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Cuddlesome is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released free with issue 393 of Doctor Who Magazine. This has Peter Davison playing the Doctor.

Despite the companion-like role played by Roberta Taylor's character, Angela Wisher, her status as companion is disputed. She also appears in the Big Finish audio play The Holy Terror as a side character, Berengeria.

Plot

The Fifth Doctor arrives on earth, to discover that Cuddlesomes - pink vampire hamster-like toys from the 80s - are attacking people. He meets Angela Wisher, whose boyfriend (John Dixon) was attacked by his old cuddlesome, and they investigate at the "White Elephant", the warehouse in which the Cuddlesomes are made. The Doctor discovers that a journalist, Miranda Evendon, has turned into a kind of Tinghus hybrid. The Tinghus is the one behind the attacks, and when he destroys Ronald Turvey's cuddlesomes and makes new ones, The Doctor, Angela, Ronald and the just recovered John try to stop the cuddlesome plan. With Ronald's new army of cuddlesomes and the Tinghus's cuddlesomes, a war starts.

A few years later the Doctor comes back, and gives Angela back her hammer.

Cast

The Doctor - Peter Davison
Angela Wisher - Roberta Taylor
Ronald Turvey - Timothy West
The Tinghus - David Troughton
John Dixon / New Cuddlesomes - Matthew Noble
Miranda Evenden / Old Cuddlesomes / Dr Cooper / Vehicle - Kate Brown
Newsreader - Nicholas Briggs

Notes

David Troughton, who plays the Tinghus, is the son of Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton.
Also included on the CD is a 'director's cut' of Part One of The Mutant Phase.
This audio drama is based on an earlier Audio Visuals story of the same name.