Max Warp
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| Max Warp | |
|---|---|
| Album cover | |
| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Range | Eighth Doctor Adventures |
| Release number | 2.2 |
| Featuring | Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller |
| Writer | Jonathan Morris |
| Director | Barnaby Edwards |
| Executive producer | Nicholas Briggs |
| Production code | BFPDWCDMG010 |
| Length | 1 60-minute episode |
| Release date | February 2008 |
Max Warp is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.
Plot
The Doctor and Lucie end up in a future TV show about spaceships called 'Max Warp'.
Cast
- The Doctor — Paul McGann
- Lucie Miller — Sheridan Smith
- Geoffrey Vantage - Graeme Garden
- O'Reilley - James Fleet
- Timbo - Duncan James
- The Kith - Nick Brimble
- President Varlon - Samantha Hughes
- Judd Gilbride - Katarina Olsson
Production and Casting
- Katarina Olsson has previously appeared in several Big Finish audio plays as the Headhunter, including the previous Eighth Doctor audio season.
- The story is a spoof of the BBC's hit motoring TV series Top Gear, with one presenter 'the Ferret' having an accident mirroring the real-life accident of Top Gear's Richard Hammond AKA 'the Hamster'.
- Geoffrey Vantage is a satirical caricature of Jeremy Clarkson
- Timbo AKA 'the Ferret' is a satirical caricature of Richard Hammond
- O'Reilley is a satirical caricature of James May
- The story quotes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, himself once a writer and script editor for the "Doctor Who" television program. These include a description of a ship as a "Lazlar Lyricon custom job," as well as the line, "looks like a brick, steers like a shopping trolley," which echoes Ford Prefect's description of a Lazlar Lyricon ship: "Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."
- The "Cobra Mk-III" ship is a direct reference to the game Elite. In the closing minute, a page for Flight Commander P.R. Johnson to contact the intergalactic operator is a reference to RAH Band's hit song, Clouds Across the Moon.
Radio broadcast
Following its release on CD, Max Warp was broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 7 on 2008-10-26.[1]
References
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- ↑ Doctor Who – Episode guide at BBC Radio 4 Extra. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
