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|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = James Robert McCrimmon (audio anthology) | ||
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|range = The Second Doctor Adventures | |range = The Second Doctor Adventures | ||
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|doctor = Second Doctor | |doctor = Second Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] | |companions = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = Raven (The Final Beginning) | ||
|enemy = | |featuring2 = Third Doctor | ||
|enemy = [[Fuller (The Green Man)|Fuller]] | |||
|setting = [[Florestus Prime]] | |setting = [[Florestus Prime]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Paul F Verhoeven | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = Mark Wright | |producer = Mark Wright | ||
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|sound = [[Andy Hardwick]] | |sound = [[Andy Hardwick]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 25 July 2023 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 3 stories | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 3 stories | ||
|production code = BFPDWDR0202 | |production code = BFPDWDR0202 | ||
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|next = The Shroud (audio story) | |next = The Shroud (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 2 | |epcount = 2 | ||
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'''''The Green Man''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[James Robert McCrimmon (audio anthology)|James Robert McCrimmon]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Paul F Verhoeven]] and featured [[Michael Troughton]] as the [[Second Doctor]], [[Frazer Hines]] as [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Emma Noakes]] as [[Raven (The Final Beginning)|Raven]]. | '''''The Green Man''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[James Robert McCrimmon (audio anthology)|James Robert McCrimmon]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Paul F Verhoeven]] and featured [[Michael Troughton]] as the [[Second Doctor]], [[Frazer Hines]] as [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Emma Noakes]] as [[Raven (The Final Beginning)|Raven]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
Perched hundreds of | Perched hundreds of [[mile]]s above the [[forest]] canopy of [[Florestus Prime]], [[The Grove]] rehabilitation centre promises to help the staggeringly rich of the galaxy cheat [[death]]. When a reunited [[Second Doctor|Doctor]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] are despatched by [[Raven (The Final Beginning)|Raven]] to investigate the disappearance of a [[Time Lord]], they are greeted by Chief of Medicine, [[Fuller (The Green Man)|Overseer Fuller]]. | ||
Watching from his room at The Grove, an incapacitated Doctor helplessly observes the facility from afar. Who is the lone patient waving from across the courtyard? Why is Overseer Fuller doing rounds late at night when the Grove appears to have no other patients? And what precisely does Raven know about the 'Green Man'? | Watching from his room at The Grove, an incapacitated Doctor helplessly observes the facility from afar. Who is the lone patient waving from across the courtyard? Why is Overseer Fuller doing rounds late at night when the Grove appears to have no other patients? And what precisely does Raven know about the '[[Krynoid|Green Man]]'? | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to | === Part one === | ||
After completing various dangerous missions, [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] ask [[Raven (The Final Beginning)|Raven]] for a [[holiday]] and are sent to [[the Grove]], a [[rehabilitation centre]] on [[Florestus Prime]] from which the [[Time Lord]] Tanerus has gone missing. Raven infects the Doctor with [[Jayklin venom]] to allow him to pose as a patient and Jamie as his carer and they are welcomed to the centre by the forgetful [[Fuller (The Green Man)|Overseer Fuller]], who provides the Doctor with an electronic [[wheelchair]] and shows the two of them to the deluxe suite. | |||
The pair decide to prolong their stay at the Grove by neglecting to begin their search for Tanerus until morning, but Jamie wakes the Doctor up when he is unable to [[sleep]] and they see Fuller outside with a green man. The Doctor, waking up from a [[nightmare]] about [[Third Doctor|his next incarnation]] over an hour later, takes [[photograph]]s of the green man in a room opposite which he and Jamie spot four tropical [[plant]]s and medical equipment. | |||
In the morning, Jamie notices that one of the plants has disappeared and theorises that the green man has been killed and buried, something which they cannot investigate until nightfall. In the meantime, Jamie searches the building, finding no other patients in residence. The Doctor, at [[midnight]], sends Jamie outside with a [[trowel]] and [[walkie-talkie]] to dig up the [[courtyard]] in search of a body whilst he observes the [[motion sensor]]s to ensure that he is not caught. Instead of a body, he finds a [[seed pod]] and the Doctor realises that the green man must be a [[Krynoid]]. | |||
=== Part two === | |||
