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Night's Black Agents (audio story)

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Night's Black Agents was the eleventh story of the fourth series in The Companion Chronicles, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Marty Ross, narrated by Frazer Hines and featured the Sixth Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jamie McCrimmon and his new friend the Sixth Doctor are lost on the moors of Scotland, where the legendary Kelpie roams...

They are offered shelter by the Reverend Merodach, the minister of the parish of Lammermoor, and are welcomed to his castle. But strange forces are at work within its walls, and Merodach is not what he appears.

Can the Doctor and Jamie prevent their powerful enemy from taking the TARDIS for himself?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jamie - Frazer Hines
Reverend Merodach - Hugh Ross

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover Art - Simon Holub
Director - Lisa Bowerman
Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
Producer - David Richardson
Script Editor - Alan Barnes
Writer - Marty Ross

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor tells Jamie that the Scottish legend of the Kelpie has no basis in fact.
Reverend Merodach is the minister of the parish of Lammermoor in Lothian.
Jamie describes Reverend Merodach as resembling a "chewed out apple core."
Reverend Merodach states that the wearing of tartan has been banned in Scotland since the Jacobite Rising in the 1740s.
Reverend Merodach describes the Doctor's coat as resembling that of "a carnival magician".
The Doctor quotes Macbeth.
Reverend Merodach contemptuously refers to Bonnie Prince Charlie as "an Italian dandy".

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

This is the first Companion Chronicle to feature the Sixth Doctor.
This audio drama was recorded on 26 October 2009 at the Moat Studios.
This story was told from Jamie's perspective.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Reverend Merodach refers to the Doctor's recent arrival in Scotland and his defeat of the Red Caps. (AUDIO: City of Spires)
Reverend Merodach mentions the Battle of Culloden, which took place on 16 April 1746. The Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright first met the real Jamie McCrimmon in the aftermath of the battle. (TV: The Highlanders)
Guthrie had previously told the Doctor of a "sorcerer" and his crooked headed maidservant at Lammermoor. (AUDIO: City of Spires)
Reverend Merodach reminds Jamie that Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the battlefield of Culloden dressed as a washerwoman. (TV: The Highlanders)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Official Night's Black Agents page at bigfinish.com
Night's Black Agents at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

v • e

The Companion Chronicles

First Doctor

Susan	Quinnis • The Alchemists • The Beginning • The Sleeping Blood

Susan, Barbara, Ian	Here There Be Monsters • The Transit of Venus • The Wanderer • The Flames of Cadiz • The Library of Alexandria • E is for...

Barbara, Ian	The Revenants

Barbara, Ian, Vicki	The Rocket Men • The Sleeping City • Starborn • The Unwinding World • Daybreak

Vicki and Steven	Frostfire • The Suffering • Upstairs • The Founding Fathers • Fields of Terror • Across the Darkened City

Steven, Sara	Home Truths • The Drowned World • The Guardian of the Solar System • The Anachronauts

Steven, Oliver	The Perpetual Bond • The Cold Equations • The First Wave

Steven, Dodo	Mother Russia • Tales from the Vault • Return of the Rocket Men • The War To End All Wars

Steven	The Locked Room • The Vardan Invasion of Mirth

Polly, Ben	The Bonfires of the Vanities • The Plague of Dreams • The Crumbling Magician

Second Doctor

Polly, Ben	The Curator's Egg

Polly, Ben, Jamie	Resistance • The Forbidden Time • The Selachian Gambit • House of Cards • The Mouthless Dead

Jamie, Victoria	The Great Space Elevator • The Emperor of Eternity • The Story of Extinction • Dumb Waiter

Jamie	Helicon Prime • The Death of the Daleks • The Phantom Piper

Jamie, Zoe	Fear of the Daleks • The Glorious Revolution • Echoes of Grey • Tales from the Vault • The Memory Cheats • The Jigsaw War • The Uncertainty Principle • The Apocalypse Mirror • The Dying Light • Second Chances • The Integral • The Edge • The Iron Maid • The Tactics of Defeat • The Prints of Denmark • The Deepest Tragedian

Third Doctor

Liz	The Blue Tooth • Shadow of the Past • The Sentinels of the New Dawn • Binary • The Last Post

The Brigadier	Old Soldiers

Jo	The Doll of Death • The Mists of Time • Find and Replace • Tales from the Vault • The Many Deaths of Jo Grant • The Scorchies • Ghost in the Machine

Yates	The Magician's Oath • The Rings of Ikiria

Benton	Council of War

Solo travels	The Prisoner of Peladon

Fourth Doctor

Leela	The Catalyst • Empathy Games • The Child

Leela, K9 Mark I	The Time Vampire

Romana I	The Stealers from Saiph • Ferril's Folly • Tales from the Vault • Luna Romana

Romana II	The Pyralis Effect • Luna Romana

Romana II, K9 Mark II	The Beautiful People

Romana II, Adric	The Invasion of E-Space

Fifth Doctor

Adric, Nyssa, Tegan	The Darkening Eye

Tegan, Turlough	Ringpullworld • Freakshow

Peri	Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Sixth Doctor

Peri	Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Evelyn	A Town Called Fortune

"Jamie"	Night's Black Agents

Jason, Crystal	Beyond the Ultimate Adventure

Seventh Doctor

Ace, Zara	The Prisoner's Dilemma

Bernice	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

Sally, Lysandra	Project: Nirvana

Eighth Doctor

Charley	Solitaire

Iris Wildthyme, Jo Grant	The Elixir of Doom

Other adventures

Jago and Litefoot	The Mahogany Murderers

Polly, the Brigadier, Brewster	The Three Companions

Ian	The Time Museum

The Master	Mastermind

v • e Land of Fiction stories

Television	The Mind Robber • Blue Peter special (Death Is the Only Answer)

Novels	The Mind Robber • Conundrum • Head Games • The Wonderful Doctor of Oz

Short stories	Future Imperfect • Prelude Conundrum • Journey Out of Terror

Comics	Time & Time Again • Character Assassin

Audio	City of Spires • Night's Black Agents • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen • The Crooked Man • Escape from Reality (The Wrath of Medusa • The Shadow Master • The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor • The Master of Dorian Gray)