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|image=Animal cover.jpg | |image = Animal cover.jpg | ||
|range | |range = The Lost Stories | ||
|series in range = Series 2 (TLS) | |series in range = Series 2 (TLS) | ||
|series number in range = 2 | |series number in range = 2 | ||
|number in series = 5 | |number in series = 5 | ||
|series=[[The Lost Stories]] | |series = [[The Lost Stories]] | ||
|number= 2.05 | |number = 2.05 | ||
|doctor=Seventh Doctor | |doctor = Seventh Doctor | ||
|companions=[[Ace]], [[Raine Creevy|Raine]] | |companions = [[Ace]], [[Raine Creevy|Raine]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = Winifred Bambera{{!}}Bambera | ||
|enemy= | |featuring2 = Metatraxi | ||
|setting= [[Margrave University | |enemy = [[Numlock]]s | ||
|writer= | |setting = [[Margrave University]], [[2001]] | ||
|director= [[Ken Bentley]] | |writer = Andrew Cartmel | ||
|producer= [[David Richardson]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|music = [[Simon Robinson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
|sound = | |music = [[Simon Robinson]] | ||
|cover = [[Alex Mallinson]] | |sound = Simon Robinson | ||
|publisher= Big Finish Productions | |cover = [[Alex Mallinson]] | ||
|release date= | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|format= | |release date = 2 June 2011 | ||
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-492-4 | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|prev= Crime of the Century (audio story) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-492-4 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-886-7 (digital) | ||
|next= Earth Aid (audio story) | |prev = Crime of the Century (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-the-lost-stories-animal-trailer | |next = Earth Aid (audio story) | ||
}} | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-the-lost-stories-animal-trailer | ||
'''Animal''' | |epcount = 4 | ||
|production code=BFPDWLS13}} | |||
'''''Animal''''' was the fifth story release in the [[Series 2 (TLS)|second series]] of ''[[The Lost Stories]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Andrew Cartmel]], from his original story ideas, and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]], [[Beth Chalmers]] as [[Raine Creevy]] and [[Angela Bruce]] as [[Winifred Bambera|Brigadier Bambera]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[Margrave University]] in [[2001]], and [[Raine Creevy]] is enjoying her first trip into the future. | [[Margrave University]] in [[2001]], and [[Raine Creevy]] is enjoying her first trip into the future. | ||
For [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], there are mysteries to solve: what are the alien creatures imprisoned in the science labs? And what are the true motives of the student Scobie and his followers? | For [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], there are mysteries to solve: what are the alien creatures imprisoned in the science labs? And what are the true motives of the student [[Raymond W. Scobie|Scobie]] and his followers? | ||
With enemies on all sides, the Doctor teams up with his old friend [[Winifred Bambera|Brigadier Bambera]] and the forces of [[ | With enemies on all sides, the Doctor teams up with his old friend [[Winifred Bambera|Brigadier Bambera]] and the forces of [[UNIT]] in a battle for the future of the whole world. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Part one === | === Part one === | ||
''to be | [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Raine Creevy|Raine]] arrive at [[Margrave University]] in [[2001]] and [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] dematerialises of its own accord, leaving them behind. They encounter [[Winifred Bambera|Brigadier Bambera]], who has been given instructions by the Doctor in his personal future and provides enrolment documents for Ace and Raine to go undercover as students as part of [[UNIT]]'s investigation into the planned sabotage of the science centre. The two girls go to mix with the other [[fresher]]s. | ||
The Doctor defuses an explosive device found by [[Achterberg|Sergeant Achterberg]] in the server room which was intended to damage the ventilation, after which Achterberg is told to give it to [[Jefferson (Animal)|Professor Jefferson]] for analysis. Bambera then shows the Doctor a carnivorous [[plant]] escaped from the [[greenhouse]] which he knocks out using [[oxygen]] cylinders. Bambera explains that UNIT found the plants in [[Mauritania]] whilst investigating a [[spacecraft]] in the [[rainforest]]. | |||
