The Nightmare Fair
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| Author | Graham Williams |
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| Series |
Doctor Who book: Doctor Who Missing Episodes |
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Release number
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1 |
| Subject | Featuring: Sixth Doctor Peri |
| Set in | Period between Revelation of the Daleks and Mission to Magnus |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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Publication date
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May 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Attack of the Cybermen |
| Followed by | The Ultimate Evil Mindwarp |
| The Nightmare Fair | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who: The Lost Stories |
| Release no. | 1 |
| Featuring |
Sixth Doctor Peri Brown |
| Written by | Graham Williams (adapted by John Ainsworth) |
| Directed by | John Ainsworth |
| Produced by | Jamie Robertson - Music & Sf |
| Executive producer(s) |
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Production code | 6Y/AA |
| Release date | November 2009 |
The Nightmare Fair is a story originally written for the 1986 season of Doctor Who, but never filmed. A novelisation based on the script was published in 1989 by Target Books, as the first volume of its Missing Episodes series. The script and novelisation were written by former series producer Graham Williams, and would have been directed by Matthew Robinson had it gone to air. It is the first novel-length text featuring The Doctor not to be based upon a previously transmitted production, although being a novelization it is not strictly speaking an "original" novel; the first such book appeared in 1991.
An audio play closely based on Williams' script was released in May 2003, with profits going to the charity Sense. For this adaptation, the Sixth Doctor was played by Steve Hill, and Peri by Jennifer Adams Kelley.
A second audio adaption, done by Big Finish, was released in 2009. Adapted by John Ainsworth, it featured both Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant reprising their television roles of the Sixth Doctor and Peri respectively.
The Sixth Doctor and his companion Peri are lured in the TARDIS to Blackpool, where they discover something wrong in the local videogame arcade. The Doctor's adversary the Celestial Toymaker is behind it, and the Doctor and Peri must fight their way through his videogames in order to defeat him.
Several stories were in the planning stages for the 23rd Season of Doctor Who, three of which were in the middle of being scripted when the (temporary) cancellation announcement was made. Former series Producer Graham Williams was to have written the season opener, featuring a return of the Celestial Toymaker as seen in the 1966 serial. Being the first slated for production, Williams script was by far the most advanced at the time of cancellation, with Matthew Robinson (who had helmed Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen in the previous two seasons) pencilled in as director.
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