The Dead Line (audio story)
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| The Dead Line | ||
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| Featuring: | Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Rhys Williams | |
| Main setting: | Cardiff, 2009 | |
| Key crew | ||
| Writer: | Phil Ford | |
| Director: | Kate McAll | |
| Release details | ||
| Release number: | 3 | |
| Release date: | 3 July 2009 (Radio 4) 22 September 2009 (CD) | |
| ISBN 978-1-4084-2666-1 | ||
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The Dead Line was an original BBC Radio 4 audio play. It was broadcast the week prior to series three of Torchwood.
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Publisher summary 
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When a hospital is inundated with patients that have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. They find that the trances were triggered by phone calls, all of which were made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the mysterious number — two, zero, five, nine — nothing. It's a dead line. Until it calls Jack back, he answers — and falls into a deep trance. The team race against time to find the source of the 'infection' and save the patients.
Cast Edit
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
- Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
- Stella Courtney - Doña Croll
- Jan - Eiry Thomas
- Bob- Matthew Gravelle
- Tyler - Brendan Charleson
References Edit
- Rhys says that Captain Jack is similar to Captain Scarlet in that they both cannot die.
Notes Edit
- Doña Croll (Stella Courtney) previously played Matron Casp in TV: New Earth.
- Brendan Charleson (Tyler) previously played Ivan Fletcher in TV: Day One.
- This story's plotline is reminiscent of the plotline of Stephen King's novel Cell.
Production errors Edit
- Gwen says that Cardiff phone numbers have six digits, but they have had eight digits since April 2000.
Continuity Edit
- Rhys recalls the events of TV: Meat and Something Borrowed.
- Ianto's comments to the comatose Jack about not expecting to live very long foreshadows his fate in TV: Children of Earth.
- Rhys and Gwen discuss buying a new home; this leads into TV: Children of Earth: Day One which shows Rhys in the process of house-hunting.
Download and CD release Edit
The story is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.
Lost Souls, Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line were released, both individually and together as a four-disc collected box set entitled The Radio Adventures.
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