Cuddlesome

Cuddlesome
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release no.	Doctor Who Magazine special
Featuring	Fifth Doctor
Written by	Nigel Fairs
Directed by	Barnaby Edwards
Produced by	David Richardson
Executive producer(s)	Jason Haigh-Ellery, Nicholas Briggs
Production code	DWMCD09
Length	55 mins
Release date	March 2008

Cuddlesome is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released free with issue 393 of Doctor Who Magazine. This has Peter Davison playing the Doctor.

Despite the companion-like role played by Roberta Taylor's character, Angela Wisher, her status as companion is disputed. Roberta Taylor also appears in the Big Finish audio play 'The Holy Terror' as a side character, Berengeria.

Plot

The Fifth Doctor arrives on earth, to discover that Cuddlesomes - pink, vampire, hamster-like toys from the 1980s - are attacking people. He meets Angela Wisher, whose boyfriend (John Dixon) was attacked by his old Cuddlesome, and they investigate at the "White Elephant", the warehouse in which the Cuddlesomes are made. The Doctor discovers that a journalist, Miranda Evenden, has turned into a kind of Tinghus hybrid. The Tinghus is the one behind the attacks, and he destroys Ronald Turvey's Cuddlesomes and makes new, American-voiced, evil Cuddlesomes (Mark 2s). The Doctor, Angela, Ronald and the just recovered John try to stop the Cuddlesome plan. With Ronald's new army of Cuddlesomes and the Tinghus's Cuddlesomes, a war starts.

Cast

The Doctor - Peter Davison
Angela Wisher - Roberta Taylor
Ronald Turvey - Timothy West
The Tinghus - David Troughton
John Dixon / New Cuddlesomes - Matthew Noble
Miranda Evenden / Old Cuddlesomes / Dr Cooper / Vehicle - Kate Brown
Newsreader - Nicholas Briggs

Notes

David Troughton, who plays the Tinghus, is the son of Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton. He appeared in televised Doctor Who in the Third Doctor stories The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon.
Also included on the CD is a 'director's cut' of Part One of The Mutant Phase.
This audio drama is based on an earlier Audio Visuals story of the same name.

External links

Cuddlesome at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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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