Phobos (audio story)

Phobos
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie Miller
Main enemy:	Entity of Fear, Kai Tobias, Eris (posessed)
Main setting:	Lunar Park, Phobos, 2589
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Eddie Robson
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Post production:	Andy Hardwick and Gareth Jenkins
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	1.5
Release date:	May 2007
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG005
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-259-3
The New Eighth Doctor Adventures
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Phobos was the fourth story, though fifth release part of Big Finish Productions' The New Eighth Doctor Adventures audio stories that were co-produced with BBC 7.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS lands on Phobos, moon of Mars — where extreme sports nuts of the future indulge their passion for gravity-boarding and wormhole-jumping. But there's something lurking in the shadows, something infinitely old and infinitely dangerous. It's not for nothing that "Phobos" is the ancient word for "fear"...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Headhunter / Amy - Katarina Olsson
• Kai Tobias - Timothy West
• Eris - Nerys Hughes
• Drew - Ben Silverstone
• Hayd - John Schwab
• Farl - Tim Sutton

References

• Githians are huge, furry humanoids that humans dislike due to their muscular bodies.
• Lucie compares the Githian to the "Harry Potter" character Hagrid.
• Lucie makes a "Scooby-Doo" reference by finishing Kai's line "I would have gotten away with it..." with "if it hadn't been for you meddling kids".

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 22 August 2006 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The TARDIS lands halfway up a mountain. It previously did that in the previous story (AUDIO: Immortal Beloved) and on Peladon. (TV: The Curse of Peladon)
• The idea of a god-like entity pushing its way through from another universe, feeding on emotions, was explored in greater detail in PROSE: Where Angels Fear and PROSE: Twilight of the Gods.
• AUDIO: The Fearmonger also features an entity which fed off of fear.
• AUDIO: Deimos, like Phobos, is named after the Martian moon on which it takes place. It also features space tourists encountering an ancient threat. Both stories note the meaning of their name in Greek, "dread" and "fear", respectively.
• Lunar Park was already operational by the 23rd century. Gregson Grenville, a security guard on the Deimos moonbase, described it as a "hippie holiday camp." (AUDIO: Deimos)

External links

• Official Phobos page at bigfinish.com
• Phobos at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Phobos at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide