Pursuit of the Nightjar (audio story)

Pursuit of the Nightjar was the first story in the audio anthology In the Night, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.
== Publisher's summary ==
The story of the Nightjar has been told for many years. A spaceship helmed by the legendary Captain Gobin on a vital mission of mercy, delivering medical supplies to a distant colony in the middle of devastating war, an act of bravery that triggers the end of the conflict.
At her heels throughout the journey, her pursuer, the spaceship Nemesis, helmed by the dogged Captain Eslo, never quite able to catch her target. The Doctor has always wanted to witness these historic events. And now, alongside Nyssa and Tegan, he's got his chance.
But history might just have other ideas.
== Plot ==
=== Part One ===
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=== Part Two ===
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=== Part Three ===
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=== Part Four ===
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== Cast ==
* The Doctor - Peter Davison
* Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
* Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
* Captain Eslo - Fenella Woolgar
* Captain Goben - Paul Thornley
== References ==
* The Doctor heard the story of the Nightjar on one of his first trips after leaving Gallifrey at the bazaar on Garazone. Susan bought him a model of the Nightjar at the market there.
* The Doctor mentions Reapers and hollow men as Vortex lifeforms that would make the temporal situation worse.
* The Doctor mentions the famous anecdote about NASA spending millions of dollars to make a pen that would work in space. Apparently at some point, these pens became sentient and hostile, requiring the Doctor to stop them.
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
* Nyssa and Tegan compare the ghostly figures to the Watcher. (TV: Logopolis)
* The Doctor mentions their escape from Event One. (TV: Castrovalva)
* The Doctor still has his model of the Nightjar in the TARDIS by his eleventh incarnation. (AUDIO: All of Time and Space)
* The Doctor states that usually the altering of a timeline would cause the apparation of Vortex creatures such as Reapers. Reapers would appear when Rose Tyler acts against the Ninth Doctor's advice and saves her father from his pre-written death. (TV: Father's Day)
* The Doctor states that he can withstand the vacuum of space for longer. The Twelfth Doctor would also put this to the test on the Chasm Forge. (TV: Oxygen)
* Whilst in space, Tegan states that she's always felt invincible around the Doctor, even "after Adric". (TV: Earthshock)
* To recover from the effects of space, the Doctor enters a trance, similar to one he was in post-regeneration. (TV: Castrovalva)
== External links ==
Category:The Fifth Doctor Adventures audio stories