Time Reef

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Time Reef
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who
Release no.113
Featuring Fifth Doctor
Nyssa
Thomas Brewster
Written by Marc Platt
Directed by Barnaby Edwards
Production code6C/M
Length90 min approx
Release dateSeptember 2008
Preceded by The Boy That Time Forgot
Followed by A Perfect World

Time Reef is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It is a three part adventure, released with the single episode story that follows it, A Perfect World .

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Plot

The Doctor and Nyssa have returned to the TARDIS to find it missing various pieces of equipment and its dimensions unstable. Thomas Brewster refuses to explain where he has been since he "borrowed" the TARDIS and what has happened to it. Drawn by a distress beacon, the TARDIS crash lands on a time reef where the interior subsequently implodes, leaving the companions stranded. They need to find their way back to normal space.

Brewster originally stole the TARDIS in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster , leaving the Doctor and Nyssa stranded in Victorian London. They regain the TARDIS in the following story, The Boy That Time Forgot .

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