The Beginning (audio story)

The Beginning was the seventy-third release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the fifth story of season 8. It was written by Marc Platt and featured the First Doctor and Susan Foreman. Chronologically, it is the earliest Doctor Who story in any medium.

Publisher's summary
When the First Doctor and his grand-daughter Susan escape through the cloisters of Gallifrey to an old Type 40 Time Travel capsule, little do they realize the adventures that lie ahead… And little do they know, as the TARDIS dematerializes and they leave their home world behind, there is someone else aboard the ship. He is Quadrigger Stoyn, and he is very unhappy…

Part one
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Part two
to be added

Cast

 * Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
 * Quadrigger Stoyn - Terry Molloy

Continuity

 * Susan enters another time capsule but the Doctor does not follow. He briefly speaks with someone outside, before pulling Susan out and entering another parked alongside it. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
 * There are sentient chairs on Gallifrey. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
 * In his capacity as Lord Burner, Irving Braxiatel was ordered by Lord President Pandad VII to burn "an old man" and "his granddaughter", who are implied to be the Doctor and Susan, from history. He disobeyed this order and the intended victims stole a TARDIS and fled Gallifrey. The very same day, Pandad died when a power relay in his office overloaded. An inquiry headed by Braxiatel found that this was an accident. (AUDIO: Disassembled)