Winter for the Adept (audio story)

Winter for the Adept (audio story)

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Winter for the Adept
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Nyssa
Main enemy:	Spillagers
Main setting:	Swiss Alps, Earth December 1963
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Andrew Cartmel
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	10
Release date:	July 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	6C/B
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-072-X

Winter for the Adept (audio story) was the tenth audio story part of Big Finish's Doctor Who monthly range of stories.

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.

Plot

to be added

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

Art by Lee Sullivan from DWM 293

• India Fisher makes her first appearance in this audio. She would later be cast as Charley Pollard, a companion of the Eighth Doctor and later the 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.
• This is the first Doctor Who story written by Andrew Cartmel not to feature the Seventh Doctor.

Continuity

• Nyssa mentions her recent visit to Alaska (BFA: The Land of the Dead) and the Xeraphin (DW: Time-Flight).

Timeline

• Winter for the Adept occurs after VD: Past Reckoning
• Winter for the Adept occurs before BFA: The Mutant Phase

External links

• Official Winter for the Adept page at bigfinish.com
• Winter for the Adept at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Winter for the Adept at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide