The Curse of Time was the fourth Special Release of The Fourth Doctor Adventures produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Sadie Miller as Sarah Jane Smith and Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan.
Publisher's summary[]
After being dragged through a rip in the time vortex, the TARDIS returns the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to Earth. They are in medieval times, but something strange is afoot.
The villagers live in fear of the sinister Brotherhood, an order of monks that upholds the sacred laws. Then there's Faustus Black, with his troupe of travelling players. What connects them is a terrible secret hidden in the Forbidden Forest...a cave from which nobody has ever returned...
Plot[]
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Part four[]
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Cast[]
- The Doctor - Tom Baker
- Sarah Jane Smith - Sadie Miller
- Harry Sullivan - Christopher Naylor
- Faustus Black - Angus Dunican
- Arnica - Scarlett Courtney
- Zaphiel Ixon - Terence Wilton
- Mother Cassava - Rosemary Ashe
- Brother Voss - Andrew French
- Monk 1 / Winterbird - George Naylor
Crew[]
- Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
- Cover Art - Sean Longmore
- Director - Helen Goldwyn
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - John Dorney
- Writer - Jonathan Morris
Worldbuilding[]
- Sarah was in the Girl Guides.
- A plague affected the settlers who had resettled on Earth following their awakening on Nerva. They had to adopt an existence of subsistence due to the limited resources to create the technology they had inherited from Nerva.
- The Nerva Beacon was left adrift in deep space after the resettlement of Earth.
- Ixon's use of the temporal schism threatens to creat an Untempered Schism.
Notes[]
- The Curse of Time was recorded on 17 and 24 October 2023, 22 January and 5 February 2024 at the Soundhouse and remotely.
- This story marked Sarah Jane Smith's debut in The Fourth Doctor Adventures series.
Continuity[]
- The Doctor bemoans giving the Brigadier a space-time telegraph, (AUDIO: Deathworld [+]Bob Baker, Dave Martin and John Dorney, adapted from Deathworld, The Lost Stories (Big Finish Productions, 2024).) while Harry complains about rushing out of Nerva Beacon to answer the summons. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen [+]Gerry Davis, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).)
- Sarah initially believes the TARDIS has returned to the Middle Ages. (TV: The Time Warrior [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 11 (BBC1, 1973-1974).)
- Faustus Black and his troops act out the story of the solar flares hitting Earth and of Noah's "ark", (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).) though Sarah remarks on how they leave out the Sontarans. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment [+]Bob Baker and Dave Martin, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).)
- Harry tries to tell the Brotherhood of his role in saving Nerva. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).)
- Mother Cassanva recalls how the Doctor and Sarah disappeared when returning to Nerva from Earth, with Harry saying they got taken on to Skaro. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).)
External links[]
- Official The Curse of Time page at bigfinish.com
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