Primeval (audio drama)

Primeval

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	26
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Nyssa
Writer	Lance Parkin
Director	Gary Russell
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	6CD
Set between	The Mutant Phase and Spare Parts
Length	1 hr 47 mins
Release date	November 2001

Primeval is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

When Nyssa's psychic abilities threaten her life, the Doctor takes her to ancient Traken. Will Nyssa be healed, or does the Doctor's arrival threaten Traken and its Source?

Cast

The Doctor — Peter Davison
Nyssa — Sarah Sutton
Shayla — Susan Penhaligon
Sabian — Ian Hallard
Kwundaar — Stephen Greif
Janneus — Rita Davies
Hyrca — Mark Woolgar
Etrayk — Alistair Lock
Anona — Romy Tennant
Narthex — Billy Miller

Notes

References are made to several events from other stories that take place shortly before this one in story chronology, including Nyssa learning the Charleston in Black Orchid, the Doctor losing his sonic screwdriver in The Visitation, the death of Adric in Earthshock and Tegan coping with visiting her own planet's past in such stories as The Visitation and Time-Flight.
Nyssa's display of latent psychic abilities in Time-Flight and the audio play Winter for the Adept is explained as a plot point, along with Nyssa's sudden collapse (ostensibly from exhaustion) at the end of Four to Doomsday, which necessitated her spending most of Kinda asleep in the TARDIS.
Much of the story is based on the setting of the world of Traken as laid out in the serial The Keeper of Traken. Many of the same settings are re-used: the Consuls' chamber, the Source chamber, and the Grove.

External links

Reviews

Primeval reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Primeval reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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