Hooklight.
Audio The audio equivalent of one of those missing adventures or past Doctor novels that head off into directions the TV series couldn't possibly have gone, Tim Foley's Hooklight has the Fifth Doctor and his companions wrapped up in a 12-part story which gives each of them a character progression which will almost certainly be forgotten by the end of the story. So, we have Adric overcoming his nervousness around everyone, Tegan shacking up with a male love interest on some backwater planet for three years, and Nyssa being given the Mara treatment from the titular beastie. Even the Fifth Doctor is emotionally frayed around the edges in a way which he simply wasn't given latitude for on television, even after the teen mathematician died. All four of the regular actors are well up to the challenge, and it's a genuine shame that the practicalities of gap-filling mean that we don't get to see more of these slightly wearier versions of the characters going forward. But arguably the MVP of…
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