Mara is a gestalt entity that manifests as a snake and takes over hosts through their dreams, and producer David Richardson has wanted the villain to return for some time.

“I thought it would be interesting to see how they would work in the context of another TARDIS team,” he explained.

“Every previous TV and audio story has focused on the fantastic Fifth Doctor team, but it’s good to shake things up, and here’s the Eighth Doctor and his friends facing their malign influence.”

In total, the Eighth Doctor (McGann) and his companions Charley (Fisher) and Audacity (Griffiths) return for three brand new episodes, and in addition to coming face-to-face with Mara at a luxury sleep clinic, them” I’ll also meet the legendary composer Puccini and meet a troubled child during a women’s strike in Iceland in the 1970s.

The new adventures are titled Puccini and the Doctor, Day Off and The Gloaming and are respectively written by Matthew Jacobs, Lisa McMullin and Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle.

Speaking about reintroducing Mara, Pringle said: “It’s been so exciting to dive into Kinda and Snakedance, two incredible stories, and also the world and mythology that Christopher Bailey has written for Mara, which is so deep and very literate. the conceptual world, heavily influenced by modernist poetry, especially TS Eliot.

“We wanted to lean deeper into that and the idea of ​​Mara as a creature that appears upon the death of an empire.”

Curfew, an intense new thriller from Paramount+, is also streaming now Radio Times has an exclusive first look.

Sarah Parish, Mandip Gill and Alexandra Burke star in the gripping drama – and for a limited time, you can watch episode 1 on our app.

Watch the first episode of Curfew on the Radio Times app

Doctor Who – Deadly Strangers is now available for pre-order exclusively from Big Finish website.

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