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|name  = The Three Companions

|series          =[[The Companion Chronicles]]

|number          =

|main character  ={{il|[[Polly Wright]]|[[Thomas Brewster]]|[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]}}

|featuring        ={{il|[[Second Doctor]]|[[Third Doctor]]|[[Ben Jackson]]|[[Jamie McCrimmon]]}}

|enemy            =[[Gerry Lenz]] / Garry Lendler<br />The [[Coffin-Loader]]s

|setting          ={{il|[[London]] and elsewhere in [[England]], [[2009]]|[[Cosmic Finance Central Five]]|[[London]], the [[1970s]]|An unnamed planet}}

|writer          =[[Marc Platt]]

|director        =[[Lisa Bowerman]]

|read by          ={{il|[[Anneke Wills]]|[[Nicholas Courtney]]|[[John Pickard]]}}

|music            =[[Richard Fox]] & [[Lauren Yason]]

|sound            =[[Richard Fox]] & [[Lauren Yason]]

|publisher        =[[Big Finish Productions]]

|release date    =[[April]] [[2009]] - [[February]] [[2010]]<br />[[August]] [[2011]]

|format          =12 x 10 minute episodes across 12 CDs

|production code  =

|isbn            =

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}}'''''The Three Companions''''' is a twelve-part mini-series. It was included on the main [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|''Doctor Who'' range]] as a bonus between [[April]] [[2009]] and [[February]] [[2010]]. Each episode is ten minutes long, making a two hour play in total. The entire story is collected in a compilation on ''[[The Companion Chronicles: The Specials (audio anthology)|The Companion Chronicles: The Specials]]'' CD box set.

== Publisher's Summary ==

[[Polly Wright]] has tracked down an old friend of the Doctor's... [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]], former Brigadier at [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]. As they trade stories of their time travelling in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], it soon becomes clear that their pasts are intertwined, and linked to a current crisis on the planet [[Earth]]. And there's a third companion, watching them from a distance. A certain [[Thomas Brewster]]...

As the end of a world approaches, Polly, Ben and Jamie attempt to escape the [[Gathernaut]]. (Included on ''[[The Company of Friends]]'')

Polly's tale is over, but now Lethbridge-Stewart shares his story of a rare excursion in the [[TARDIS]], when the [[Third Doctor]] answered a distress call from a distant [[galaxy]]. What is the secret of Waterloo Station? (Included on ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'')

In a place that looks like a jumbled-up Earth, the Third Doctor and the Brigadier have met a woman who looks just like Polly Wright, but she isn't. Meanwhile, in the real world, the real Polly has a new acquaintance – a young man called Thomas Brewster. (Included on ''[[Paper Cuts (audio story)|Paper Cuts]]'')

The Brigadier and the Third Doctor are fighting for survival on a model world that looks like Earth. Why are there facsimiles of Polly Wright here and who is the mysterious Garry Lendler? No one is more anxious to find out than Thomas Brewster…(Included on ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet]]'')

Cornered by the coffin loaders, the Doctor and the Brigadier make their last stand at World's End Junction. Meanwhile, the mysterious Thomas Brewster finally prepares to step out from the shadows… (Included on ''[[Castle of Fear]]'')

In a café, three strangers meet: Polly, the Brigadier and Thomas Brewster. They share one thing in common – they have all travelled in time and space with the Doctor. Now the Doctor isn't here, and the world is in terrible danger… (Included on ''[[The Eternal Summer]]'')

As Polly and the Brigadier become acquainted with Thomas Brewster, chaos erupts. UNIT troops are on the streets of London and the Hunter is on the prowl…(Included on ''[[Plague of the Daleks]]'')

With the coffin loader on the rampage in London, Polly, the Brigadier and Brewster meet an old acquaintance. Can he cure the planet's accelerated global warming? (Included on ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings]]'')

''to be added'' (Included on ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'')

* Gerry "G. L." Lenz / Garry Lendler / Announcer - [[Russell Floyd]]

== References ==

* [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]] mentioned in an Internet article that she worked with the [[Third Doctor]] and the Brigadier at [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] during the [[1970s]]. She and her husband [[Clifford Jones]] are based in [[Brazil]] and keep in regular contact with the Brigadier.

* Polly's e-mail address is [email protected].

* Polly works in the [[City of Westminster]] in [[London]].

* Polly describes Gerry "G. L." Lenz as being "handsome in a {{w|Terence Stamp}} sort of way." Lenz mistakes the Doctor for her uncle and offers her a job as his new PA as she will "be easy on the customer's eyes."

* During a brief trip in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] with the Second Doctor, the Brigadier was once trapped in the event horizon of a [[black hole]].

* Florrie Cooper describes the Third Doctor as a "proper toff."

* Brewster refers to the [[19th century]] {{w|penny dreadful}}s ''[[Black Bess]]'' and {{wi|Varney the Vampire}}.

* Polly refers to the TARDIS' [[food machine]].

* Brewster mentions the croup.

* Due to the extreme flooding of London, the [[British government]] has relocated to [[Birmingham]].  

* Polly works in a government office.

* Polly regularly goes to the gym.

[[File:Brigadiers_Story_cover.jpg|thumb|Compilation cover for ''The Brigadier's Story'']]

[[File:Brewsters_Story_cover.jpg|thumb|Compilation cover for ''Brewster's Story'']]

* The compilation of this story came on three CDs, each with a cover focused on that part's companion.

* This story contains [[Nicholas Courtney]]'s final performance as [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] before his death on [[22 February (people)|22 February]] [[2011]].

* Polly mentions to the Brigadier that the [[First Doctor|Doctor]]'s [[Regeneration|appearance and personality completed changed]] while she and Ben were travelling with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')

* Polly mentions meeting Jamie at in the aftermath of the [[Battle of Culloden]] on [[16 April]] [[1746]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'')

* Brewster states that he misses "[[Nyssa|Her Royal Highness Princess Nyssa]]." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]]'')  

* Brewster tells Polly and the Brigadier that he first met the [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] in [[1867]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]]'')  

* The original release was a series of ten-minute episodes included on the back end of the [[Big Finish Productions]]' main monthly titles, starting with ''[[The Magic Mousetrap]]'' and ending with ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''.

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[[Category:Fifth Doctor audio stories]]

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