Demon Quest 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 Yates. It was released on five CDs by
BBC Audiobooks between September and December 2010 and is a sequel to 2009's Hornets' Nest. 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.[1]
Demon Quest
The Relics of Time
(released 2 September 2010)
The Doctor returns to Nest Cottage in
Sussex a year after defeating the alien Hornets. But while doing some maintenance on the
TARDIS, his housekeeper,
Mrs Wibbsey 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 that depicts the Doctor's face. So he and Wibbsey go back to
Ancient Britain, c. 43 AD, shortly before
Emperor Claudius'
Romaninvasion. There they find two warring tribes, one of which is being aided by a wise wizard.
The Doctor takes Mrs Wibbsey to
Paris in 1894 to discover why his face is on a famous
Aristide Bruant poster by
Toulouse-Lautrec. 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, Mrs Wibbsey becomes Lautrec's newest muse. Finally they all come together in a deadly showdown in
Montmartre Cemetery with the Demon of Paris.
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.
The final item, the cover of a
comic book featuring all their likenesses, brings the Doctor, Yates and Wibbsey to
New York City in July 1976. While walking through
Central Park with her boyfriend, a girl named Alice touches a strange
meteorite. This immediately gives her
superpowers, 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. And on the Dakota's top floor, a cult of men in long, multi-coloured scarves are worshiping an alien artefact.
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.
Demon Quest 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 Yates. It was released on five CDs by
BBC Audiobooks between September and December 2010 and is a sequel to 2009's Hornets' Nest. 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.[1]
Demon Quest
The Relics of Time
(released 2 September 2010)
The Doctor returns to Nest Cottage in
Sussex a year after defeating the alien Hornets. But while doing some maintenance on the
TARDIS, his housekeeper,
Mrs Wibbsey 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 that depicts the Doctor's face. So he and Wibbsey go back to
Ancient Britain, c. 43 AD, shortly before
Emperor Claudius'
Romaninvasion. There they find two warring tribes, one of which is being aided by a wise wizard.
The Doctor takes Mrs Wibbsey to
Paris in 1894 to discover why his face is on a famous
Aristide Bruant poster by
Toulouse-Lautrec. 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, Mrs Wibbsey becomes Lautrec's newest muse. Finally they all come together in a deadly showdown in
Montmartre Cemetery with the Demon of Paris.
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.
The final item, the cover of a
comic book featuring all their likenesses, brings the Doctor, Yates and Wibbsey to
New York City in July 1976. While walking through
Central Park with her boyfriend, a girl named Alice touches a strange
meteorite. This immediately gives her
superpowers, 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. And on the Dakota's top floor, a cult of men in long, multi-coloured scarves are worshiping an alien artefact.
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.