Winter (audio story)

Winter
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Nyssa Kamelion Peri Brown (unseen)
Main enemy:	The Master (unseen)
Main setting:	The Doctor's mind The home of Nyssa and Lasarti
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Director:	John Ainsworth
Music:	David Darlington
Sound:	David Darlington
Release details
Release number:	91d
Part of:	Circular Time
Release date:	January 2007
Format:	1 X 25 min.
Production code:	6C/H
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-175-0
Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories
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Winter was a 2007 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. It was set within the last few moments of the Fifth Doctor's life, as he was battling the Master for control of his regeneration — meaning that most, but not all, of the narrative takes place in the Doctor's mind.

It was further notable for being the only Big Finish audio, as of 2012, to use the character of Kamelion in any significant way.

Publisher's summary

Many years after their travels together have ended, the two friends meet again in the strangest of circumstances.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Lasarti - Jeremy James
• Anima - Sunny Ormonde

References

• The Doctor tells Nyssa that she would like his latest companion Peri Brown, but then reconsiders, saying "or possibly not."

Notes

• According to a 20 November 2006 blog post, Paul Cornell wrote this story without the assistance of Mike Maddox.
• In spite of the fact that he remains unseen throughout, this is the only Fifth Doctor audio drama to feature the Master as a villain.

Continuity

• This story posits Nyssa's marriage to a man named Lasarti, and the existence of their baby daughter, Neeka.
• Nyssa and her husband help the Doctor into a recreation of the Zero Room in his mindscape. (DW: Castrovalva)
• The Master uses Kamelion's connection to the Doctor's TARDIS to try and prevent the Fifth Doctor's regeneration into the Sixth Doctor. (DW: The Caves of Androzani)
• There are mentions of the Fifth Doctor's former companions Adric, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough as well as his current companion Peri Brown.
• The Doctor and Nyssa encounter the Watcher in his mindscape. (DW: Logopolis)
• The Doctor says his next incarnation will be very colourful, a possible reference to the Sixth Doctor's coat. (DW: The Twin Dilemma, et. al)
• Later in her personal timeline, Nyssa would encounter the Fourth Doctor in 3488 (PDA: Asylum) and would subsequently re-join the Fifth Doctor as one of his companions (BFA: Cobwebs). From the Doctor's perspective, both of these events had already happened.

Timeline

For the Doctor

• This story occurs during the last few seconds of the Fifth Doctor's life as depicted in Part Four of DW: The Caves of Androzani
• This story occurs immediately before DW: The Twin Dilemma

For Nyssa

• This story occurs after PDA: Asylum
• This story occurs before BFA: Cobwebs

This was the fourth and final story in a series of stories named after seasons.