The Cradle of the Snake
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| The Cradle of the Snake | |
|---|---|
| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 138 |
| Featuring | Fifth Doctor Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Vislor Turlough |
| Writer | Marc Platt |
| Director | Barnaby Edwards |
| Executive producer | Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Production code | 6HC |
| Release date | September 2010 |
The Cradle of the Snake is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Contents
Plot
Tegan's nightmares about the Mara return, forcing the Doctor to confront the problem on its home world, Manussa.
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
- Rick ausGarten - Dan Stevens
- Baalaka - Toby Sawyer
- Yoanna Rayluss - Madeleine Potter
- Dr Hanri Kerrem - Hugh Fraser
- Dadda Desaka - Vernon Dobtcheff
Continuity
- The serpentine Mara and its relationship with Tegan were introduced in Kinda. The Mara returned in Snakedance, when the TARDIS was dragged to its home planet, Manussa.
- Although this is the Doctor's second visit to Manussa, it is hundreds of years earlier in their history, before their industrialized civilization fell.
Cast notes
Vernon Dobtcheff played the Chief Scientist in the 1969 story The War Games, in which role he became the first person to say "Time Lords" onscreen in Doctor Who.
External links
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