The Suffering (audio story)

The Suffering was a February 2010 entry in The Companion Chronicles series by Big Finish Productions, starring Peter Purves and Maureen O'Brien.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS materialises in England in the year 1912, a time of great social change. The Suffragette movement is lobbying for votes for women, and the skull of the so-called ‘missing link’ has been discovered in Piltdown.

While Vicki falls victim to a strange influence, the Doctor and Steven investigate the fossilised remains. The Suffering has been unleashed. Can the travellers survive its rage?

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
 * Vicki Pallister - Maureen O'Brien

Continuity

 * Steven would return to London in 1966 (CC: The Perpetual Bond) and, later in his personal timeline, March 1965 (DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve).

For the Doctor

 * The Suffering occurs after CC: Frostfire
 * The Suffering occurs before DW: The Three Doctors

For Steven and Vicki

 * The Suffering occurs after CC: Frostfire
 * The Suffering occurs before MA: The Empire of Glass