Pursuit of the Nightjar (audio story)

	Fifth Doctor
	Nyssa, Tegan
	Nightjar & Nemesis
	Big Finish Productions
	Tim Foley
	Ken Bentley
	David Richardson
	Howard Carter
	Howard Carter
	4
	In the Night
	5 September 2023
	2 CD Download
	BFPDWDR0504
	ISBN 978-1-83868-886-8 (physical) ISBN 978-1-83868-887-5 (digital)
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Pursuit of the Nightjar was the first story in the audio anthology In the Night, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.

Publisher's summary

The story of the Nightjar has been told for many years. A spaceship helmed by the legendary Captain Gobin on a vital mission of mercy, delivering medical supplies to a distant colony in the middle of devastating war, an act of bravery that triggers the end of the conflict.

At her heels throughout the journey, her pursuer, the spaceship Nemesis, helmed by the dogged Captain Eslo, never quite able to catch her target. The Doctor has always wanted to witness these historic events. And now, alongside Nyssa and Tegan, he's got his chance.

But history might just have other ideas.

Plot

Part One

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Part Two

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Part Three

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Part Four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
• Captain Eslo - Fenella Woolgar
• Captain Goben - Paul Thornley

References

• The Doctor heard the story of the Nightjar on one of his first trips after leaving Gallifrey at the bazaar on Garazone. Susan bought him a model of the Nightjar at the market there.
• The Doctor mentions Reapers and hollow men as Vortex lifeforms that would make the temporal situation worse.
• The Doctor mentions the famous anecdote about NASA spending millions of dollars to make a pen that would work in space. Apparently at some point, these pens became sentient and hostile, requiring the Doctor to stop them.
• Goben mentions that the Nightjar and Nemesis have faced the dangers of the Asteroid Symbol Glades, the Lonely Scar, Gentle Cluster, and the Obscura.

Notes

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Continuity

• Nyssa and Tegan compare the ghostly figures to the Watcher from TV
• The Doctor mentions their escape from Event One in TV: Castrovalva ^[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"].
• The Eleventh Doctor still has his model of the Nightjar in the TARDIS in AUDIO: All of Time and Space ^[+]Loading...["All of Time and Space (audio story)"].
• The Doctor states that usually the altering of a timeline would cause the apparation of Vortex creatures such as Reapers, as seen in TV: Father's Day ^[+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"], and Hollow Men, as seen in AUDIO: The Empty Man ^[+]Loading...["The Empty Man (audio story)"].
• The Nightjar's journey has taken it through the Obscura, from AUDIO: Soldier Obscura ^[+]Loading...["Soldier Obscura (audio story)"].
• The Doctor states that he can withstand the vacuum of space for longer. The Twelfth Doctor would also put this to the test on the Chasm Forge. (TV: Oxygen)
• Whilst in space, Tegan states that she's always felt invincible around the Doctor, even "after Adric". (TV: Earthshock)
• To recover from the effects of space, the Doctor enters a trance, similar to one he was in post-regeneration. (TV: Castrovalva)

External links

• Official Pursuit of the Nightjar page at bigfinish.com