Prisoners of Fate (audio story)

Prisoners of Fate was the third story in the 2013 Fifth Doctor audio trilogy.

	Fifth Doctor
	Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough
	Sibor, The Doctor's first TARDIS
	Valderon, 3556 Zarat, 3531
	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
	Jonathan Morris
	Ken Bentley
	Fool Circle Productions
	Fool Circle Productions
	174
	11 June 2013
	2 CDs, 4 Parts
	ISBN 978-1-78178-074-9
Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories
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Publisher's summary

Twenty-five years ago, with Richter's Syndrome running rampant throughout the galaxy, the brilliant biochemist Nyssa, formerly of Traken, bade a painful farewell to her young family... and set off into the space, in search of a cure for this deadly disease.

She never returned.

Now, her grown-up son continues her work on the penal colony of Valderon, still desperate to make the breakthrough that eluded his presumed-dead mother.

So when the TARDIS lands on Valderon, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to its fortress prison, the scene is set for a painful reunion... but not only for Nyssa. The Doctor's past is about to catch up with him too...

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
• Turlough - Mark Strickson
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Sibor - Sarah Douglas
• Galen - Alastair Mackenzie
• Mahandra - Anjella Mackintosh
• Kartis - Jez Fielder

References

• The Doctor's First TARDIS shows him his future incarnations and calls them rhetorician, the schemer and the idealist.

Notes

• Clips from numerous previous audio dramas are heard in Part Four, including AUDIO: Bloodtide, AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, AUDIO: Flip-Flop, AUDIO: Protect and Survive, AUDIO: The Canabalists, AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars and AUDIO: Army of Death.

Continuity

• Adric mentions his mother having talked to him about Omega (TV: Arc of Infinity), Cybermen and his namesake (TV: Earthshock) and his visit to the 17th century. (TV: The Visitation)
• Adric mentions his mother meeting Turlough on Earth, at Brendon School, with a Brigadier,and a creature called Mawdryn. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
• Turlough mentions Purity (AUDIO: The Whispering Forest), Vektris (AUDIO: Kiss of Death) and the Sontarans. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar)
• Turlough also talks about how Nyssa was rejuvenated, by Hermogenite. (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger)
• When the Doctor is mentioning time-sensitive races who could possibly see into the future he mentions Tharils (AUDIO: Warriors' Gate), Jagaroth (AUDIO: City of Death), Xeraphin (AUDIO: Time-Flight) and Time Lords (TV: The Deadly Assasin).
• Nyssa tells the Doctor that she met him later in his timeline, whilst he was regenerating.
• The Rictus Syndrome Story Arc that began in (AUDIO: Cobwebs (audio story)) concludes in this story leaving that fate of Nyssa in the current audio series of the 5th doctor

External links

• Official Prisoners of Fate page at bigfinish.com