A Forever Home (audio story)

was the third story of the audio anthology The Diary of River Song: Series Eight. It was written by Alfie Shaw and featured Alex Kingston as River Song and John Leeson as K9.
== Publisher's summary ==
River finds herself caged and feeling under the weather. Luckily, her new owners are on hand to take care of her in her ‘forever home’.
But which of River’s keepers can she trust? Is robot cat FE-LINE all she seems? And is K9 still a girl’s best friend?
== Plot ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* River Song - Alex Kingston
* K9 / Simmons - John Leeson
* FE-LINE / Maria / Patricia - Tracy Wiles
* Balthazar Drix - Clive Hayward
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Technology ===
* Much like a TARDIS, Time Lord time crates can travel through time and space and are equipped with chameleon circuits.
== Notes ==
* This story marked K9 Mark III's first appearance in a Big Finish audio drama.
* This story leads directly into the plot TV: A Girl's Best Friend, with K9's delivery to Sarah Jane's Aunt Lavinia in South Croydon.
== Continuity ==
* The Fourth Doctor sent K9 Mark III to Sarah Jane in a Time Lord time crate because he couldn't afford to send him in the post. At the end of the story River alters the time crate's chameleon circuit to make it look like a regular packing crate before sending K9 onto Croydon. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend)
* River bemoans the fact the the Doctor never tells anyone about her, later the Doctor would tell Clara Oswald about River, but in a way that lead Clara to think she was a man. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
* River has previously met several incarnations of the real Master. (AUDIO: The Bekdel Test, Animal Instinct, The Lifeboat and the Deathboat, Concealed Weapon, Rivers of Light)
== External links ==
Category:K9 audio stories
Category:The Diary of River Song: Series Eight audio stories
Category:Stories set in 1979
Category:Stories set in London