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Winter
for the Adept
(Andrew Cartmel) |
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 July
2000's story is titled "Winter for the Adept" and is another
Fifth Doctor story with Nyssa played by Sarah Sutton.
Written by Andrew Cartmel and directed by Gary Russell
it was recorded on the 18th to 20th March 2000. Guest
star Sally Faulkner (who portrayed Isobel Watkins in the
classic Patrick
Troughton story "The
Invasion") has also joined the
cast playing the part of a school headmistress Miss Tremayne.
Also starring are: Liz Sutherland, Hannah Dickinson, India
Fisher (who will be returning to play the Eighth
Doctor's
'new' companion early in 2001), Peter Jurasik, Christopher
Webber, Andy Coleman and Nicky Goldie.
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Nyssa |
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When
a teleportation experiment goes badly wrong, Nyssa finds
herself whisked away from the relative safety of the TARDIS
and stranded on the freezing slopes of the Swiss Alps.
She soon though finds herself rescued and given shelter
in the nearby Tremayne school. But this snowbound shelter
holds a terrible secret.
It is nearly
Christmas in 1963 and a teenage girl plans to flee from
this exclusive Swiss finishing school and elope with her
mysterious beau. Unfortunately, those plans are interrupted
by not only the arrival of Nyssa but what appears to be
a very malevolent poltergeist with a penchant for pianos,
ski-poles and the local chapel. It is not long though
before The Doctor soon catches up with Nyssa and between
them, and the other inhabitants of the school, they soon
start to unravel the mystery. However, not everything
is at it seems especially when the ghost of a long dead
traveller, who got caught in an avalanche, is itself being
haunted. This spirit is just merely part of a much darker
and deeper deadly game involving rogue psychic talents
of the schoolgirls.
But there is
something else within the walls of the school. Creatures
who are not of this Earth and who are determined that
their invasion plans do not fail. Even if it means the
death of The Doctor, his companion and all those stranded
in the school...
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Important Information |
After the
trailers in track 10 at the end of the second disc carry on listening because 9
minutes into this track you will find an outtake from the recording of this
story.
If you can not wait then you can listen to it below.
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Play Sample
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Notes:
- Featuring the Fifth
Doctor and Nyssa.
- Serial Number: 6C/B
- Number of Episodes: 4
- Cover Length: 100 minutes
- Episode Lengths: 1 = 24'37", 2 = 18'15", 3 =
24'19", 4 = 26'52"
- This story takes place between "Time-Flight"
and "Arc
of Infinity".
- Cover Illustration: Clayton Hickman
- Recorded: 18th to 20th March 2000
- Recording Location: NU Groove Studios
- Released: July 2000
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On the
Back Cover:
When a teleportation experiment goes badly wrong,
Nyssa finds herself stranded on the freezing slopes of the Swiss Alps in 1963.
But is it mere coincidence that she finds shelter in a snowbound school haunted
by a malevolent poltergeist?
When The Doctor arrives, Nyssa and the other
inhabitants of the school soon discover that the ghost is merely part of a
darker, deeper and more deadly game involving rogue psi talents and something
else... Something not of this Earth. |
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On the
Inside Cover:
"Winter for the Adept" is a title I've wanted to
use for as long as I can remember. The decision to do an audio adventure for
Doctor Who gave me an opportunity to explore the mood the title conjured and
begin dreaming up some suitable characters and situations.
On a more
practical level, a one-line pitch to the producers ("St Trinians with witches")
got the ball rolling, and soon we were all involved in a sinister finishing
school in the Swiss Alps.
A couple of
rewrites later - I won't even mention the abortive moonbase sequence - and
suddenly a top flight cast and crew were gathered in a small studio in Fulham
to make it all come to life.
On the first day of recording there was an eerie
smell of incense along the entire Street leading to the studio. Honest,
guy. |
Andrew Cartmel,
April
2000 |
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Full Cast
List:
| Part One |
| The Doctor |
Peter Davison |
| Nyssa |
Sarah Sutton |
| Alison Speers |
Liz Sutherland |
| Miss Tremayne |
Sally Faulkner |
| Mlle. Maupassant |
Hannah Dickinson |
| Peril Bellamy |
India Fisher |
| Lt. Peter Sandoz |
Peter Jurasik |
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| Part Two |
| The Doctor |
Peter Davison |
| Nyssa |
Sarah Sutton |
| Alison Speers |
Liz Sutherland |
| Peril Bellamy |
India Fisher |
| Lt. Peter Sandoz |
Peter Jurasik |
| Mlle. Maupassant |
Hannah Dickinson |
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| Part Three |
| The Doctor |
Peter Davison |
| Nyssa |
Sarah Sutton |
| Alison Speers |
Liz Sutherland |
| Lt. Peter Sandoz |
Peter Jurasik |
| Miss Tremayne |
Sally Faulkner |
| Mlle. Maupassant |
Hannah Dickinson |
| Peril Bellamy |
India Fisher |
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| Part Four |
| The Doctor |
Peter Davison |
| Nyssa |
Sarah Sutton |
| Lt. Peter Sandoz |
Peter Jurasik |
| Mlle. Maupassant |
Hannah Dickinson |
| Peril Bellamy |
India Fisher |
| Alison Speers |
Liz Sutherland |
| Harding Wellman |
Christopher Webber |
| Commodore |
Andy Coleman |
| Empress |
Nicky Goldie |
The
Production Team:
| Writer |
Andrew Cartmel |
| Director |
Gary Russell |
| Sound/Music |
Russell Stone |
| Theme Music |
Mark Ayres |
| Producers |
Gary Russell and
Jason
Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive Producer for the BBC
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Jaqueline Rayner |
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