Ace and Raine are separately invited to an activist meeting space by [[Raymond W. Scobie]], who has built an [[aerial]] as part of his degree, and [[Willa (Animal)|Willa]]. They try to contact Bambera, but find that their signal is somehow being jammed. Scobie and Willa take them into the flood tunnels below the university and they split into two groups to sabotage different places. On the way, Willa tells Raine that she knows that she is not who she claims to be and Scobie sends Ace to the server room to plant an explosive. She is found by Achterberg, who orders her to turn around so that he can shoot her. | |||
=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
' | The Doctor and Bambera find Achterberg about to shoot Ace. The Doctor tampers with the explosive device and Bambera admonishes Achterberg, who claims that he had only intended to scare Ace and [[apology|apologises]]. The Doctor and Ace put on [[space suit]]s to protect themselves from the Mauritanian specimen's [[venom]]ous [[thorn]]s and enter the greenhouse, which Scobie, [[Juno (Animal)|Juno]] and [[Percy (Animal)|Percy]] have broken into. Percy is scratched by one of the specimens and the Doctor and Ace find the three of them. | ||
Willa knows that Raine is working with Ace, having seen them both in the student bar, and claims that she too is trying to stop Scobie and asks her to expose him, Juno and Percy. They enter the greenhouse and, instead of finding the three activists, see the specimens and run. The Doctor contacts Raine and tells her and Willa to go to Ace and the activists at the polytunnel whilst he distracts the specimens. There, Raine admits to being a [[spy]] like Ace so that Willa can maintain her cover. | |||
Upon leaving the greenhouse, Scobie is arrested and questioned by the Doctor and Bambera about his war on [[science]] given that he received a science scholarship to study at Margrave. He clarifies that he is against weapons development and animal experiments and says that help has been summoned and is on its way. Outside, a spaceship three kilometres in circumference hovers overhead. | |||
=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
' | The Doctor goes to examine Scobie's aerial, upon confirming that Scobie summoned the spacecraft, sends a message inviting the [[alien]]s to talk. The Doctor, Ace, Bambera and Achterberg are brought aboard the craft on a hovering disc and meet the [[Numlock]]s. Meanwhile, Raine lets Willa into the interrogation room with Scobie, but she does not get any useful information from him. They see the craft light up the playing field, which the Numlocks ask to be vacated before destroying it with a [[cannon]]. | ||
The Doctor, Ace, Bambera and Achterberg leave the craft with [[the Seventeenthborn]] and [[the Eighteenthborn]] and give them a plan of the science centre per their demands. Ace tells Raine that the Numlocks have come to free the laboratory [[animal]]s and have demanded that Scobie is released from custody, although Bambera is unhappy with the arrangements. The Doctor takes Raine aboard her first alien spaceship with Ace and find [[the Firstborn]] admiring a group of rescued [[mouse|mice]]. He explains that the Numlocks are a race of herbivorous [[scientist]]s who travel the universe on scientific missions and would like to test the [[blood]] of those at Margrave University. | |||
Whilst leaving the ship, the Doctor tells Ace and Raine not to let the Numlocks have their blood. Bambera and Achterberg drive the trio away from Margrave University, but the vehicle crashes after seemingly hitting nothing. The Doctor examines the damage and determines that there is a force field around the campus and that nobody will be able to get in or out. | |||
=== Part four === | === Part four === | ||
The Numlocks offer the residents of Margrave University a reward of [[gold]] [[ingot]]s in return for supplying samples of their blood, an offer which a great number of people take up. The Firstborn tells the Doctor and Bambera that the force field is only to prevent contamination, that the Numlocks use a dietary supplement to replace the [[nutrient]]s lost when they stopped being carnivores and that their experiment has nothing to do with creating a [[weapon]] to be used against humans. After the Doctor and Bambera leave, Scobie and Willa complete their tour of the ship and, upon testing their blood, Scobie is seized and thrown into the killing pit as his blood is "impure". | |||
