'Cuddlesome' (1 Part) by Nigel Fairs

Do you remember the 80s? The Rubik’s Cube… Duran Duran… deelyboppers… and the Cuddlesomes – pink vampire hamsters, the must-have toy of twenty-three Christmases ago.

For so long now, the Cuddlesomes have been forgotten, lying in attics and junk shops. But now they’re waking up. And they want to give us all a cuddle. A long, slow, deadly cuddle…

Landing in an England gripped by a strange new plague, the Doctor is soon on the Cuddlesomes’ trail. But the toys are just part of a twisted plan to wipe out a whole generation…

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Roberta Taylor (Angela Wisher), Timothy West (Ronald Turvey), David Troughton (The Tinghus), Matthew Nobel (John Dixon / New Cuddlesomes), Kate Brown (Miranda Evenden / Cuddlesomes / Doctor Cooper / Vehicle), Nicholas Briggs (Newsreader)

Directed by Barnaby Edwards

Release Date:
March 2008

Notes:
*Featuring the Fifth Doctor

*A Big Finish Audio Production

*This audio adventure was free with issue 393 of 'Doctor Who Magazine'

*Time-placing: this is a solo Fifth Doctor story, so I'm placing it at the start of season 20, a time when he has several other adventures unaccompanied