Circular Time
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| Big Finish Productions audio play | |
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| Circular Time | |
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| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 91 |
| Featuring | Fifth Doctor Nyssa |
| Writer | Paul Cornell & Mike Maddox |
| Director | John Ainsworth |
| Producer(s) | N/A |
| Executive producer(s) | N/A |
| Production code | 6CH |
| Set between | "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn": The Game and Renaissance of the Daleks "Winter": during The Caves of Androzani |
| Release date | January 2007 |
Circular Time is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
[edit] Plot
The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa experience four different adventures across time and space as the seasons change - Spring sees them become embroiled in Time Lord politics on an alien world. Summer has them avoiding the wrath of Sir Isaac Newton. Autumn has the Doctor settling down in an English village to play cricket while Nyssa falls in love. And Winter sees the pair meet up years after their last encounter in the strangest of circumstances...
[edit] Cast
- The Doctor — Peter Davison
- Nyssa — Sarah Sutton
- Hoodeye/Andrew — Jamie Sandford
- Redklaw/Jack — Toby Longworth
- Carrion — Lois Baxter
- Snowfire — Teresa Gallagher
- Zero — Hugh Fraser
- Guard/Anton/Lasarti — Jeremy James
- Molly — Sunny Ormonde
- Jailer — Trevor Littldale
- Sir Isaac Newton — David Warner
- Don — John Benfield
- Anima — Sunny Ormonde
[edit] Notes
- The title Circular Time probably represents the fact that the seasons are constantly coming and going, until all four seasons have gone 'full circle'.
- David Warner has appeared as an Unbound version of the Doctor in the play Sympathy for the Devil, and will return to play the character again in a future production, provisionally entitled The Dark Palace. He also plays Steel in the audio version of Sapphire & Steel for Big Finish.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
- The four stories are not connected and therefore can be listened to in any order (although "Winter" takes place long after the other stories). A similar idea has been tried before by Big Finish in the Seventh Doctor adventure Flip-Flop.
- The Winter section of this play involves the Doctor reaching out to Nyssa telepathically during his regeneration at the end of The Caves of Androzani. In it, Nyssa is older and married.
| Fifth Doctor audio dramas |
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| The Sirens of Time • Phantasmagoria • The Land of the Dead • Red Dawn • Winter for the Adept |
| The Mutant Phase • Loups-Garoux • The Eye of the Scorpion • Primeval • Excelis Dawns • Spare Parts |
| The Church and the Crown • No Place Like Home • Nekromanteia • Creatures of Beauty • Omega • Zagreus |
| The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • The Game • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • Singularity |
| The Kingmaker • The Gathering • Circular Time • Renaissance of the Daleks • Exotron • Urban Myths |