Ace attacks and flees from [[the Forty-seventhborn]] to distract him whilst Raine uses [[scuba-diving]] gear to check whether escape by the river is possible; once she has confirmed this, she and Achterberg go to fetch the first group of evacuees but accidentally enter the greenhouse and flee from the Mauritania specimens. [[The Forty-sixthborn]] admonishes Ace and confirms the Doctor's suspicion that all those whose blood was tested and found to contain [[iron]] have been taken aboard the ship, resulting in the campus being deserted, and that the Numlocks will soon eat them to supplement their diet. Whilst everybody believed that the Numlocks were promising that they would "come to no harm", they were actually saying that they would "come to know harm". | |||
Summoned by the Doctor using Scobie's aerial, the [[Metatraxi Attack Unit Leader]] appears as a [[hologram]] and refuses to assist the Doctor, having found that the [[Metatraxi]] are the subjects of derision due to the alteration he made to their translation devices. Bambera attacks the Forty-sixthborn and Forty-seventhborn and she, the Doctor and Ace escape to the greenhouse before ensuring that the Mauritania specimens chase the Doctor. He leads them onto the Numlock ship on the hover platform and they attack the Numlocks, allowing the Doctor to return the people in the killing pit to the university. This includes Scobie, who had been slipped an iron supplement by Willa. | |||
Scobie is taken away by UNIT to face charges of sabotage, [[treason]], attempted mass [[murder]] and failing to return several [[library]] books and says goodbye to Willa. Raine has used a [[search engine]] to look up [[Markus Creevy|her father]] and learnt that, by 2001, he has died. The Doctor comforts her by explaining that his death is both the past and still to come, but, when the TARDIS rematerialises, she decides to stay in 2001 for a week to come to terms with it. The Doctor and Ace depart. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | * [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | ||
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | * [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | ||
* [[Raine Creevy]] - [[Beth Chalmers]] | * [[Raine Creevy|Raine]] - [[Beth Chalmers]] | ||
* [[Winifred Bambera]] - [[Angela Bruce]] | * [[Winifred Bambera|Brigadier Bambera]] - [[Angela Bruce]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Achterberg|Sgt. Achterberg]] - [[John Banks]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Raymond W. Scobie|Scobie]] - [[Anthony Lewis]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Willa Hawthorne|Willa]] - [[Dannielle Brent]] | ||
* [[Juno (Animal)|Juno]] - [[Amy Pemberton]] | |||
* [[Percy (Animal)|Percy]] - [[Alex Mallinson]] | * [[Percy (Animal)|Percy]] - [[Alex Mallinson]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
* Raine attended King's College, | |||
* Cover Art - [[Alex Mallinson]] | |||
* Director - [[Ken Bentley]] | |||
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Simon Robinson]] | |||
* Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
* Writer & Script Editor - [[Andrew Cartmel]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* Raine attended [[King's College]] in London. | |||
* Ace enjoys [[duck]] with [[plum sauce]] and [[fried rice]]. | |||
* Ace eats a [[beef burger]]. | |||
* [[Vegan]]s eat [[fruit]], [[nut]]s, [[vegetable]]s, [[root]]s, [[rice]], [[seed]]s and [[lentil]]s. | |||
* Scobie takes Ace to have a [[nut cutlet]] and [[carrot]] [[salad]]. | |||
* Bambera has Achterberg give the explosive device to [[Jefferson (Animal)|Professor Jefferson]] to analyse. | |||
* As a child, Raine holidayed on the [[Red Sea]] and learnt to scuba dive there. | |||
* Achterberg eats [[beef jerky]]. | |||
* The Doctor has visited [[Mauritania]] and claims that deforestation is a major problem for the country. | * The Doctor has visited [[Mauritania]] and claims that deforestation is a major problem for the country. | ||
* [[Jason (Animal)|Jason]] worked with Scobie and Willa. He did not come back from a mission and was presumed dead. | |||
* Willa is part of a [[Home Office]] taskforce. | |||
* The Doctor's pockets contain stamps, a fountain pen, antique coins, a universal comms jack and several [[Earl Grey]] tea bags but no torch. | * The Doctor's pockets contain stamps, a fountain pen, antique coins, a universal comms jack and several [[Earl Grey]] tea bags but no torch. | ||
* Ace and Raine pretend to be [[fresher]]s at [[Margrave University]]. | * Ace and Raine pretend to be [[fresher]]s at [[Margrave University]]. | ||
* The Numlocks include [[the Firstborn]], [[the Secondborn]], [[the Thirdborn]], [[the Fourthborn]], [[the Fifthborn]], [[the Sixthborn]], [[the Seventhborn]], [[the Eighthborn]], [[the Ninthborn]], [[the Tenthborn]], [[the Seventeenthborn]], [[the Eighteenthborn]], [[the Forty-sixthborn]] and [[the Forty-seventhborn]]. | |||
