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|series = [[The Companion Chronicles]] | |series in range = Series 7 (CC) | ||
|series number in range = 7 | |||
|number in series = 1 | |||
|series = ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' | |||
|number = 7.01 | |number = 7.01 | ||
| | |main character = [[Ian Chesterton]] | ||
| | |featuring = [[Pendolin]] | ||
|setting = The [[Time Museum]] | |||
|setting = | |writer = James Goss | ||
|writer = | |||
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | |director = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
| | |music = [[Richard Fox]] & [[Lauren Yason]] | ||
|format = 1 | |sound = [[Richard Fox]] & [[Lauren Yason]] | ||
|cover = [[Alex Mallinson]] | |||
|release date = 23 July 2012 | |||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download | |||
|production code = BFPDWCC57 | |production code = BFPDWCC57 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-018-3 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-018-3 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-842-3 (digital) | ||
|prev = The Rings of Ikiria (audio story) | |prev = The Rings of Ikiria (audio story) | ||
|next = The Uncertainty Principle (audio story) | |next = The Uncertainty Principle (audio story) | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]]|epcount=2 | |||
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{{you may|The Time Museum (comic story)|n1=the TVC comic strip of the same name}} | |||
'''''The Time Museum''''' was the first story of the [[Series 7 (CC)|seventh series]] in ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' audio range. It was produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[James Goss]] and featured [[Ian Chesterton]]. | |||
''' | == Publisher's summary == | ||
''“This is The Chesterton Exhibition. A series of breathtakingly faithful tableaux, painstakingly detailed to the nth degree. Dedicated to the life of that most extraordinary time traveller, [[Ian Chesterton]]!”'' | |||
Ian finds himself in a shrine to his own past, and on the run with a man named Pendolin. | Ian finds himself in a shrine to his own past, and on the run with a man named Pendolin. | ||
From [[Coal Hill School]] to [[Jobis|Jobis Station]], from [[76 Totter's Lane| | From [[Coal Hill School]] to [[Jobis|Jobis Station]], from [[76 Totter's Lane|Totter's Yard]] to the [[Crusades]], Ian's history is unfolding. | ||
And a confrontation with a deadly enemy with a voracious appetite | And a confrontation with a deadly enemy with a voracious appetite awaits... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== The Cave of Five Hundred Skulls (1) === | |||
''to be added'' | |||
=== The Birth of Ian Chesterton (2) === | |||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
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* [[Pendolin]] - [[Philip Pope]] | * [[Pendolin]] - [[Philip Pope]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
* Ian awakens to find himself in a recreation of his bedroom, which leads into a recreation of his science classroom in [[Coal Hill School]] in the Chesterton Exhibition, dedicated to his travels with the [[First Doctor]], in the [[Time Museum]]. One of the oak chairs has "Kilroy" | |||
* Cover Art - [[Alex Mallinson]] | |||
* Director - [[Lisa Bowerman]] | |||
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Richard Fox]] and [[Lauren Yason]] @ FoxYason Studios | |||
* Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
* Script Editor - [[Jacqueline Rayner]] | |||
* Writer - [[James Goss]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* Ian awakens to find himself in a recreation of his bedroom, which leads into a recreation of his science classroom in [[Coal Hill School]] in the Chesterton Exhibition, dedicated to his travels with the [[First Doctor]], in the [[Time Museum]]. One of the oak chairs has "Kilroy" carved into it while there is a burn mark on one of the desks. Ian is reminded of one of the third years spilling [[sulphuric acid]] on it years earlier. Pendolin tells him that he is to be the star attraction of the exhibition. | |||
* Pendolin tells Ian that he may have been the first human male to travel with the Doctor. | * Pendolin tells Ian that he may have been the first human male to travel with the Doctor. | ||
* Ian tells Pendolin that one of his students, [[ | * Ian tells Pendolin that one of his students, [[Susan Foreman]], used to look at him as if he were a sample under a microscope, something quaint. | ||
* Ian has been removed from his own time through the use of a [[time scoop]]. | * Ian has been removed from his own time through the use of a [[time scoop]]. | ||
* The Time Museum has been invaded by creatures which feed on memories. They devoured every exhibit except for the Chesterton Exhibition killed everyone in the museum except for Ian and Pendolin, who hid. Ian is severely | * The Time Museum has been invaded by creatures which feed on memories. They devoured every exhibit except for the Chesterton Exhibition, and killed everyone in the museum except for Ian and Pendolin, who hid. Ian is severely affected by them at first. His memories of his travels with the Doctor become muddled and he cannot even the remember the name of his wife [[Barbara Wright|Barbara Chesterton]]. | ||
* The Time Museum featured a exhibit on the [[Sontaran-Rutan War]] containing thousands of [[Sontaran]] and [[Rutan Host]] ships and millions of lives, all of whom were eaten. | * The Time Museum featured a exhibit on the [[Sontaran-Rutan War]] containing thousands of [[Sontaran]] and [[Rutan Host]] ships and millions of lives, all of whom were eaten. | ||
