Winter for the Adept
| Winter for the Adept | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release no. | 10 |
| Featuring | Fifth Doctor Nyssa |
| Written by | Andrew Cartmel |
| Directed by | Gary Russell |
| Produced by | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive producer(s) | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Production code | 6CB |
| Length | 1 hr 34 mins |
| Release date | July 2000 |
| Preceded by | The Spectre of Lanyon Moor |
| Followed by | The Apocalypse Element |
Winter for the Adept is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Plot
The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa investigate the mystery of a malevolent poltergeist in a Swiss girls' finishing school.
This episode addresses issues of religious extremism.
Cast
- The Doctor — Peter Davison
- Nyssa — Sarah Sutton
- Alison Speers — Liz Sutherland
- Miss Tremayne — Sally Faulkner
- Mlle Maupassant — Hannah Dickinson
- Peril Bellamy — India Fisher
- Lt Peter Sandoz — Peter Jurasik
- Harding Wellman — Christopher Webber
- Commodore — Andy Coleman
- Empress — Nicky Goldie
Notes
- This is the first Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama to feature the actress India Fisher. She later went on to play the Eighth and later the Sixth Doctor's audio companion Charley Pollard. It also features Peter Jurasik, better known for his role as Londo Mollari in the television series Babylon 5.
- Discussing Nyssa's latent telepathic abilities (an abandoned story arc that was to feature during her time on the television series), she and the Doctor refer to the Xeraphin from the TV serial Time-Flight and the Permian creatures from the audio play The Land of the Dead.