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The Warehouse (audio story)

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The Warehouse was the two hundred and second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Mike Tucker and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Mel land in what appears to be an orbiting warehouse, a delivery facility with a dangerously erratic computer.

Whilst Mel is helping with repairs, the Doctor begins to realise that not everything in the warehouse is as it seems. Why do no goods ever seem to leave the shelves? Why are the staff so obsessed with the stocktake? And who is the mysterious Supervisor?

On the planet below, the Doctor discovers that the computer might be the least of their problems – and that they should be more concerned with the spacestation's mould and vermin...

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Cover Art - Tom Webster
Director - Barnaby Edwards
Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music and Sound Design - Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios and Lauren Yason @ FoxYason Studios
Producer - David Richardson
Script Editor - Alan Barnes
Writer - Mike Tucker

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

By the mid 21st century, the Pease Pottage high street will have 173 coffee shops, but no other shops.
There is a wooden roller coaster on Coney Island.
The Doctor carries spoons with him.
The Doctor theorises that the warehouse goods, including food and furniture, are delivered by drones.
The Doctor compares the worship of the warehouse to the Melanesian cargo cults by tribes in the Pacific during World War II.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

This story was recorded on 12 and 13 January 2015 at the Moat Studios.
This is Tucker's first main range audio story featuring a team other than the Seventh Doctor and Ace, which the majority of his work features. As such, he chose a warehouse setting to continue the pattern of places Mel and the Doctor visited, which include a holiday camp, a tower, and a freezer centre.
The Doctor recalls an Amazon tribe. This is a play on words on "Amazon", in reference to the online retailer that this play satirises.
This was the first Big Finish audio drama written by Tucker since The Bellotron Incident in 2003.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, leading him to suggest it is time to acquire a new one. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen)
The Doctor refers to the Drashigs. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)
The Doctor once again claims that Mel has a memory like an elephant. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids, Time and the Rani; AUDIO: The One Doctor, Unregenerate!)
The Doctor began playing the spoons after his regeneration. (TV: Time and the Rani)
The Doctor says, "Brave heart, Mel." During his fifth incarnation, he often said much the same thing to his companion Tegan Jovanka. (TV: Earthshock, et. al)
The Doctor refers to the fact that he has seen a Rat King before. (AUDIO: Rat Trap) He would later do so again on Epajaenda. (PROSE: Last Rites)
The Doctor says, "C'mon. We've got work to do." (TV: Survival)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Official The Warehouse page at bigfinish.com

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