Storm Warning (audio story)

Storm Warning is a made-for-audio Doctor Who drama released by Big Finish Productions in January 2001. After two years of producing adventures featuring past Doctors, this marked the first adventure featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. This marked the start of a long association between McGann and Big Finish, which continues as of 2011.

Publisher's summary
October, 1930. His Majesty's Airship, the R101, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet. Carrying the hopes and dreams of a breathless nation.

Not to mention a ruthless spy with a top-secret mission, a mysterious passenger who appears nowhere on the crew list, a would-be adventuress destined for the Singapore Hilton... and a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey.

There's a storm coming. There's something unspeakable -- something with wings, crawling across the stern. Thousands of feet high in the blackening sky, the crew of the R101 brace themselves. When the storm breaks, their lives won't be all that's at stake...

The future of the galaxy will be hanging by a thread.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Charley Pollard - India Fisher
 * Lord Tamworth - Gareth Thomas
 * Lt-Col Frayling - Nicholas Pegg
 * Rathbone - Barnaby Edwards
 * Chief Steward Weeks - Hylton Collins
 * Triskele - Helen Goldwyn

Continuity

 * According to BFA: Terror Firma, the Eighth Doctor had numerous adventures prior to this story. During this time, he travelled with siblings Samson and Gemma Griffin as well as Mary Shelley (BFA: Mary's Story, et al)
 * Although this story depicts the Doctor's first supposed meeting with Charley, it is later revealed that, earlier in his personal timeline, she had not only met but became a companion of the Sixth Doctor (BFA: The Condemned to BFA: Blue Forgotten Planet). The fact that Doctor does not recognise her later in his timeline was due to his memories of travelling with Charley being supplanted by fabricated memories of travelling with Mila. (BFA: Blue Forgotten Planet)
 * The Vortisaur known as Ramsay stays in the TARDIS until BFA: Minuet in Hell.
 * Radio broadcasts concerning the launch of the R101 are later heard in both BFA: The Reaping and The Gathering.
 * The Doctor recalls his encounter with Mary Shelley and Lord Byron near Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816. (BFA: Mary's Story)
 * The Doctor finds a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd which is missing its last page. This would later be revealed to have been a birthday present from his former companion Samson Griffin. (BFA: Terror Firma)
 * The Doctor mentions that he was onboard the RMS Lusitania when it sank on 7 May 1915. (BFA: The Sirens of Time)
 * In an alternative timeline in which the Nazis won World War II, an alternative version of the Eighth Doctor likewise used the alias "Johann Schmidt." (BFA: Colditz, BFA: Klein's Story)
 * The Doctor compares the R101 to the Sandminer Storm Mine 4 (DW: The Robots of Death) and the Hyperion III (DW: Terror of the Vervoids).
 * Suffering from survivor's guilt after the crash of the R101, Simon Murchford later became an Anglican minister in the hopes of reconciling his guilt. (BFA: The Next Life) By 1951, he had been succeeded by Reverend Matthew Townsend. (BFA: Zagreus)

Timeline

 * Storm Warning occurs after ST: Seven Deadly Sins
 * Storm Warning occurs before BFA: Sword of Orion