The Silent Scream

The Silent Scream

Tom Baker (The Doctor), Lalla Ward (Romana), Alec Newman (Dr Julius), Pamela Salem (Lorretta Waldorf)

The travellers are enjoying Hollywood in the 1920s, only to discover that a deadly force is taking the voices of movie stars – and monstrous silhouettes are on the prowl…

Written by: James Goss
Directed by: Nicholas Briggs

• The Silent Scream was the third story in the sixth series of the Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions.
  
• The Celluloids are trans-organic cellulose avatars, developed by 2130. Although they appear two dimensional, they are 0.03 millimetres thick, which The Doctor says is a “micron.”
  
• Cellulose is a cotton derivative, and is highly flammable.
  
• By 2130, humanity is”tinkering” with time corridors.
  
• The cab driver claims his sisterowns a robot dog in Boston.
  
• The voices captured by Julius repeatedly ask where they are. (The Bells of St John)