History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho128TheEternalSummer

* BigBadDuumvirate: The Lord and Lady of the Manor.
* BigDamnKiss: Between Maxwell and Liz.

* BuffySpeak: Maxwell is fond of this.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're psychic projections from the future.

* SmallTownBoredom: Jane Potter finds this of Stockbridge.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Maxwell's existence is one to Viridios.

* TemporalParadox: When the Lady of the Manor starts feeding on Nyssa.

* TimeSkip: Part of the TimeCrash.

* YearOutsideHourInside: Inside Stockbridge the manifestations of the ghosts are daily, outside they see it every few hours. The difference becomes more extreme as the time bubble starts to collapse, until roughly one second of normal time is equivalent to one day in Stockbridge.

* FinalDeath: The villagers receive one at the end. Unfortunately for them, it is at the hands of the Lady of the Manor who one last time makes them relive all their tragic lives anew.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted harshly. Phillip is destined to die, and die again.

* AnachronicOrder: Several bits of the people's timelines happen in different order.

* CallForward: The TARDIS becomes a regular Police Call Box due to temporal hi-jinx just like in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]].
* CanonImmigrant: Maxwell Edison, a "saucer nut" first appeared in the comic series and has met the Fifth and Eighth Doctors before, before appearing in this audio play.
* CobwebOfDisuse: The Doctor describes the Manor of the Lord and Lady of the Manor as "Candles and cobwebs".
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Jane suffers from on, and she didn't mind because having a baby with Dudley (out of wedlock) would mean she'd be tied to Stockbridge for the rest [[DeathByIrony of her life]].
* DeathSeeker: The villagers turn into these at the end.

* EvilLaugh: The Lady of the Manor has a witchlike cackle when she eats Harold's past.

* FakeMemories: Alice and Harold can only remember the Doctor staying with them. As far as thirty years ago.
* FinalDeath: Thankfully the villagers receive one at the end. Unfortunately at the ends of the Lady of the Manor who one last time makes them relive all their tragic lives anew.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Invoked by the Doctor when Harold asks him if he looks like a 50 year old, because he remembers the Doctor at his wedding.
** RealitySubtext is of course [[Creator/PeterDavison Peter Davison]] is in his 50's nowadays.
*** The Lord and Lady of the Manor are over hundred and fifty thousand years old.

* PercussiveMaintenance: As the Doctor calls it

* YearOutsideHourInside: Inside Stockbridge the manifestations of the ghosts are daily, outside they see it every few hours.

* BiggerBad: Viridios.

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[invoked]] Maxwell is played by [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ron Weasly's dad]], Mark Williams.

Leading directly out of that [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho127CastleOfFear affair with the Ruton host]] in Stockbridge, [[Creator/PeterDavison the Doctor]] and Nyssa find themselves in an exploding time machine (not the TARDIS, mind)

Part of a trilogy taking place in Stockbridge, with the first part being [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho127CastleOfFear Castle of Fear]] and which concludes in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho129PlagueOfTheDaleks Plague of the Daleks]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: Maxwell is played by [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ron Weasly's dad]], Mark Williams.

** BiggerBad: Viridios.

* CallBack: The Doctor notes the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho127CastleOfFear Green Dragon]] in his stroll through the town.

** The Doctor mentions [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Tegan]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle Adric]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken the Master]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock the Cybermen]] to the Lady of the Manor after she mentions the [[[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken destruction of Traken]].
** In a TemporalParadox the Lady of the Manor sees the events of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho091CircularTime Circular Time]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho015TheMutantPhase the Mutant Phase]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho026Primeval Primeval]].
* CallForward: The TARDIS becomes a regular Police Call Box due to temporal hi-jinx just like in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]].

* EvilMeScaresMe / FutureMeScaresMe: The Lord of the Manor is a possible future version of the current Doctor.

* HaveWeMetYet: The Doctor meets Maxwell Edison who he describes as someone who "Might be from his future".
* HeyItsThatvoice: Maxwell is played by [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ron Weasly's dad]], Mark Williams.

--> '''The Doctor''': Someone is attempting to puncture the stasis field!
--> '''Maxwell''': What like sticking a drawing pin through a balloon?

* ShoutOut: Maxwell mentions ''Film/GroundhogDay'' and having read ever [[Creator/TerryPratchett Terry Pratchett book ever]]. Liz makes a mention of [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]], {{Brigadoon}} and [[Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]].
** [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare Shout Out To Shakespeare]]: The Doctor, upon returning to Stockbridge the summer has turned "Into a winter of discontent".

* StandardSnippet: The [[CellPhone Nokia tune]] shows up.

* DayInsideYearOutside: Inside Stockbridge the manifestations of the ghosts are daily, outside they see it every few hours.

* ShoutOut: Maxwell mentions GroundhogDay and having read ever [[Creator/TerryPratchett Terry Pratchett book ever]]. Liz makes a mention of [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]], {{Brigadoon}} and [[Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]].

** The Doctor mentions [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Teegan]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle Adric]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken the Master]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock the Cybermen]] to the Lady of the Manor after she mentions the [[[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken destruction of Traken]].

* ShoutOut: Maxwell mentions GroundhogDay and having read ever [[Creator/TerryPratchett Terry Pratchett book ever]]. Liz makes a mention of [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]], Theatre/Brigadoon and [[Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]].

* ShoutOut: Maxwell mentions GroundhogDay and having read ever [[Creator/TerryPratchett Terry Pratchett book ever]]. Liz makes a mention of [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]], [[Theatre/Brigadoon Brigadoon]] and [[Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]].

* ShoutOut: Maxwell mentions GroundhogDay. Liz makes a mention of [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]], [[Theatre/Brigadoon Brigadoon]] and [[Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]].