The Destination Wars (audio story)

 was the first audio story in the anthology The First Doctor Adventures: Volume One. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured David Bradley as the First Doctor, Jamie Glover as Ian Chesterton, Jemma Powell as Barbara Wright and Claudia Grant as Susan Foreman.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS arrives in a gleaming utopia in the Space Year 2003. Has the Doctor truly brought Ian and Barbara home, to glimpse their future?

The world owes much to its legendary Inventor, and Susan finds herself face to face with the great benefactor. But soon, the time travellers are in a world at war and the Doctor must confront his past.

Journey to the Future (1)
The TARDIS lands inside a container, in a big room which looks like a storeroom, just after the Doctor finished doing some adjustments to re-calibrate the ship. The travellers come out, and while Susan and Barbara stay behind to take notes of the container they landed in, the Doctor and Ian go look outside to see where they are. From the window, they see a world who, in its appearance, looks rather similar to the Earth, albeit some year in the future: cars are now hovering, and there are screens showing the time of the day and the year, Space Year 2003.

They ask a passer-by, introducing himself as Robac, City Warden, for information, and he confirms them that that is indeed the year they are in (which Barbara and Ian take as a confirmation that this is their Earth forty years in the future). He asks them whether they are friends of the Inventor, but the Doctor replies they are travellers just arrived there and curious to know more. Robac then invites them all to his house, where they are welcomed by his wife, Tanna, head of a city scientific guild and security chief, and his teenage daughter Reena. As Susan and Reena retire to the room of the latter, the adults sit at the meal with Robac and Tanna, who inform them this is a very important day: the Inventor, the man to whom the people of their planet owe their scientific development, has returned and is going to address them with a public speech, which shall be broadcast citywide from the screens.

Reena confides to Susan her dream of becoming an inventor, just as their own, and reveals her they are not actually on Earth, but on Destination, a planet miles away from Earth. The same conclusion is reached also by Ian and Barbara when the Doctor has Robac explain what the date really means: Space Year 2003 is the number of years passed since the ancestors of the actual colony came from another world to this planet. The Doctor then proceeds to inform their guests that they too come from another world; Robac and Tanna then decide to immediately bring the three of them to the City Centre, in order to inform the Inventor, verify their claims and have accommodations prepared for them. The Doctor, Ian and Barbara agree and all of them depart for the City Administration Building.

While passing for the main square, the travellers notice some little robots with eyestalks: the servers, Robac explained, keeping them in order and watching over them when the Inventor is away. Tanna, on the other hand, tells them about the statue in the middle of the square, a memorial of the war the colonists fought against the Dalmari, the original inhabitants of this planet. With the help of the Inventor, the colonists managed to drive them away and lock them out of the town. Tanna is still talking, when she receives a sudden call and storms off. Robac also leaves them in the main square beside the statue, while he goes to inform the servers of their arrival. While alone, the travellers think about what has been told them: Ian is not persuaded by the tales about the Inventor, and Barbara is perplexed at the similarities between this civilization and the Earth one. The Doctor asks Ian to retrieve Susan and cone back here; as soon as he is off, he tells Barbara he noticed worry on Tanna's face as she received her communication. The two of them then follows Tanna along the alleyway she went through.

The Father of Invention (2)
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The Destination Wars (3)
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Prisoners of Time (4)
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Cast

 * The Doctor - David Bradley
 * Susan Foreman - Claudia Grant
 * Ian Chesterton - Jamie Glover
 * Barbara Wright - Jemma Powell
 * The Master - James Dreyfus
 * Robac - Raymond Coulthard
 * Reena - Deli Segal
 * Tanna - Sian Reeves

Continuity

 * Upon their arrival, Ian inquires if they are still on Earth, implying that they just left the planet. The Doctor will later tell Takagi Mamoru that they recently visited Paris. (AUDIO: The Barbarians and the Samurai)
 * Ian mentions the Daleks. (TV: The Daleks)
 * The Master refers to Ian and Barbara's leaving Earth as a "kidnapping". (TV: An Unearthly Child)
 * Ian and Barbara still have clothes in the TARDIS from Peking. (TV: Marco Polo)
 * The Master mentions that the Doctor isn't the only one to meet with Houdini, indicating the Doctor has already met him or implying he knows the Doctor will meet him with Ben Jackson and Polly Wright. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors)
 * The Master mentions that Quadriggers were set to work on his TARDIS before he stole it. (AUDIO: The Beginning)
 * Because his TARDIS was not quite operational, he got stuck in the earliest Segments of Time. (TV: The Ark)
 * The Master uses hypnotism on Ian. He will later use hypnosis on others. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
 * The Second Doctor would later encounter this incarnation of the Master again, during the Second World War. (AUDIO: The Home Guard). So will the Seventh Doctor at the Psychic Circus (AUDIO: The Psychic Circus).