Deducing that the other patients have been devoured by the Krynoid, the Doctor decides to return to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] with Jamie to recover before going after it, only to suddenly change his mind and send Jamie to survey the building once more. Fuller locates Jamie thanks to a listening device and the Krynoid attacks him, after which Fuller locks the Doctor, whom he knows to be a Time Lord, in his suite to await his arrival. | |||
When Fuller arrives at the suite, he tells the Doctor that he found the seed pod when it crashed onto Florestus Prime and has been having the Krynoid absorb patients and their [[disease]]s in the hopes of using it to create an incurable super [[virus]]. He intends to add the power of [[regeneration|regenerate]] by having the Doctor absorbed, but the Doctor reveals that he adapted his and Jamie's [[subdermal resonator]]s to allow them to communicate [[telepathy|telepathically]] whilst making physical contact, helping them trick Fuller into thinking they were unaware of him being in the Krynoid's thrall. | |||
Jamie has actually killed the Krynoid and crawled inside its carapace without Fuller's knowledge and knock him out. Once he and the Doctor return to the TARDIS, Raven fries the resonators and admits, as the Doctor deduced, that there never was a Time Lord named Tanerus at the centre and that the Time Lords would have captured the Krynoid if the Doctor had failed to destroy it. The Doctor threatens her, but she claims to be serving the highest authority and departs. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Raven (The Final Beginning)|Raven]] - [[Emma Noakes]] | * [[Raven (The Final Beginning)|Raven]] - [[Emma Noakes]] | ||
* [[Fuller (The Green Man)|Overseer Fuller]] - [[Nigel Havers]] | * [[Fuller (The Green Man)|Overseer Fuller]] - [[Nigel Havers]] | ||
* [[The Green Man]] / [[ | * [[Krynoid|The Green Man]] / [[Beltraxian]] / [[Patient (The Green Man)|Patient]] / [[Small Robot]] - [[Barnaby Edwards]] | ||
=== Uncredited cast === | |||
* [[Third Doctor]] - [[Tim Treloar]] | |||
== Crew == | == Crew == | ||
* Director - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | * Director - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
* Executive Producers - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] and Nicholas Briggs | * Executive Producers - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] and Nicholas Briggs | ||
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* Producer - [[Mark Wright]] | * Producer - [[Mark Wright]] | ||
* Script Editors - Nicholas Briggs and [[John Ainsworth]] | * Script Editors - Nicholas Briggs and [[John Ainsworth]] | ||
* Sound Design - Andy Hardwick | * Sound Design - [[Andy Hardwick]] | ||
* Writer - [[Paul F Verhoeven]] | * Writer - [[Paul F Verhoeven]] | ||
* Senior Producer - John Ainsworth | * Senior Producer - John Ainsworth | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Last week, the Doctor and Jamie thwarted the [[assassination]] of a [[Beltraxian ambassador]] at a [[Beltraxian opera]]. | |||
* The Doctor defused a [[temporal bomb]] on a transdimensional [[train]]. | |||
* The Doctor dreams about [[Bessie]]. | |||
* The Doctor brings a [[camera]] from [[the TARDIS]]. | |||
* Jamie uses a [[food dispenser]]. | |||
* The Krynoid observes an executive from [[Ursa Minor]]. | |||
* Raven suggests that the Doctor drink [[tea]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
''to | * The storyline for ''The Green Man'' was developed by [[Paul F Verhoeven]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]]. ([[BFX]]: ''The Green Man'') | ||
* This marked the first audio story to feature the Krynoids since ''[[Hothouse (audio story)|Hothouse]]''. It also marked the Doctor's earliest chronological encounter with them, with the [[Fourth Doctor]] already familiar with them in ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]''. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to | * One of the Doctor and Jamie’s missions involved meeting [[Third Doctor|a future incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Annihilators (audio story)|The Annihilators]]'') | ||
* Raven reminds Jamie the Time Lords could return him to a dungeon. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jamie (audio story)|Jamie]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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[[Category:Two part audio stories]] | [[Category:Two part audio stories]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:07, 16 July 2024
- You may be looking for the BBV audio story of the same name.
The Green Man was the second story in the audio anthology James Robert McCrimmon, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Paul F Verhoeven and featured Michael Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Emma Noakes as Raven.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Perched hundreds of miles above the forest canopy of Florestus Prime, The Grove rehabilitation centre promises to help the staggeringly rich of the galaxy cheat death. When a reunited Doctor and Jamie are despatched by Raven to investigate the disappearance of a Time Lord, they are greeted by Chief of Medicine, Overseer Fuller.