* Willa makes Scobie [[chilli]]. | |||
* [[Microprotein]] is a [[meat]] substitute grown from [[fungus]]. | |||
* Raine kills one of the specimens with an [[axe]]. | |||
* [[Margrave University Internet Radio]] resumes after the humans are returned. | |||
* The Doctor sets the Numlock ship to return to the [[Numlock homeworld]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* ''Animal'' was a story that would have been a part of Season 27, had ''[[Doctor Who]]'' continued to be produced beyond [[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''. | * ''Animal'' was a story that would have been a part of Season 27, had ''[[Doctor Who]]'' continued to be produced beyond [[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''. | ||
* In its TV format, ''Animal'' would have been a four part story involving animal experimentation, drug use, and animal rights activists. | * In its TV format, ''Animal'' would have been a four part story involving animal experimentation, drug use, and animal rights activists. | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[21 April (production)|21]] and [[23 April (production)|23 April]] [[2010 (production)|2010]]. | * This audio drama was recorded on [[21 April (production)|21]] and [[23 April (production)|23 April]] [[2010 (production)|2010]] at [[The Moat Studios]]. | ||
* This story takes place after ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''. | |||
* This story was originally released on CD and download on [[2 June (releases)|2 June]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110613002402/http://bigfinish.com:80/whatsnew.aspx LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 13-06-2011]</ref> | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor and Ace previously met Brigadier Bambera in [[Carbury]] in [[1997]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') | * The Doctor and Ace previously met Brigadier Bambera in [[Carbury]] in [[1997]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') | ||
* Raine's father [[Markus Creevy]] had died by [[2001]]. The Doctor and Ace first met him in [[Moscow]] in [[November]] [[1967]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]'') before being reunited with him in [[London]] in [[October]] [[1989]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime of the Century (audio story)|Crime of the Century]]'') | * Raine's father [[Markus Creevy]] had died by [[2001]]. The Doctor and Ace first met him in [[Moscow]] in [[November]] [[1967]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]'') before being reunited with him in [[London]] in [[October]] [[1989]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime of the Century (audio story)|Crime of the Century]]'') | ||
* The Metatraxi Attack Unit Leader refers to the Doctor changing their voice translator. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime of the Century (audio story)|Crime of the Century]]'') | * The Metatraxi Attack Unit Leader refers to the Doctor changing their voice translator. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime of the Century (audio story)|Crime of the Century]]'') | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/animal-434}} | |||
{{BFA LostStories}} | {{BFA LostStories}} | ||
Latest revision as of 17:58, 29 February 2024
Animal was the fifth story release in the second series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Andrew Cartmel, from his original story ideas, and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace, Beth Chalmers as Raine Creevy and Angela Bruce as Brigadier Bambera.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Margrave University in 2001, and Raine Creevy is enjoying her first trip into the future.
For the Doctor, there are mysteries to solve: what are the alien creatures imprisoned in the science labs? And what are the true motives of the student Scobie and his followers?
With enemies on all sides, the Doctor teams up with his old friend Brigadier Bambera and the forces of UNIT in a battle for the future of the whole world.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor, Ace and Raine arrive at Margrave University in 2001 and the TARDIS dematerialises of its own accord, leaving them behind. They encounter Brigadier Bambera, who has been given instructions by the Doctor in his personal future and provides enrolment documents for Ace and Raine to go undercover as students as part of UNIT's investigation into the planned sabotage of the science centre. The two girls go to mix with the other freshers.
