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|image = Prison in Space cover 1.jpg
|image           = Prison in Space cover 1.jpg
|image2 = Prison in Space cover 2.jpg
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|range           = The Lost Stories
|range           = The Lost Stories
|series in range = Series 2 (TLS)
|series in range = Series 2 (TLS)
|series number in range = 2
|series number in range = 2
|number in series = 2a
|number in series = 2a
|series = [[The Lost Stories]]
|series           = [[The Lost Stories]]
|number = 2.02a
|number           = 2.02a
|doctor = Second Doctor
|anthology        = The Second Doctor Box Set
|companions = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
|doctor           = Second Doctor
|enemy = [[Babs|Chairman Babs]]
|companions       = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
|setting = [[British Isles]]; [[Outer Space Correctional Establishment]]
|enemy           = [[Babs|Chairman Babs]]
|writer = [[Dick Sharples]], adapted by [[Simon Guerrier]]
|setting         = {{il|[[British Isles]]|[[Outer Space Correctional Establishment]]}}
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|contributors    = [[Dick Sharples]], adapted by [[Simon Guerrier]]
|producer = [[David Richardson]]
|director         = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|music = [[David Darlington]]
|producer         = [[David Richardson]]
|sound = [[David Darlington]]
|music           = [[David Darlington]]
|cover = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|sound           = David Darlington
|publisher = Big Finish
|cover           = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|release date = [[December (releases)|December]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|format = 4 Episodes on 2 CDs
|release date     = December 2010
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-453-5
|format           = 2 CDs<br/>Download<br/>1st of 2 stories
|prev = The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (audio story)
|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-84435-453-5
|next = The Destroyers (audio story)
|prev             = The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (audio story)
|next             = The Destroyers (audio story)
|epcount = 4
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'''''Prison in Space''''' was the third release in the second series of ''[[The Lost Stories]]''.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the audio anthology ''[[The Second Doctor Box Set]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was adapted by [[Simon Guerrier]], from the original script by [[Dick Sharples]], narrated by [[Frazer Hines]] and [[Wendy Padbury]] and featured the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
A relaxing break for the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe becomes something decidedly more sinister when they are arrested for trespass. But what has happened to the planet Earth? And how has the malevolent Chairman Babs gained control? As the Doctor and Jamie are incarcerated in a prison that they can never escape from, Zoe is forced to change sides...
A relaxing break for [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] and his companions [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] becomes something decidedly more sinister when they are arrested for trespass. But what has happened to the planet [[Earth]]? And how has the malevolent [[Babs|Chairman Babs]] gained control? As the Doctor and Jamie are incarcerated in a prison that they can never escape from, Zoe is forced to change sides...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Babs]] - [[Susan Brown]]
* [[Babs]] - [[Susan Brown]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* Zoe is described as being from the year [[2000]].
* Zoe is described as being from the year [[2000]].
* The Doctor initially believes that the TARDIS has arrived in the British Isles in approximately 40 million [[BC]].
* The Doctor initially believes that the TARDIS has arrived in the British Isles in approximately 40 million [[BC]], which he believes to be somewhere between the [[Oligocene]] and the [[Miocene]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This audio drama was recorded on [[21 October (production)|21]] and [[22 October (production)|22 October]] [[2009 (production)|2009]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[21 October (production)|21]] and [[22 October (production)|22 October]] [[2009 (production)|2009]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
 
* ''Prison in Space'' began life as an unproduced serial intended to be part of [[Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 6]] by [[Dick Sharples]]. It would have featured a female-dominated [[planet]], previously used in another unproduced serial ''[[The Hidden Planet (TV story)|The Hidden Planet]]''. It would have featured [[Zoe Heriot]] starting a sexual revolution, before being brainwashed and then deprogrammed by the [[Second Doctor]], who smacks her on the bottom. It would also have featured [[Jamie McCrimmon]] in drag. The story was rewritten when [[Frazer Hines]] decided to leave and then again when he decided to stay. Executives were unhappy with it, but Sharples refused to rewrite and it was replaced by ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]''.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/lostmq.html#Prison</ref>
=== Unproduced TV story ===
* This story was released on CD and download as part of [[The Second Doctor Box Set]], along with the ''[[The Destroyers (audio story)|The Destroyers]]'', the audio adaptation of a [[The Destroyers (TV story)|proposed pilot episode]] to a planned Dalek spin-off.
* ''Prison in Space'' began as an unproduced serial intended to be part of [[Season 6]] by [[Dick Sharples]]. It would have featured a female-dominated [[planet]], previously used in another unproduced serial ''[[The Hidden Planet (TV story)|The Hidden Planet]]''. It would have featured [[Zoe Heriot]] starting a sexual revolution, before being brainwashed and then deprogrammed by the [[Second Doctor]], who smacks her on the bottom. It would also have featured [[Jamie McCrimmon]] in drag. The story was rewritten when [[Frazer Hines]] decided to leave and then again when he decided to stay. Executives were unhappy with it, but Sharples refused to rewrite and it was replaced by ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]''.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/lostmq.html#Prison</ref>


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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* The Doctor and Jamie both refer to the [[Battle of Culloden]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'')
* The Doctor and Jamie both refer to the [[Battle of Culloden]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'')
* Jamie would later disguise himself as a woman once again in [[November]] [[1688]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glorious Revolution (audio story)|The Glorious Revolution]]'')
* Jamie would later disguise himself as a woman once again in [[November]] [[1688]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glorious Revolution (audio story)|The Glorious Revolution]]'')
* The Doctor uses a miniature [[electronic oscillator]], which he claims to have taken from the [[Dominator]] spaceship on [[Dulkis]] during the events of [[TV]]: {{cs|The Dominators (TV story)}}.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{bigfinish|releases/v/the-second-doctor-box-set-430}}
{{bigfinish|releases/v/the-second-doctor-box-set-430}}
{{dwrefguide|loststories10a.htm|Prison In Space}}
{{dwrefguide|loststories10a.htm|Prison In Space}}


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[[Category:Audio stories set on Earth]]
[[Category:Audio stories set on Earth]]
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Prison in Space was the first story in the audio anthology The Second Doctor Box Set, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Simon Guerrier, from the original script by Dick Sharples, narrated by Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury and featured the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot.

Publisher's summary[[edit]]

A relaxing break for the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe becomes something decidedly more sinister when they are arrested for trespass. But what has happened to the planet Earth? And how has the malevolent Chairman Babs gained control? As the Doctor and Jamie are incarcerated in a prison that they can never escape from, Zoe is forced to change sides...

Plot[[edit]]

Part one[[edit]]

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Part two[[edit]]

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Part three[[edit]]

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Part four[[edit]]

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Cast[[edit]]

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

  • Zoe is described as being from the year 2000.
  • The Doctor initially believes that the TARDIS has arrived in the British Isles in approximately 40 million BC, which he believes to be somewhere between the Oligocene and the Miocene.

Notes[[edit]]

Continuity[[edit]]

External links[[edit]]

Footnotes[[edit]]