Colditz (audio drama)

Colditz

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	25
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Ace
Writer	Steve Lyons
Director	Gary Russell
Producer	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	7U
Length	1 hr 47 mins
Release date	October 2001

Colditz is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British 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 — Sylvester McCoy
Ace — Sophie Aldred
Feldwebel Kurtz — David Tennant
Hauptmann Julius Schäfer — Toby Longworth
Flying Officer Bill Gower — Nicholas Young
Timothy Wilkins — Peter Rae
Klein — Tracey Childs

Notes

This was the first Big Finish Doctor Who adventure in which David Tennant participated; in 2005, he became the 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 story The Fires of Pompeii.
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 Klein's Story.

External links

Reviews

Colditz reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Colditz reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Seventh Doctor audio plays

Mel	The Fires of Vulcan Bang-Bang-a-Boom! Flip-Flop Unregenerate! Red We Are The Daleks The Warehouse Terror of the Sontarans

Ace	The Fearmonger The Genocide Machine Dust Breeding Colditz The Rapture The Prisoner's Dilemma Thin Ice 1963: The Assassination Games The Light at the End You Are the Doctor & Other Stories Nightshade

Ace & Raine	Crime of the Century Animal Earth Aid

Ace & Hex	The Harvest Dreamtime LIVE 34 Night Thoughts The Settling No Man's Land Nocturne The Dark Husband Forty-Five The Magic Mousetrap Enemy of the Daleks The Angel of Scutari Project: Destiny A Death in the Family Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge Protect and Survive Black and White Gods and Monsters Afterlife Revenge of the Swarm Mask of Tragedy Signs and Wonders

Ace & Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge The Dark Flame Love and War The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield The Triumph of Sutekh Theatre of War All Consuming Fire

Benny	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code The Highest Science

Benny, Chris & Roz	Original Sin

Chris & Roz	Damaged Goods

Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story The Architects of History UNIT Dominion Persuasion Starlight Robbery Daleks Among Us

Alone	The Sirens of Time Last of the Titans Excelis Decays Project: Lazarus Master Return of the Daleks Valhalla Frozen Time The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake A Death in the Family The Four Doctors Robophobia The Doomsday Quatrain House of Blue Fire The Shadow Heart The Two Masters Harvest of the Sycorax

Other	Death Comes to Time Zagreus The Wormery Thicker Than Water Project: Nirvana Doom Coalition

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