The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller Series 04
The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller Series 04
Paul McGann (The Doctor), Sheridan Smith (Lucie Mille/ Daphne/Chloe), James Bachman (Hugh Bainbridge), John Banks (Ravens/Tavern Goer/Seb Andrews/Crewman/Sonar Operator/Soldier), Nicholas Briggs (Shopkeeper/Lord Slaadek/Ice Warriors/Guard Captai/The Daleks/Radar Operator/Roboman), Nick Brimble (Olaf Eriksson), Jack Brown (Pilot/Curious Tourist), Susan Brown (Margaret), Richenda Carey (Gliss), Jim Carter (Brother Bernard), Beth Chalmers (Shill), Pandora Colin (Fash), Shelley Conn (Asha Qureshi), Anthony Costa (Hagan), Barnaby Edwards (Rafshaw/Dr Gardener/Captain/Technician/Rebel), Carole Ann Ford (Susan Campbell), Emilia Fox (Berenice), Sabina Franklyn (Wanda Rothman), Graeme Garden (Abbot Thelonious/Cantor/The Meddling Monk), Jon Glover (Father Christmas/Security Guard), Terrence Hardiman (King Sitric), Nicky Henson (Gregson Grenville/Ice Warriors), Ash Hidminster (Brother Lucianus), Joanna Kanska (Rachel), Harriet Kershaw (Natasha/Marika/Receptionist), Helen Lederer (Aunty Pat), Eric Loren (Pilot/Edgar Allen Poe), Jake McGann (Alex Campbell), Tony Millan (Leonard Pallister), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Temperance Finch/Maxine/Computer), Ryan Sampson (Brother Patrick/Brother Timothy), David Schofield (Billy), Michael J Shannon (Senior Prosecutor Uglosi), Jeany Spark (Jelena), Joe Thomas (Theo Lawson), Niky Wardley (Juliet Walsh/Tamsin Drew), David Warner (Professor Boston Schooner), Nick Wilton (Harold), Fenella Woolgar (Morella Wendigo)
The complete fourth series of adventures for the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller.
4.1 Death in Blackpool by Alan Barnes
Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her mam running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. And in the afternoon, Aunty Pat, haring up to the house on the back of a moped weighed down with ridiculous presents.
Christmas 2009 didn’t turn out like that.
Christmas 2009, The Doctor turned up…
Note: This story includes references to suicide.
4.2 Situation Vacant by Eddie Robson
TRAVELLER IN TIME AND SPACE seeks male or female companion with good sense of humour for adventures in the Fourth and Fifth Dimensions. No experience necessary. No time wasters, no space wasters please.
4.3 Nevermore by Alan Barnes
A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo – a prisoner of this devastated planet. But The Doctor and his new companion aren’t Morella’s only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws…
There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface – wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!
4.4 The Book of Kells by Barnaby Edwards
Ireland, 1006. Strange things have been happening at the isolated Abbey of Kells: disembodied voices, unexplained disappearances, sudden death. The monks whisper of imps and demons. Could the Lord of the Dead himself be stalking these hallowed cloisters?
The Doctor and his companion find themselves in the midst of a medieval mystery. At its heart is a book: perhaps the most important book in the world. The Great Gospel of Columkille. The Liber Columbae.
4.5 Deimos by Jonathan Morris
Millions of years ago, the noble Ice Warriors fled to Deimos, moon of Mars, hoping to sit out the radioactive death throes of their home planet. When the TARDIS lands on Deimos, The Doctor discovers that the Warriors’ ancient catacombs are now a popular stop for space tourists.
But the Martian dynasties are more than history, and the Warriors are far from extinct. It’s not for nothing that ‘Deimos’ is the ancient word for ‘dread’…
4.6 The Resurrection of Mars by Jonathan Morris
Deimos, moon of Mars – where Lord Slaadek’s plans to revive the ancient Ice Warrior civilisation hang by a thread. Only the Doctor can stop him… but an old enemy, hiding in the catacombs, has an alternative plan. A plan that will test The Doctor’s heroism to its limits. Just how far will the Doctor go to prevent the destruction and resurrection of Mars – on a day when his friends become enemies, and his enemies have right on their side?
