Orbis (audio story)

Orbis
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie
Main enemy:	Headhunter, Molluscari
Main setting:	Orbis
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writers:	Alan Barnes, Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson, Barnaby Edwards
Music:	Andy Hardwick
Sound:	Andy Hardwick
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Number of parts:	2
Release number:	3.1
Release date:	7 March 2009
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG017
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-393-4
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Orbis was the first story in the third series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alan Barnes and Nicholas Briggs and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

It resolved the cliffhanger at the end of the previous audio and jumped forward in the Doctor's lifetime by approximately 600 years.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor has fallen to his death. His companion, Lucie Miller, has returned to her life on Earth, grief-stricken. Then, one night, an alien visitor arrives at her front door and shoots her.

Could it be that Lucie's days with the Doctor are not over? She will only find the answer on the planet Orbis. A planet where all forms of life are facing violent extinction.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Crassostrea - Andrew Sachs
• Selta - Laura Solon
• Headhunter - Katarina Olsson
• Saccostrea - Beth Chalmers
• Yanos - Barry McCarthy

Crew

• Cover Art - Simon Holub
• Director - Nicholas Briggs
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Andy Hardwick
• Producers - Barnaby Edwards and David Richardson
• Script Editor - Alan Barnes
• Writers - Alan Barnes and Nicholas Briggs

Worldbuilding

• Lucie mentions the Daleks, Red Rocket Rising, Aunty Pat and the Only Ones (whom she calls the Glam Rock Monsters).
• Lucie has a phobia of jellyfish.
• Lucie says that there is an entire library dedicated to the TARDIS manual.

The Doctor

• The Doctor lives on Orbis for six hundred years.
• The Doctor is known by the Keltans as "Old Doctor".
• The Doctor refers to the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Autons and the Axons.

Notes

Textless cover art

• This CD features a brand new Extras theme scored and edited by Jamie Robertson.
• This audio drama was recorded on 2 October 2008 at The Moat Studios.
• The story was initially released as a download on the Big Finish website on 7 and 14 March 2009. It was later broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 16 and 23 May 2010.

Continuity

• The Headhunter last appeared in AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius ^[+]Loading...["The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)"].
• Lucie mentions the Dalek invasion of Red Rocket Rising in her first story, AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Blood of the Daleks (audio story)"], and Nadir Motorway Service Station on the M62, the setting of AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock ^[+]Loading...["Horror of Glam Rock (audio story)"].
• The Doctor spends 600 years on Orbis. Similarly, in TV: The Time of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"], the Eleventh Doctor stays on Trenzalore for 900 years. This makes the Eighth Doctor one of the Doctor's oldest incarnations.

External links

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