The Time Museum (audio story)

The Time Museum was the first story of the seventh series in The Companion Chronicles audio range. It was produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by James Goss and featured Ian Chesterton.

Publisher's summary
''“This is The Chesterton Exhibition. A series of breathtakingly faithful tableaux, painstakingly detailed to the nth degree. Dedicated to the life of that most extraordinary time traveller, Ian Chesterton!”''

Ian finds himself in a shrine to his own past, and on the run with a man named Pendolin.

From Coal Hill School to Jobis Station, from Totter's Yard to the Crusades, Ian's history is unfolding.

And a confrontation with a deadly enemy with a voracious appetite awaits...

The Cave of Five Hundred Skulls (1)
to be added

The Birth of Ian Chesterton (2)
to be added

Cast

 * Ian Chesterton - William Russell
 * Pendolin - Philip Pope

Continuity

 * After Ian demands to be returned home, Pendolin remarks that he is being extremely consistent as always sought to go home no matter how many wonderful places that he had been visited or wonderful things he had seen. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et. al)
 * Ian tells Pendolin that Barbara was concerned that Susan did not know how many shillings were in a pound. He remembers that Susan listened to a band called John Smith and the Common Men on her transistor radio. Furthermore, he recalls that he and Barbara followed her home to 76 Totter's Lane, where they met her grandfather who lived in a police call box. Shortly thereafter, he took them to the distant past. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
 * Ian remembers that he once travelled with a man who sometimes called himself "John Smith." (PROSE: The Witch Hunters, TV: The Vampires of Venice)
 * The Time Museum contains a recreation of the metal corridors of the Dalek City on Skaro, where Ian encountered the Daleks for the first time. (TV: The Daleks)
 * Ian refers to his visits to Jobis (AUDIO: The Rocket Men), the Sense Sphere (TV: The Sensorites) and the pyramid of Arbitan on Marinus. (TV: The Keys of Marinus)
 * Ian mentions that Alexander the Great taught him how to ride a horse. (AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon)
 * Ian remembers suffering from radiation poisoning during his visit to Skaro. (TV: The Daleks)
 * Ian recalls fighting in the Third Crusade in the 1190s. (TV: The Crusade) However, his memory is muddled as he initially believes that he fought for King John against the forces of Kublai Khan (TV: Marco Polo), who forced him to fight in his arena. (TV: The Romans) After smelling smoke, he claims that Emperor Nero has set fire to the farmhouse (TV: The Romans, The Reign of Terror), that Robomen are following himself and Pendolin (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and they must flee to the Temple of Yetaxa where Susan is to be sacrificed (TV: The Aztecs) to the Masters of Luxor. (AUDIO: The Masters of Luxor) He also claims that the Doctor is to be married in the Temple. (TV: The Aztecs)
 * Ian tells Pendolin that, during his travels with the Doctor, he never had time to catch his breath on his trips to Vortis (TV: The Web Planet) and Versailles. (TV: The Reign of Terror)
 * Ian claims that he, the Doctor, Barbara and Susan were locked in the Cave of Skulls by the Aztec warlord Tegana who wanted them to create the wheel. (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Aztecs, Marco Polo)
 * Ian was removed from his own time, the late 20th century, using by a time scoop. Pendolin was unable to use the same process on the Doctor due to the fact that he is a Time Lord. (TV: The Five Doctors) He would later be brought to an alternative Death Zone on Gallifrey by Rassilon using a time scoop, where he encountered the Fifth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Five Companions)
 * Ian refers to the acid seas of Marinus. (TV: The Keys of Marinus)
 * Ian and Pendolin face a colony of giant ants (TV: Planet of Giants), who the former claims were fighting a war with the giant earthworms and butterflies. (TV: The Web Planet) Furthermore, he claims that he was tied to stakes in the desert and covered with honey to attract the ants. (TV: The Crusade) They fend them off using giant versions of the Doctor's everlasting matches. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, TV: Planet of Giants)
 * Ian and Pendolin find a recreation of the TARDIS in I.M. Foreman's junkyard on 76 Totter's Lane. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
 * Ian recalls visiting the Space Museum on Morok (TV: The Space Museum) and that the Doctor had told him and Barbara that "you cannot change history, not one line." (TV: The Aztecs)
 * Pendolin shows Ian an Eternal sailing vessel (TV: Enlightenment) and the first Nekkistani vessel to breach the time barrier. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element)
 * Ian recalls that he prevented the Doctor from killing Za with a rock after they escaped from the Cave of Skulls. He believes that this incident had a profound impact on the Doctor. Prior to meeting Ian and Barbara, he abided by the Time Lords' non-interference policy. Subsequently, he began to actively intervene. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et. al)