The Darkening Eye (audio story)

The Darkening Eye
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Adric Nyssa Tegan Jovanka
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Stewart Sheargold
Director:	Ken Bentley
Read by:	Sarah Sutton
Release details
Release number:	3.6
Release date:	December 2008
Format:	1xCD
Production code:	BFPDWCC14
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-355-2

The Darkening Eye was the sixth story in the third series of The Companion Chronicles. It broke the unwritten "rules" of The Chronicles by featuring Nyssa relating an adventure with the Fifth Doctor. Typically the range dealt with incarnations of the Doctor who weren't able or willing to participate in monthly Doctor Who releases. Nyssa, however, was the Fifth Doctor's most constant audio companion, so her inclusion in this range is unusual.

Publisher's summary

While investigating a debris-littered battlefield in deep space, the TARDIS crew are salvaged by an ancient race of collectors known as Dar Traders.

Separated from the Doctor after an accident, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa find themselves at the mercy of the Traders’ curiosity. But the Traders have salvaged a cabinet from the battle that could be very dangerous indeed.

What does the suave assassin, Damasin Hyde, know of the cabinet? And why is everybody so interested in the missing Time Lord?

To find the Doctor, the TARDIS crew will have to enter a violent inter-planetary war. Where someone will die, and it will change everything.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton (also narrating)
• The Dar Traders - Derek Carlyle

References

• Dwarf star alloy
• The Dar Traders state that, as a Trakenite, death is attracted to Nyssa but she can master and calcify it.

Notes

• This is the first Companion Chronicle to be read by a companion of a Doctor other than the first four incarnations.
• This is the first Big Finish audio play to feature the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Adric. This has previously been impossible as neither Matthew Waterhouse nor Janet Fielding was willing to appear in the range.
• Along with BFA: The Boy That Time Forgot and CC: The Invasion of E-Space, this is one of only three audio dramas to feature Adric as a character.
• Chronologically, this is the earliest audio drama to feature the Fifth Doctor.
• This audio drama was recorded on 1 August 2008.

Continuity

• The Dar Traders foresee Adric dying soon. (DW: Earthshock)
• The Dar Traders returned in BFA: The Death Collectors.
• Nyssa tells of when the Master stole her father's body. (DW: The Keeper of Traken)

Timeline

• The Darkening Eye occurs after ST: Hearts of Stone
• The Darkening Eye occurs before DW: Earthshock

External links

• Official The Darkening Eye page at bigfinish.com
• The Darkening Eye at the Doctor Who Reference Guide