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Software limitations prevent us from representing the proper styling of this title, Project: Lazarus. See here for more details. Editors wishing to link to the article using the proper spelling can type [[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]].

Project: Lazarus was the forty-fifth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the second in a loose arc of three audio stories that featured the Forge; the first was AUDIO: Project: Twilight and the third Project: Destiny. This is also one of only eight audio stories in which Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy appear together.

Publisher's summary

"I'll survive, Doctor. I always do."

Unfinished business.

A frightened girl is stalked in a land of eternal night.

A hunter longs for recognition and power.

A traveller in time returns to correct the mistakes of the past and faces a danger that could rob him of his future. Unless his future intervenes.

And in the shadows stands Nimrod. Waiting...

Welcome to the Forge.

Plot

Part One: The Sixth Doctor, having found a cure to the virus that Cassandra Schofield contracted, returns with Evelyn Smythe to offer her her freedom.

Part Three: The Seventh Doctor returns to the Forge, only to find the Sixth Doctor helping Nimrod.

Cast

References

The TARDIS

  • Evelyn remarks that the TARDIS kitchen seems to restock itself each morning. She is unsure whether this is the Doctor's or the TARDIS' doing.
  • Every TARDIS has the ability to hunt down vampires, although the Sixth Doctor had to repair the system, which had broken down due to lack of use.

Biology

  • Nimrod attempts to induce a regeneration in the Sixth Doctor.
  • A regeneration can be triggered by the trauma of losing a limb, which helps the Seventh Doctor deduce the true nature of the Sixth.

The Doctor

  • The Sixth Doctor likes his tea with four sugars.
  • The Seventh Doctor plays the piano, although he admits that he needs more practice.
  • On arriving in the Forge in 2008, the Seventh Doctor claims that "a century or three" have passed in his personal timeline since his previous incarnation visited it in 2004.
  • The Seventh Doctor briefly considers returning to Gallifrey.

Gallifreyan culture

  • The Decree of Rassilon is mentioned in relation to Vampires.

Individuals

  • The Doctor later meets Cassie's son, Thomas Hector Schofield, though this has already happened for the Seventh Doctor.

Science

LAZARUS

Preview illustration by Martin Geraghty featured in DWM 332

Notes

Project Lazarus CBaker cover

The original Colin Baker cover.

Project Lazarus SMcCoy cover

The original Sylvester McCoy cover.

  • This was the first Big Finish product to offer multiple covers. Buyers were offered a choice between one featuring Colin Baker prominently, with Sylvester McCoy incorporated in an incorporeal manner, or one featuring Sylvester McCoy prominently, with Colin Baker incorporated in an incorporeal manner.
  • The Seventh Doctor considers going back home to Gallifrey after the events of this adventure, potentially linking it to the events of the TV movie, as when he does return to Gallifrey on his own, it is to collect the remains of the Master.

Continuity

  • The Sixth Doctor is wearing his blue coat which was introduced in WC: Real Time.
  • The tension between the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn from this audio leads straight into AUDIO: Arrangements for War.
  • The Seventh Doctor, having met Cassie's son Thomas Hector "Hex" Schofield in AUDIO: The Harvest, goes to see Evelyn on Világ in AUDIO: Thicker Than Water to inform that he has taken Hex as one of his companions.
  • The Forge's computer Oracle recognises the Seventh Doctor from descriptions of his appearance given in reports from incidents in Shoreditch in November 1963 (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and Carbury in 1997 (TV: Battlefield).
  • Earlier in his personal timeline, the Seventh Doctor visited the Forge's beta facility in London in 2025 in the company of Ace and Hex. Nimrod, who was by then referring to himself by his original name of Sir William Abberton, informed him that he was present at destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in 2008. The Seventh Doctor attempted to stop him from revealing any further information about his personal future so as not to disrupt the Web of Time. (AUDIO: Project: Destiny)
  • Nimrod would later inform Hex that the Doctor was involved in his mother's death (AUDIO: Project: Destiny) whereas the Seventh Doctor and Evelyn subsequently explained the circumstances of her death in more detail (AUDIO: A Death in the Family). Notably, this occurred many years earlier in the Seventh Doctor's personal timeline than the events of the second part of Project: Lazarus.
  • The Seventh Doctor tells Nimrod that Evelyn never forgave him for Cassie's death "even at the end." (AUDIO: A Death in the Family)

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