The Scream of Ghosts (audio story)

The Scream of Ghosts was the second and final story in The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Five.

Publisher's summary Edit

When the Brigadier and Jo are called in to look into a breakthrough in the field of portable communication, the Doctor has to stay behind with communications problems of his own – a strange signal coming through the TARDIS console that's burned out its circuits.

When Benton approaches the Doctor with an odd story about an old friend, the Time Lord realises his troubles and the Brigadier's investigations may be connected, and hot-foots it in pursuit.

Soon they discover that terrifying sounds are walking in the woods of the English countryside... but what lurks behind those sounds may be even more dangerous...

Plot Edit

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Cast Edit

• The Doctor - Tim Treloar
• Jo Grant - Katy Manning
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Jon Culshaw
• Sergeant Benton - John Levene
• Warren - Dominic Wood
• Caldicott - Rosalyn Landor
• Armitage - David Dobson
• The Vardans / Bob Ellis - Guy Adams

References Edit

• Warren suggests using white noise to cancel out the Vardans while they are composed of sound.

Notes Edit

• Maurice the dog is named as such in reference to Maurice Martenot, an early pioneer in electronic music. (BFX: The Scream of Ghosts)

Continuity Edit

• The Doctor recalls how an old friend of his discovered just how deadly the Vardans could be in a previous encounter. (AUDIO: The First Wave)
• Jo calls Tom Osgood for assistance, and recalls his retirement after the incident at Devil's End. (TV: The Dæmons)
• The Vardans tell the Doctor they want to invade time. They would later attempt to do so again during the Fourth Doctor's era. (TV: The Invasion of Time)

External links Edit

• Official The Scream of Ghosts page at bigfinish.com