* Ian grew up in [[London]] during the [[The Blitz|Blitz]] in [[World War II]]. | * Ian grew up in [[London]] during the [[The Blitz|Blitz]] in [[World War II]]. | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* As was the case with [[ | * As was the case with [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Jigsaw War (audio story)|The Jigsaw War]]'', this audio drama does not feature any narration. It is a full cast audio drama which only features two speaking roles. | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[12 October]] [[2011]]. | * Although the [[First Doctor]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] featured on the CD cover, neither of them appear in the story itself. | ||
* This story features at least one direct reference to every televised story in which Ian appears as well as [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)|Farewell, Great Macedon]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rocket Men (audio story)|The Rocket Men]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Masters of Luxor (audio story)|The Masters of Luxor]]''. | |||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[12 October (production)|12 October]] [[2011 (production)|2011]] at [[the Moat Studios]]. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* After Ian demands to be returned home, Pendolin remarks that he is being | * After Ian demands to be returned home, Pendolin remarks that he is being extremely consistent as always sought to go home no matter how many wonderful places that he had been visited or wonderful things he had seen. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', et. al) | ||
* Ian tells Pendolin that Barbara was concerned that Susan did not know how many shillings were in a pound | * Ian tells Pendolin that Barbara was concerned that Susan did not know how many shillings were in a pound. He remembers that Susan listened to a band called [[John Smith and the Common Men]] on her transistor radio. Furthermore, he recalls that he and Barbara followed her home to [[76 Totter's Lane]], where they met [[First Doctor|her grandfather]] who lived in a [[The Doctor's TARDIS|police call box]]. Shortly thereafter, he took them to the [[BC|distant past]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') | ||
* | * Ian remembers that he once travelled with a man who sometimes called himself "[[Aliases of the Doctor#John Smith|John Smith]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'') | ||
* The Time Museum contains a recreation of the metal corridors of the [[Dalek City]] on [[Skaro]], where Ian encountered the [[Dalek]]s for the first time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | |||
* Ian refers to his visits to [[Jobis]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rocket Men (audio story)|The Rocket Men]]'') the [[Sense Sphere]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'') and the pyramid of [[Arbitan]] on [[Marinus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'') | |||
* Ian | * Ian mentions that [[Alexander the Great]] taught him how to ride a [[horse]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)|Farewell, Great Macedon]]'') | ||
* Ian remembers suffering from radiation poisoning during his visit to Skaro. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | |||
* Ian recalls fighting in the [[Crusades|Third Crusade]] in the [[12th century|1190s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crusade (TV story)|The Crusade]]'') However, his memory is muddled as he initially believes that he fought for [[John of England|King John]] against the forces of [[Kublai|Kublai Khan]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') who forced him to fight in his arena. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans (TV story)|The Romans]]'') After smelling smoke, he claims that Emperor [[Nero]] has set fire to the farmhouse ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans (TV story)|The Romans]]'', ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]''), that [[Roboman|Robomen]] are following himself and Pendolin ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') and they must flee to the Temple of [[Yetaxa]] where Susan is to be sacrificed ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') to the Masters of Luxor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Masters of Luxor (audio story)|The Masters of Luxor]]'') He also claims that the Doctor is to be married in the Temple. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') | |||
* Ian tells Pendolin that, during his travels with the Doctor, he never had time to catch his breath on his trips to [[Vortis]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'') and [[Versailles]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]'') | |||
* Ian claims that he, the Doctor, Barbara and Susan were locked in the [[Cave of Skulls]] by the [[Aztec]] warlord [[Tegana]] who wanted them to create the wheel. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'', ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') | |||
* Ian | * Ian was removed from his own time, the late [[20th century]], using by a [[time scoop]]. Pendolin was unable to use the same process on the Doctor due to the fact that he is a [[Time Lord]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') He would later be brought to an alternative [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]] by [[Rassilon]] using a time scoop, where he encountered the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Five Companions (audio story)|The Five Companions]]'') | ||
