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The Crimes of Thomas Brewster

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Series
  
Doctor Who

Written by
  
Jonathan Morris

Release no.
  
143

Directed by
  
Nicholas Briggs

Featuring
  
Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe Thomas Brewster

Executive producer(s)
  
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery

The Crimes of Thomas Brewster is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra from 28 May - 4 June 2016.

Contents

Plot

In modern-day London, Detective Inspector Patricia Menzies is investigating a strange new mob boss known as the Doctor. Meanwhile, the real Doctor is being chased by giant robot mosquitoes and Evelyn Smythe is taking the tube to an alien world.

Cast

  • The Doctor - Colin Baker
  • Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
  • Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
  • DI Menzies - Anna Hope
  • Sergeant Bradshaw - Duncan Wisbey
  • Raymond Gallagher - David Troughton
  • Jared - Ashley Kumar
  • Flip Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
  • Terravores - Helen Goldwyn

    • Continuity

  • Brewster, a Victorian era urchin, stole the TARDIS from the Fifth Doctor in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster. After reuniting, they briefly travelled together, until Brewster chose to stay in modern-day England.
  • Brewster's time machine was built under the instructions of a gaseous alien pretending to be his mother. This was also in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, his introduction story.
  • Menzies previously met the Sixth Doctor in The Condemned and The Raincloud Man. However, from his perspective, those events take place after this story, while travelling with Charley Pollard.
  • Flip reunites with the Sixth Doctor and travels with him in the first 2012 releases, starting with The Curse of Davros.

    • References

    The Crimes of Thomas Brewster Wikipedia
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