The Great Space Elevator (audio story)

The Great Space Elevator
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie, Victoria
Main enemy:	Bastell and the crew of the Sky Station (possessed)
Main setting:	Sumatra The Sky Station
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Music:	Nigel Fairs
Read by:	Deborah Watling
Release details
Release number:	3.2
Release date:	August 2008
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPDWCC10
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-351-4
The Companion Chronicles
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The Great Space Elevator was the second story in the third series of The Companion Chronicles.

Publisher's summary

A new adventure with the Second Doctor as told by his companion, Victoria Waterfield.

The Great Space Elevator is a marvel of human engineering; a transit tube stretching from the equator up to a space station held in geosynchronous orbit.

When the TARDIS lands in Sumatra in the future, the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are captured by guards just as the station loses power. Together with Security Officer Tara Kerley, the three travellers take a one-way trip on the elevator to fix the problem, and find themselves confronted by a powerful alien force that threatens to wreak chaos on Earth…

Cast

• Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling
• Tara Kerley - Helen Goldwyn

References

• Victoria considers her days travelling with the Doctor and Jamie as the most exciting, vivid and terrifying of her life.
• The older Victoria has a husband, at least one child and will soon become a grandmother. She has never told her family of her travels in the TARDIS or that she was born in the 19th century.
• Jamie compares the Great Space Elevator to the Tower of Babel.
• Victoria compares travelling in the Space Elevator to being in a giant dumbwaiter.
• The Doctor plays "Baa Baa Black Sheep" on his recorder.

Notes

• This was the first time that Deborah Watling had reprised her role as Victoria Waterfield for Big Finish Productions. However, she previously played Auntie in AUDIO: Three's a Crowd.
• This audio drama was recorded on 2 April 2008.

Continuity

• Victoria tells Tara Kerley that she, the Doctor and Jamie had been on Telos, which she claims is one of the Greek Islands. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
• Jamie once again refers to the Man in the Moon. (TV: The Moonbase)
• When the Doctor smiles, he sometimes reminds Victoria of her late father Edward Waterfield. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)

External links

• Official The Great Space Elevator page at bigfinish.com
• The Great Space Elevator at the Doctor Who Reference Guide