Earth Aid (audio story)

Earth Aid (audio story)

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Earth Aid
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace Raine Creevy
Main enemy:	The Metatraxi
Main setting:	The Space Vessel Vancouver
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Andrew Cartmel
Director:	Ken Bentley
Release details
Release number:	2.08
Release date:	July 2011
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-493-1

You may be looking for the unproduced TV story of the same name.

Publisher's summary

Welcome aboard the Space Vessel Vancouver. Its mission: to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome.

Its medical officer is called simply ‘The Doctor’, and he’s perhaps not all he seems.

When mysterious ships target the Vancouver, the Doctor is pushed to the limit. Meanwhile, there’s something nasty in the grain containers. And it’s not very happy...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Raine Creevy - Beth Chalmers
• Victor Espinosa - Paterson Joseph
• Shepstay - Nadine Marshall
• Yanikov - Basher Savage
• Lt Baraki - Ingrid Oliver
• The Metatraxi - John Banks
• Grub - Alex Mallinson

References

to be added

Notes

• Raine Creevy is based on Raine Cunningham, the companion who was intended to come after Ace in the unproduced season 27. A feature in DWM 255 gave the character the name Kate Tollinger, but according to an interview with script editor Andrew Cartmel in DWM 433, the character was always intended to be named Raine. The character has been renamed Raine Creevy, as Cartmel had since discovered someone of the name Raine Cunningham existed in real life.
• Paterson Joseph (Victor Espinosa) previously played Rodrick in DW: Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways.
• This audio drama was recorded on 4 and 5 October 2010.

Continuity

• The Doctor, Ace and Raine previously encountered the Metatraxi in the Kingdom of Sayf Udeen in the Middle East in October 1989. (BFA: Crime of the Century)
• Ace mentions that she almost became a cheetah on one occasion. (DW: Survival)

Timeline

• The story takes after BFA: Animal.
• The story takes place before: DWY: Rescue (takes place during the Doctor's dream)

External links

• Official Earth Aid page at bigfinish.com