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 has lost track of how old he really was eons ago; he tends to round it down a bit, making a few adjustments for variations in year length across the cosmos.

Continuity

 * Lucie mentions some of the events of BFA: Blood of the Daleks, Horror of Glam Rock and The Vengeance of Morbius.
 * The Headhunter last appeared in BFA: The Vengeance of Morbius.
 * The Doctor refers to Daleks, Cybermen, Autons and Axons.
 * The Doctor mistakenly calls Lucy 'Izzy'.

Timeline

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