The Companion Chronicles

The Companion Chronicles is a series currently produced by Big Finish Productions. The plays are stories recounted by one of the Doctor's companions (or one of his other friends) with one other actor in a supporting role (exceptions being The Three Companions with four actors, The Mahogany Murderers which featured three actors, and The Stealers from Saiph which featured actress Mary Tamm performing all the roles).

Overview

Concept

Originally, the concept was to produce talking books featuring the companions of incarnations of the Doctor who were unavailable to take part in the main audio range (due either to death or refusal). However, the range is now expanding featuring characters who are not strictly companions and companions of doctors who are featured in the main range.

Continuity

A few of the plays tie in to other plays in the Big Finish Doctor Who range. The Darkening Eye is a prequel to The Death Collectors, and in The Prisoner's Dilemma, Ace meets Zara, Amy's sister and a fellow tracer.

A number of the plays reveal the lives of the Doctor's companions after leaving him. It is revealed that Vicki remained with Troilus and had a large family, all the while still feeling like an outsider. According to the plays, Leela survived the Last Great Time War, but lost the anti-aging protection given to her by the Time Lords. Susan Foreman stayed with David Campbell, and Victoria settled down to raise a family.

Home Truths and The Drowned World, taking place between episodes of Sara Kingdom's first and only televised story, The Daleks' Master Plan, reveal for the first time in canon that she had other adventures as one of the Doctor's companions before her death at the end of that story. The latter story, however, begins after her death, and depicts her as a ghostly apparition.

List of Plays

#	Title	Author	Doctor	Featuring	Released
1	Frostfire	Marc Platt	First Doctor	Vicki Pallister Steven Taylor	January 2007
2	Fear of the Daleks	Patrick Chapman	Second Doctor	Zoe Heriot Jamie McCrimmon The Daleks	January 2007
3	The Blue Tooth	Nigel Fairs	Third Doctor	Liz Shaw Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Cybermen	January 2007
4	The Beautiful People	Jonathan Morris	Fourth Doctor	Romana II K-9 Mark II	January 2007
5	Mother Russia	Marc Platt	First Doctor	Steven Taylor Dodo Chaplet	October 2007
6	Helicon Prime	Jake Elliott	Second Doctor	Jamie McCrimmon	November 2007
7	Old Soldiers	James Swallow	Third Doctor	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Liz Shaw	December 2007
8	The Catalyst	Nigel Fairs	Fourth Doctor	Leela	January 2008
9	Here There Be Monsters	Andy Lane	First Doctor	Susan Foreman Ian Chesterton Barbara Wright	July 2008
10	The Great Space Elevator	Jonathan Morris	Second Doctor	Victoria Waterfield Jamie McCrimmon	August 2008
11	The Doll of Death	Marc Platt	Third Doctor	Jo Grant	September 2008
12	Empathy Games	Nigel Fairs	Fourth Doctor	Leela	October 2008
13	Home Truths	Simon Guerrier	First Doctor	Sara Kingdom Steven Taylor	November 2008
14	The Darkening Eye	Stewart Sheargold	Fifth Doctor	Nyssa Adric Tegan Jovanka	December 2008
15	The Transit of Venus	Jacqueline Rayner	First Doctor	Ian Chesterton Barbara Wright	January 2009
16	The Prisoner's Dilemma	Simon Guerrier	Seventh Doctor	Ace Zara	January 2009
17	Resistance	Steve Lyons	Second Doctor	Polly Wright Ben Jackson Jamie McCrimmon	March 2009
18	The Magician's Oath	Scott Handcock	Third Doctor	Mike Yates	April 2009
*	The Three Companions	Marc Platt	Second, Third and Fifth Doctors	Polly Wright Brig. Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart Thomas Brewster	Serialized over 12 chapters beginning with BFA: The Magic Mousetrap in April 2009
19	The Mahogany Murderers	Andy Lane	none	Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot	May 2009
20	The Stealers from Saiph	Nigel Robinson	Fourth Doctor	Romana I	June 2009
21	The Drowned World	Simon Guerrier	First Doctor	Sara Kingdom Steven Taylor	July 2009
22	The Glorious Revolution	Jonathan Morris	Second Doctor	Jamie McCrimmon Zoe Heriot	August 2009
*	The Mists of Time (Exclusive download with Doctor Who Magazine #411)	Jonathan Morris	Third Doctor	Jo Grant	19th August 2009
23	The Prisoner of Peladon	Cavan Scott & Mark Wright	Third Doctor	King Peladon Ice Warriors	September 2009
24	The Pyralis Effect	George Mann	Fourth Doctor	Romana II	October 2009
25	Ringpullworld	Paul Magrs	Fifth Doctor	Vislor Turlough Tegan Jovanka	November 2009
26	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code [1]	Eddie Robson	Seventh Doctor	Bernice Summerfield	January 2010
27	The Suffering	Jacqueline Rayner	First Doctor	Vicki Steven Taylor	February 2010
*	Freakshow	TBA	Fifth Doctor	Turlough	March 2010 (Free download with DWM419)
28	The Emperor of Eternity	Steve Lyons	Second Doctor	Jamie McCrimmon Victoria Waterfield	March 2010
29	Shadow of the Past	Simon Guerrier	Third Doctor	Liz Shaw	April 2010
30	The Time Vampire	Nigel Fairs	Fourth Doctor	Leela K9	May 2010
31	Night's Black Agents	Marty Ross	Sixth Doctor	Jamie McCrimmon	May 2010
32	Solitaire	John Dorney	Eighth Doctor	Charley Pollard The Celestial Toymaker	June 2010
33	TBA	TBA	First Doctor	TBA	July 2010
34	TBA	TBA	Second Doctor	TBA	August 2010
35	TBA	TBA	Third Doctor	Jo Grant	September 2010
36	TBA	TBA	Fourth Doctor	TBA	October 2010
37	TBA	TBA	Sixth Doctor	Evelyn Smythe	November 2010
38	TBA	TBA	First Doctor	TBA	December 2010

• The Three Companions is a 12-part serialized story being issued as a bonus with the regular monthly Big Finish episodes, beginning with BFA: The Magic Mousetrap in April 2009 and expected to conclude with BFA: Survival of the Fittest in February 2010.
• The Mists of Time, released in August 2009, was a download-only release made available to readers of Doctor Who Magazine #411 for a limited time. It is not known if a physical release will occur later, or if the story is included in the overall numbering for the series.