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.

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