The Doctor defuses an explosive device found by Sergeant Achterberg in the server room which was intended to damage the ventilation, after which Achterberg is told to give it to Professor Jefferson for analysis. Bambera then shows the Doctor a carnivorous plant escaped from the greenhouse which he knocks out using oxygen cylinders. Bambera explains that UNIT found the plants in Mauritania whilst investigating a spacecraft in the rainforest.
Ace and Raine are separately invited to an activist meeting space by Raymond W. Scobie, who has built an aerial as part of his degree, and Willa. They try to contact Bambera, but find that their signal is somehow being jammed. Scobie and Willa take them into the flood tunnels below the university and they split into two groups to sabotage different places. On the way, Willa tells Raine that she knows that she is not who she claims to be and Scobie sends Ace to the server room to plant an explosive. She is found by Achterberg, who orders her to turn around so that he can shoot her.
Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor and Bambera find Achterberg about to shoot Ace. The Doctor tampers with the explosive device and Bambera admonishes Achterberg, who claims that he had only intended to scare Ace and apologises. The Doctor and Ace put on space suits to protect themselves from the Mauritanian specimen's venomous thorns and enter the greenhouse, which Scobie, Juno and Percy have broken into. Percy is scratched by one of the specimens and the Doctor and Ace find the three of them.
Willa knows that Raine is working with Ace, having seen them both in the student bar, and claims that she too is trying to stop Scobie and asks her to expose him, Juno and Percy. They enter the greenhouse and, instead of finding the three activists, see the specimens and run. The Doctor contacts Raine and tells her and Willa to go to Ace and the activists at the polytunnel whilst he distracts the specimens. There, Raine admits to being a spy like Ace so that Willa can maintain her cover.
Upon leaving the greenhouse, Scobie is arrested and questioned by the Doctor and Bambera about his war on science given that he received a science scholarship to study at Margrave. He clarifies that he is against weapons development and animal experiments and says that help has been summoned and is on its way. Outside, a spaceship three kilometres in circumference hovers overhead.
Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor goes to examine Scobie's aerial, upon confirming that Scobie summoned the spacecraft, sends a message inviting the aliens to talk. The Doctor, Ace, Bambera and Achterberg are brought aboard the craft on a hovering disc and meet the Numlocks. Meanwhile, Raine lets Willa into the interrogation room with Scobie, but she does not get any useful information from him. They see the craft light up the playing field, which the Numlocks ask to be vacated before destroying it with a cannon.
The Doctor, Ace, Bambera and Achterberg leave the craft with the Seventeenthborn and the Eighteenthborn and give them a plan of the science centre per their demands. Ace tells Raine that the Numlocks have come to free the laboratory animals and have demanded that Scobie is released from custody, although Bambera is unhappy with the arrangements. The Doctor takes Raine aboard her first alien spaceship with Ace and find the Firstborn admiring a group of rescued mice. He explains that the Numlocks are a race of herbivorous scientists who travel the universe on scientific missions and would like to test the blood of those at Margrave University.
Whilst leaving the ship, the Doctor tells Ace and Raine not to let the Numlocks have their blood. Bambera and Achterberg drive the trio away from Margrave University, but the vehicle crashes after seemingly hitting nothing. The Doctor examines the damage and determines that there is a force field around the campus and that nobody will be able to get in or out.
Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Numlocks offer the residents of Margrave University a reward of gold ingots in return for supplying samples of their blood, an offer which a great number of people take up. The Firstborn tells the Doctor and Bambera that the force field is only to prevent contamination, that the Numlocks use a dietary supplement to replace the nutrients lost when they stopped being carnivores and that their experiment has nothing to do with creating a weapon to be used against humans. After the Doctor and Bambera leave, Scobie and Willa complete their tour of the ship and, upon testing their blood, Scobie is seized and thrown into the killing pit as his blood is "impure".
