Unregenerate! (audio story)

Unregenerate! is a Seventh Doctor full-cast audio from Big Finish Productions. It is significant for being the only Big Finish story to be explicitly set immediately after a Doctor's regeneration. Occurring in the wake of Time and the Rani, it is the Big Finish story which happens earliest in the Seventh Doctor's timeline. Moreover, it's likely the third Seventh Doctor story in all licensed fiction, behind only Rani and BE: The Useful Pile. It provides an account of greater post-regenerative distress than was indicated in Rani, suggesting that the Doctor's sixth regeneration was at least as problematic as his previous two.

The story is also significant for its thematic connections to DW: The Doctor's Wife. As in the 2011 story, Unregenerate! deals with the difficulties of transferring the consciousness of TARDISes into the brains of other species.

Publisher's summary
In a run-down asylum, screams echo in the halls as mysterious creatures roam, terrorising the staff. Patients complain of betrayal rather than illness, and no-one is quite what they seem.

Mel knows that the Doctor is the best person to find the answers -- but she is stranded on Earth, and the TARDIS has returned without him...

Why does a medical facility need to be under armed guard? What procedures are the staff carrying out, and to what purpose? What is the price that must be paid for making an agreement with those who run the asylum?

As the answers begin to be uncovered, the Doctor finds that the past may yet come back to haunt him...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
 * Louis #2 - John Aston
 * Rigan - Gail Clayton
 * Johannes Rausch - Hugh Hemmings
 * Shokhra - Sam Peter Jackson
 * Professor Klyst - Jennie Linden
 * The Cabbie - Toby Longworth
 * Louis - Jamie Sandford

Continuity

 * The Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his sixth regeneration. (DW: Time and the Rani) The fact that the Doctor recently regenerated is confirmed by the presence of the lindos hormone in his system. (DWN: The Twin Dilemma)
 * The Doctor records a non-interactive TARDIS hologram for the benefit of Mel. Towards the end of his ninth incarnation, he would record another such hologram for the benefit of another temporally stranded companion, namely Rose Tyler. (DW: The Parting of the Ways) A hologram of the Tenth Doctor would later appear to Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale in the TARDIS console room (DW: Blink) whereas a hologram of the Eleventh Doctor subsequently appeared to the Doctor himself after he had been poisoned by River Song (DW: Let's Kill Hitler).
 * The Doctor mentions in his holographic recording that most circuitous routes are more interesting than straight lines. (DW: The Time Warrior)
 * Mel tells the Cabbie that she has the "memory of an elephant." (DW: The Ultimate Foe, BFA: The One Doctor, DW: Time and the Rani)
 * In his delirium, the Doctor claims that he can survive in the vacuum of space for a brief period of time. (DW: Nightmare of Eden, DW: Four to Doomsday, DW: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
 * Mel mentions the Sixth Doctor's trial at the hands of the Time Lords. (DW: The Trial of a Time Lord)
 * Mel mentions her recent encounter with the Rani on Lakertya and jokingly compares the TARDIS to an intergalactic taxi service given that the Doctor spent an appreciable amount of time returning the geniuses whom she had kidnapped to their native eras. (DW: Time and the Rani)

Timeline

 * Unregenerate! occurs after BE: The Useful Pile
 * Unregenerate! occurs before BFA: Red