The Mutant Phase

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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 byNicholas Briggs
Produced by Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code6CC
Length2 hrs, 1 min
Release dateDecember 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.

Contents

A director's cut of the first episode was included with the Doctor Who Magazine bonus CD story Cuddlesome .

Plot

The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa discover that even the Daleks have foes that they fear as a paradox threatens to destroy the universe... but are the Daleks the threat or the cure?

Cast

Continuity

Notes

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