Ace attacks and flees from the Forty-seventhborn to distract him whilst Raine uses scuba-diving gear to check whether escape by the river is possible; once she has confirmed this, she and Achterberg go to fetch the first group of evacuees but accidentally enter the greenhouse and flee from the Mauritania specimens. The Forty-sixthborn admonishes Ace and confirms the Doctor's suspicion that all those whose blood was tested and found to contain iron have been taken aboard the ship, resulting in the campus being deserted, and that the Numlocks will soon eat them to supplement their diet. Whilst everybody believed that the Numlocks were promising that they would "come to no harm", they were actually saying that they would "come to know harm".
Summoned by the Doctor using Scobie's aerial, the Metatraxi Attack Unit Leader appears as a hologram and refuses to assist the Doctor, having found that the Metatraxi are the subjects of derision due to the alteration he made to their translation devices. Bambera attacks the Forty-sixthborn and Forty-seventhborn and she, the Doctor and Ace escape to the greenhouse before ensuring that the Mauritania specimens chase the Doctor. He leads them onto the Numlock ship on the hover platform and they attack the Numlocks, allowing the Doctor to return the people in the killing pit to the university. This includes Scobie, who had been slipped an iron supplement by Willa.
Scobie is taken away by UNIT to face charges of sabotage, treason, attempted mass murder and failing to return several library books and says goodbye to Willa. Raine has used a search engine to look up her father and learnt that, by 2001, he has died. The Doctor comforts her by explaining that his death is both the past and still to come, but, when the TARDIS rematerialises, she decides to stay in 2001 for a week to come to terms with it. The Doctor and Ace depart.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Raine - Beth Chalmers
- Brigadier Bambera - Angela Bruce
- Sgt. Achterberg - John Banks
- Scobie - Anthony Lewis
- Willa - Dannielle Brent
- Juno - Amy Pemberton
- Percy - Alex Mallinson
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Cover Art - Alex Mallinson
- Director - Ken Bentley
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Simon Robinson
- Producer - David Richardson
- Writer & Script Editor - Andrew Cartmel
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Raine attended King's College in London.
- Ace enjoys duck with plum sauce and fried rice.
- Ace eats a beef burger.
- Vegans eat fruit, nuts, vegetables, roots, rice, seeds and lentils.
- Scobie takes Ace to have a nut cutlet and carrot salad.
- Bambera has Achterberg give the explosive device to Professor Jefferson to analyse.
- As a child, Raine holidayed on the Red Sea and learnt to scuba dive there.
- Achterberg eats beef jerky.
- The Doctor has visited Mauritania and claims that deforestation is a major problem for the country.
- Jason worked with Scobie and Willa. He did not come back from a mission and was presumed dead.
- Willa is part of a Home Office taskforce.
- The Doctor's pockets contain stamps, a fountain pen, antique coins, a universal comms jack and several Earl Grey tea bags but no torch.
- Ace and Raine pretend to be freshers at Margrave University.
- The Numlocks include the Firstborn, the Secondborn, the Thirdborn, the Fourthborn, the Fifthborn, the Sixthborn, the Seventhborn, the Eighthborn, the Ninthborn, the Tenthborn, the Seventeenthborn, the Eighteenthborn, the Forty-sixthborn and the Forty-seventhborn.
- Willa makes Scobie chilli.
- Microprotein is a meat substitute grown from fungus.
- Raine kills one of the specimens with an axe.
- Margrave University Internet Radio resumes after the humans are returned.
- The Doctor sets the Numlock ship to return to the Numlock homeworld.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Animal was a story that would have been a part of Season 27, had Doctor Who continued to be produced beyond TV: Survival.
- In its TV format, Animal would have been a four part story involving animal experimentation, drug use, and animal rights activists.
- This audio drama was recorded on 21 and 23 April 2010 at The Moat Studios.
- This story takes place after Survival.
- This story was originally released on CD and download on 2 June 2011.[1]
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and Ace previously met Brigadier Bambera in Carbury in 1997. (TV: Battlefield)
- Raine's father Markus Creevy had died by 2001. The Doctor and Ace first met him in Moscow in November 1967 (AUDIO: Thin Ice) before being reunited with him in London in October 1989. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
- The Metatraxi Attack Unit Leader refers to the Doctor changing their voice translator. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Animal page at bigfinish.com
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