Benny's Story (audio story)

 was a 2009 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Professor Bernice Summerfield.

It was notable for being the first performed pairing of the two characters. They had already appeared together in the novel The Dying Days, also by writer Lance Parkin.

Publisher's summary
Deep in the mines of Epsilon Minima, Professor Bernice Summerfield is up to her neck in it — as usual. The Countess Venhella has hired her to recover a lost Time Lord artefact: a TARDIS key, it turns out. Guess whose?

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Klarner - Richard Earl
 * Venhella - Su Douglas

Fashion and clothing

 * The Doctor's clothes appear to be made of a special material that allows them to dry quickly.

Individuals

 * Benny has several adventures with the Doctor after the events of this story.

Planets

 * Hedenex is a spa planet in Galaxy 7.

Species

 * Hedenexians have five hands and, according to the Doctor, do the best massages in the universe.

Continuity

 * Benny mentions her first encounter with the Seventh Doctor on Heaven in 2570. (PROSE: Love and War, AUDIO: Love and War)
 * Furthermore, she remembers her last encounter with the Doctor, and saving the Earth form the Ice Warriors. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
 * Benny says that she has met the Eighth Doctor more than once. (PROSE: The Dying Days, PROSE: ...Be Forgot)
 * The Doctor states that the last time the TARDIS scanner showed something different to reality it was caused by a pollen induced hallucination. (AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor recalls his encounters with IMC robots, "a long time ago". (TV: Colony in Space