Changes: The Mouthless Dead (audio story)

The Mouthless Dead written by John Pritchard was the first story in the 2016 Companion Chronicles audio box set The Second Doctor: Volume One. It featured Jamie, Ben, and Polly.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS arrives in 1920s England, the Doctor, Jamie, Ben and Polly finding themselves in a wintry dusk beside a railway line. The station nearby appears deserted, but there are figures watching from the shadows, all of them waiting for a dead man's train...

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

References

The TARDIS keeps track of the Gregorian calendar, the Hebrew calendar and the Islamic calendar, among others.
1920 equates to 5681 in the Hebrew calendar.
Kent is known as the garden of England.
Ben served in the Atlantic Ocean.
Frances' fiancé Michael Thomas was killed in World War I. He fought in the Battle of the Somme.
The Unknown Warrior was buried in the cemetery of Westminster Abbey.
Jamie initially assumes that the First World War was fought against aliens.
Ben's uncle fought in the Battle of Jutland. He was a crewmember of the Lion.
Jamie describes Bonnie Prince Charlie as "the Boy Prince".
The signalman tells the Doctor the story of the Phantom Light seen after the crash of Tay Bridge.

Notes

This story was recorded on 27 October and 16 December 2015.

Continuity

This is the first time that the TARDIS has materialised on a train station platform in the 1920s. It would later do so again, both times during the Doctor's fifth incarnation, in Cranleigh on 11 June 1925 (TV: Black Orchid) and in Calcutta, British India on 31 December 1926 (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger).
Jamie refers to having fought in the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746. (TV: The Highlanders)

External links

Official The Second Doctor Volume 1 page at bigfinish.com

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