Nyssa (Doctor Who) - Appearances in Other Media

Appearances in Other Media

Nyssa's fate after she leaves the TARDIS is not known, although the spin-off novel Asylum, by Peter Darvill-Evans, reveals that she eventually leaves Terminus and settles down as an academic in a university on an unspecified planet. In Asylum, Nyssa shares an adventure with the Fourth Doctor from a time before he met her, the Doctor having been tracking a change in history which has somehow led him to Nyssa's futuristic Home. This adventure leaves Doctor with the knowledge that he will have to be extremely careful dealing with Nyssa when they eventually meet to avoid changing history while ensuring she survives to meet him in his past.

Since then, Sutton has also voiced Nyssa in several audio plays alongside Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, produced by Big Finish Productions. The audio play Primeval, which is set in Traken's past, provides an explanation for Nyssa's sudden collapse at the end of Four to Doomsday and her apparent development of psychic abilities in Time-Flight. The 'Winter' segment of Circular Time, by Paul Cornell and Mike Maddox is set some years after Asylum and shows her with a husband, Lasarti and a baby daughter, Nica. She encounters the regenerating Fifth Doctor in her dreams. She believes that this will probably be the last time she sees him, but knows that he is still traveling and having adventures somewhere. However, fifty years after leaving them, Nyssa encounters The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough (from their perspective, they just left her a few days ago) in the audio play Cobwebs. She begins travelling with them again for an unspecified amount of time. In Heroes of Sontar, Nyssa tells Tegan that she has two children named Adric and Tegan. The canonicity of the audio dramas, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear.