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Crime of the Century (Doctor Who audio)

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Release no.
  
12

Directed by
  
Ken Bentley

Written by
  
Andrew Cartmel

Series
  
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories

Featuring
  
Seventh Doctor Ace Raine Creevey

Executive producer(s)
  
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery

Crime Of The Century is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

Plot

The Doctor has a masterplan that begins in London, Friday the 13th of October, 1989. Cat burglar Raine Creevey infiltrates a fancy dinner party to crack open their safe. That's where she discovers the Doctor. He is gathering rare artifacts and distributing them carefully. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is invading a country in the Middle East. But a third army has been attacking both sides: noble, insectoid aliens known as the Metatraxi.

Cast

  • The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
  • Ace - Sophie Aldred
  • Raine Creevey - Beth Chalmers
  • Markus Creevy - Ricky Groves
  • Nikitin/Parvez - Derek Carlyle
  • Colonel Felnikov/Party Guest/Waiter - John Albasiny
  • Metatraxi/Walnuf/Gunman - John Banks
  • Sayf Udeen/Valentin - Chris Porter

    • Continuity

  • Markus met the Doctor 22 years earlier in the previous story Thin Ice.
  • The Doctor helped deliver his daughter, Raine.
  • Felnikov, and many of the alien artifacts, also featured in Thin Ice.
  • Margrave University is investigated, 12 years in the future, in the next story, Animal.
  • The Metatraxi return in Earth Aid and have a cameo before that in Animal.

    • References

    Crime of the Century (Doctor Who audio) Wikipedia
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