The Three Companions

The Three Companions is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is a 12-part mini-series included as a bonus feature on 12 consecutive monthly Doctor Who plays, starting with The Magic Mousetrap and ending with Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story. This story is part of, and promotion for, the Companion Chronicles range.

Plot

Three former companions of the Doctor, Polly, The Brigadier and Thomas Brewster, meet each other against the backdrop of an ecological disaster.

Episodes

Part

Title

Released with

1

Polly's Story

The Magic Mousetrap

2

In Memoriam

Enemy of the Daleks

3

The Gathernaut

The Angel of Scutari

4

Cremation Point

The Company of Friends

5

The Brigadier's Story

Patient Zero

6

Coffin-Loaders

Paper Cuts

7

The Hunting Ground

Blue Forgotten Planet

8

The Battle at World's End Junction

Castle of Fear

9

Many Meetings

The Eternal Summer

10

Brewster's Story

Plague of the Daleks

11

The Hunter

A Thousand Tiny Wings

12

The Sacrifice

Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story

Cast

  • Polly - Anneke Wills
  • The Brigadier - Nicholas Courtney
  • Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
  • Gerry Lenz/Garry Lendler/Announcer - Russell Floyd

Continuity

  • The blog that instigates Polly's correspondence was written by the Third Doctor's assistant, Jo Grant. It can be heard in its entirety in The Doll of Death.
  • Brewster stole the TARDIS from the Fifth Doctor at the end of The Haunting of Thomas Brewster. It was returned at the end of The Boy That Time Forgot.

References

[http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Three-Companions-In-The-Can! Three-Companions-In-The-Can!]