The Darkening Eye

The Darkening Eye

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	'Doctor Who'
Release no.	14
Featuring	Nyssa of Traken
Written by	Stewart Sheargold
Directed by	Ken Bentley
Production code	BFPDWCC14
Release date	December 2008

The Darkening Eye is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot

Separated from the Doctor after an accident, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa are salvaged by an ancient race of collectors known as Dar Traders.

Cast

Nyssa – Sarah Sutton
The Dar Traders – Derek Carlyle

Continuity

This is the first play to feature the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan together, as Matthew Waterhouse was not willing to perform for Big Finish at the time. Adric appeared in The Boy That Time Forgot, although played by Andrew Sachs.
Much of Nyssa's life on her home world of Traken is dealt with, including the Melkurs and the murder of her father at the hands of the Master, all seen in her first TV story The Keeper of Traken. Nyssa relates The Darkening Eye from Terminus, the space station where she parted company with the Doctor.
Adric's death in Earthshock is also heavily foreshadowed.
The dimensionally resilient Dwarf Star Alloy was used in Warriors' Gate (written by Stephen Gallagher who also wrote Terminus)
This story is a prequel to the Seventh Doctor story The Death Collectors, which also features the Dar Traders.

External links

Big Finish - The Darkening Eye

Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors Psychodrome Iterations of I

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights The Light at the End Moonflesh

Nyssa & Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef A Perfect World

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane The Entropy Plague

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince

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