The Perpetual Bond (audio story)

Publisher's summary
When the TARDIS materialises in a familiar junkyard in the 1960s, the Doctor and Steven are soon embroiled in a mystery in the City of London. Who are the mysterious, bowler-hatted businessmen with their deadly umbrellas? What secret is young Oliver Harper desperately trying to conceal?

Contracts have been signed. A deal is in place. The Doctor discovers that perhaps not even he can stop a terrible business...

Plot
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Cast

 * Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
 * Oliver Harper - Tom Allen

Story notes

 * This is the first Big Finish audio drama to introduce a new companion for any incarnation of the Doctor prior to the Fifth Doctor.
 * This audio drama was recorded on 27 May 2010.

Continuity

 * Steven recalls the recent deaths of Katarina, Bret Vyon and Sara Kingdom (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan) and the departure of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright (DW: The Chase).
 * The Doctor returns to I.M. Foreman's junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane for the first time since departing 1963 in the company of Ian, Barbara and his granddaughter Susan Foreman. (DW: An Unearthly Child) He would later do so again in 1963 during his both his fourth and seventh incarnations (ST: Those Left Behind, DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) and in 1985 during his sixth incarnation (DW: Attack of the Cybermen). By 2021, Totter's Lane is a commercially zoned area of Shoreditch which is mostly made up of office blocks. A car park has been built on the former location of the junkyard. (BFA: The Harvest)
 * Steven refers to his previous visit to London in 1912. (CC: The Suffering) He would later visit the city once again in March 1965. (DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, PDA: Salvation)
 * The Doctor and Steven previously visited 1966 in the company of Sara Kingdom when the TARDIS materialised in East Berlin during that year. (CC: The Anachronauts)