Orbis (audio story)

Orbis was the first release of the third series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.

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.

Cast

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

The Doctor

 * The Doctor lives on Orbis for six hundred years.
 * The Doctor is known by the Keltans as 'Old Doctor'.
 * The Doctor lost track of how old he really is aeons ago; he tends to round it down a bit, making a few adjustments for variations in year length across the cosmos.

Continuity

 * The Headhunter last appeared in BFA: The Vengeance of Morbius.
 * The Doctor refers to the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Autons and the Axons.
 * The Doctor mistakenly calls Lucy 'Izzy', a former companion of the Eighth Doctor. (DWM: Stars Fell on Stockbridge)
 * Lucie mentions the Dalek invasion of Red Rocket Rising (BFA: Blood of the Daleks) and Nadir Services on M26 (BFA: Horror of Glam Rock).

Timeline

 * Orbis occurs after BFA: The Vengeance of Morbius
 * Orbis occurs before BFA: Hothouse