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Destination: Nerva | |
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Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
Series | Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Adventures |
Release no. | 1.1 |
Featuring | Fourth Doctor Leela |
Written by | Nicholas Briggs |
Directed by | Nicholas Briggs |
Executive producer(s) | Nicholas Briggs |
Production code | 4S/A |
Release date | January 2012 |
Destination: Nerva is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.
Tom Baker played the Fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981. Although Big Finish Productions has been producing audio dramas with all the other living, Classic Series Doctors since 1999, Tom Baker had declined to participate. Baker finally reprised the role in a series of audio dramas for the BBC in 2009, starting with Hornets' Nest . Destination Nerva is the first in a series of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. It was followed by The Renaissance Man .
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