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If you were a fan of the Fourth Doctor serial, Full Circle then you’ll be pleased to know that the Andrew Smith-penned story is getting a sequel. While it isn’t a televised follow-up, Big Finish has fit the bill with this month’s release of Mistfall.
Mistfall picks up directly after the events of Full Circle, this time with the Fifth Doctor and companions in tow:
“Drawn off-course, the TARDIS passes through a CVE into a closed universe – a hugely improbable event with a tragically obvious cause. In order to escape inescapable E-Space, the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough are forced to venture in the wilds of planet Alzarius. But they’re not the only unwanted visitors to this strange world.
A Starliner has landed, captained by Decider Merrion – but why would Merrion risk rousing the Planet that Slept, and the monsters in its marshes?
Mistfall is coming. The Marshmen are coming. But while Nyssa and Turlough find themselves caught in the open, in the hands of fanatics who model themselves on the legendary Outlers, the Doctor and Tegan discover that the supposedly secure Starliner affords them no protection from monsters both within and without…”
This brand new release also kicks off the Fifth Doctor’s hotly anticipated E-Space Trilogy, which continues in the February and March Main Range releases.
Speaking of Andrew Smith, The Daily Record recently caught up with the Rutherglen native to discuss his sequel and the return of the Marshmen:
“I really didn’t expect it to happen, but there was something I had played about with a while back, an idea that never went anywhere, and one of those stories was called Mistfall. In the end I didn’t use any of the story elements from that, but I nicked the title! My novelisation of Full Circle has a passage at the end where the Marshmen return to the marsh, and I came back to that. When (script editor) Alan Barnes asked me if I had any ideas for the story, sent a copy of that passage to Alan and said, ‘This might be a good basis.’ The Marshmen have a mental communion and it’s clear that their job is to protect the ecology of Alzarius. That was always going to feature, to match up with the book…It was really nice to write a sequel to my own TV story.”
Doctor Who: Mistfall is available now. Tell us, dear readers, will you be checking out Smith’s Full Circle follow-up?
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