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A Death in the Family
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Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace, Hex
Featuring:	Evelyn Smythe
Main enemy:	Nobody No-One
Main setting:	London, 25 June 2026, 24 June to August 2027, January to 24 May 2028 Pelachan, billions of years BC
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Steven Hall
Director:	Ken Bentley
Post production:	Richard Fox & Lauren Yason
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Release number:	140
Release date:	October 2010
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7W/N
ISBN 978-1-84435-499-3
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A Death in the Family was the one hundred and fortieth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the final chronological story for Maggie Stables' character Evelyn Smythe with this story taking place many years after she stopped travelling with the Doctor. This is the third Big Finish audio story to feature a companion death, the first two being C'rizz in Absolution and Lucie Miller and Tamsin Drew in To the Death. However, Evelyn continues to travel with the Sixth Doctor with several things mentioned in this story featuring in stories published after this story was released.

Publisher's summary Edit

"The future folds into the past. The homeless hero has fallen. Now begins the time of three tales: The Tale of the Herald. The Tale of the Hidden Woman. The Tale of the Final Speaker. When the last tale is told, all the lights shall fail. The world will end."

21st century London: Nobody No One, the extra-dimensional Word Lord, is again running amok. Only this time, he's unbeatable – and a terrible tragedy is about to unfold.

It is written.

Plot Edit

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Cast Edit

The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
Ace - Sophie Aldred
Hex - Philip Olivier
Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
Nobody No-One - Ian Reddington
Corporal/Novice/Henry Noone - John Dorney
Ayl-San/Faber/Nurse - Alison Thea-Skot
Captain Stillwell/Applin/Tour Guide - Andrew Dickens
Ann-the-Van/Story Speaker/Webster - Harriet Kershaw

References Edit

The Doctor Edit

The Doctor has something like a calendar of when his friends will die.

Individuals Edit

The Doctor dies, killed by Nobody No-One.
Evelyn wistfully recalls "her" Doctor and criticises the Seventh Doctor for his scheming, manipulative nature.
Evelyn dies of a heart attack, capturing Nobody No One as she does though.
Henry Louis Noone was born in St. Stephen's Hospital in London on 10 February 2000. A body scan indicated that he would most likely die at the age of 82.
Henry Noone writes a story of what he thinks Ace would be like in ten years, if they married, and through a complicated process, creates Dr. Dorothy Noone, a being capable of combating the Word Lord Nobody No-One.

Locations Edit

The Doctor and Ace search the remains of the Forge's building for alien technology with Captain Stillwell of UNIT.
Ace meets up with Henry Noone on a couple of occasions in the White Rabbit pub in London during 2027.
By 2027, the United Kingdom has a king.

TARDIS Edit

The Doctor's TARDIS is still white. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari)
Ace is incapable of flying the TARDIS.

Time travel Edit

Evelyn Rossiter was transported from Világ to the planet Pelachan via a temporal device.
The people of Pelachan are descendants of the crew of a human time ship called the USN Pelican which crashed on their planet almost two thousand years earlier, an event which occurred billions of years before the evolution of humanity on Earth. The name of the planet is a corruption of that of the time ship. Several items were recovered from the ship, which Evelyn believed to be a military or containment vessel, and came to be worshipped as holy relics. They included the jawbone of an Ice Warrior, the arm of a Cyberman and the eye stalk of a Dalek. In the Pelachan calendar, it is 1871 AC. It is unclear if "AC" stands for "After Crash" or "After Creation."

Earth Edit

Bees were being reintroduced to the UK in June 2027. According to Ace, the bee problem would be resolved by 2040, by which time Earth would also have "new pandas." The implication of this last statement is that pandas become extinct at some point in the early 21st century but are eventually brought back to life through the use of cloning.

Notes Edit

This release includes behind-the-scenes interviews with members of the cast.
This release includes isolated music as an extra track.
Ian Reddington (Nobody No-One) previously played the Chief Clown in TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
Clips from numerous previous audio dramas are heard in Part One, including AUDIO: Son of the Dragon, AUDIO: Castle of Fear, AUDIO: Project: Twilight, AUDIO: The One Doctor, AUDIO: Jubilee, AUDIO: Colditz, AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap, AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks, AUDIO: The Pyralis Effect and AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari.
Evelyn's reference to spending time "in a spacesuit bouncing about Axos with that poor boy Brewster" foreshadows both the Fifth Doctor's former companion Thomas Brewster rejoining the TARDIS crew as a companion of the Sixth Doctor in AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster and the events of AUDIO: The Feast of Axos.
This story marks the first appearance of Evelyn Smythe in the main range since AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight in May 2008.
This audio drama was recorded on 28 and 29 April 2010 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity Edit

The Doctor, Ace and Hex previously encountered Nobody No-One in Antarctica in 2045. (AUDIO: The Word Lord) In a manner similar to a Time Lord, he has regenerated since his previous encounter with the present Doctor. He claims to have battled the Doctor numerous times in the Doctor's personal future.
The Doctor mentions that meeting his past or future selves is something which he is "very much not supposed to do." (TV: The Three Doctors)
Hex refers to his encounters with the Cybermen (AUDIO: The Harvest) and the Daleks (AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks).
Nobody No-One refers to the Doctor as "Lazarus", the codename given to him by the Forge during his sixth incarnation. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus)
The future Seventh Doctor tells Hex that "burning into existence" is considerably more painful than fading out of existence. (AUDIO: Master)
Evelyn relates the events of AUDIO: Project: Twilight and AUDIO: Project: Lazarus to Hex in which she and the Sixth Doctor met his late mother, Cassie Schofield.
Evelyn mentions to Hex that the Doctor once told that he does not always win. (AUDIO: Arrangements for War)
Ace reminds the future Seventh Doctor that he once destroyed a planet. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
On 24 May 2027, it is reported that the British government is conducting further Mars research. (TV: The Ambassadors of Death, AUDIO: Red Dawn, TV: The Christmas Invasion)
When the Seventh Doctor arrives on Pelachan, Evelyn is initially disappointed to see him as she had been hoping that it would be "her" Doctor. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy)
Evelyn mentions meeting Julius Caesar's parents (AUDIO: 100 BC) and Charles Darwin (AUDIO: Bloodtide), "leaping from steam trains in the Wild West" (AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune) and spending time "in a spacesuit bouncing about Axos with that poor boy Brewster" (AUDIO: The Feast of Axos).
Evelyn previously met the Seventh Doctor in AUDIO: Thicker than Water. Prior to that brief encounter, she saw him, Ace and Hex from afar in AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor.

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