Robophobia Explained

Robophobia
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Series:	Doctor Who
Number:	149
Featuring:	Seventh Doctor
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Jamie Robertson Music and SFX
Executive Producer:	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production Code:	7ZAA
Preceding:	Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
Following:	The Doomsday Quatrain
Date:	July 2011

Robophobia is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television 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
• Liv Chenka – Nicola Walker
• Farel – Toby Hadoke
• Bas Pellico – William Hazell
• Selerat – Nicholas Pegg
• Cravnet – Dan Starkey
• Tal Karus – Matt Addis
• Leebar/Computer Voice – John Dorney

Continuity

• For the people of Kaldor, this story picks up a few months after the events of the Fourth Doctor television story, The Robots of Death.
• The Doctor's TARDIS is black in this story. It remains this way through subsequent stories and is resolved in Black and White.
• 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 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 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.^[1]

External links

• Robophobia

Notes and References

1. Michael. Matt. 21 September 2011. The DWM Review: Robophobia. Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Comics. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 438. 72.