Crime of the Century (Doctor Who audio)

Crime Of The Century
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who: The Lost Stories
Release no.	12
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Ace Raine Creevey
Written by	Andrew Cartmel
Directed by	Ken Bentley
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code	BFPDWLS12
Release date	31 May 2011

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

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.

Notes

Andrew Cartmel was the script editor for the last three seasons of the original television series. He was known to fans as the architect of the proposed Cartmel Masterplan. For Big Finish Productions, he previously wrote Winter for the Adept.

External links

Seventh Doctor audio plays

Mel	The Fires of Vulcan Bang-Bang-a-Boom! Flip-Flop Unregenerate! Red We Are The Daleks The Warehouse Terror of the Sontarans

Ace	The Fearmonger The Genocide Machine Dust Breeding Colditz The Rapture The Prisoner's Dilemma Thin Ice 1963: The Assassination Games Destiny of the Doctor: Shockwave The Light at the End You Are the Doctor & Other Stories Nightshade

Ace & Raine	Crime of the Century Animal Earth Aid

Ace & Hex	The Harvest Dreamtime LIVE 34 Night Thoughts The Settling No Man's Land Nocturne The Dark Husband Forty-Five The Magic Mousetrap Enemy of the Daleks The Angel of Scutari Project: Destiny A Death in the Family Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge Protect and Survive Black and White Gods and Monsters Afterlife Revenge of the Swarm Mask of Tragedy Signs and Wonders

Ace & Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge The Dark Flame Love and War The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield The Triumph of Sutekh Theatre of War All Consuming Fire

Benny	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code The Highest Science

Benny, Chris & Roz	Original Sin

Chris & Roz	Damaged Goods

Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story The Architects of History UNIT: Dominion Persuasion Starlight Robbery Daleks Among Us

Ace & Mel	A Life of Crime Fiesta of the Damned Maker of Demons

Alone	The Sirens of Time Last of the Titans Excelis Decays Project: Lazarus Master Return of the Daleks Valhalla Frozen Time The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake A Death in the Family The Four Doctors Robophobia The Doomsday Quatrain House of Blue Fire The Shadow Heart The Two Masters Harvest of the Sycorax

Other	Death Comes to Time Zagreus The Wormery Thicker Than Water The Final Amendment Project: Nirvana The Defectors Doom Coalition

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