When Nicola Bryant left Doctor Who within the mid ‘80s, like a lot of things in Doctor Who circa the mid ‘80s, it was kind of weird. One minute she’s the sixth Doctor’s companion, the subsequent her head’s shaved and a bizarre ugly inexperienced slug man’s gone and implanted his mind in her physique. Rude! But now, three and a half many years later, the present’s making an attempt to clarify what actually occurred.

Bryant ended her time on Doctor Who as Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown—a companion of each the fifth and sixth Doctors—throughout “Mindwarp,” the second story within the season-long “Trial of a Time Lord” plot line that made up traditional Doctor Who’s twenty third season. It reasonably grimly advised that, with the alien Mentor Kiv having put her via horrifying mind surgical procedure, the Peri we knew was endlessly misplaced, her recollections and character overwritten, after which her physique seemingly killed by the warrior king Yrcanos—performed by Brian Blessed—in a match of rage.

Like I stated, it was the mid ‘80s. It was weird.

Anyway, several Doctor Who audios and books would go on to retroactively create a new ending for Peri, some suggesting that her memories could be restored after all, and that having been left behind by the Doctor—believing her to be dead—she travelled the galaxy with Yrcanos, falling in love with him. Some saw her pulled from time by the Time Lords themselves, put back on Earth with all the memories of her time with the Doctor, save their very first adventure together, erased. But now, 36 years after she left the screen, Nicola Bryant has returned to show what really happened… and to actually promote a Blu-ray release of the season before her exit.

Written and directed by Peter McTighe—who wrote the Amazon-poking “Kerblam!” for Jodie Whittaker’s debut season—“The Eternal Mystery” posits that Peri did certainly survived the occasions of her obvious demise, and in the end did spend a part of her life with Yrcanos. But after he died, she vanished into the galaxy even reunited with the Sixth Doctor, however nonetheless returns to pay tribute to her husband yearly.

This isn’t the primary time Doctor Who has introduced again traditional companions for these Blu-ray units, and never the primary time the present’s used the chance to meet up with what’s occurring within the current of a previous companion’s life. But even when it’s a little bit bizarre that is being achieved for the “wrong” season, it’s nonetheless good to see Bryant convey a little bit closure to her peculiar exit from the present.

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 22, amassing the six serials from the present’s 1985 collection, “Attack of the Cybermen,” “Vengeance on Varos,” “The Mark of the Rani,” “The Two Doctors,” “Timelash,” and “Revelation of the Daleks,” is due for launch someday this 12 months.

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