Rat Trap (audio story)
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| Rat Trap | ||
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| Doctor: | Fifth Doctor | |
| Companion(s): | Tegan, Turlough, Nyssa | |
| Main enemy: | The Rats, The Rat King | |
| Main setting: | Cadogan Tunnels, England, 9 June 1983 | |
| Key crew | ||
| Publisher: | Big Finish Productions | |
| Writer: | Tony Lee | |
| Director: | Ken Bentley | |
| Post production: | Andy Hardwick | |
| Cover by: | Anthony Lamb | |
| Release details | ||
| Release number: | 148 | |
| Release date: | June 2011 | |
| Format: | 2 CDs, 4 parts | |
| Production code: | 6H/F | |
| ISBN 978-1-84435-560-0 | ||
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Rat Trap was the one hundred and forty-eighth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. Released in June 2011 it was the final story in a series of three stories featuring the Fifth Doctor along with Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough and an older Nyssa who rejoined travelling with them in the 2010 story Cobwebs.
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Publisher's summary 
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1983: as the country goes to the polls, two ‘Urban Explorers’, together with a freelance journalist, break into the long-defunct Cadogan Tunnels, once a secret wartime facility... and later, so rumour has it, the site of an experimental laboratory with a nasty sideline in vivisection.
What they find, in its twisting underground corridors, is something the most cynical conspiracy theorist could never have imagined: a highly-evolved society of questing, intelligent creatures, living right under humanity’s nose for decades.
But there’s no way out of the tunnels – as the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough are about to discover when the TARDIS brings them, too, into the complex. It’s a rat trap – and they’ve all been caught!
Plot Edit
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Cast Edit
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Tegan - Janet Fielding
- Turlough - Mark Strickson
- Clifford Andrews - John Banks
- Sally Lucas - Alison Thea-Skot
- Dr. Christopher Wallace / The Rat King - Terry Molloy
- Kevin - David Seymour
- Matthew / Major Harris - Andrew Dickens
- Caitlin Jones - Charlie Norfolk
References Edit
The Doctor Edit
- The Doctor refers obliquely to his habit of building "Macguffins" to defend certain problems (in this case, the psychic connections between the rats).
Organisations Edit
- The Doctor tells Nyssa that UNIT will clean up after him.
Politics Edit
- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is mentioned several times. The Doctor notes that the 1983 general election will be a "landslide" for the Conservative Party.
TARDIS Edit
- Turlough refers to the State of Grace in the TARDIS and how it will prevent weapons fire but not general damage.
Notes Edit
- Terry Molloy (Dr. Christopher Wallace / The Rat King) is best known for playing Davros, the creator of the Daleks, in TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, TV: Revelation of the Daleks and TV: Remembrance of the Daleks as well as numerous other Big Finish audio dramas. Furthermore, he played Russell in TV: Attack of the Cybermen as well as Magus Riga in AUDIO: Kingdom of Silver, Examiner 2 in AUDIO: Keepsake and Lord Ampthill in AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers. This marks the first time that Davison and Molloy have worked together since Resurrection of the Daleks in 1984.
- Alison Thea-Skot (Sally Lucas) previously played Jesic in AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks, Greta Tod in AUDIO: The Beast of Orlok and Ayl-San in AUDIO: A Death in the Family. She would later play Jenny Haveloc in AUDIO: Threshold.
- Charlie Norfolk (Caitlin Jones) would later play Ursina in AUDIO: Voyage to Venus.
- This audio drama was recorded on 10 and 13 December 2010 at The Moat Studios.
Continuity Edit
- Nyssa refers to her visit to Stockbridge in 1199 and her memories of knights in armour. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear)
- The rats mention the Mara to Tegan. (TV: Kinda, TV: Snakedance, AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake)
- One of the rats mentions Nyssa's experiments on the Cractids. (AUDIO: Cobwebs)
- The rats exploit Nyssa's anger at the Master for killing her father, Tremas. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
- The Helheim cure is destablising. (AUDIO: Cobwebs)
- Turlough uses a spark wire from Purity. (AUDIO: The Whispering Forest)
External links Edit
- Official Rat Trap page at bigfinish.com
- Detailed synopsis of Rat trap at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Rat Trap at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
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