Cobwebs (audio drama) explained

Cobwebs
Publisher:Big Finish Productions
Series:Doctor Who
Number:136
Featuring:Fifth Doctor
Nyssa
Tegan Jovanka
Vislor Turlough
Director:Barnaby Edwards
Executive Producer:Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production Code:6HA
Preceding:Enlightenment
Following:The Whispering Forest
Date:July 2010

Cobwebs is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra from 16 to 19 May 2011.

Plot

Half a century after her travels in the TARDIS, Nyssa reunites with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, days after they left her.

Cast

Continuity

The play occurs after Enlightenment with a much older Nyssa briefly rejoining her friends at the same ages she left them.

Notes

Helen Griffin appeared in the TV story Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel

It is only the second Big Finish audio play that Fielding had appeared in, after 2006's The Gathering.

Critical reception

Matt Michael, writing for Doctor Who Magazine, praised the audio drama, welcoming the opportunity to hear this TARDIS crew for the first time since 1983, and calling it "strong stuff".[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Michael. Matt. 15 September 2010. The DWM Review. Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Comics. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 425. 64.