The Endless Night was the first audio story in the anthology The Dimension Cannon.
Publisher's summary[]
As his parallel universe darkens, Pete Tyler has found a chance of survival. Punch a hole through dimensions and someone can jump through - and maybe find a way to the Doctor's universe.
On her very first trip, Rose visits an Earth that's about to get colder. As a long night begins, Rose meets different versions of her parents. And one man who could help her search. His name is Clive...
Plot[]
to be added
Cast[]
- Rose - Billie Piper
- Pete / Control Pete - Shaun Dingwall
- Jackie - Camille Coduri
- Clive - Mark Benton
- Roni - Amerjit Deu
- Margo Kinnear - Julia Hills
Crew[]
- Script Editors - John Dorney and Matt Fitton
- Sound Design - Josh Arakelian and Joe Kraemer
- Theme Music and Incidental Music - Joe Kraemer
- Director - Helen Goldwyn
- Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
- Producers - David Richardson
- Writer - Jonathan Morris
Worldbuilding[]
- Rose jokingly muses to Pete as to whether Mamma Mia! was still being performed in the West End.
- Margo Kinnear is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in this universe.
- Rose visits the Powell Estate and 1 Juke Street.
- Clive at first thinks Rose is playing a practical joke on behalf of Anthony.
- Clive is not familiar with the Doctor, the Torchwood Institute or UNIT.
- Peter Alan Tyler was born on 15 September 1954.
- Jackie Prentice was born on 1 February 1967.
- Rose claims to be representing Legacy Hounds. Clive likens it to Heir Hunters.
- Pete's wife, Daphne Booth, died around a year ago.
- Jackie and Pete saw A View to a Kill on their first date. Jackie wanted to see The Breakfast Club, not a James Bond film. They later saw a Shakin' Stevens concert together, and missed the last bus.
- Jackie used to have a cat named Rose. It was a Persian blue.
- Harriet Jones is still MP for Flydale North. She's a panellist on Question Time.
- According to Clive, the Greeks believed that when a star disappeared, it had been stolen by Hermes as a gift for Aphrodite. Galileo also reported that stars were going missing from the night sky.
- Riots break out in Tokyo, India and Moscow, with looters in London.
- After London burns and it's confirmed that the sun is gone forever, the BBC shuts down.
- Rose asks Clive to choose between a Jaguar and a Ferrari.
Notes[]
to be added
Continuity[]
- Rose mentions her mate Shareen. (TV: The End of the World et al.)
- Rose recalls the spaceship over London on Christmas and people on the roofs a couple of years prior, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) a spaceship crashing into Big Ben, (TV: Aliens of London) and shop window dummies coming to life. (TV: Rose)
- The walls between universes are breaking down, and the stars are going out. (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
- Rose and Pete can use the travel discs to jump between universes. (TV: Army of Ghosts et al.)
- Clive lives on 1 Juke Street. (PROSE: Rose)
- Jackie was born on 1 February 1967. On Pete's World, the original Jackie there made a point of highlighting that this was also Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s birthday. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
- Rose is wearing her leather jacket. (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
- Rose claims to be involved with a reunion for Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark's wedding anniversary. (TV: Father's Day)
- Harriet Jones also appeared on Question Time in the Doctor's universe. (PROSE: Mars)
External links[]
- Official The Endless Night page at bigfinish.com
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