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The story is also available as a download from the [[AudioGo]] website. | The story is also available as a download from the [[AudioGo]] website. | ||
''[[Lost Souls]]'', ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]'', ''[[Golden Age]]'' and ''The Dead Line'' were released, both individually and together as a four-disc collected box set entitled ''The Radio Adventures''. | ''[[Lost Souls]]'', ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]'', ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]'' and ''The Dead Line'' were released, both individually and together as a four-disc collected box set entitled ''The Radio Adventures''. | ||
== [[Jack Harkness - Timeline|Timeline]] == | == [[Jack Harkness - Timeline|Timeline]] == | ||
* ''The Dead Line'' occurs after: [[BBCR]]: ''[[Golden Age]]'' | * ''The Dead Line'' occurs after: [[BBCR]]: ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]'' | ||
* ''The Dead Line'' occurs before: [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'' | * ''The Dead Line'' occurs before: [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'' | ||
Revision as of 18:31, 18 February 2012
The Dead Line was an original BBC Radio 4 audio play. It was broadcast the week prior to series three of Torchwood.
Publisher summary
When a hospital is inundated with patients that have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. They find that the trances were triggered by phone calls, all of which were made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the mysterious number - two, zero, five, nine - nothing. It's a dead line. Until it calls Jack back, he answers - and falls into a deep trance. The team race against time to find the source of the 'infection' and save the patients.
Cast
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
- Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
- Stella Courtney - Doña Croll
- Jan - Eiry Thomas
- Bob- Matthew Gravelle
- Tyler - Brendan Charleson
References
- Rhys says that Captain Jack is like Captain Scarlet in that they both can't die.
Notes
- This story's plotline is reminiscent of the plotline of Stephen King's novel Cell.
Production errors
- Gwen says that Cardiff phone numbers have six digits, but they have had eight digits since April 2000.
Continuity
- Rhys recalls the events of Meat and Something Borrowed.
- Ianto's comments to the comatose Jack about not expecting to live very long foreshadows his fate in Children of Earth.
- Rhys and Gwen discuss buying a new home; this leads into Children of Earth: Day One which shows Rhys in the process of house-hunting.
Download and CD release
The story is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.
Lost Souls, Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line were released, both individually and together as a four-disc collected box set entitled The Radio Adventures.
Timeline
- The Dead Line occurs after: BBCR: Golden Age
- The Dead Line occurs before: TW: Children of Earth: Day One
