Protect and Survive (audio drama)

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Protect and Survive
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who
Release no.162
Featuring Seventh Doctor
Ace
Hex
Written by Jonathan Morris
Directed by Ken Bentley
Production code7W/AA
Release dateJuly 2012

Protect and Survive is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It was released on CD and download in July 2012, and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 17 November 2013 as part of the Doctor Who 50th-anniversary celebrations. [1]

Contents

Plot

The Doctor has disappeared, and the TARDIS is out of control. Ace and Hex find themselves marooned on Earth in the 1980s at the height of the Cold War.

Cast

Continuity

Notes

Critical reception

Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael strongly praised the play, noting that it was "one of the bleakest" made by Big Finish. [2]

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References

  1. "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Doctor Who, Protect and Survive, Episode 1".
  2. Michael, Matt (October 2012). "The DWM Review: Protect and Survive". Doctor Who Magazine . Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics (451): 74–75.