* Ian and Pendolin | * Ian refers to the [[acid|acid seas]] of [[Marinus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'') | ||
* Ian and Pendolin face a colony of giant [[ant]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Giants (TV story)|Planet of Giants]]'') who the former claims were fighting a war with the giant earthworms and [[Menoptera|butterflies]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'') Furthermore, he claims that he was tied to stakes in the desert and covered with honey to attract the ants. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crusade (TV story)|The Crusade]]'') They fend them off using giant versions of the Doctor's [[Promethean Everlasting Matches|everlasting matches]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Giants (TV story)|Planet of Giants]]'') | |||
* Ian and Pendolin find a recreation of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[I.M. Foreman]]'s [[junkyard]] on 76 Totter's Lane. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') | |||
* Ian recalls that he prevented the Doctor from killing [[Za]] with a rock after they escaped from the Cave of Skulls. He believes that this incident had a profound impact on the Doctor. Prior to meeting Ian and Barbara, he abided by the [[Time Lord]]s' [[non-interference policy]]. Subsequently, he began to actively intervene. ([[ | * Ian recalls visiting the [[Space Museum]] on [[Morok]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'') and that the Doctor had told him and Barbara that "you cannot change history, not one line." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') | ||
* Pendolin shows Ian an [[Eternal]] sailing vessel ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') and the first [[Nekkistani]] vessel to breach the time barrier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'') | |||
* Ian recalls that he prevented the Doctor from killing [[Za]] with a rock after they escaped from the Cave of Skulls. He believes that this incident had a profound impact on the Doctor. Prior to meeting Ian and Barbara, he abided by the [[Time Lord]]s' [[non-interference policy]]. Subsequently, he began to actively intervene. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', et. al) | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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{{TitleSort}} | {{TitleSort}} | ||
[[Category:Series 7 (CC) audio stories]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:38, 6 April 2024
- You may be looking for the TVC comic strip of the same name.
The Time Museum was the first story of the seventh series in The Companion Chronicles audio range. It was produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by James Goss and featured Ian Chesterton.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
“This is The Chesterton Exhibition. A series of breathtakingly faithful tableaux, painstakingly detailed to the nth degree. Dedicated to the life of that most extraordinary time traveller, Ian Chesterton!”
Ian finds himself in a shrine to his own past, and on the run with a man named Pendolin.
From Coal Hill School to Jobis Station, from Totter's Yard to the Crusades, Ian's history is unfolding.
And a confrontation with a deadly enemy with a voracious appetite awaits...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Cave of Five Hundred Skulls (1)[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
The Birth of Ian Chesterton (2)[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Cover Art - Alex Mallinson
- Director - Lisa Bowerman
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Richard Fox and Lauren Yason @ FoxYason Studios
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - Jacqueline Rayner
- Writer - James Goss
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ian awakens to find himself in a recreation of his bedroom, which leads into a recreation of his science classroom in Coal Hill School in the Chesterton Exhibition, dedicated to his travels with the First Doctor, in the Time Museum. One of the oak chairs has "Kilroy" carved into it while there is a burn mark on one of the desks. Ian is reminded of one of the third years spilling sulphuric acid on it years earlier. Pendolin tells him that he is to be the star attraction of the exhibition.
- Pendolin tells Ian that he may have been the first human male to travel with the Doctor.
- Ian tells Pendolin that one of his students, Susan Foreman, used to look at him as if he were a sample under a microscope, something quaint.
- Ian has been removed from his own time through the use of a time scoop.
- The Time Museum has been invaded by creatures which feed on memories. They devoured every exhibit except for the Chesterton Exhibition, and killed everyone in the museum except for Ian and Pendolin, who hid. Ian is severely affected by them at first. His memories of his travels with the Doctor become muddled and he cannot even the remember the name of his wife Barbara Chesterton.
- The Time Museum featured a exhibit on the Sontaran-Rutan War containing thousands of Sontaran and Rutan Host ships and millions of lives, all of whom were eaten.
- Ian grew up in London during the Blitz in World War II.
- Pendolin brought Ian to the Time Museum in the hope of luring the Doctor to be his star exhibit. However, he was unable to attract the Doctor's attention.
