Max Warp

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.

Max Warp
Big Finish Productions audio drama
SeriesDoctor Who
RangeEighth Doctor Adventures
Release no.2.2
FeaturingEighth Doctor
Lucie Miller
Written byJonathan Morris
Directed byBarnaby Edwards
Executive producer(s)Nicholas Briggs
Production codeBFPDWCDMG010
Length1 60-minute episode
Release dateFebruary 2008

Plot

The Doctor and Lucie end up in a future TV show about spaceships called 'Max Warp'.

Cast

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 a.k.a. 'the Hamster'.
  • Geoffrey Vantage is a satirical caricature of Jeremy Clarkson
  • Timbo a.k.a. '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
  1. Doctor Who – Episode guide at BBC Radio 4 Extra. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
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