Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)

 was the one hundred and eighth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. This story features the return of two previous characters Robert Knox played by Leslie Phillips from Medicinal Purposes and the Indo from Pier Pressure.

Publisher's summary
'Ford's Theatre, Washington. Friday, 14th April, 1865. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln.' The place, the date and the event which made history. Or did it? Someone has been tampering with time, muddying the waters of history for his own purposes. Time itself is out of joint and the chief culprit is the enigmatic Doctor Knox. Somehow the Doctor and Evelyn must put history back on track before the future dissolves into chaos. But Knox, it turns out, may be the least of their worries...

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Dr. Robert Knox - Leslie Phillips
 * Clara Harris / Knox's TARDIS - Lysette Anthony
 * John Parker - Eric Loren
 * Lizzie Williams - Madeline Potter
 * Henry Clay Ford - Alan Marriott
 * John Wilkes Booth - Paul Dubois
 * Thomas Eckert - Mikey O'Connor

Individuals

 * The Doctor calls Robert Knox a Time Meddler.
 * Knox poses as the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde. The Doctor realises this congruity immediately since, as he tells Evelyn, Wilde was "still in short trousers" in 1865.

TARDISes

 * Knox has a TARDIS with voice control.

Continuity

 * The Doctor and Evelyn previously encountered Knox in Edinburgh in December 1827 (BFA: Medicinal Purposes) and the Indo in Brighton in 1936 (BFA: Pier Pressure).
 * The Doctor mentions that he witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War in October 1854. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)

Timeline

 * Assassin in the Limelight occurs after BFA: 100.
 * Assassin in the Limelight occurs before BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster.