City of Spires

City of Spires
Big Finish Productions audio play
Album cover
City of Spires
Series Doctor Who
Release number 133
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Jamie McCrimmon
Writer Simon Bovey
Director Nicholas Briggs
Executive producer(s) Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Set between Blue Forgotten Planet and Night's Black Agents.
Release date April 2010

City of Spires is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Contents

Plot

In the Scottish Highlands, Black Donald is fighting the Redcoats to halt the Clearances. But time itself seems to be confused. And the mysterious Red Cap has built anachronistic machines that are extracting the blood of the land.

Cast

Continuity

  • City of Spires is followed by the Companion Chronicles story Night's Black Agents, with the Doctor and Jamie still in Scotland. Some elements, such as the mention of "the man of your god" (Reverend Merodach), are foreshadowing for this next tale.
  • Jamie McCrimmon was originally a companion of the Second Doctor, until the Time Lords returned him to Scotland and erased his memories of travelling in the TARDIS (but retained their initial adventure, The Highlanders). The Sixth Doctor previously encountered Jamie on screen in The Two Doctors (while still with the Second Doctor).
  • Jamie briefly had his memories restored by a Time Lord in the Companion Chronicles story The Glorious Revolution, but ultimately chose to have them erased again.
  • Jamie's vision of the "Phantom Piper" (actually a Cyberman) occurred in The Moonbase.
  • The Doctor's line about the assembled hordes of Genghis Khan not being able to break into the TARDIS is also what the Ninth Doctor told Rose Tyler in the first episode of the revived TV series Rose.
  • The black water is seen again in The Wreck of the Titan and Legend of the Cybermen, where its secrets are revealed.
  • This story arc concludes in Legend of the Cybermen, which also reveals the origin of the aliens in City of Spires.

Cast Notes

External links



Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • City of Spires — Copenhagen …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

  • City of Churches — is a name given to various cities with many churches. This phrase has been used to describe the following cities: Contents 1 In Europe 2 In North America 2.1 In the United States 2.2 Elsewhere …   Wikipedia

  • City of Oxford High School for Boys — Established 1881 Closed 1966 Type Grammar school …   Wikipedia

  • City of a Hundred Spires — Origin Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Genres Instrumental Rock Indie rock Post rock Years active 2005–Present Labels …   Wikipedia

  • City Spires — is a £90 m mixed use complex planned in Newport city centre on the site of the existing Cambrian Centre.Details* A mixed use development including retail, leisure, residential, public spaces, offices and car parking. *239 apartments in a 30… …   Wikipedia

  • Spires — is the name of: * SPIRES, a database for publications in High Energy Physics * Speyer (English formerly Spires), a city in Germany * The Spires, a commercial conference centre, operated out of Church House, Belfast by the Presbyterian Church in… …   Wikipedia

  • City Island, Bronx — City Island …   Wikipedia

  • City of Rocks National Reserve — There is also City of Rocks State Park in New Mexico. City of Rocks National Reserve IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) …   Wikipedia

  • Spires of Naples — The Spires of Naples ( spire in Italian: guglia ; plural, guglie ) are three monument columns in the historic center of the city of Naples, Italy. The term plague column is commonly used in English for such structures since in many places in… …   Wikipedia

  • City of Brass (Dungeons & Dragons) — Greyhawk Realm City of Brass Motto Region Elemental Plane of Fire Ruler Marrake al Sidan al Hariq ben Lazen, Grand Sultan of All the Efreet Government Feudal mo …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”