The Cradle of the Snake

The Cradle of the Snake
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	138
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Vislor Turlough
Writer	Marc Platt
Director	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code	6HC
Release date	September 2010

The Cradle of the Snake is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

Tegan's nightmares about the Mara return, forcing the Doctor to confront the problem on its home world, Manussa.

Cast

Continuity

The serpentine Mara and its relationship with Tegan were introduced in Kinda. The Mara returned in Snakedance, when the TARDIS was dragged to its home planet, Manussa.
Although this is the Doctor's second visit to Manussa, it is hundreds of years earlier in their history, before their industrialized civilization fell.

Cast notes

Vernon Dobtcheff played the Chief Scientist in the 1969 story The War Games, in which role he became the first person to say "Time Lords" onscreen in Doctor Who.

External links

Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	Psychodrome Iterations of I The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors

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 Return to the Web Planet Castle of Fear The Eternal Summer Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights 1963: Fanfare For The Common Men The Light at the End Moonflesh Tomb Ship Masquerade

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 The Waters of Amsterdam Aquitaine The Peterloo Massacre

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 Eldrad Must Die! The Lady of Mercia Prisoners of Fate Mistfall Equilibrium 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 And You Will Obey Me Fallen Angels

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