Frozen Time (audio story)

Publisher's summary
In 1929, Lord Barset's expedition to the Antarctic is lost without trace. Or so it seems...

Nearly a century later, his grandson funds a much-publicised return to the icy wastes. His mission: to discover what happened to the original expedition. But what he finds instead is an enigma – a battered London police box frozen in ice millennia old.

But something else lies in wait in this awful place, something from an era before humankind set foot on the continent's cold soil. A menace frozen in time.

Until now.

Cast

 * The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Lord Barset - Anthony Calf
 * Genevieve - Maryam d'Abo
 * Professor McIntyre - Tony Millan
 * Harman - Gwynn Beech
 * Ben - Gregg Newton
 * Arakssor - Nicholas Briggs

Continuity

 * The Doctor previously visited Antarctica towards the end of his first incarnation in December 1986 (DW: The Tenth Planet), in the 1970s during his fourth incarnation (DW: The Seeds of Death) and in 2045 earlier in his seventh incarnation (BFA: The Word Lord).
 * The TARDIS would later be frozen in a similar manner in EDA: Time Zero.
 * With this story taken into account, there are three incarnations of the Doctor visiting 2012: the Seventh Doctor on this occasion, the Ninth Doctor in Utah (DW: Dalek) and the Tenth Doctor in London (DW: Fear Her). Both the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were accompanied by Rose Tyler.
 * If the unspecified "millions of years," the comatose Doctor spends frozen in a block of ice are taken into account, the Doctor's age becomes entirely incalculable from this point onward, as does the age of his TARDIS.
 * The Sixth Doctor previously flew a helicopter in BFA: Blue Forgotten Planet.
 * The 2012 Olympic Games are mentioned. During his tenth incarnation, the Doctor would attend the games in the company of Rose Tyler (DW: Fear Her) whereas he would later do so once again during his eleventh incarnation in the company of Amy Pond (DW: Good as Gold). In the far future, radio and television broadcasts concerning the 2012 Olympic Games could be accessed via the Gogglebox inside the Moon. (BFA: The Reaping, BFA: The Gathering)
 * The Doctor refers to three of his previous companions: Melanie Bush (DW: Terror of the Vervoids), Ace (DW: Dragonfire) and Hex (BFA: The Harvest).

Timeline

 * Frozen Time occurs after BFA: House of Blue Fire
 * Frozen Time occurs before BFA: The Death Collectors