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The Cradle of the Snake

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Release no.
  
138

Directed by
  
Barnaby Edwards

Release date
  
September 2010

Author
  
Marc Platt

Release number
  
138

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Written by
  
Marc Platt

Production code
  
6HC

Originally published
  
30 September 2010

Series
  
Doctor Who

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Executive producer(s)
  
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery

Featurings
  
Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough

Similar
  
Marc Platt books, Other books

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.

    • References

    The Cradle of the Snake Wikipedia
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