Destination Nerva

Destination: Nerva is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions. As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Tom Baker played the Fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981. Although Big Finish Productions has been producing audio dramas with all the other living, Classic Series Doctors since 1999, Tom Baker had declined to participate. Baker finally reprised the role in a series of audio dramas for the BBC in 2009, starting with Hornets' Nest. Destination Nerva is the first in a series of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions.

[edit] Plot

Having wrapped up their adventure with Jago and Litefoot in Victorian London, the Doctor and Leela are alerted to an interstellar distress signal emanating from an English manor house, in the nearby year of 1895. From there, they chase an alien spaceship a millennium into the future, to the newly constructed Space Dock Nerva, orbiting Jupiter.

[edit] Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Dr Alison Foster - Raquel Cassidy
• McMullan/Pilot - Sam Graham
• Laura Craske - Tilly Gaunt
• Giles Moreau/Jenkins - Tim Bentinck
• Jim Hooley/Drelleran 1/Security Guard - Kim Wall
• Lord Jack/Drudgers/Drelleran 2 - Tim Treloar

[edit] Continuity

• This story begins by picking up from the closing scene of the 1977 television story, The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The final lines spoken in that story are repeated here.
• The Fourth Doctor was previously on-board Nerva in the 1975 television story The Ark in Space. That was several thousand years into the future, when "Space Station Nerva" was converted to house the cryogenically frozen survivors of the human race, as they orbited an inhospitable Earth. The Doctor returned to "Nerva Beacon", thousands of years earlier, in Revenge of the Cybermen, when it orbited a moon of Jupiter. In Destination: Nerva, "Space Dock Nerva" has only just been built.

[edit] Notes

• Raquel Cassidy was in the 2011 Doctor Who television story The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People.

[edit] External links

• Destination Nerva

[edit] References

• Big Finish News Page
• Doctor Who News Page