''Robophobia'' is a

Big Finish Productions Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the ...

audio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

based on the long-running British

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series '' Doctor Who.'' It is a four-part story.

Plot

The Doctor arrives on a spaceship transporting over a hundred thousand potentially deadly robots.

Cast

* The Doctor –

Sylvester McCoy Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith (born 20 August 1943), known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish actor. Gaining prominence as a physical comedian, he became best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the lon ...

Liv Chenka This is a list of fictional characters who were companions of the Doctor, in various spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series, '' Doctor Who''. A Amy Amy, portrayed by Ciara Janson, is a compan ...

–

Nicola Walker Nicola Jane Walker (born 15 May 1970) is an English actress, known for her starring roles in various British television programmes from the 1990s onwards, including that of Ruth Evershed in the spy drama '' Spooks'' (2003–2006 and 2009–201 ...

*Farel –

Toby Hadoke Toby is a popular, usually male, name in many English speaking countries. The name is from the Middle English vernacular form of Tobias. Tobias itself is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew טוביה ''Toviah'', which translates to ''Good ...

*Bas Pellico –

William Hazell William Hazell Jr. (July 9, 1908 – January 26, 1995) was the fifth President of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) from 1970 until 1975. Personal life Hazell was a lifelong resident of Plainfield, New Jersey and was the son of William ...

*Selerat –

Nicholas Pegg Nicholas Pegg is a British actor, writer and director. Educated at Nottingham High School and graduating with a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Exeter, Pegg subsequently trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Ac ...

*Cravnet – Dan Starkey *Tal Karus – Matt Addis *Leebar/Computer Voice –

John Dorney John Dorney is a British writer and actor best known for stage roles at theatres including the National Theatre, the BBC Radio 4 sitcom '' My First Planet''; and his scripts for the Big Finish '' Doctor Who'' range. His script ''Solitaire'' wa ...

Continuity

*For the people of Kaldor, this story picks up a few months after the events of the

Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Tom Baker. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the ...

television story, ''

The Robots of Death ''The Robots of Death'' is the fifth serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 29 January to 19 February 1977. In the serial, the Fou ...

''. *The Doctor's

TARDIS The TARDIS (; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' and its various spin-offs. Its exterior ...

is black in this story. It remains this way through subsequent stories and is resolved in ''

Black and White Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. ...

''. *''Black and White'' also contains a few scenes that take place directly after ''Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge'', including the Doctor finding the Black TARDIS, and his first trip in it to the spaceship ''Lorelei'', as heard in this story. There is also a scene where he takes it on its second trip, to the planet Celdor, in '' The Doomsday Quatrain''.

Notes

*Dan Starkey has played

Sontarans The Sontarans ( ) are a fictional race of extraterrestrial humanoids principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who''. A warrior race characterised by their ruthlessness and fearlessness of death, they we ...

in several recent ''Doctor Who'' television stories. *Toby Hadoke is a comedian best known to ''Doctor Who'' fans for his one-man show '' Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf''.

Critical reception

Doctor Who Magazine ''Doctor Who Magazine'' (abbreviated as ''DWM'') is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Launched in 1979 as ''Doctor Who Weekly'', the magazine became a monthly publication the follo ...

'' reviewer Matt Michael said that the play is a "sequel that compares well to the original", and praised the performance of Walker as Liv Chenka, who is the "guest companion" in the audio.

References

External links

''Robophobia''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robophobia 2011 audio plays Seventh Doctor audio plays Audio plays by Nicholas Briggs