Doctor Who

Big Finish seem to have a new plan: trilogies. We’ve had the Key2Time season followed by three Seventh Doctor stories. We’ve just had another trilogy – the jettisoning of Charley Pollard from the mainstream Doctor Who Big Finish universe, except in Companion Chronicles. There’s the forthcoming Seventh Doctor/Nazi scientist trilogy, which is going to be followed by the Sixth Doctor/Jamie trilogy which is going to be followed by the Fifth Doctor/Nyssa/Tegan/Turlough trilogy (well, it’s a two-parter so far, but…).

But for now, we have the Stockbridge trilogy. This sees the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa deal with events in Stockbridge’s past, present and future. Apparently, Stockbridge was big back in the DWM comic strip of the 1980s (I missed it somehow), so this kind of follows on. Joy.

Here, though, before we get ahead of ourselves, we have the fifth Doctor and Nyssa turn up in Stockbridge, 1899, to watch a mummers’ play. Despite being handed down word-for-word since the middle ages, somehow the Doctor, an Earl of Space and a Lord of Time, is included in the play’s storyline. How did that happen? Best go back in time and find out, hey?

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