Erin's Story (mini-episode)

Erin's Story was a prequel mini-episode to Season 50, which featured Montserrat Lombard as Erin Stevenson and, briefly, Samantha Bond as the Doctor.

Synopsis
After Erin leaves the TARDIS in October 1977, she finds herself having to readjust to normal life on Earth.

Plot
The TARDIS lands on Erin’s street before the Doctor and Erin exit it. Erin knocks on the door of her house, and it opens and there stands Danielle. She leaps with joy, seeing Erin once again, and embraces her in a warm hug. The Doctor stands, looking on at them, outside the TARDIS, solemnly. Erin enters the house, and as the door closes, she looks back at the Doctor.

Erin walks into the living room with Danielle, as the TARDIS dematerialises outside, and she sits down. Danielle asks how the job is going but Erin tells her that she’s decided to give it a break as she doesn’t think she’s quite cut out to be a police officer. Danielle tells her that it’s probably for the best and that there’s a job going with Mr McDougal at the Post Office.

November
Erin is in the Post Office attending to some customers, when the door opens and Kyle walks in. Erin’s face lights up, upon seeing her boyfriend, and Kyle gets in the queue. When Kyle gets to the front he asks Erin for a packet of Golden Wonders to which Erin asks what he is going to do with them. Kyle just chuckles as he grabs the bag, opens it and says that he’s going to eat them. Erin says that he needs to pay for that. Kyle laughs asking if he can get any benefits being her boyfriend, but Erin sternly says that it’ll be 6p.

December
Erin, Kyle, Danielle and Roger all sit around the dinner table on Christmas Day. Lights are ablaze, Christmas crackers present and a big turkey in the middle of the table. Roger is telling the group a story about his days fighting in the Second World War, which Erin has heard a million times, but Kyle is keenly interested in.

January
Fireworks set off as Erin and Kyle stand by the River Thames as Big Ben chimes. Crowds singing “Auld Lang Syne” are heard. Erin tells Kyle that she loves him and asks him to marry her. Kyle laughs saying that her father would never approve but Erin just tells him that she’s old enough not to need his approval now.

February
Kyle is graffiting on a wall a picture of Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, being eaten alive, by the Prime Minister, James Callaghan. A policeman comes over to him and arrests him. Later on, that day, Erin comes to visit him at the station and Kyle says that he’s sorry he got caught, again.

March
Erin and Kyle walk through a local park. Kyle is wearing a high-visibility jacket and is litter picking, doing his community service. Kyle is talking about the government, telling Erin that an election will be called before long and that bloody woman will win. Erin asks what’s wrong with having a woman prime minister, but Kyle says that he doesn’t have a problem with having a woman, he just has a problem with that woman. Erin just laughs before Kyle screams out, at the top of his voice: “Eat the Rich”.

April
Erin is eating Sunday dinner with Danielle and Roger and she tells the two of them that she and Kyle have got engaged. She says that they haven’t set a date yet, but they will be getting married… soon. Roger hits the roof, telling her that Kyle will only bring bad luck on the family. Erin tells him that Kyle is doing his best to be better because he loves her, and she loves him. Roger says that may be so, but he is not coming under his roof again. Erin storms out of the room in anger.

June
Danielle comes off the telephone in the hallway. She looks shaken. She enters the living room, seeing Roger and Erin sat there. Roger reading the newspaper, Erin watching the Morecambe and Wise Show on the television. Danielle tells them that she has some news and for Erin to turn off the telly. She argues before turning it off. Danielle then sits down and tells the pair of them that Uncle Reg has sadly passed away. Erin gulps for a few seconds, in grief. Roger says that it can’t be, Reg is his brother, they are the same age! Danielle says that he caught a bad flu last week and his immune system was week. Erin looks off out of the window in the distance.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Samantha Bond
 * Erin Stevenson - Montserrat Lombard
 * Kyle Harrison - William Moseley
 * Danielle Stevenson - Susannah Harker
 * Roger Stevenson - Trevor Cooper

Crew
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Memorable Quotes
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Home Video Releases
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