Winter for the Adept (audio story)
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Publisher's summary
When a teleportation experiment goes badly wrong, Nyssa finds herself stranded on the freezing slopes of the Swiss Alps in 1963. But is it mere coincidence that she finds shelter in a snowbound school haunted by a malevolent poltergeist?
When the Doctor arrives, Nyssa and the other inhabitants of the school soon discover that the ghost is merely part of a darker, deeper and more deadly game involving rogue psi talents and something else... Something not of this Earth.
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Alison Speer - Liz Sutherland
- Miss Tremayne - Sally Faulkner
- Mlle. Maupassant - Hannah Dickinson
- Peril Bellamy - India Fisher
- Lt Peter Sandoz - Peter Jurasik
- Harding Wellman - Christopher Webber
- Commodore - Andy Coleman
- Empress - Nicky Goldie
References
- The Doctor tracked Nyssa using her biomorphic essence.
Psychic powers
- Alison is telepathic.
- Peril is telekinetic.
Foods and beverages
- The Doctor makes some tea that contains a mild sedative.
- The Doctor eats a ham sandwich.
- Nyssa is offered some cognac, but refuses.
Races and species
- Nyssa mentions the Permians and the Xeraphin.
- The Spillagers are from another dimension.
Theories and concepts
- Harding Wellman is a ghost.
Notes
- India Fisher makes her first appearance in this audio, she would later be cast as Charley Pollard companion to Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor as well as Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor.
- Sally Faulkner last appeared in DW: The Invasion playing Isobel Watkins
- This story was featured in the preview section of Doctor Who Magazine issue 293 with art by Lee Sullivan.
Continuity
- Nyssa mentions Alaska from BFA: The Land of the Dead and the Xeraphin whom she encountered in DW: Time-Flight.
Timeline
- Winter for the Adept occurs after VD: Past Reckoning
- Winter for the Adept occurs before BFA: The Mutant Phase
