Quinnis (audio story)

Quinnis was the thirty-eighth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the sixth story of season 5. It was written by Marc Platt and featured Susan Foreman.

Publisher's summary
Before Totter's Yard, before Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, before the Chameleon Circuit was broken... the Doctor and Susan travelled alone.

The planet Quinnis in the Fourth Universe appears, at first glance, to be an agreeable, exotic refuge for the two travellers. But the world is experiencing a terrible drought, and the Doctor becomes its unwilling rainmaker.

Meanwhile, Susan makes an ally in a young girl called Meedla. But friends are not always what they appear, and the long-awaited rain isn't necessarily good news...

Plot
The First Doctor and his granddaughter Susan arrive on the planet Quinnis, in the Fourth Universe. Quinnis is struggling through a terrible drought and the Doctor offers to bring back the rain.

Cast

 * Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
 * Meedla - Tara-Louise Kaye

Story notes

 * This is the first Big Finish audio drama to take place prior to the events of TV: An Unearthly Child in the Doctor's personal timeline.
 * Given that the TARDIS' chameleon circuit is operational, this is one of the few Doctor Who stories in any medium in which the TARDIS appears in a form other than that of a police box.
 * Chronologically, this is the earliest audio drama to feature the Doctor.
 * To date, this is one of only two First Doctor Companion Chronicles not to feature Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton or Steven Taylor.
 * This audio drama was recorded on 9 August 2010.

Continuity

 * Susan refers to the human colonists who were rescued from the Moon after being trapped in the Moonbase for over 30 years as result of the 22nd century Dalek invasion as well as the incident with the Guldreasi. (AUDIO: An Earthly Child)
 * Susan mentions being recently reunited with her grandfather during his eighth incarnation in London in the late 2190s and her son Alex Campbell's reaction to seeing the TARDIS for the first time. (AUDIO: An Earthly Child)
 * Susan recalls being left on Earth by her grandfather in the 2160s following the end of the Dalek occupation. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
 * Susan speaks to her late husband David Campbell, who died several years earlier. (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)
 * Susan mentions that the TARDIS' trip to Quinnis occurred before she and her grandfather were joined by their travels by Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, two of her teachers at Coal Hill School. (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Edge of Destruction)
 * Meedla predicts that "dark misery" is in Susan's destiny. (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Reign of Terror; AUDIO: Lucie Miller / To the Death)
 * After leaving Quinnis, the Doctor and Susan travelled to London in 1963. (COMIC: Operation Proteus, PROSE: Time and Relative, AUDIO: Hunters of Earth, TV: An Unearthly Child) Before deciding to settle down in 1963, however, they took a brief trip to St Albans on 17 December 1997 to ensure that the United Kingdom would remain safe during and after the 1960s. Unbeknownst to either of them, the Fourth Doctor and his companions Romana and K9 were in the vicinity on the same day. (PROSE: The Little Things)
 * Susan would later tell Ian and Barbara about their visit to Quinnis. (TV: The Edge of Destruction, The Sensorites; AUDIO: The Transit of Venus)
 * By time of his third incarnation, the Doctor would return to Quinnis and train as a ninja. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
 * The Doctor refers to the Dutch dancer and alleged German spy Mata Hari. Considerably later in his personal timeline, specifically during his eleventh incarnation, he encountered her in a hotel room in Paris. She proceeded to remove her clothes in front of him. The Doctor later told his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams that he found her "very interesting." (WC: Pond Life)
 * For the older Susan recounting the story, Quinnis occurs after AUDIO: An Earthly Child and before AUDIO: Relative Dimensions.