Nightmare of Eden (TV story)

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Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on the space liner Empress which has become locked together with a private ship, the Hecate, after colliding with it on emerging from hyperspace.

The Doctor and Romana meet the scientist Tryst, who has with him a Continuous Event Transmuter (CET) machine containing crystals on which are stored supposed recordings of planets that he and his team have visited.

Someone on board the liner is smuggling the dangerously addictive drug vraxoin, and to complicate matters the interface between the two ships allows some monstrous Mandrels from the mud-swamps of Eden to escape from the CET machine - which does not merely take recordings but actually displaces whole planetary areas into its crystals.

The smugglers are revealed to be Tryst and the Hecate's pilot, Dymond. Vraxoin is in fact the material into which the Mandrels decompose when they are killed. The Doctor thwarts this plan, separates the two ships and returns the Mandrels to Eden.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

Businesses

Drugs and medicines

Military

  • Stott is a Major in the intelligence section of the Space Corps.

Planets

Races and species

  • Mandrels turn into Vraxoin when electrocuted.

Spacecraft

Technology

Story notes

  • Vraxoin was originally called 'xylophilin', but was changed so as not to sound appealing to children.
  • This story had the working title of Nightmare of Evil.

Ratings

  • Part 1 - 8.7 million viewers
  • Part 2 - 9.6 million viewers
  • Part 3 - 9.6 million viewers
  • Part 4 - 9.4 million viewers

Myths

to be added

Filming locations

Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • In episode two, when K9 seals up the wall panel, a hand emerges to hold the thing in place.
  • Also in the 2nd episode, when the Doctor runs downstairs one stair slipped.
  • When Della gets shot in the face in episode four, she clutches her stomach.
  • In episode three, the Mandrel that was killed by K9 can be seen breathing while still laying on the ground after the Doctor made sure it was dead.

Continuity

Timeline

Novelisation and its audiobook

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Main article: Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden

See also

DVD, Video and Other releases

Nightmare of Eden was released onto the iTunes Store in the US, Australia and UK in 2008/2009.

Production of extras for DVD release started in February 2011.

Video releases

Nightmare of Eden was released on video in 1999.

DVD release

A Dvd is currently in production as of Feburary 2011

External links

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