Night of the Stormcrow

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Night of the Stormcrow
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who
Featuring Fourth Doctor
Leela
Written by Marc Platt
Release dateDecember 2012 (subscription only)

Night of the Stormcrow is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It is free to subscribers and released with 1001 Nights . [1] [2]

Contents

Plot

A mountainside observatory searches the skies for a vast and deadly creature.

Cast

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References

  1. "BBC – Doctor Who – The Official Site". BBC. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
  2. Big Finish Productions news