Cobwebs (audio drama)

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Big Finish Productions audio play

Series	Doctor Who
Release number	136
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Vislor Turlough
Writer	Jonathan Morris
Director	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Set between	Enlightenment and The Whispering Forest
Release date	July 2010

Cobwebs is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra from the 16th to the 19 May 2011.

Plot

Half a century after her travels in the TARDIS, Nyssa reunites with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, days after they left her.

Cast

The Doctor – Peter Davison
Tegan Jovanka – Janet Fielding
Nyssa – Sarah Sutton
Vislor Turlough – Mark Strickson
Director Cardell/Ship's Computer – Helen Griffin
Loki/Edgar/Hawks – Raymond Coulthard
Enforcement Officer Bragg – Adrian Lukis
Bio Technician Valis/Echelon – Charlotte Lucas

Continuity

The play occurs after Enlightenment with a much older Nyssa briefly rejoining her friends at the same ages she left them.

Notes

Helen Griffin appeared in the TV story Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel

It is only the second Big Finish audio play that Fielding had appeared in, after 2006's The Gathering.^[1]

Critical reception

Matt Michael, writing for Doctor Who Magazine, praised the audio drama, welcoming the opportunity to hear this TARDIS crew for the first time since 1983, and calling it "strong stuff".^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Michael, Matt (15 September 2010 (cover date)). "The DWM Review". Doctor Who Magazine (Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics) (425): p64. Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

Cobwebs
Cobwebs at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

v t e Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Return to the Web Planet The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef & A Perfect World Castle of Fear The Eternal Summer Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights 1963: Fanfare For The Common Men The Light at the End Moonflesh Tomb Ship Masquerade

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane Eldrad Must Die! The Lady of Mercia Prisoners of Fate

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince

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