The Memory Bank was the first story in the audio anthology, The Memory Bank and Other Stories, which comprised the two hundred and seventeenth release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Chris Chapman and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Mark Strickson as Turlough.
Publisher's summary[]
The Doctor and Turlough arrive on a planet where to be forgotten is to cease to exist. But the Forgotten leave a gap in the world — and that’s where the monsters are hiding.
Plot[]
to be added
Cast[]
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Turlough / Computer - Mark Strickson
- Max - Suzann McLean
- Archivist / Computer - Ian Brooker
Crew[]
- Director - Helen Goldwyn
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Richard Fox and Lauren Yason @ FoxYason Studios
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - Alan Barnes
- Writer - Chris Chapman
Worldbuilding[]
- Maxine Andrews is 31 years old. She grew up on her father's cattle farm outside Castic City.
- Trions do not like to look back, preferring to live in the present.
- Turlough recalls spending half-term with his Brendon Public School schoolmate Hippo Ibbotson and his family in Weston-super-Mare.
- Turlough and Charlie Gibbs once climbed the wall of the girls' school. When the girls saw them, their screams were so loud that Gibbs fell back over the wall and fractured his collarbone.
- Turlough and Peter Smythe took the trophies from the sports cabinet and dumped them in the school pond.
- Other Brendon Public School students included Henry Lucas, Barney Adams and Kenneth Smith.
Notes[]
- This story was recorded on 26 or 27 May 2016 at The Moat Studios.
- An uncredited male actor voices the Hux, Trion Control, and David Finch.
Continuity[]
- Turlough is an avid artist. (TV: The Five Doctors; AUDIO: The Last Fairy Tale)
- Turlough refers to his time at Brendon Public School in 1983. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
- Turlough recalls fighting in the Trion Civil War as a junior ensign commander. (TV: Planet of Fire)
- Turlough refers to his former schoolmates Ibbotson (TV: Mawdryn Undead) and Charlie Gibbs. (AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!)
External links[]
- Official The Memory Bank page at bigfinish.com