Earth Aid

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Earth Aid is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot[]

The Doctor and Ace go undercover on a humanitarian aid space ship from Earth.

Cast[]

• The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
• Ace – Sophie Aldred
• Raine Creevey – Beth Chalmers
• Victor Espinoza – Paterson Joseph
• Shepstay – Nadine Marshall
• Yanikov – Basher Savage
• Lt Baraki – Ingrid Oliver
• Metatraxi – John Banks
• Grub – Alex Mallinson

Continuity[]

• Far later in the Seventh Doctor's life, he travels with Raine again, starting with UNIT Dominion.

Notes[]

• Ben Aaronovitch wrote stories for the last two seasons of the original television series, Remembrance of the Daleks and Battlefield.
• Paterson Joseph appeared in the 2005 TV story "Bad Wolf" / "The Parting of the Ways".
• Ingrid Oliver would later be seen in TV Doctor Who in "The Day of the Doctor" and "Death in Heaven".
• The Metatraxi were intended to be used in the lost 27th season, although they have been referenced in later stories in other media, most notably the Eighth Doctor novel Alien Bodies

Critical reception[]

Matt Michael called the play the "most anticipated" of the Lost Season 27 stories in his review for Doctor Who Magazine, and found that it was a "fine end" to the season.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Big Finish Productions^{[dead link]}
• Hidden Planet Lost Scripts site^{[dead link]}