Hothouse (audio story)

Hothouse was the second story in the third series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

It was a sequel to the 1976 Doctor Who television story The Seeds of Doom and the first appearance of the Krynoids since 2002's The Green Man.

Publisher's summary Edit

Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Five vast, state-of-the-art biodomes, all steel and glass. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlowe has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary...

There's something growing inside the Hothouse. Something that could turn back humanity's tide. A voracious alien vegetable called the Krynoid. The Doctor's going to have to stop it. Stop Marlow. Stop Marlow's fanatical acolyte, Lucie Miller...

Save the world. By any means necessary.

Plot Edit

to be added

Cast Edit

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Alex Marlowe - Nigel Planer
• Hazel Bright - Lysette Anthony
• Christina Ondrak - Adna Sablyich
• Stefan Radek - Stuart Crossman
• Newsreader - Barnaby Edwards

References Edit

• Britain's water reservoir levels are below 5%. Water is restricted to hospitals only.
• Hazel was present during a flood in Dhaka.

Governments Edit

• The Eurozone has closed its borders.

Organisations Edit

• Hazel Bright is part of the World Ecology Bureau.
• Hazel contacted UNIT to use the space-time telegraph to contact the Doctor.
• Alex Marlowe runs the League of Nature, an extremist ecology group.

Species Edit

• Krynoids are affected by high pitched noises.

Notes Edit

• Krynoids have previously featured on audio in two BBV Productions audio dramas: The Root of All Evil and The Green Man. However, this is their first appearance in a Big Finish audio drama.
• This audio drama was recorded on 13 September 2008 at The Moat Studios.
• The story was initially released as a download on the Big Finish website on 21 and 28 March 2009.

Continuity Edit

• The Doctor is still recovering from the six hundred years he spent on Orbis. (AUDIO: Orbis)
• The World Ecology Bureau has files on the Harrison Chase incident and the Doctor's involvement in that incident. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
• The space-time telegraph was first referred to in TV: Revenge of the Cybermen and was briefly seen in TV: Terror of the Zygons.
• The Eurozone is mentioned. (PROSE: Trading Futures, AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks)
• By 2060, the Amazon ecosystem had collapsed and the rainforests had turned to desert. (AUDIO: Loups-Garoux)

External links Edit

• Official Hothouse page at bigfinish.com
• Hothouse at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Hothouse at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide