The Harvest (audio drama)

The Harvest
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	58
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Ace Hex
Writer	Dan Abnett
Director	Gary Russell
Producer	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	7W
Length	1 hr 57 mins
Release date	June 2004

The Harvest is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It introduces new companion Hex. It was retroactively made the final part of a trilogy with The Reaping and The Gathering, with all three sporting similar designs for their covers.

Plot

2021. Thomas Hector Schofield (or "Hex" as he prefers to be called) is a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, where things are getting a little strange. The new hire, an attractive girl who insists on being called "McShane", is asking too many questions, and unexplained deaths are happening. What exactly is the mysterious C-Programme… and why does McShane seem to be living in a police box in Totter's Lane?

Cast

• The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
• Ace — Sophie Aldred
• Hex — Philip Olivier
• Subject One — William Boyde
• Doctor Stephen Farrer — Richard Derrington
• XSO David Garnier — David Warwick
• Doctor Mark Mathias — Paul Lacoux
• System — Janie Booth
• Polk — Mark Donovan

Continuity

• The discovery that The Doctor makes about Hex while reading through the hospital files is revealed in Thicker than Water.
• The technology that is spirited away at the end of the linked story The Gathering subsequently appears in this (chronologically earlier story). This includes System being voiced by the same actress.
• Hex finally returns to St Gart's a few years later in Project: Destiny.

External links

• Big Finish Productions - The Harvest
• The Harvest at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

Reviews

• The Harvest reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• The Harvest reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide