Colditz (Steve Lyons)

The Seventh Doctor is to get a new travelling companion… but it’s not someone he would want aboard the TARDIS! Big Finish Productions has announced a new trilogy of Doctor Who adventures, running from January to March 2010, which sees the return of Nazi scientist Elizabeth Klein, who stole the TARDIS and changed the course of history in the popular story "Colditz".

‘"Colditz" was actually number 25 in our range of Doctor Who audio adventures’, says script editor John Ainsworth, ‘and it’s been exciting to revisit the character over 100 CDs and (for us) eight years later. In that time we’ve had many requests from fans demanding that we bring the character back, so we’re thrilled that Tracey Childs, who recently appeared in the TV series in "The Fires of Pompeii", has returned to the role to challenge the Seventh Doctor, who we find at a point in his life where he is travelling solo’.

‘I am, of course, completely delighted to be returning to the role of Klein again’, adds Tracey Childs. ‘And am overjoyed that those in power have seen fit to bring her back... though frankly how anyone might ever have thought they could get by without my presence is a mystery to me. But maybe playing a megalomaniacal time travelling Nazi physicist is starting to go to my head!'

The first story in the season is "A Thousand Tiny Wings", which is set in the jungles of Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s. It is written by Andy Lane, the man behind the popular Companion Chronicles "Here There Be Monsters" and "The Mahogany Murderers", while Ann Bell (Marion Jefferson in Tenko) guest stars as Sylvia O’Donnell, and Lisa (Bernice Summerfield) Bowerman directs. This is followed by "Survival of the Fittest" by Jonathan Clements, and the trilogy climaxes with "The Architects of History" by Steve Lyons, which is set in Earth’s future.