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The Mutant Phase | |
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Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
Series | Doctor Who |
Release no. | 15 |
Featuring | Fifth Doctor Nyssa |
Written by | Nicholas Briggs |
Directed by | Nicholas Briggs |
Produced by | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
Executive producer(s) | Jacqueline Rayner |
Production code | 6CC |
Length | 2 hrs, 1 min |
Release date | December 2000 |
Preceded by | The Holy Terror |
Followed by | Storm Warning |
The Mutant Phase is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It forms the third serial in the Dalek Empire arc, following on from events in The Genocide Machine and The Apocalypse Element . The arc concludes in The Time of the Daleks . This audio drama is based on an earlier Audio Visuals story of the same name.
A director's cut of the first episode was included with the Doctor Who Magazine bonus CD story Cuddlesome .
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