The Raincloud Man

The Raincloud Man

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	116
Featuring	Sixth Doctor Charley Pollard
Writer	Eddie Robson
Director	Nicholas Briggs
Executive producer	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code	7C/PE
Release date	December 2008

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

Plot

The Doctor and Charley return to Manchester and discover its complicated link to transient aliens.

Cast

The Doctor — Colin Baker
Charley Pollard - India Fisher
D.I. Patricia Menzies - Anna Hope
Brooks - Michael Fenton Stevens
Lish - Aidan J David
Carmen - Octavia Walters
Kelsa - Simon Sherlock
Tabbalac Leader - Jeremy James
The Bouncers - Steven Hansell
The Cyrox - Andrew Dickens

Notes

Anna Hope previously appeared as Novice Hame in the television episodes "New Earth" and "Gridlock".
Writer Douglas Adams (a former script editor of the classic TV series) has his most famous story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy directly mentioned in this play. The phrase "interconnectedness of all things" spoken in this audio story is a quote repeatedly used in Adams' Dirk Gently novels. The character of the Raincloud Man may have been inspired by the character of the Rain God from Adams' novel So Long and Thanks for All the Fish.
The high-stakes gambling at the end of the adventure is the British card game Top Trumps.

Continuity

D.I. Menzies previously appeared in The Condemned. She returns in The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, where she meets the Doctor at an earlier point in his life and must pretend to be a stranger to him.
Mention is made of an etheric-beam locator. One was seen in Genesis of the Daleks. The Master was also fitted with a pair by the Daleks in Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.

External links

Sixth Doctor audio dramas

Peri	Slipback Whispers of Terror ...ish Her Final Flight Cryptobiosis The Reaping Year of the Pig The Nightmare Fair Mission to Magnus Leviathan The Hollows of Time Paradise 5 Point of Entry The Song of Megaptera The Macros Recorded Time and Other Stories The Guardians of Prophecy Power Play The First Sontarans Destiny of the Doctor: Trouble in Paradise 1963: The Space Race The Light at the End Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories The Widow's Assassin Masters of Earth The Rani Elite

Frobisher	The Holy Terror The Maltese Penguin

Evelyn	The Marian Conspiracy The Spectre of Lanyon Moor The Apocalypse Element Bloodtide Project: Twilight The Sandman Jubilee Doctor Who and the Pirates Real Time Project: Lazarus Arrangements for War Medicinal Purposes Pier Pressure The Nowhere Place 100 Assassin in the Limelight A Town Called Fortune

Evelyn & Brewster	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster The Feast of Axos Industrial Evolution

Charley	The Condemned The Doomwood Curse Brotherhood of the Daleks Return of the Krotons The Raincloud Man Patient Zero Paper Cuts Blue Forgotten Planet The Red House

Jamie	City of Spires Night's Black Agents The Wreck of the Titan Legend of the Cybermen Last of the Cybermen

Jago & Litefoot	Jago in Love Beautiful Things The Lonely Clock The Hourglass Killers Voyage to Venus Voyage to the New World Stage Fright Masterpiece

Flip	The Curse of Davros The Fourth Wall Wirrn Isle Antidote to Oblivion The Brood of Erys Scavenger Stage Fright

Constance Clarke	Criss-Cross The End of the Line Planet of the Rani Shield of the Jötunn

Mel	The One Doctor The Juggernauts Catch-1782 Thicker than Water The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box The Wrong Doctors Spaceport Fear The Seeds of War The Brink of Death

Alone	The Sirens of Time The Ratings War Excelis Rising Davros The Wormery I.D. & Urgent Calls The Four Doctors Peri and the Piscon Paradox The Acheron Pulse Trial of the Valeyard Second Sight Vampire of the Mind Judoon in Chains

Other	Zagreus The Ultimate Adventure Beyond the Ultimate Adventure

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