Doctor Who - Audio Details

Nyssa will die at dawn, and the Doctor doesn't even know why.

To save her life, he must make a desperate journey to the only place in the universe where a cure might exist.

When even that fails, the Doctor has a choice - let Nyssa die, or make a deal with the devil.

After all, the road to hell is paved with good intentions…

This year is the nineteenth anniversary of the nineteenth season, and I'm now older than Peter Davison was when he was cast as the Doctor.  I don't know about you, but that makes me feel old.  It's difficult to write about Primeval - there's a twist in scene three that we've been trying very hard to keep secret.  No doubt, as is the way, by now many of you will know what that twist is.  Hopefully, even if someone's squealed, you'll enjoy the story.  And the twist has a twist or two, as you'll soon find out.

As the story is "set" between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity, you'll forgive me if I hope it's not an exact recreation of the era, but hopefully this will be an exciting, pacey adventure for the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, one that evokes the best of Doctor Who in the early eighties, but one that's firmly "set" in 2001, between Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings.

I've written for the Fifth Doctor before, in Cold Fusion and A Town Called Eternity (with Mark Clapham), but this is the first time I've written for Peter Davison, and it's very pleasing to do so...

Lance Parkin, September 2001