Phobos (Doctor Who audio)
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| Big Finish Productions audio play | |
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| Phobos | |
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| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | BBC7 4 |
| Featuring | Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller |
| Writer | Eddie Robson |
| Director | Barnaby Edwards |
| Executive producer(s) | Nicholas Briggs |
| Set between | Immortal Beloved and No More Lies |
| Release date | 28 January 2007 |
Phobos is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 28 January 2007.
Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear.
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[edit] Plot
The Doctor and Lucie land on Phobos, the moon of Mars, which has become popular with extreme sports fans in the future, due a wormhole on the surface which is used for bungee jumping. The Doctor and Lucie listen to Kai Tobias's stories of monsters on the surface, although no-one takes him seriously. Later the monsters from Tobias's stories appear and begin attacking vistors. When The Doctor discovers that the monsters are just robots, Tobias reveals that an entity from another universe is in the wormhole and that it feeds on the pleasurable fear extreme sports fans feel. However, it is hurt by real fear and Tobias made the robots to create real fear. The Doctor enters the wormhole and shows the entity his fears, which kill it, and The Doctor and Lucie leave. The Headhunter awakens on the moon's medical ward, angry that she has missed Lucie again.
[edit] Cast
- The Doctor — Paul McGann
- Lucie Miller — Sheridan Smith
- Headhunter/Amy — Katarina Olssen
- Kai Tobias — Timothy West
- Eris — Nerys Hughes
- Drew — Ben Silverstone
- Hayd — John Schwab
- Farl — Tim Sutton
[edit] Continuity
- The 2000 Big Finish audio play The Fearmonger also features a creature which stirs up fear and feeds on it.
- The 2006 television episode The Impossible Planet also features an entity from another universe trapped by a wormhole.
- The short story Crimson Dawn in the book Decalog 2: Lost Properties explains that Phobos is an artifical moon created by Ice Warriors. The canonicity of these stories is unclear.
[edit] References
- (2006-10-11 cover date) "Digital Doctor". Doctor Who Magazine (374): 6.
- Doctor Eight for BBC7. BBC Doctor Who website. bbc.co.uk (2006-09-14). Retrieved on 2006-09-18.
[edit] External links
| Eighth Doctor audio dramas | |
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| Big Finish Season 27: | Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell |
| Big Finish Season 28: | Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Living Legend • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland |
| BBCi special: | Shada |
| Big Finish Season 29: | Zagreus • Scherzo • The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom |
| Big Finish Season 30: | Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life |
| Continuing adventures: | Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane |
| BBC7 adventures: | Blood of the Daleks • Horror of Glam Rock • Immortal Beloved • Phobos • No More Lies • Human Resources |
