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''Demon Quest'' is an
audio play Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine t ...
in five episodes based on the long-running British
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series ''
Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
''. It is written by
Paul Magrs Paul Magrs (pronounced "Mars"; born 12 November 1969) is a writer and lecturer. He was born in Jarrow, England, and now lives in Manchester with his partner, author and lecturer Jeremy Hoad. Early life Magrs was born in Jarrow, Tyne & Wear, on ...
, and stars
Tom Baker Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor and writer. He is well known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from 1974 to 1981.Scott, Danny. (1 ...
as the
Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Tom Baker. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the ...
and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates. It was released on five CDs by
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Audiobooks between September and December 2010 and is a sequel to 2009's ''
Hornets' Nest ''Hornets’ Nest'' is a 1970 Italian-American war film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, and Sergio Fantoni. The plot focuses on a group of boys aged 7–14 who survive a massacre in their village in Northern It ...
''. They feature multiple actors, but all five episodes contain some degree of narration by different characters. It was first broadcast in 10 half-hour episodes on BBC Radio 4 Extra from 19 to 30 December 2016.


Demon Quest


The Relics of Time

(released 2 September 2010) * The Doctor returns to Nest Cottage in
Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
a year after defeating the alien Hornets. But while doing some maintenance on the
TARDIS The TARDIS (; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its various spin-offs. Its exterior a ...
, his housekeeper,
Mrs Wibbsey This is a list of fictional characters who were companion (Doctor Who), companions of the Doctor (Doctor Who), Doctor, in various Doctor Who spin-offs, spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fict ...
takes four pieces of the ship's spatial geometer and trades them to a mysterious figure for four paper items that seem to have some relation to the Doctor. Now they must travel throughout time to learn their significance and find the missing components. The first item is a page from a history book discussing a
Mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...
that depicts the Doctor's face. So he and Wibbsey go back to
Ancient Britain Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints prob ...
, c. 43 AD, shortly before
Emperor Claudius Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Mino ...
'
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. There they find two warring tribes, one of which is being aided by a wise wizard.


Cast

* The Doctor –
Tom Baker Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor and writer. He is well known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from 1974 to 1981.Scott, Danny. (1 ...
*
Mrs Wibbsey This is a list of fictional characters who were companion (Doctor Who), companions of the Doctor (Doctor Who), Doctor, in various Doctor Who spin-offs, spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fict ...
– Susan Jameson * The Wizard –
Nigel Anthony Nigel Anthony (born December 23, 1941) is a theatre, television, and radio actor. His theatre work includes ''Twelfth Night'', '' Dutch Uncle'', '' Happy End'', ''The Taming of the Shrew'' for the Royal Shakespeare Company and seasons at Scarbo ...
* Female Warrior – Kate Sachs * Male Warrior –
Rupert Holliday-Evans Rupert Holliday Evans (also Rupert Holliday–Evans) is an English actor. He is well known for his roles in programmes such as the ITV police drama ''The Bill'' and CBBC children's programmes ''The Giblet Boys'' and '' Powers''. In episodes of com ...


The Demon of Paris

(released 7 October 2010) * The Doctor takes Mrs Wibbsey to
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
in 1894 to discover why his face is on a famous
Aristide Bruant Aristide Bruant (; 6 May 1851 – 11 February 1925) was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He ...
poster by
Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the l ...
. But a spate of disappearances has sent the city into a panic, and some suspect the famous diminutive artist. While the Doctor finds himself performing at the
Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge (, ; ) is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche. In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Ol ...
, Mrs Wibbsey becomes Lautrec's newest muse. Finally they all come together in a deadly showdown in
Montmartre Cemetery The Cemetery of Montmartre (french: link=no, Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis ...
with the Demon of Paris.


Cast

* The Doctor – Tom Baker * Mrs Wibbsey – Susan Jameson * La Concierge –
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* La Charlotte –
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*
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–
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* Drunk Artist – Rupert Holliday-Evans


A Shard of Ice

(released 4 November 2010) * Page 407 of an old, leather-bound book of fairy tales features an illustration of a horned monster battling both the Doctor and Retired Captain Mike Yates. So the Doctor reunites with his old UNIT colleague and takes him to a snow blind Germanic landscape in 1847. The first person they meet is the very man listed as the book's author, Albert Tiermann, storyteller to the King. Together the three men confront the Ice Queen, resplendent upon her diamond throne.


Cast

* The Doctor – Tom Baker * Captain Mike Yates – Richard Franklin * The Ice Queen –
Jan Francis Janet Stephanie Francis (born 5 August 1947) is an English actress. She appeared as Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy ''Just Good Friends''. Early life Francis was born at the former Charing Cross Hospital London. She is the eldes ...
* Albert Tiermann –
Samuel West Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, narrator and theatre director. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as an actor across theatre, film, television and radio. He often appears as reciter with orche ...
* Frau Herz –
Carole Boyd Carole Boyd is a British actress. She has had a career in theatre, television, and radio, and plays Lynda Snell MBE in BBC Radio 4's ''The Archers''. Career Boyd trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, where she won the principa ...
* Hans the footman –
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Starfall

(released 2 December 2010) * The final item, the cover of a
comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
featuring all their likenesses, brings the Doctor, Yates and Wibbsey to
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
in July 1976. While walking through
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with her boyfriend, a girl named Alice touches a strange
meteorite A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or Natural satellite, moon. When the ...
. This immediately gives her
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, transforming her into Miss Starfall. As she enjoys flying over the city and fighting crime, her employer, a washed up old actress named Mimsy Loyne, impatiently waits in her room at the
Dakota Building The Dakota, also known as the Dakota Apartments, is a cooperative apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The Dakota was constructed between 1880 and 1884 in the Renaissance ...
. And on the Dakota's top floor, a cult of men in long, multi-coloured scarves are worshiping an alien artefact.


Cast

* The Doctor – Tom Baker * Mrs Wibbsey – Susan Jameson * Captain Mike Yates – Richard Franklin * Mimsy Loyne –
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* Buddy Hudson – Trevor White * Alice Trefusis –
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* Cultist – John Chancer * Cop – Rupert Holliday-Evans


Sepulchre

(released 2 December 2010) * The Demon has absconded with Mrs Wibbsey. Yates and the Doctor put together the final given clues to track them down to the very edge of the universe: Sepulchre.


Cast

* The Doctor – Tom Baker * Mrs Wibbsey – Susan Jameson * Captain Mike Yates – Richard Franklin * The Demon – Nigel Anthony * Elderly Ernestina – Carole Boyd


Crew

*Writer –
Paul Magrs Paul Magrs (pronounced "Mars"; born 12 November 1969) is a writer and lecturer. He was born in Jarrow, England, and now lives in Manchester with his partner, author and lecturer Jeremy Hoad. Early life Magrs was born in Jarrow, Tyne & Wear, on ...
*Producer & Director – Kate Thomas *Script Editor & Executive Producer – Michael Stevens *Cover Illustrators –
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, Anthony Dry, Vince McIndoe (The Demon of Paris) and
June Hudson June Hudson (c. 1946) is a British television costume designer known for her work on various science fiction TV series in the 1970's, such as '' Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7''. ''Doctor Who'' Hudson commenced her tenure as a costume designer f ...
(A Shard of Ice)


Continuity

* This story is a sequel to ''
Hornets' Nest ''Hornets’ Nest'' is a 1970 Italian-American war film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, and Sergio Fantoni. The plot focuses on a group of boys aged 7–14 who survive a massacre in their village in Northern It ...
'', with the Fourth Doctor, Yates and Mrs Wibbsey reunited one year later. * Ernestina Stott was in the second ''Hornets' Nest'' story, '' The Dead Shoes''. * The end of ''Demon Quest'' leads directly into the sequel, ''
Serpent Crest ''Serpent Crest'' is an audio play in five episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is written by Paul Magrs, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike ...
''. * Mrs Wibbsey's friend, Deirdre "Whatsit", is heard in the last two episodes of ''Serpent Crest''.


Notes

* Rupert Holliday-Evans played Colonel Mace in "
The Sontaran Stratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the fourth episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as The Doctor. The episode was broadca ...
" / "
The Poison Sky "The Poison Sky" is the fifth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was broadcast on BBC One on 3 May 2008. The episode features both former companion Martha Jones and the alien Sontarans. It ...
". * Samuel West played Cyrian,
the Rani The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. She was played by Kate O'Mara. The Rani is a renegade Time Lord, an amoral scientist who considers everything secondary to her research; she h ...
's sidekick, in the 1993 Doctor Who charity special ''
Dimensions in Time ''Dimensions in Time'' is a charity special crossover between the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' and the soap opera '' EastEnders'' that ran in two parts on 26 and 27 November 1993. It was filmed on location at Greenwic ...
''. * The Fourth Doctor's trademark scarf was inspired by Lautrec's Bruant paintings.BBC Page on Tom Baker's Doctor
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June Hudson June Hudson (c. 1946) is a British television costume designer known for her work on various science fiction TV series in the 1970's, such as '' Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7''. ''Doctor Who'' Hudson commenced her tenure as a costume designer f ...
, costume designer for ''Doctor Who'' in Tom Baker's final years.


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