The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (audio story)

 was the third story in The First Doctor: Volume Three.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Steven think they've arrived in London 1956, but the TARDIS disagrees. When both the Doctor and his craft are lost, it's down to Steven to solve a mystery that holds his fate in its grasp. With the help of comic Teddy Baxter, Steven's going to have to find a way into Television...

Something in Television (1)
to be added

"It's Teddy Baxter!" (2)
to be added

Cast

 * Steven / The Doctor - Peter Purves
 * Teddy Baxter / Michael Hart - Stephen Critchlow

Additional Voices

 * Lisa Bowerman
 * Martin Hannan
 * Jonathan Hill
 * Anthony Lamb
 * Phil Smith
 * Paul Spragg

Continuity

 * Steven remembers having to live in the 1950s on a previous occasion, although that time he'd had with him a friend, Sara. (AUDIO: An Ordinary Life)
 * Steven tries selling a Magpie Tele-Wave 2000. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)
 * Steven has encountered the Vardans before but makes no mention how they are responsible for the death of his fellow companion and friend Oliver Harper. (AUDIO: The First Wave)
 * The Vardan Mediasphere was previously central to their plots. When Benny and the Seventh Doctor encountered this technology, it allowed entrance into the Mediascape, which was similar in conceit and technology to the Land of Fiction. (PROSE: No Future)
 * The Doctor warns that the Vardans would be locked in a paradox for eternity, should they kill Teddy Baxter before the now-fixed point from his future. The Eleventh Doctor and River Song would later face this exact consequence when attempting to change the fixed point of the Doctor's supposed death at Lake Silencio, becoming trapped within a time bubble until the paradox was resolved. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)