The Great Space Elevator (audio story)

The Great Space Elevator
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie, Victoria
Main enemy:	Electric space creature
Main setting:	Sumatra The Sky Station
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Music:	David Darlington
Sound:	David Darlington
Read by:	Deborah Watling, Helen Goldwyn
Cover by:	Simon Holub
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 tenth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the second story of season 3. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Victoria Waterfield.

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...

Plot

to be added

Cast

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

References

• 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.
• This story takes place between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep.

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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