Cobwebs (audio story)

Cobwebs
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Turlough
Main enemy:	The Cractids
Main setting:	Helheim
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Producer:	Steve Foxon
Release details
Release number:	136
Release date:	31 July 2010
Format:	2 Disc, 4 parts
Production code:	6FA
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-472-6
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Cobwebs was a Big Finish Productions audio adventure that began the 2010 Fifth Doctor season. It was the first of three such stories that year. It was the first new story to feature stars Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson since DW: Terminus in 1983, discounting flashback sequences in DW: The Caves of Androzani.

Publisher's summary

You know what cobwebs mean. Spiders…”

In search of a cure for a sickness that’s so far claimed six billion lives, scientist Nyssa arrives at an abandoned gene-tech facility on the toxic planet Helheim. ‘Hellhole’, more like.

Nyssa’s not alone. The TARDIS has also been drawn to the Helheim base – and in its cobweb-coated corridors, she soon runs into the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, her travelling companions of half a century past. But who, or what, has engineered this strange reunion? The Black Guardian, perhaps?

The answer’s here, in the dark. With the Cractids. In the cobwebs.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
• Tegan - Janet Fielding
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• 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

References

• In reference to Turlough, Tegan notes that her aunt Vanessa always said, "once a wrong 'un, always a wrong 'un."
• The Genetech station is equipped with an artificially intelligent interface named EDGAR (Encephalic Data Gathering and Research).
• Tegan refers to Loki as R2-D2, a fictional droid from the Star Wars film series.

Story notes

• This is the first audio drama released in the main range to feature Turlough since BFA: Singularity in November 2005 and the first to feature Tegan since BFA: The Gathering in September 2006.
• Adrian Lukis (Enforcement Officer Bragg) would later play Byzan in BFA: The Children of Seth and Professor Jeffrey Broderick in CM: Artificial Intelligence.
• This audio drama was recorded on 29 December 2009 and 4 January 2010.

Continuity

• Chronologically, this story takes place two days after the events of DW: Enlightenment for the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough and fifty years after the events of DW: Terminus for Nyssa.
• Nyssa has cured Lazar's disease. (DW: Terminus)
• The Doctor claims to have met Christopher Columbus. (PDA: Eye of Heaven, DW: The Two Doctors)
• Nyssa mentions encountering the Daleks in Stockbridge in the 45th century. (BFA: Plague of the Daleks)
• The Doctor and Tegan argue over Turlough's loyalty. Tegan makes numerous references to his alliance with the Black Guardian. (DW: Enlightenment)
• Nyssa is aware of the circumstances of the Doctor's next regeneration. (BFA: Winter)
• Tegan mentions her aunt Vanessa (DW: Logopolis) and Terminus (DW: Terminus) while Nyssa refers to Brendon Public School (DW: Mawdryn Undead).
• Nyssa asks the Doctor to take her home. However, it takes him many journeys until he can return her home, similar to his attempts to return Tegan to Heathrow Airport in 1982. (DW: Four to Doomsday, DW: The Visitation, DW: Time-Flight)

External links

• Official Cobwebs page at bigfinish.com
• Cobwebs at the Doctor Who Reference Guide