Orbis (audio drama)

Big Finish Productions audio play
Orbis
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	New EDAs 3.1
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller
Writer	Alan Barnes & Nicholas Briggs
Director	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs
Set between	Vengeance of Morbius and Hothouse
Length	2x 30-minute episodes
Release date	31st March 2009

Orbis 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. As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production and casting 4 Continuity 5 External links 6 References

Plot

Lucie is safe back at home on Earth. The Doctor has washed up on an obscure water world called Orbis. And the Headhunter has a plan to reunite them. Her motive is piece of unfinished business that lies at the bottom of the sea.

Cast

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

Production and casting

• This is the first Doctor Who audio to be made available as weekly downloads. They were released on Saturday nights, in place of the television show not doing weekly episodes in 2009.
• Andrew Sachs has previously appeared in the Big Finish remake of Shada and as an elderly Adric in The Boy That Time Forgot.

Continuity

• For Lucie, six months have passed since she's seen the Doctor and the TARDIS. For the Doctor, 600 years have passed since he's seen Lucie and the TARDIS.

• The Doctor, Morbius and an activator for a stellar manipulator (similar to the Hand of Omega) fell into a deep chasm on Karn in the previous story Vengeance of Morbius. Lucie was returned home by the Time Lords, but was later tracked down by the Headhunter.

• The Headhunter returns in the season finale, The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web.

External links

• Orbis

References

• Doctor Who Orbis at bigfinish.com

Eighth Doctor audio dramas Mary Shelley The Company of Friends: Mary's Story The Silver Turk The Witch from the Well Army of Death Charley Pollard Storm Warning Sword of Orion The Stones of Venice Minuet in Hell Invaders from Mars The Chimes of Midnight Living Legend Seasons of Fear Embrace the Darkness The Time of the Daleks Neverland Zagreus Scherzo The Girl Who Never Was Solitaire Charley Pollard & C'rizz The Creed of the Kromon The Natural History of Fear The Twilight Kingdom Faith Stealer The Last Caerdroia The Next Life Terror Firma Scaredy Cat Other Lives Time Works Something Inside Memory Lane Absolution Lucie Miller Blood of the Daleks Horror of Glam Rock Immortal Beloved Phobos No More Lies Human Resources Dead London Max Warp Brave New Town The Skull of Sobek Grand Theft Cosmos The Zygon Who Fell to Earth Sisters of the Flame / Vengeance of Morbius Orbis Hothouse The Beast of Orlok Wirrn Dawn The Scapegoat The Cannibalists The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web Death in Blackpool Relative Dimensions Lucie Miller To the Death Tamsin Drew Situation Vacant Nevermore The Book of Kells Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars Other Shada The Company of Friends An Earthly Child Prisoner of the Sun The Four Doctors Kleins Story