Colditz (audio drama): Difference between revisions

{{short description|2001 Doctor Who audio drama}}

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{{Infobox audio drama|title=Colditz

|publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]]

|series=[[Doctor Who]]

|number=25

|featuring=[[Seventh Doctor]]<br />[[Ace (Doctor Who)|Ace]]

|cover= Colditz (Doctor Who).jpg

|writer=[[Steve Lyons (writer)|Steve Lyons]]

|director=[[Gary Russell]]

|producer=Gary Russell<br />[[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]

|executive_producer=[[Jacqueline Rayner]]

|production_code=7U

|length=1 hr 47 mins

|date=October 2001

|preceding="[[The Eye of the Scorpion]]"|following="[[Primeval (audio drama)|Primeval]]"}}

'''''Colditz''''' is a [[Big Finish Productions]] [[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish|audio drama]] based on the long-running British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

==Plot==

The Seventh Doctor and Ace are caught intruding in [[Colditz Castle]] in October 1944. Will the secrets of Time Travel fall into the hands of the [[Third Reich]]?

==Cast==

*The [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]] — [[Sylvester McCoy]]

*[[Ace (Doctor Who)|Ace]] — [[Sophie Aldred]]

*Feldwebel Kurtz — [[David Tennant]]

*Hauptmann Julius Schäfer — [[Toby Longworth]]

*Flying Officer Bill Gower — [[Nicholas Young (actor)|Nicholas Young]]

*Timothy Wilkins — Peter Rae

*[[List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs#Elizabeth Klein|Elizabeth Klein]] — [[Tracey Childs]]

==Notes==

*This was the first Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' adventure in which David Tennant participated; in 2005, he became the [[Tenth Doctor|tenth actor]] to play the Doctor in the television series.

*When Ace and the Doctor discover where and when they've landed, Ace says "[[Nazis]] again; I can't stand Nazis." Ace previously encountered Nazis in the television serial ''[[Silver Nemesis]]''. The television serial ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'', in which Ace also appeared, was set during World War II but did not feature any German characters. Later in her personal timeline, Ace encounters Nazis again in the novel ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]''.

*Ace mentions having "played the board game" about escaping from Colditz; see [[Colditz Castle in popular culture]] for images of several such games.

*The plot of this story centres on a time paradox caused by Ace's CD Walkman. After Ace is killed during a failed escape attempt, the Nazis examine her CD Walkman and discover laser technology. They use this to refine uranium more efficiently than the Americans, winning the atomic race and with it, the war. After escaping from Colditz in the TARDIS, the Doctor realises this and returns to Nazi-occupied Europe in 1953, where he is shot and killed by guards. After regenerating, the Eighth Doctor infiltrates the Nazi Government and manipulates a scientist, Elizabeth Klein, into piloting his TARDIS on a test flight, back to Colditz in 1944. However, Klein's presence in 1944 alerts the Seventh Doctor to the existence of Klein's alternate timeline and he is able to prevent it from coming to pass.

*Ace mentions that she got her CD Walkman in the 21st century from Paul Tanner, a character in the earlier audio play ''[[The Fearmonger]]''.

*Tracey Childs later appeared in the 2008 TV episode ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' starring her Colditz co-star David Tennant.

*[[List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs#Elizabeth Klein|Elizabeth Klein]] returns as the Seventh Doctor's travelling companion in the 2010 audio story ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings]]''. How she ended up meeting the Seventh Doctor at Colditz is explored in the one part story ''[[Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures#2010|Klein's Story]]''.

==External links==

* [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-colditz-627 Big Finish Productions – ''Colditz'']

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