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Big Finish Productions audio play Cuddlesome Series Doctor Who Release number Doctor Who Magazine special Featuring Fifth Doctor Writer Nigel Fairs Director Barnaby Edwards Producer(s) David Richardson Executive producer(s) Jason Haigh-Ellery,
Nicholas BriggsLength 55 mins Release date March 2008 Cuddlesome is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released free with issue 393 of Doctor Who Magazine. This has Peter Davison playing the Doctor.
Despite the companion-like role played by Roberta Taylor's character, Angela Wisher, her status as companion is disputed. Roberta Taylor also appears in the Big Finish audio play The Holy Terror as a side character, Berengeria.
Contents
Plot
The Fifth Doctor arrives on earth, to discover that Cuddlesomes - pink, vampire, hamster-like toys from the 1980s - are attacking people. He meets Angela Wisher, whose boyfriend (John Dixon) was attacked by his old Cuddlesome, and they investigate at the "White Elephant", the warehouse in which the Cuddlesomes are made. The Doctor discovers that a journalist, Miranda Evendon, has turned into a kind of Tinghus hybrid. The Tinghus is the one behind the attacks, and he destroys Ronald Turvey's Cuddlesomes and makes new, American-voiced, evil Cuddlesomes (Mark 2s). The Doctor, Angela, Ronald and the just recovered John try to stop the Cuddlesome plan. With Ronald's new army of Cuddlesomes and the Tinghus's Cuddlesomes, a war starts.
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Angela Wisher - Roberta Taylor
- Ronald Turvey - Timothy West
- The Tinghus - David Troughton
- John Dixon / New Cuddlesomes - Matthew Noble
- Miranda Evenden / Old Cuddlesomes / Dr Cooper / Vehicle - Kate Brown
- Newsreader - Nicholas Briggs
Notes
- David Troughton, who plays the Tinghus, is the son of Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton.
- Also included on the CD is a 'director's cut' of Part One of The Mutant Phase.
- This audio drama is based on an earlier Audio Visuals story of the same name.
External links
Fifth Doctor audio dramas Tegan, Nyssa & Adric Nyssa The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • The Haunting of Thomas Brewster • The Boy That Time Forgot • Time Reef & A Perfect World • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories • The Five CompanionsNyssa & Tegan Omega • The Elite • Hexagora • The Children of SethNyssa, Tegan & Turlough Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat TrapTegan & Turlough The Sirens of Time • Excelis Dawns • Ringpullworld • FreakshowTurlough Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • SingularityPeri Red Dawn • Exotron & Urban Myths • Peri and the Piscon ParadoxPeri & Erimem The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • No Place Like Home • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • The Gathering • Cuddlesome • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans • The Bride of PeladonAmy Other Zagreus • The Four DoctorsCategories:- Doctor Who stubs
- 2008 audio plays
- Fifth Doctor audio plays
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