Pier Pressure (Doctor Who audio)
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| Pier Pressure | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 78 |
| Featuring | Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe |
| Writer | Robert Ross |
| Director | Gary Russell |
| Producer(s) | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Production code | 7CMA |
| Set between | Medicinal Purposes and The Nowhere Place |
| Release date | January 2006 |
Pier Pressure is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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[edit] Plot
In 1936 Brighton, strange lights and terrible sounds are coming from beneath the pier, and the dead are unusually ambulatory. The only hope is the Doctor, Evelyn and — Max Miller?
[edit] Cast
- The Doctor — Colin Baker
- Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
- Professor Talbot — Doug Bradley
- Max Miller — Roy Hudd
- Billy — Martin Parsons
- Albert Potter — Chris Simmons
[edit] Notes
- One of the characters in this story is a young actor called Billy, who has just made a film called While Parents Sleep[1] and also starred in I'm an Explosive.[2] These 1930s films do exist, and contain early appearances by a certain "Billy Hartnell", who would later play the First Doctor.
- At the beginning of the story, Evelyn suggests a trip to Blackpool, but the Doctor refuses because of what happened to him last time he visited that town. This is a reference to the unmade Sixth Doctor serial The Nightmare Fair, which was to be the first serial in season 23 - the show went on hiatus for a year instead.
- The story ends with an alien energy becoming trapped in the metal structure of the West Pier, which will corrode the structure in "60 to 70 years." This refers to the fact that the Pier suffered several collapses throughout the 1990s and 2000s, eventually destroying the structure beyond repair.
[edit] References
- ^ While Parents Sleep at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ I'm an Explosive at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] External links
[edit] Reviews
- Pier Pressure reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Pier Pressure reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
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