddy Kempner
 * Smithy/Mummer - Trevor Cooper

Individuals

 * Nyssa tells the Doctor she doesn't want to go to 21st century Stockbridge because seeing Andrew would be awkward.
 * Maud the Withered may be an ancestor of Alice Withers. (BFA: The Eternal Summer)

Species

 * The Doctor mentions the Sontaran Jingo Linx who inhabited Irongron's castle.
 * There is a Rutan Drone Commander inhabiting Stockbridge Castle.
 * The Doctor additionally suggests that Linx followed the Rutan to Earth.
 * Rutans are from Ruta III, an ice world. They do not like the heat.
 * The Rutan aimed to create a clone factory, creating clones of Rutans whilst in human form.
 * Subsequently several members of the community of Stockbridge had elements of Rutan genetics in their bodies following one of the clones escaping.

Continuity

 * Nyssa mentions Andrew Harper, the man whom she met and had a brief relationship with in BFA: Autumn.
 * The Doctor refers to his meeting with Richard the Lionheart in Palestine during the Third Crusade in the 1190s. (DW: The Crusade)
 * The Doctor mentions that he was a friend of the 12th century knight Sir Justin, who travelled with him in the TARDIS briefly after being transported to the 20th century by Melanicus. (DWM: The Tides of Time)
 * The Doctor mentions Jingo Linx and Irongron. He theorises that Linx may have arrived in 13th century England as he was tracking the Rutan. (DW: The Time Warrior)
 * The Fourth Doctor and Leela previously encountered the Rutans on Fang Rock in the 1900s. (DW: Horror of Fang Rock)
 * The Doctor expresses a desire to meet Percy Shelley. The Eighth Doctor would later meet both Shelley and his wife Mary in Switzerland in June 1816. The latter subsequently became one of his companions, travelling with him for several years. (BFA: Mary's Story)
 * More than fifty years later in her personal timeline, Nyssa would encounter the Rutans' sworn enemies, the Sontarans, on Samur. (BFA: Heroes of Sontar)
 * The Fifth Doctor would later encounter the Rutans once again on Alpha Serpens Caput in 2371 in the company of Turlough. (MA: Lords of the Storm)
 * This story marks the first appearance of the Rutans in a Doctor Who audio drama. However, they previously appeared in the Bernice Summerfield audio drama BFBS: The Bellotron Incident.

Timeline

 * Castle of Fear occurs after BFA: A Perfect World
 * Castle of Fear occurs before BFA: The Eternal Summer