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Cobwebs | |
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Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
Series | Doctor Who |
Release no. | 136 |
Featuring | Fifth Doctor Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Vislor Turlough |
Written by | Jonathan Morris |
Directed by | Barnaby Edwards |
Executive producer(s) | Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
Production code | 6HA |
Release date | July 2010 |
Preceded by | Enlightenment |
Followed by | The Whispering Forest |
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.
Half a century after her travels in the TARDIS, Nyssa reunites with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, days after they left her.
The play occurs after Enlightenment with a much older Nyssa briefly rejoining her friends at the same ages she left them.
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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]
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