Category Archives: The Nyssa Challenge (DW)

Week 21 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ UPDATED

 –UPDATED REVIEW ON AUDIO CD AND VINYL TODAY–

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Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley.

Today, it’s time to travel back in time to Week 21 of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’. This was when the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa faced the Cybermen a second time in the classic Big Finish audio drama, ‘Spare Parts’. This is considered by many to be one of the best and well-loved ‘Doctor Who’ audio dramas by fans. Continue reading

Week 6 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ UPDATED

— BRAND NEW NOVELIZATION/AUDIOBOOK REVIEW AVALIABLE TODAY!!! —

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Today, I’ve updated my reviews on the ‘Doctor Who’ story, ‘Four To Doomsday’, as part of my new mini-review season of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’. This includes the TV story as well as the new novelization/audiobook by Terrance Dicks, with Matthew Waterhouse narrating the novel for audio. Continue reading

Audio Review – ‘The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius’ (Doctor Who)

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Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

Today, I’ve added my latest audio review on the Short Trip audio by Big Finish called ‘The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius’. This story features Adric with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan and is read by Matthew Waterhouse. I’ve added this as part of the mini ‘Nyssa Challenge’ review season. Continue reading

Week 5 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ UPDATED

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— BRAND NEW REVIEWS AVALIABLE TODAY!!! —

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Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

‘The Nyssa Challenge’ has returned! For the next several days this Christmas season, I’m adding my reviews on the latest Nyssa stories in ‘Doctor Who’ that were released since December 2016. These include the latest Big Finish audio dramas and the latest Short Trip audios. I hope you’ll enjoy these. Continue reading

Bonus Week – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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Yes! It’s ‘Dimensions in Time’ for this final and bonus week on ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ today! 🙂

Do I have to review this story, you ask? Yes! Of course I have to! I want to! Why, you ask? Because it’s ‘Doctor Who’; it’s the 30th anniversary special of 1993 and it features Sarah Sutton as Nyssa in it, of course!  I hope you’ll enjoy my thoughts on this story. Continue reading

Week 71 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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The end has come! It’s time to say goodbye to Nyssa in this final story of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’! It can’t be the end surely?! I’m so sad! 😦

The ‘Return to E-Space’ trilogy comes to a close with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough visiting Apollyon; facing the Sandmen and escaping E-Space in…‘The Entropy Plague’. Continue reading

Week 70 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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It’s Spring Bank Holiday Monday in May in the UK today! 🙂

It’s also Week 70 on ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ today…and we’re coming to the end! I’m feeling so sad already! 😦 Today’s penultimate story in ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ for this week has the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough continue their escape from E-Space. The ‘Return to E-Space’ trilogy continues as the TARDIS team visit Isenfel in ‘Equilibrium’! 🙂 Continue reading

Week 69 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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The end is coming…but the moment has been prepared for!

Today on this week’s ‘The Nyssa Challenge’, we begin the ‘Return to E-Space’ trilogy with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough. In this first story, they return to Alzarius in E-Space and face the return of the Marshmen in ‘Mistfall’! 🙂 Continue reading

Week 68 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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This week on ‘The Nyssa Challenge’, it’s going to get very emotional.  😦

Today, it’s time for a story where Nyssa faces the consequences of time-travel as she reunites with her son after missing 25 years of her life with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough in ‘Prisoners of Fate’. Continue reading

Week 67 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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It’s my birthday today! I’m so pleased that this week’s ‘Nyssa Challenge’ is on my birthday! There’ll be birthday-related post on my blog later on! Stay tuned! Continue reading