Max Warp

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Max Warp
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Range	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release no.	2.2
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller
Written by	Jonathan Morris
Directed by	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer(s)	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.

CD Blurb[]

Welcome to Max Warp! Broadcasting live from the Sirius Inter-G Cruiser Show. Hosted by outspoken columnist and media personality Geoffrey Vantage, with spaceship-guru-extraordinaire O’Reilley and daredevil pilot Timbo ‘the Ferret’.

When a test flight of the new Kith Sunstorm ends in disaster, the Sirius Exhibition Station is plunged into a web of murder and intrigue. Someone – or something – is trying to re-ignite a war between the Varlon Empire and the Kith Oligarchy.

As the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance, only two investigators, the Doctor and Lucie, can hope to uncover the truth.

So strap yourself in, engage thrust, and prepare for... Max Warp!^[1]

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 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.

Release and Radio broadcast[]

Following its release on CD in February 2008, Max Warp was broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 7 on 2008-10-26.^[2] It was further given a limited vinyl release in November 2019.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Big Finish Productions – Max Warp