Demon Quest

Demon Quest
Doctor Who audio play
Cover of the CD box set release
Cast
Doctor Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor)
Companions Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) Susan Jameson (Mrs Wibbsey)
Production
Written by	Paul Magrs
Produced by	Kate Thomas
Series	2
Running time	5 episodes 60 minutes each
First broadcast	2 September – 2 December 2010 (CD release)
Chronology
← Preceded by Hornets' Nest Followed by → Serpent Crest

Demon Quest is an

• Emperor Claudius' Roman invasion
  . There they find two warring tribes, one of which is being aided by a wise wizard.

• The Doctor – Tom Baker
• Mrs Wibbsey – Susan Jameson
• The Wizard – Nigel Anthony
• Female Warrior – Kate Sachs
• Male Warrior – Rupert Holliday-Evans

The Demon of Paris

(released 7 October 2010)

• The Doctor takes Mrs Wibbsey to
  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.

• The Doctor – Tom Baker
• Mrs Wibbsey – Susan Jameson
• La Concierge – Rowena Cooper
• La Charlotte – Finty Williams
• Lautrec – Mark Meadows
• Drunk Artist – Rupert Holliday-Evans

• 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 Doctor – Tom Baker
• Captain Mike Yates – Richard Franklin
• The Ice Queen – Jan Francis
• Albert Tiermann – Samuel West
• Frau Herz – Carole Boyd
• Hans the footman – Tom Lawrence

Starfall

(released 2 December 2010)

• The final item, the cover of a
  Dakota Building
  . 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 – Lorelei King
• Buddy Hudson – Trevor White
• Alice Trefusis – Laurel Lefkow
• 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
• Producer & Director – Kate Thomas
• Script Editor & Executive Producer – Michael Stevens
• Cover Illustrators – Ben Willsher, Anthony Dry, Vince McIndoe (The Demon of Paris)^[2] and June Hudson (A Shard of Ice)^[3]

Continuity

• This story is a sequel to
  Hornets' Nest
  , 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.
• 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 Poison Sky
  ".
• Samuel West played Cyrian, the Rani's sidekick, in the 1993 Doctor Who charity special Dimensions in Time.
• The Fourth Doctor's trademark scarf was inspired by Lautrec's Bruant paintings.^[4]
• The cover of A Shard of Ice was illustrated by June Hudson, costume designer for Doctor Who in Tom Baker's final years.

References

External links

• Press Release
• BBC Store
• Big Finish Store
• AudioGO Store Archived 25 April 2012 at archive.today
• Demon Quest on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki