Winter (audio story)

Winter (audio story)

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Winter
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Nyssa Kamelion
Main enemy:	The Master
Main setting:	mostly the Doctor's mind, but also the home of Nyssa and Lasarti
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Director:	John Ainsworth
Music:	David Darlington
Sound:	David Darlington
Release details
Release number:	91d
Part of:	Circular Time
Release date:	January 2007
Format:	1 X 25 min.
Production code:	6C/H
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-175-0

Winter was a 2007 Big Finish full-cast audio short story, featuring the fifth Doctor and Nyssa. It was set within the last few moments of the fifth Doctor's life, as he was battling the Master for control of his regeneration — meaning that most, but not all, of the narrative takes place in the Doctor's mind.

It was further notable for being the only Big Finish audio, as of 2011, to use the character of Kamelion in any significant way.

Publisher's summary

Many years after their travels together have ended, the two friends meet again in the strangest of circumstances.

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Lasarti - Jeremy James
• Anima - Sunny Ormonde

References

to be added

Notes

• According to a 20 November 2006 blog post, Paul Cornell wrote this story without the assistance of Mike Maddox.

Continuity

• This story posits Nyssa's marriage a man named Lasarti, and the existence of their baby daughter, Neeka.
• Nyssa and her husband help the Doctor into a recreation of the Zero Room in his mindscape.
• The Master uses Kamelion's connection to the Doctor's TARDIS to try and prevent the fifth Doctor's regeneration into the sixth Doctor.
• There are mentions of Tegan , Turlough, and Adric.
• Nyssa and the Doctor encounter The Watcher in his mindscape.
• The Doctor says his next incarnation will be very colourful, a possible reference to the sixth Doctor's coat.

Timeline

This story firmly occurs in the last few seconds of the fifth Doctor's life, during episode 4 of DW: The Caves of Androzani.

For Nyssa, of course, it's some considerable time after DW: Terminus. However, it's a little unclear how this story relates to the adventures of the older Nyssa related in such stories as PDA: Asylum and her reunion with Turlough and Tegan in BFA: Cobwebs. She's substantially older than she was in Terminus, yes, but she's just had a baby, so she's still within child-bearing age for a Trakenite — whatever that is.