Phobos (audio drama)

Phobos

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Range	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	1.5
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller
Writer	Eddie Robson
Director	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer	Nicholas Briggs
Length	1 50-minute episode
Release date	28 January 2007

Phobos is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 28 January 2007.

Plot

The Doctor and Lucie land on Phobos, the moon of Mars, which has become popular with extreme sports fans in the future, due to a wormhole on the surface which is used for bungee jumping. The Doctor and Lucie listen to Kai Tobias's stories of monsters on the surface, although no-one takes him seriously. Later the monsters from Tobias's stories appear and begin attacking visitors. When The Doctor discovers that the monsters are just robots, Tobias reveals that an entity from another universe is in the wormhole and that it feeds on the pleasurable fear extreme sports fans feel. However, it is hurt by real fear and Tobias made the robots to create real fear. The Doctor enters the wormhole and shows the entity his fears, which kill it, and The Doctor and Lucie leave. The Headhunter awakens on the moon's medical ward, angry that she has missed Lucie again.

Cast

The Doctor — Paul McGann
Lucie Miller — Sheridan Smith
Amy/Headhunter — Katarina Olsson
Kai Tobias — Timothy West
Eris — Nerys Hughes
Drew — Ben Silverstone
Hayd — John Schwab
Farl — Tim Sutton
Lad – Jake McGann

Continuity

The 2000 Big Finish audio play The Fearmonger also features a creature which stirs up fear and feeds on it.
The short story Crimson Dawn in the book Decalog 2: Lost Properties explains that Phobos is an artificial moon created by Ice Warriors.
The 2006 Big Finish audio play Memory Lane features a character called Kim Kronotska who says she was on a Phobos mission.
The Fifth Doctor comic strip story The Moderator features a reference to Phobos at the start of part 2.
The Eighth Doctor visits Mars' other moon in Deimos.
The Doctor, when showing the entity his own fears, mentions his fears of the future, and the fears of things that he sees he himself might have to do. This is possibly a reference to the events of the Time War, which was to occur in the Eighth Doctor's relative distant future, in which the Doctor was forced to kill all of his own people, the Time Lords.

References

"Digital Doctor". Doctor Who Magazine (374): 6. 2006-10-11 cover date. Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Doctor Eight for BBC7". BBC Doctor Who website. bbc.co.uk. 2006-09-14. Retrieved 2006-09-18.

External links

Eighth Doctor audio dramas

Big Finish Main Range	Storm Warning Sword of Orion The Stones of Venice Minuet in Hell Invaders from Mars The Chimes of Midnight Seasons of Fear Embrace the Darkness The Time of the Daleks Neverland Zagreus Scherzo The Creed of the Kromon The Natural History of Fear The Twilight Kingdom Faith Stealer The Last Caerdroia The Next Life Terror Firma Scaredy Cat Other Lives Time Works Something Inside Memory Lane Absolution The Girl Who Never Was The Company of Friends The Silver Turk The Witch from the Well Army of Death

The Eighth Doctor Adventures	Blood of the Daleks Horror of Glam Rock Immortal Beloved Phobos No More Lies Human Resources Dead London Max Warp Brave New Town The Skull of Sobek Grand Theft Cosmos The Zygon Who Fell to Earth Sisters of the Flame / Vengeance of Morbius Orbis Hothouse The Beast of Orlok Wirrn Dawn The Scapegoat The Cannibalists The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web Death in Blackpool Situation Vacant Nevermore The Book of Kells Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars Relative Dimensions Prisoner of the Sun Lucie Miller / To the Death

Dark Eyes	Dark Eyes Dark Eyes 2 Dark Eyes 3 Dark Eyes 4

Doom Coalition	Doom Coalition 1 Doom Coalition 2 Doom Coalition 3 Doom Coalition 4

Other	Living Legend Shada An Earthly Child Survival of the Fittest & Klein's Story The Four Doctors Solitaire Destiny of the Doctor: Enemy Aliens The Light at the End The Rulers of the Universe The Sontaran Ordeal The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

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