Baker’s End: The King of Cats

Peevish actors are descending mournfully upon the remote English village of Happenstance for the funeral of TV legend Tom Baker.

His one-time costar Suzy Goshawk is sucked into a parochial vortex of intrigue involving the quailsome local vicar, Tom’s acidulous housekeeper Mrs Frimbly and various other fruminous scumblebums. None of them can agree upon how Tom met his disastrous end, and Suzy is starting to suspect that something murksome and swervish is going on.

The snow comes down, and Suzy finds herself trapped at Baker’s End for Christmas, with all the village’s creepy pensioners enslaved by a strange, dancing dragon…and a Sinister Presence lurking on thesidelines.

Why are old ladies twerking their bottoms outside the post office-cum-mini-mart? Why is the vicar creeping about in the bushes in the dead of night? And why, just when all looks hopeless, does a strange, scobberlotching creature spring into view? Who exactly is the King of Cats in his furry costume and his battered crown?

Cast

Tom Baker as himself
Katy Manning as Suzy Goshawk
Susan Jameson as Mrs Frimbly
David Benson as Reverend Ailing and Sinister Presence
Lizzie Roper as Large Lady
Stuart Denman as Idiot Actor
Other roles played by members of the cast

Listen to the trailer

Cover signed by Katy Manning

Released September 2016.