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!]