The Memory Bank and Other Stories

The Memory Bank and Other Stories
The Memory Bank and Other Stories

Regular Cast

Peter Davison (<5thdoctorpage">Fifth Doctor” href=”5thdoctorpage”>The Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Suzann McLean (Max/Autumn Voice), Ian Brooker (Archivist/Computer/Elder), Mandi Symonds (Alitha/Inspector Jill Sveinsbottir) Duncan Wisbey (Grayling Frimlish/Shiri/Zounds), Kae Alexander (Waywalker).

Synopsis

Four new adventures featuring the Fifth Doctor and Turlough!

The Memory Bank by Chris Chapman

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.

The Last Fairy Tale by Paul Magrs

Deep in the heart of old Europe, the village of Vadhoc awaits the coming of a mythical tellerof magical tales – but not all such stories end happily, the TARDIS travellers discover.

Repeat offender by Eddie Robson

The Doctor has tracked the deadly Bratanian Shroud to 22nd century Reykjavík – where he’s about to become the victim of a serial criminal. Again.

The Becoming by Ian Potter

A young woman climbs a perilous mountain in search of her destiny. The Doctor and Turlough save her from the monsters on her trail – but what awaits them in the Cavern of Becoming is stranger, even, than the ravening Hungerers outside.

Written by: Chris Chapman, Paul Magrs, Eddie Robson, Ian Potter
Directed by: Helen Goldwyn

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Notes

  • Turlough is an avid artist. (The Five Doctors, The Last Fairy Tale)
  • Turlough refers to his time at Brendon Public School in 1983. (Mawdryn Undead)
  • Turlough recalls fighting in the Trion Civil War as a junior ensign commander. (Planet of Fire)
  • Turlough refers to his former schoolmates Ibbotson (Mawdryn Undead) and Charlie Gibbs (Eldrad Must Die!).
  • Turlough sarcastically refers to Grayling Frimlish as “Oscar Wilde”..
  • The Doctor once had to broker negotiations between two branches of the Royal Dynasties of the Eisenblatt system.
  • One branch had a genetic glitch which meant that they were living backwards through time. As a result, the two branches were approaching the same century from either end. The Doctor noted that this made coronations and abdications complicated.
  • The Third Doctor and Jo Grant once got into a dangerous situation involving a number of giant tortoises which was caused by The Master..
  • Frimlish’s story involves the Infernal Flaming Spectres from the Catacombs of Utter Dreadfulness, the Moss Demons of the Sussurating Swamps, and Desmond the Ogre. .
  • The Doctor and Turlough previously visited Reykjavik in the 51st century in the company of Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka. (the Butcherof Brisbane)
  • Inspector Sveinsdóttir refers to the Lunar Penal Colony. (Frontier in Space, Bad Wolf, Love and War)
  • The Doctor refers to artron energy. (Four to Doomsday)
  • The Doctor refers to the fact that the Tractator invasion of Trion etched itself onto the racial memory of the Trions. (Frontios)
  • The name “Turlough” originally meant “prompter” or “spur to action” on Earth but not on Trion.

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