- Ian eventually realises that it is not the creatures outside who are feeding on his memories but Pendolin. He used to occasionally feed on one of the thousands of visitors to the Museum but rumours of mysterious deaths resulted in the number of visitors following off dramatically. Starving, Pendolin devoured the memories of his exhibits, beginning with the occasional Sontaran. He reasoned that, given that the Sontarans are a clone race, they would not be missed. Ian determines that the creatures were attacking Pendolin all along.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- As was the case with AUDIO: Solitaire and AUDIO: The Jigsaw War, this audio drama does not feature any narration. It is a full cast audio drama which only features two speaking roles.
- Although the First Doctor, Barbara and Susan featured on the CD cover, neither of them appear in the story itself.
- This story features at least one direct reference to every televised story in which Ian appears as well as AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon, AUDIO: The Rocket Men and AUDIO: The Masters of Luxor.
- This audio drama was recorded on 12 October 2011 at the Moat Studios.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- After Ian demands to be returned home, Pendolin remarks that he is being extremely consistent as always sought to go home no matter how many wonderful places that he had been visited or wonderful things he had seen. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et. al)
- Ian tells Pendolin that Barbara was concerned that Susan did not know how many shillings were in a pound. He remembers that Susan listened to a band called John Smith and the Common Men on her transistor radio. Furthermore, he recalls that he and Barbara followed her home to 76 Totter's Lane, where they met her grandfather who lived in a police call box. Shortly thereafter, he took them to the distant past. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
- Ian remembers that he once travelled with a man who sometimes called himself "John Smith." (PROSE: The Witch Hunters, TV: The Vampires of Venice)
- The Time Museum contains a recreation of the metal corridors of the Dalek City on Skaro, where Ian encountered the Daleks for the first time. (TV: The Daleks)
- Ian refers to his visits to Jobis, (AUDIO: The Rocket Men) the Sense Sphere (TV: The Sensorites) and the pyramid of Arbitan on Marinus. (TV: The Keys of Marinus)
- Ian mentions that Alexander the Great taught him how to ride a horse. (AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon)
- Ian remembers suffering from radiation poisoning during his visit to Skaro. (TV: The Daleks)
- Ian recalls fighting in the Third Crusade in the 1190s. (TV: The Crusade) However, his memory is muddled as he initially believes that he fought for King John against the forces of Kublai Khan, (TV: Marco Polo) who forced him to fight in his arena. (TV: The Romans) After smelling smoke, he claims that Emperor Nero has set fire to the farmhouse (TV: The Romans, The Reign of Terror), that Robomen are following himself and Pendolin (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and they must flee to the Temple of Yetaxa where Susan is to be sacrificed (TV: The Aztecs) to the Masters of Luxor. (AUDIO: The Masters of Luxor) He also claims that the Doctor is to be married in the Temple. (TV: The Aztecs)
- Ian tells Pendolin that, during his travels with the Doctor, he never had time to catch his breath on his trips to Vortis (TV: The Web Planet) and Versailles. (TV: The Reign of Terror)
- Ian claims that he, the Doctor, Barbara and Susan were locked in the Cave of Skulls by the Aztec warlord Tegana who wanted them to create the wheel. (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Aztecs, Marco Polo)
- Ian was removed from his own time, the late 20th century, using by a time scoop. Pendolin was unable to use the same process on the Doctor due to the fact that he is a Time Lord. (TV: The Five Doctors) He would later be brought to an alternative Death Zone on Gallifrey by Rassilon using a time scoop, where he encountered the Fifth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Five Companions)
- Ian refers to the acid seas of Marinus. (TV: The Keys of Marinus)
- Ian and Pendolin face a colony of giant ants, (TV: Planet of Giants) who the former claims were fighting a war with the giant earthworms and butterflies. (TV: The Web Planet) Furthermore, he claims that he was tied to stakes in the desert and covered with honey to attract the ants. (TV: The Crusade) They fend them off using giant versions of the Doctor's everlasting matches. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, TV: Planet of Giants)
- Ian and Pendolin find a recreation of the TARDIS in I.M. Foreman's junkyard on 76 Totter's Lane. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
- Ian recalls visiting the Space Museum on Morok (TV: The Space Museum) and that the Doctor had told him and Barbara that "you cannot change history, not one line." (TV: The Aztecs)
- Pendolin shows Ian an Eternal sailing vessel (TV: Enlightenment) and the first Nekkistani vessel to breach the time barrier. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element)
- Ian recalls that he prevented the Doctor from killing Za with a rock after they escaped from the Cave of Skulls. He believes that this incident had a profound impact on the Doctor. Prior to meeting Ian and Barbara, he abided by the Time Lords' non-interference policy. Subsequently, he began to actively intervene. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et. al)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Time Museum page at bigfinish.com
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