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Creatures of Beauty
Series:	Doctor Who - Big Finish Audio Dramas
Release Number:	44
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companions:	Nyssa
Setting:	Veln
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music and Post Production:	Nicholas Briggs
Publisher:	Big Finish
Release Date:	May 2003
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Prod. Code:	6C/F
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-026-6
Previous Story:	Doctor Who and the Pirates
Following Story:	Project: Lazarus

Publisher's Summary

A planetary ecological disaster... An incurable, disfiguring, genetic disease... Aliens, in breach of galactic law...

Nyssa, under arrest... The TARDIS, inoperable... The Doctor, facing interrogation...

Another situation of dire peril is unfolding for the Doctor and his companion. However, what if it is not clear who is right and who is wrong? Who is ugly and who is beautiful?

Where does the story begin, and where does it end?

Sometimes, it is all a matter of perspective.

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Gilbrook - David Daker
• Brodlilk - David Mallinson
• Lady Forleon - Jemma Churchill
• Murone - Philip Wolff
• Veline - Emma Manton
• The Koteem - Nicholas Briggs

References

• The TARDIS emits a warp distortion field.
• The planet Veln is surrounded by Diestrium pollution.

Notes

• This story isn't so much a temporal paradox, however the Doctor does begin the events in a backwards way before getting involved properly.

Continuity

• Nyssa mentions Alaska. (The Land of the Dead)

Timeline

• Creatures of Beauty occurs after ST: Confabula
• Creatures of Beauty occurs before ST: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life

External Links

• Big Finish Creatures of Beauty page
• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Creatures of Beauty
• The Discontinuity Guide Creatures of Beauty page