Hive of Horror (audio story)

Hive of Horror
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Yates, Mrs Wibbsey
Main enemy:	Hornets
Main setting:	Nest Cottage, 24 December 2010
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Audio
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Kate Thomas
Producer:	Kate Thomas
Music:	Simon Power
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	5
Release date:	3 December 2009
Format:	1 CD 5th of 5 stories
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-4084-2677-7
Hornets' Nest
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Hive of Horror is the fifth and final episode in the Hornets' Nest arc, a series of audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor alongside Richard Franklin as Mike Yates.

Publisher's summary

As a new day breaks over Nest Cottage, the Doctor and Mike know they have to face their enemy for a final confrontation. Reduced to miniature size, and with Mrs Wibbsey along as an unwilling adventurer, they venture inside the hornets' nest itself. The Queen lies in wait for the enemy which she and her brood have faced so many times over the millennia. If she is to guarantee the survival of her alien hornet race for another thousand years, this is a battle she must win! The loyalty of the Doctor's friends will be tested to the limit. And perhaps, at last, they will all understand why Mike Yates is so important...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
• Mrs Wibbsey - Susan Jameson
• The Queen - Rula Lenska

References

• The Doctor uses the TARDIS' dimensional stabiliser.
• The Doctor quotes the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence".

Notes

• This story was recorded at Electric Airwaves and Motivation Sound Studios.
• This story was later included in The Nest Cottage Chronicles.
• A free download of this story was given away with The Guardian newspaper on 25 February 2011.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Mike about the time he was put inside his own brain. (TV: The Invisible Enemy)
• Mike mentions seeking out mystics after his breakdown. (TV: Planet of the Spiders)
• Wibbsey complains about being taken away from 1932. (AUDIO: The Dead Shoes)
• Wibbsey mentions the Doctor's deceased gargoyle. (AUDIO: The Circus of Doom)
• Mike recalls when he turned traitor. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
• The Doctor recalls seeing the Queen before in a pig. (AUDIO: A Sting in the Tale)
• The Hornet Queen taunts Mike with his experiences with the BOSS, (TV: The Green Death) and Operation Golden Age. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

External links

• DisContinuity for Hive of Horrors at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
• Hive of Horror at the Doctor Who Reference Guide