Watching from his room at The Grove, an incapacitated Doctor helplessly observes the facility from afar. Who is the lone patient waving from across the courtyard? Why is Overseer Fuller doing rounds late at night when the Grove appears to have no other patients? And what precisely does Raven know about the 'Green Man'?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
After completing various dangerous missions, the Doctor and Jamie ask Raven for a holiday and are sent to the Grove, a rehabilitation centre on Florestus Prime from which the Time Lord Tanerus has gone missing. Raven infects the Doctor with Jayklin venom to allow him to pose as a patient and Jamie as his carer and they are welcomed to the centre by the forgetful Overseer Fuller, who provides the Doctor with an electronic wheelchair and shows the two of them to the deluxe suite.
The pair decide to prolong their stay at the Grove by neglecting to begin their search for Tanerus until morning, but Jamie wakes the Doctor up when he is unable to sleep and they see Fuller outside with a green man. The Doctor, waking up from a nightmare about his next incarnation over an hour later, takes photographs of the green man in a room opposite which he and Jamie spot four tropical plants and medical equipment.
In the morning, Jamie notices that one of the plants has disappeared and theorises that the green man has been killed and buried, something which they cannot investigate until nightfall. In the meantime, Jamie searches the building, finding no other patients in residence. The Doctor, at midnight, sends Jamie outside with a trowel and walkie-talkie to dig up the courtyard in search of a body whilst he observes the motion sensors to ensure that he is not caught. Instead of a body, he finds a seed pod and the Doctor realises that the green man must be a Krynoid.
Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]
Deducing that the other patients have been devoured by the Krynoid, the Doctor decides to return to the TARDIS with Jamie to recover before going after it, only to suddenly change his mind and send Jamie to survey the building once more. Fuller locates Jamie thanks to a listening device and the Krynoid attacks him, after which Fuller locks the Doctor, whom he knows to be a Time Lord, in his suite to await his arrival.
When Fuller arrives at the suite, he tells the Doctor that he found the seed pod when it crashed onto Florestus Prime and has been having the Krynoid absorb patients and their diseases in the hopes of using it to create an incurable super virus. He intends to add the power of regenerate by having the Doctor absorbed, but the Doctor reveals that he adapted his and Jamie's subdermal resonators to allow them to communicate telepathically whilst making physical contact, helping them trick Fuller into thinking they were unaware of him being in the Krynoid's thrall.
Jamie has actually killed the Krynoid and crawled inside its carapace without Fuller's knowledge and knock him out. Once he and the Doctor return to the TARDIS, Raven fries the resonators and admits, as the Doctor deduced, that there never was a Time Lord named Tanerus at the centre and that the Time Lords would have captured the Krynoid if the Doctor had failed to destroy it. The Doctor threatens her, but she claims to be serving the highest authority and departs.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Michael Troughton
- Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
- Raven - Emma Noakes
- Overseer Fuller - Nigel Havers
- The Green Man / Beltraxian / Patient / Small Robot - Barnaby Edwards
Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Director - Nicholas Briggs
- Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
- Music - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
- Producer - Mark Wright
- Script Editors - Nicholas Briggs and John Ainsworth
- Sound Design - Andy Hardwick
- Writer - Paul F Verhoeven
- Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Last week, the Doctor and Jamie thwarted the assassination of a Beltraxian ambassador at a Beltraxian opera.
- The Doctor defused a temporal bomb on a transdimensional train.
- The Doctor dreams about Bessie.
- The Doctor brings a camera from the TARDIS.
- Jamie uses a food dispenser.
- The Krynoid observes an executive from Ursa Minor.
- Raven suggests that the Doctor drink tea.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The storyline for The Green Man was developed by Paul F Verhoeven and Nicholas Briggs. (BFX: The Green Man)
- This marked the first audio story to feature the Krynoids since Hothouse. It also marked the Doctor's earliest chronological encounter with them, with the Fourth Doctor already familiar with them in The Seeds of Doom.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- One of the Doctor and Jamie’s missions involved meeting a future incarnation. (AUDIO: The Annihilators)
- Raven reminds Jamie the Time Lords could return him to a dungeon. (AUDIO: Jamie)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Green Man page at bigfinish.com
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