Winter for the Adept (audio story)

 was former script editor Andrew Cartmel's first script for Big Finish Productions, and,, his only one for the main monthly range. It was highly unusual for his work in the DWU because it featured the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, rather than his usual team of the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Another "fish-out-of-water" with this story was India Fisher, who enjoyed her first Big Finish role here, several months before originating her usual character of Charlotte Pollard.

Publisher's summary
When a teleportation experiment goes badly wrong, Nyssa finds herself stranded on the freezing slopes of the Swiss Alps in 1963. But is it mere coincidence that she finds shelter in a snowbound school, haunted by a malevolent poltergeist?

When the Doctor arrives, Nyssa and the other inhabitants of the school soon discover that the ghost is merely part of a darker, deeper and more deadly game involving rogue psi talents and something else... Something not of this Earth.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Alison Speer - Liz Sutherland
 * Miss Tremayne - Sally Faulkner
 * Mlle. Maupassant - Hannah Dickinson
 * Peril Bellamy - India Fisher
 * Lt Peter Sandoz - Peter Jurasik
 * Harding Wellman - Christopher Webber
 * Commodore - Andy Coleman
 * Empress - Nicky Goldie

Psychic powers

 * Alison is telepathic.
 * Peril is telekinetic.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor brews tea that contains a mild sedative.
 * The Doctor eats a ham sandwich.
 * Nyssa is offered cognac, but refuses.

Species

 * Nyssa mentions the Permians (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead) and the Xeraphin. (TV: Time-Flight)
 * The Spillagers are from another dimension.

Theories and concepts

 * Nyssa had never heard of poltergeists, William Blake or Walt Whitman.
 * Harding Wellman is a dead person whose spiritual remains were animated by energy, manifesting similar to a ghost.

Continuity

 * Nyssa mentions her recent visit to Alaska in 1964 and 1994 and the Permians (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead) as well as the Xeraphin (TV: Time-Flight).