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Week 50 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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Is it Week 50 of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ already?!

The Mara returns to haunt Tegan again! This week on ‘The Nyssa Challenge’, the Doctor and Nyssa must save Tegan’s life and stop the Mara as they visit the world of Manussa in ‘Snakedance’! 🙂 Continue reading

Christmas CD Reviews – ‘Doctor Who’ Novel Adaptations

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I’ve now finished listening to a bundle of ‘Doctor Who’ audios! These are the Novel Adaptations on five ‘Doctor Who’ novels published in the 1990s! I’ve enjoyed all five stories, as they have been interesting tales from the period when ‘Doctor Who’ was unloved by the BBC but loved by the fans. Continue reading

Week 49 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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Welcome to the New Year on ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ this week!

Today, we start in 2017 on one of the most popular and well-received Big Finish audios of ‘Doctor Who’ with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan! In this story, the TARDIS visits Manchester on the 16th of August 1819 – the day of ‘The Peterloo Massacre’! Continue reading

Week 48 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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It’s Boxing Day today!

I’m so pleased to have one of my weeks of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ on this special festive day during Christmas! Today on this week’s ‘Nyssa Challenge’, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan visit the ‘Aquitaine’ where they meet Hargreaves the robot butler! 🙂 Continue reading

DVD Review – ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’

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“Merry Christmas Sarah!”

As promised, here’s a new DVD review added to ‘The Works of Sarah Sutton’, attached to ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ page for Christmas 2016! It’s on the BBC TV movie of ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ starring Sarah Sutton as Alice.  It was shown on Christmas Day back in 1973. Now it is available to watch on DVD and from the BBC store as a download online. Continue reading

Audio Review – ‘The King of the Dead’ (Doctor Who)

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As part of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ this week, here is my audio review of the Short Trip audio called ‘The King of the Dead’ with Sarah Sutton. This is an exciting Short Trip that is currently available as a download by Big Finish.

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New ‘Waters of Amsterdam’ Photo

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Just a little quickie!

I went to town yesterday and purchased the 2017 Yearbook of ‘Doctor Who Magazine’. Not something I would normally do, but I saw this lovely new behind-the-scenes photo of ‘The Waters of Amsterdam’ that I’d never seen before! Continue reading

Week 44 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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The ‘Lost Stories’ trilogy with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan ends today on this week of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’! The TARDIS trio visit the Archipelago of Sirius where terror begins to brew on Level 14 in ‘The Children of Seth’! 🙂 Continue reading

WOTCHA – ‘Nyssa’s Test Tubes’

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I’d like to share a few thoughts on an interesting theory made about Nyssa and Ann Talbot in ‘Black Orchid’ by the Watcher in the latest issue of ‘Doctor Who Magazine’. In the ‘WOTCHA!’ feature in the back of issue #506 of ‘DWM’, it’s been theorised Nyssa and Ann swapped places at the story’s conclusion. Continue reading

Is Nyssa a snob or not?

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I discussed this topic on the now-deceased Big Finish forum in 2015. Here, I’m re-introducing it for this week’s ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ on the story called ‘Hexagora’. I hope you’ll enjoy these thoughts by me. Continue reading