The Five Companions

The Five Companions
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	'Doctor Who'
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Ian Chesterton Steven Taylor Sara Kingdom Polly Nyssa
Written by	Eddie Robson
Release date	December 2011 (strictly subscription only)

The Five Companions is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is free to subscribers and released with Army of Death.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

Five of the Doctor's former companions find themselves suddenly scooped up out of their quiet lives and brought to a mysterious realm. And joining them in their confused frustration are a herd of dinosaurs, some Sontaran soldiers and a squadron of Daleks.

Cast

Continuity

For the Doctor, this story takes place during the events of The Five Doctors, on his home world of Gallifrey. In that twentieth anniversary television story, Borusa, President of the Time Lords, is seen scooping up various friends, enemies and incarnations of the Doctor and forcing them to battle each other in a forbidden region of their world known as The Death Zone. The Fifth Doctor takes a transmat device from the Master, which transports him from the Death Zone to the Time Lord capitol. This audio story takes place after he transmats, but before he arrives in the capitol.
For the all companions in this audio, the story takes place long after they stopped traveling with him.
Ian, a school teacher from the 1960s, was in the first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child. He, and fellow teacher, Barbara Wright, were unwilling companions to the First Doctor and his granddaughter Susan. The two finally got themselves back to the 1960s a couple years later, by means of a captured Dalek time machine (which subsequently self-destructed), in The Chase. Ian first encountered the Daleks on his first trip off Earth in, The Daleks. In that story, as in this, he crawls inside the casing of and pretends to be a Dalek.
The Chase also introduced Steven, a space pilot from the future. He became the King of a new society on an alien world in The Savages.
Sara travelled with the Doctor and Steven during the twelve episode story The Daleks' Master Plan. She was a security agent from the future. At the end of Daleks' Master Plan, she aged to death. In the audio dramas, Home Truths and The Guardian of the Solar System, she was, in a way, resurrected.
Just after The Savages, the Doctor met Polly in The War Machines. She was a secretary from the 1960s who journeyed in the TARDIS, alongside her friend, sailor Ben Jackson. She and Ben witnessed the Doctor's first regeneration in The Tenth Planet. It is that adventure that the Fifth Doctor is referring to when he recalls Polly standing up to the Cybermen. The Second Doctor returned Ben and Polly home (the same day they left) in The Faceless Ones.
Nyssa was an alien princess who met the Fourth Doctor in The Keeper of Traken, and witnessed his regeneration into the Fifth, in Logopolis. She left him to work on a plague spaceship in Terminus.
Steven and Sara faced the Daleks together in The Daleks' Master Plan.
Polly helped the newly regenerated Doctor battle the Daleks in The Power of the Daleks.
Nyssa has only had Dalek stories in audios, such as The Mutant Phase and Plague of the Daleks.
Nyssa met the Sontarans in the audio Heroes of Sontar.
At this point in his life, the Doctor hasn't reunited with any of these companions, nor they with him. However, he has already spent time traveling with an older Nyssa. The CD cover art indicates that Nyssa is still relatively young, putting her placement after Terminus, but long before her reunion in Cobwebs.
Ian is also timescooped in The Time Museum.
This is the first story to feature the Daleks battling the Sontarans, although they were seen to be allied in "The Pandorica Opens".

Notes

Dan Starkey has played Sontarans in several recent Doctor Who television stories such as "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "A Good Man Goes to War".
It was intended that William Russell's character, Ian, was to meet the Fifth Doctor in the television story Mawdryn Undead. He was unavailable at the time and instead, Nicholas Courtney appeared as The Brigadier.^[4] Oblique reference is made to this in this audio story.

References

↑ "BBC - Doctor Who - The Official Site". BBC. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
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Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors Psychodrome Iterations of I

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights The Light at the End Moonflesh

Nyssa & Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef A Perfect World

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane The Entropy Plague

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince

Dalek audio stories

Second Doctor	Fear of the Daleks

Fourth Doctor	Energy of the Daleks The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase

Fifth Doctor	The Mutant Phase Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Four Doctors The Elite The Five Companions

Sixth Doctor	The Apocalypse Element Jubilee The Juggernauts Brotherhood of the Daleks Patient Zero The Four Doctors The Curse of Davros Masters of Earth Order of the Daleks

Seventh Doctor	The Genocide Machine Return of the Daleks Enemy of the Daleks The Four Doctors Daleks Among Us We Are The Daleks

Eighth Doctor	The Time of the Daleks Terror Firma Blood of the Daleks The Four Doctors Lucie Miller / To the Death Dark Eyes Dark Eyes 2 Dark Eyes 4

War Doctor	The War Doctor 1: Only the Monstrous

Bernice Summerfield	Death and the Daleks The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

Dalek Empire	Invasion of the Daleks The Human Factor Death to the Daleks! Project Infinity

Dalek Empire II	Dalek War

Dalek Empire III	The Exterminators The Healers The Survivors The Demons The Warriors The Future

Dalek Empire IV	The Fearless

I, Davros	Innocence Purity Corruption Guilt

Doctor Who Unbound	Masters of War

Minor appearances	Seasons of Fear

Doctor Who: Sontaran stories

Television episodes	The Time Warrior The Sontaran Experiment The Invasion of Time The Two Doctors "The Sontaran Stratagem" / "The Poison Sky" The Last Sontaran Enemy of the Bane

Commander Strax	"A Good Man Goes to War" "The Snowmen" "The Crimson Horror" "The Name of the Doctor" "Deep Breath"

Minor appearances	Logopolis The End of Time "The Pandorica Opens" Death of the Doctor "The God Complex" Pond Life "The Time of the Doctor" "Face the Raven"

Audio	Heroes of Sontar The Five Companions The First Sontarans The King of Sontar Starlight Robbery Dark Eyes 4: Master of the Daleks Terror of the Sontarans Classic Doctors New Monsters 1: The Sontaran Ordeal Agents of Chaos: The Eternity Cage The Sontarans The Eternal Battle

Books	Lords of the Storm Shakedown The Eight Doctors The Sontaran Games The Taking of Chelsea 426 Silhouette

Spin-off	Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans Mindgame

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors The Gunpowder Plot

See also	Rutan "A Fix with Sontarans"

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