4.7 Relative Dimensions by Marc Platt
Christmas is a time for family, they say – which is why The Doctor has invited his granddaughter Susan, and great grandson Alex for Christmas dinner in his time and space machine. But who, or what, is the spectre at their yuletide feast?
Venturing deep into the dark heart of the TARDIS, Susan uncovers her past, Alex is told his future – and the Doctor finds himself caught in a deadly, dangerous present!
4.8 Prisoner of the Sun by Eddie Robson
Six years after being captured by the galaxy-spanning organisation known only as The Consensus, The Doctor lives inside a hi-tech complex at the heart of an unstable sun, condemned to an eternity maintaining its systems. A moment’s carelessness could cause the star to collapse – and the deaths of billions.
Watched over by liquid guards, the Mercurials, The Doctor’s only company at the heart of the sun is his assistant ‘Daphne’ – the latest in a line of android helpers. But rebels have their eyes on the sun, and its lonely controller – and are prepared to risk even a galactic cataclysm to secure The Doctor’s release…
4.9 Lucie Miller by Nicholas Briggs
Lucie Miller needs The Doctor’s help. The whole planet Earth needs his help. But he is nowhere to be seen.
While Lucie struggles to survive a terrible sickness, an even greater threat to the human race is about to be unleashed.
And this will be the second Dalek invasion of Earth the Doctor’s granddaughter has had to endure.
4.10 To The Death by Nicholas Briggs
After a last, futile fight-back against the Daleks, Lucie, Susan and Alex are heading home to England in the desperate hope of saving The Doctor’s life. But the true, terrible nature of the Daleks’ plan is beginning to emerge and the Monk has blood on his hands.
To defeat the Daleks, it can only be a struggle… to the death.
**This release is a download collection of Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures 4.1 – 4.10, originally released in 2009-2011**
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Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith star in The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller: Series Four, eight acclaimed audio adventures now available in a new collected edition.
The end for the Eighth Doctor and Lucie
The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) travelled with the hot-tempered Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith) for four popular series of full-cast audio adventures, originally released from 2007 to 2011.
In their fourth and final series, it seems like it’s the end for the pairing; Lucie leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor seeks a new companion, soon recruiting Tamsin Drew (Niky Wardley). But Lucie finds herself travelling through time and space again, now with the Monk (Graeme Garden), and TARDISes collide for a fateful climax during a Dalek invasion of Earth’s future.
This set of stories is notable for reuniting The Doctor with his granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford), as well as his great-grandson Alex (Jake McGann, aka Sonny McGann). The heroes face off against a rogues’ gallery of monsters and villains including the Zygons, the Ice Warriors, and of course the dreaded Daleks (Nicholas Briggs).
The series’ guest cast also includes David Schofield, Shelley Conn, Fenella Woolgar, Emilia Fox, Terrence Hardiman, David Warner, Tracy-Ann Oberman, and Anthony Costa.
A newly-repackaged collection of these ten previously-released adventures, Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller: Series Four, is now available to purchase as a digital download to own, for an early-bird discounted price of just £29.99.
Big Finish executive producer Nicholas Briggs, who directed four of the stories and wrote the epic two-part finale, reflected on the series: “This was a momentous season to plan. We knew it was time for Lucie to leave. Death in Blackpool, which has since been classified as part of the fourth series, was an in-between-series special in which Lucie definitely left The Doctor.
“But we wanted to play with audience expectations as the new ‘season’ began – with the Doctor selecting a new companion in what felt like a talent competition. They’d just become very big on TV at the time! But then we meticulously crafted a slow return of Lucie. This really cemented her place in The Doctor’s and our hearts. We already had her exit planned, and we knew we wanted it to be brutal and heart-breaking.
“I still look back upon all these stories with a huge sense of pride – and working so closely with script editor Alan Barnes and co-producers Barnaby Edwards and David Richardson was such a rewarding experience.”
The ten adventures for the Eighth Doctor are:
4.1 Death in Blackpool by Alan Barnes
Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her mam running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. And in the afternoon, Aunty Pat, haring up to the house on the back of a moped weighed down with ridiculous presents.
Christmas 2009 didn’t turn out like that.
Christmas 2009, The Doctor turned up…
Note: This story includes references to suicide.
4.2 Situation Vacant by Eddie Robson
TRAVELLER IN TIME AND SPACE seeks male or female companion with good sense of humour for adventures in the Fourth and Fifth Dimensions. No experience necessary. No time wasters, no space wasters please.
4.3 Nevermore by Alan Barnes
A bizarre manifestation in the Control Room forces the TARDIS onto the Plutonian shores of the irradiated world Nevermore, whose sole inhabitant is the war criminal Morella Wendigo – a prisoner of this devastated planet. But The Doctor and his new companion aren’t Morella’s only visitors. Senior Prosecutor Uglosi fears the arrival of an assassin, after the blood of his prize prisoner. An assassin with claws…
There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the 19th century horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface – wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!
4.4 The Book of Kells by Barnaby Edwards
Ireland, 1006. Strange things have been happening at the isolated Abbey of Kells: disembodied voices, unexplained disappearances, sudden death. The monks whisper of imps and demons. Could the Lord of the Dead himself be stalking these hallowed cloisters?
The Doctor and his companion find themselves in the midst of a medieval mystery. At its heart is a book: perhaps the most important book in the world. The Great Gospel of Columkille. The Liber Columbae.
4.5 Deimos by Jonathan Morris
Millions of years ago, the noble Ice Warriors fled to Deimos, moon of Mars, hoping to sit out the radioactive death throes of their home planet. When the TARDIS lands on Deimos, The Doctor discovers that the Warriors’ ancient catacombs are now a popular stop for space tourists.
But the Martian dynasties are more than history, and the Warriors are far from extinct. It’s not for nothing that ‘Deimos’ is the ancient word for ‘dread’…
4.6 The Resurrection of Mars by Jonathan Morris
Deimos, moon of Mars – where Lord Slaadek’s plans to revive the ancient Ice Warrior civilisation hang by a thread. Only the Doctor can stop him… but an old enemy, hiding in the catacombs, has an alternative plan. A plan that will test The Doctor’s heroism to its limits. Just how far will the Doctor go to prevent the destruction and resurrection of Mars – on a day when his friends become enemies, and his enemies have right on their side?
4.7 Relative Dimensions by Marc Platt
Christmas is a time for family, they say – which is why The Doctor has invited his granddaughter Susan, and great grandson Alex for Christmas dinner in his time and space machine. But who, or what, is the spectre at their yuletide feast?
Venturing deep into the dark heart of the TARDIS, Susan uncovers her past, Alex is told his future – and the Doctor finds himself caught in a deadly, dangerous present!
4.8 Prisoner of the Sun by Eddie Robson
Six years after being captured by the galaxy-spanning organisation known only as The Consensus, The Doctor lives inside a hi-tech complex at the heart of an unstable sun, condemned to an eternity maintaining its systems. A moment’s carelessness could cause the star to collapse – and the deaths of billions.
Watched over by liquid guards, the Mercurials, The Doctor’s only company at the heart of the sun is his assistant ‘Daphne’ – the latest in a line of android helpers. But rebels have their eyes on the sun, and its lonely controller – and are prepared to risk even a galactic cataclysm to secure The Doctor’s release…
4.9 Lucie Miller by Nicholas Briggs
Lucie Miller needs The Doctor’s help. The whole planet Earth needs his help. But he is nowhere to be seen.
While Lucie struggles to survive a terrible sickness, an even greater threat to the human race is about to be unleashed.
And this will be the second Dalek invasion of Earth the Doctor’s granddaughter has had to endure.
4.10 To The Death by Nicholas Briggs
After a last, futile fight-back against the Daleks, Lucie, Susan and Alex are heading home to England in the desperate hope of saving The Doctor’s life. But the true, terrible nature of the Daleks’ plan is beginning to emerge and the Monk has blood on his hands.
To defeat the Daleks, it can only be a struggle… to the death.
**This release is a download collection of Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures 4.1 – 4.10, originally released in 2009-2011**
