The Mutant Phase

The Mutant Phase

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	15
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Nyssa
Writer	Nicholas Briggs
Director	Nicholas Briggs
Producer	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	6CC
Length	2 hrs, 1 min
Release date	December 2000

The Mutant Phase is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It forms the third serial in the Dalek Empire arc, following on from events in The Genocide Machine and The Apocalypse Element. The arc concludes in The Time of the Daleks. This audio drama is based on an earlier Audio Visuals story of the same name.

A director's cut of the first episode was included with the Doctor Who Magazine bonus CD story Cuddlesome.

Plot

The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa discover that even the Daleks have foes that they fear as a paradox threatens to destroy the universe... but are the Daleks the threat or the cure?

Cast

The Doctor — Peter Davison
Nyssa — Sarah Sutton
Professor Ptolem — Christopher Blake
Commander Ganatus — Jared Morgan
Albert — Andrew Ryan
Delores — Sara Wakefield
Dalek Voices — Alistair Lock and Nicholas Briggs
Professor Karl Hendryk — Mark Gatiss

Continuity

This story forms the third serial in the Dalek Empire arc, a storyline that started with the Seventh Doctor (The Genocide Machine) and Sixth Doctor (The Apocalypse Element) and concludes with the Eighth (The Time of the Daleks). Elements from these stories tie in with the Dalek Empire series.
Some of the action of this story takes place during the Dalek invasion of Earth in the 22nd century, which was originally depicted in the First Doctor serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The plan to remove the Earth's core is mentioned, as well as the mine works in Bedfordshire. The date of this story is given as 2158; the television serial, which has yet to occur, takes place in or around 2164.
The Doctor and Nyssa briefly discuss the fact that this is Nyssa's first encounter with the Daleks, because she never encountered them during any of her appearances in the television series.
Commander Ganatus and the Starship Dyoni are named after the Thal characters from The Daleks.

External links

Reviews

The Mutant Phase reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
The Mutant Phase reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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

Dalek audio stories

Second Doctor	Fear of the Daleks

Fourth Doctor	Energy of the Daleks The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase

Fifth Doctor	The Mutant Phase Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Four Doctors The Elite The Five Companions

Sixth Doctor	The Apocalypse Element Jubilee The Juggernauts Brotherhood of the Daleks Patient Zero The Four Doctors The Curse of Davros Masters of Earth

Seventh Doctor	The Genocide Machine Return of the Daleks Enemy of the Daleks The Four Doctors Daleks Among Us We Are the Daleks

Eighth Doctor	The Time of the Daleks Terror Firma Blood of the Daleks The Four Doctors Lucie Miller / To the Death Dark Eyes Dark Eyes 2 Dark Eyes 4

War Doctor	The War Doctor 1: Only the Monstrous

Bernice Summerfield	Death and the Daleks The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

Dalek Empire	Invasion of the Daleks The Human Factor Death to the Daleks! Project Infinity

Dalek Empire II	Dalek War

Dalek Empire III	The Exterminators The Healers The Survivors The Demons The Warriors The Future

Dalek Empire IV	The Fearless

I, Davros	Innocence Purity Corruption Guilt

Doctor Who Unbound	Masters of War

Minor appearances	Seasons of Fear

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