Seasons of Fear
Script release:	The Audio Scripts: Volume Two
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Charley
Main enemy:	The Nimon, Sebastian Grayle
Main setting:	Singapore, 1930 Britain, 305, 1055 and 1806 The Time Vortex
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Jim Mortimore
Cover by:	Clayton Hickman
Release details
Release number:	30
Release date:	March 2002
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	8H
ISBN 1-903654-59-9
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Seasons of Fear was the thirtieth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the third in a series of 6 audio stories featuring the Eighth Doctor. It featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard. It was the first appearance of the Nimon since the 1979/1980 story TV: The Horns of Nimon.

Publisher's summary Edit

On New Year's Eve, 1930, the Eighth Doctor lets Charley keep her appointment at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. But his unease at what he's done to time by saving her life soon turns into fear. Sebastian Grayle: immortal, obsessed, ruthless, has come to the city to meet the Time Lord. To the Doctor, he's a complete stranger, but to Grayle, the Doctor is an old enemy.

An enemy that, many years ago, he finally succeeded in killing. And this is his only chance to gloat.

The Doctor and Charley desperately search human history for the secret of Grayle's power and immortality. Their quest takes in four different time periods, the Hellfire Club, the court of Edward the Confessor, and the Time Vortex itself. And when the monsters arrive, the stakes are raised from the life of one Time Lord to the existence of all humanity.

Plot Edit

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Cast Edit

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• Sebastian Grayle - Stephen Perring
• Lucillius / Richard Martin - Stephen Fewell
• Edward the Confessor - Lennox Greaves
• Edith - Sue Wallace
• Marcus / Grayle’s Masters - Robert Curbishley
• Lucy Martin - Justine Mitchell
• The Auditor - Don Warrington (cameo)

References Edit

The Doctor Edit

• According to Charley, the Doctor smells of honey.

Individuals Edit

• Before finding out that Grayle is evil, the Doctor says to him that he "...must be confused. I'm not the one that says you must obey me, I don't meddle, and I'm not a glamorous woman at the moment." These are references to the Master, the Monk, and the Rani.
• Both the Doctor and Charley refer to Benjamin Franklin as having served as President of the United States. This alteration of history was later revealed to have been caused by the Anti-Time Crisis.

Locations Edit

• The Doctor and Charley spend three weeks researching Grayle in The Abbey of Felsecar.
• Charley and the Doctor walk into the caves of the Hellfire Club.
• The Doctor enjoys the Singapore Hilton tea gardens.

Minerals Edit

• Grayle (as Leofric of Exeter) mines uranium and creates plutonium in England in 1055.

Species Edit

• The Nimon are Grayle's masters.

TARDIS Edit

• Charley uses the TARDIS' Fast Return Switch.

Notes Edit

• This story marks the first appearance of the Nimon in an audio drama.
• Stephen Perring (Sebastian Grayle) previously played Horemshep in AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion and would later play Vengorr in AUDIO: Living Legend, the Kro'ka in the Divergent Universe arc, beginning in AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon, and Lord Matthias in the third series of Gallifrey
• This audio drama was recorded on 19, 20 and 27 January 2001.

Continuity Edit

• Charley tells the Doctor that she stowed away on the R101 in order to meet a young man named Alex Grayle in the Singapore Hilton on New Year's Eve. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
• Charley has been thinking about her survival since her encounter with Edith Thompson in Edward Grove on 24 December 1906. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight)
• The Doctor previously encountered the Nimon on Skonnos during his fourth incarnation. (TV: The Horns of the Nimon)
• The Doctor and Charley last encountered the Hellfire Club in Malebolgia in 2003. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)
• A Dalek appears in Roman times. This is explained in AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks.
• Felsecar (Monks and Abbeys) are mentioned in PROSE: Love and War and PROSE: Human Nature.
• The being that attacks Lucy and Richard Martin is revealed in AUDIO: Neverland.
• The Fourth Doctor previously visited Roman Britain in 60 AD in the company of Leela, where they encountered Boudica during her revolt against the Roman occupation. (AUDIO: The Wrath of the Iceni)
• Charley mentions to the Doctor that she attended an orgy before but did not stay for long. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)
• The Doctor once again recites the Zagreus nursery rhyme. (AUDIO: Project: Twilight)
• The Celestial Toymaker would later refer to the Nimon in a riddle while Charley was playing his games in the Celestial Toyroom. (AUDIO: Solitaire)
• The situation that the Doctor is in during his narration is revealed in AUDIO: Neverland.

External links Edit

• Official Seasons of Fear page at bigfinish.com
• Detailed synopsis of Seasons of Fear at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Seasons of Fear at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide