An Earthly Child (audio story)

An Earthly Child was the seventh Doctor Who bonus story released by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Marc Platt and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Carole Ann Ford as Susan Campbell.

It introduced the great-grandson of the Doctor, Alex Campbell. It was set on Earth still struggling with the aftermath of the Dalek occupation that the First Doctor had helped put an end to in the television story The Dalek Invasion of Earth. This is the beginning of the arc about adventures of Susan and Alex with the Eighth Doctor, which continues in Relative Dimensions (with Quinnis serving as a prequel of sorts), Lucie Miller and To the Death.

Publisher's summary
Thirty years on from the Daleks' invasion of Earth, the scars still haven't healed. The survivors inhabit a world thrown back two hundred years, a world of crop shortages and civil unrest. A world where the brightest and best of its young people are drawn to the xenophobic Earth United group.

A world sliding into a new Dark Age, believes Susan Campbell, widow of one of the heroes of the Occupation. A world in need of alien intervention. A world in need of hope.

But as Susan takes drastic action to secure the planet's future, she's oblivious to the fact that her student son, Alex, ensnared by Earth United, is in need of alien intervention too. Or so Alex's great-grandfather thinks.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Susan Campbell - Carole Ann Ford
 * Alex Campbell - Jake McGann
 * Holly Barrett - Sheryl Gannaway
 * Marion Fleming/Hope - Leslie Ash
 * Faisal Jensen/Reporter - Matt Addis
 * Duncan - Ian Hallard
 * President of the Earth Council/Policeman/Air Control/Helicopter Pilot/Reporter - Ian Brooker

Continuity

 * Earth is still in ruins some twenty years after the end of the decade long Dalek occupation. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
 * Susan remembers her last encounter with the Doctor in the Death Zone on Gallifrey and comments that he was in his fifth incarnation at the time. (TV: The Five Doctors)
 * Susan's husband, David Campbell, died several years earlier. (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor mentions that he and Susan met Genghis Khan during his first incarnation. (PROSE: Time and Relative) The Seventh Doctor had previously claimed to have delivered him, describing him as a "sweet baby." (PROSE: Tragedy Day) According to the Sixth and Ninth Doctors, the TARDIS once withstood an attack from the assembled hordes of the Genghis Khan, though it is unclear if this occurred during the First Doctor's encounter with him. (AUDIO: City of Spires, TV: Rose) Furthermore, the Doctor, Susan, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright encountered Genghis' grandson Kublai Khan in 1289. (TV: Marco Polo)
 * The Doctor explains to his great-grandson that he is from Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)
 * Susan has two hearts as a Gallifreyan. (TV: Spearhead from Space)