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Protect and Survive is aBig Finish Productionsaudio drama based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who. It was released on CD and download in July 2012, and was first broadcast onBBC Radio 4 Extra on 17 November 2013 as part of the Doctor Who 50th-anniversary celebrations.^[1]

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 theCold War.

• Seventh Doctor –Sylvester McCoy
• Ace –Sophie Aldred
• Hex –Philip Olivier
• Albert Marsden –Ian Hogg
• Peggy Marsden –Elizabeth Bennett
• Moloch /Patrick Allen (announcer) –Peter Egan

• The exterior of the TARDIS was rendered white during the events ofThe Angel of Scutari. It remained as such for the previous trilogy of stories,Project: Destiny,A Death in the Family andLurkers at Sunlight's Edge.
• The TARDIS with the black exterior was inexplicably seen in a trilogy of solo Seventh Doctor stories,Robophobia,The Doomsday Quatrain andHouse of Blue Fire, which, for the Doctor, take place betweenLurkers at Sunlight's Edge andProtect and Survive. It is also inProject: Nirvana, which takes place just beforeProtect and Survive.
• Peggy Marsden returns inGods and Monsters.

• In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place betweenProject: Nirvana andBlack and White
• The Doctor is absent for most of the adventure. This was due toSylvester McCoy appearing in the feature-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien'sThe Hobbit at the time ofProtect and Survive's recording.
• Ian Hogg played Josiah Samuel Smith in the 1989 Seventh Doctor television story,Ghost Light.
• Peter Egan recreates the latePatrick Allen's original voice-over for the real-lifeProtect and Survive public information announcements, which form a key part of the plot.
• The commander of the Russian missile base is named Petrov. On 26 Sept 1983, Lt ColStanislav Petrov averted a nuclear exchange by reasoning that an apparent American pre-emptive strike was a false alarm.

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

• Big Finish Productions – Protect and Survive

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