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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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|series = [[The Lost Stories]]
|range            = The Lost Stories
|number = 2.02a
|series in range  = Series 2 (TLS)
|doctor = Second Doctor
|series number in range = 2
|companions = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
|number in series = 2a
|enemy = [[Babs|Chairman Babs]]
|series           = [[The Lost Stories]]
|setting = The [[British Isles]], [[Earth]]<br />The [[Outer Space Correctional Establishment]] in orbit of [[Earth]]
|number           = 2.02a
|writer = [[Dick Sharples]], adapted by [[Simon Guerrier]]
|anthology        = The Second Doctor Box Set
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|doctor           = Second Doctor
|producer = [[David Richardson]]
|companions       = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
|music = [[David Darlington]]
|enemy           = [[Babs|Chairman Babs]]
|sound = [[David Darlington]]
|setting         = {{il|[[British Isles]]|[[Outer Space Correctional Establishment]]}}
|cover = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|contributors    = [[Dick Sharples]], adapted by [[Simon Guerrier]]
|publisher = Big Finish
|director         = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|release date = [[December (releases)|December]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|producer         = [[David Richardson]]
|format = 4 Episodes on 2 CDs
|music           = [[David Darlington]]
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-453-5
|sound           = David Darlington
|prev = The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (audio story)
|cover           = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|next = The Destroyers (audio story)
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|release date     = December 2010
|format           = 2 CDs<br/>Download<br/>1st of 2 stories
|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-84435-453-5
|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 ==
* Jamie has been travelling with the Doctor for "years now."
* 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 [[BC|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]].
* Albert Marlowe gives the date as the 14th of Aphrodite 122 S.C.B. (Since Chairman Babs) in the new calendar. Although it is seemingly hundreds of years after Zoe's native time (the late [[21st century]]), no exact date is given in the Gregorian calendar.
* Babs' official title is the Chairman of the World Federation of Womanhood.


== 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 [[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]''.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/lostmq.html#Prison</ref>


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Zoe refers to her encounters with the [[Dalek]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fear of the Daleks (audio story)|Fear of the Daleks]]''), the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Isos Network (audio story)|The Isos Network]]'', ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') and the [[Quark]]s whom they had recently met on [[Dulkis]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators (TV story)|The Dominators]]'') as well as the [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'', ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]''), whom she has never been depicted encountering in any media.
* Zoe refers to her encounters with the [[Dalek]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fear of the Daleks (audio story)|Fear of the Daleks]]'') the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Isos Network (audio story)|The Isos Network]]'', ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') and the [[Quark]]s whom they had recently met on [[Dulkis]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators (TV story)|The Dominators]]'') as well as the [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'', ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') whom she has never been depicted encountering in any media.
* 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 ==
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== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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== External links ==
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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]]

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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]]