Crime of the Century (audio story)

 was the fourth story release in the second series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Andrew Cartmel, from the original script by Ben Aaronovitch, and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and introduced Beth Chalmers as Raine Creevy.

This story was originally intended to be the third story of the original Season 27, but was cancelled along with other planned stories when Doctor Who itself was cancelled in 1989.

Publisher's summary
The year is 1989. In London, safe cracker Raine Creevy breaks into a house — and finds more than the family jewels.

In the Middle East, the kingdom of Sayf Udeen is being terrorised by Soviet invaders and alien monsters.

And on the Scottish border, a highly guarded facility contains an advanced alien weapon.

These are all part of the Doctor's masterplan. But masterplans can go awry...

Part one
to be added

Part two
to be added

Part three
to be added

Part four
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Raine Creevy - Beth Chalmers
 * Markus Creevy - Ricky Groves
 * Nikitin / Parvez - Derek Carlyle
 * Colonel Maxim Alexandrovitch Felnikov / Party Guest / Waiter - John Albasiny
 * Metatraxi / Walnuf / Gunman - John Banks
 * Prince Sayf Udeen / Valentin - Chris Porter

Continuity

 * Raine Creevy was delivered by the Doctor in the Soviet Union on 7 November 1967 (AUDIO: Thin Ice), almost twenty-two years before the events of this story. From the Doctor's perspective, those events occurred immediately before his encounter with the adult Raine on 13 October 1989.
 * The Doctor and Ace previously met Markus Creevy and the then-Major Felnikov in Moscow in November 1967. Both Creevy and Felnikov take some time to realise that Ace is the same girl whom they had last seen more than two decades earlier, having not aged a day in the interim. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)
 * Ace refers to her home of Perivale. (TV: Ghost Light, TV: Survival)
 * Ace mentions that she has previously had bad experiences in caves. (TV: Dragonfire, TV: Battlefield)
 * Ace hates being called "small." (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Felnikov calls Ace "tovarishch", a Russian word meaning comrade or friend or ally. The Fenric-possessed Captain Sorin also called her tovarishch. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)