Pier Pressure (Doctor Who audio)

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Big Finish Productions audio play
Album cover
Pier Pressure
Series Doctor Who
Release number 78
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Evelyn Smythe
Writer Robert Ross
Director Gary Russell
Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code 7CMA
Set between Medicinal Purposes and
The Nowhere Place
Release date January 2006

Pier Pressure is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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[edit] Plot

In 1936 Brighton, strange lights and terrible sounds are coming from beneath the pier, and the dead are unusually ambulatory. The only hope is the Doctor, Evelyn and — Max Miller?

[edit] Cast

[edit] Notes

  1. One of the characters in this story is a young actor called Billy, who has just made a film called While Parents Sleep[1] and also starred in I'm an Explosive.[2] These 1930s films do exist, and contain early appearances by a certain "Billy Hartnell", who would later play the First Doctor.
  2. At the beginning of the story, Evelyn suggests a trip to Blackpool, but the Doctor refuses because of what happened to him last time he visited that town. This is a reference to the unmade Sixth Doctor serial The Nightmare Fair, which was to be the first serial in season 23 - the show went on hiatus for a year instead.
  3. The story ends with an alien energy becoming trapped in the metal structure of the West Pier, which will corrode the structure in "60 to 70 years." This refers to the fact that the Pier suffered several collapses throughout the 1990s and 2000s, eventually destroying the structure beyond repair.

[edit] References

  1. ^ While Parents Sleep at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ I'm an Explosive at the Internet Movie Database

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[edit] Reviews


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Sixth Doctor audio dramas
Slipback • Wish You Were Here • Vigil • The Sirens of Time • Whispers of Terror • The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • The Holy Terror • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The One Doctor • The Ratings War • Excelis Rising • The Maltese Penguin • ...ish • Real Time • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Project: Lazarus • Davros • Zagreus • The Wormery • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Her Final Flight • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • Cryptobiosis • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • I.D. & Urgent Calls • The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box • 100 • The Condemned • Assassin in the Limelight • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Blue Forgotten Planet