Peter Davison

Big Finish Productions has revealed that the Mara, the snake-like demon from the 1980’s stories "Kinda" and "Snakedance", will be returning in the forthcoming season of audio adventures featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Turlough and Nyssa.

‘The three stories were recorded just after Christmas’, Executive Producer Nicholas Briggs has announced. ‘And everyone was on brilliant form. It was quite thrilling to hear Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson and Sarah Sutton - who hadn’t acted together since 1983 - recreating their roles so authentically. These adventures sound just like they’ve fallen through a time warp! The mood during the recording was quite rambunctious, and everyone had such a brilliant time that I wouldn’t be surprised to see this team reunited again sometime in the near future...’

The Mara returns in the release for September 2010. "The Cradle of the Snake", by Marc Platt, sees the TARDIS crew return to Manussa, a planet that they last visited in 1980’s "Snakedance".

‘When we knew we could get these characters back together, we realised we wanted to bring back the Mara because it was an iconic monster from the Davison era’, Nicholas Briggs has revealed. ‘Original writer Christopher Bailey gave us his blessing, and Marc Plat seemed the obvious choice to write it - because Marc does ‘weird’ so wonderfully!’.

Also announced by Big Finish Productions is what they have planned for the free story for subscribers. It is going to be a multi-Doctor extravaganza! Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann will all join forces in "The Four Doctors", in an epic fight against the Daleks...