Cuddlesome (audio story)

Cuddlesome was a 2008 audio drama starring the Fifth Doctor. A remake of an Audio Visuals story of the same title, it was released on an audio CD included with Doctor Who Magazine issue 393. It was re-released as free content on the Big Finish Podcast on 3 August 2011, and was put on Big Finish's Soundcloud in 2012.

Publisher's summary
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...

Full audio
Cuddlesome

Plot
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Cast

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

Continuity

 * The Doctor considers building a new sonic screwdriver after his previous one was destroyed by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation) However, he would not do so until his seventh incarnation. (AUDIO: The Dark Husband, Mask of Tragedy; TV: Doctor Who)