The First Sontarans (audio story)

The First Sontarans was the sixth release in the third series of The Lost Stories. It provided the Sontarans with an origin story, something which, unlike many of the Doctor's other recurring enemies, had not been provided before.

Publisher's summary
1872. After finding a strange signalling device on the moon, the Doctor and Peri travel to the depths of the English countryside to track down the source of its transmissions. But they're not the first aliens to arrive on the scene.

Old enemies of the Doctor are drawing their battle lines in the forest and the local humans will be lucky to escape the conflagration unscathed.

For hidden within this village is a deadly secret - a secret that could destroy the entire Sontaran race... and reveal the terrible mystery of their creation.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
 * Fleet Marshal Jaka - Dan Starkey
 * Jacob Gilley / Meredid Roath - Anthony Howell
 * Jane Ross / Leandra Roath - Lizzie Roper
 * Gentleman / Lork / Barclay - John Banks
 * Major Thessinger - Cameron Stewart

Continuity

 * The Doctor refers to Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969. (TV: Blink, TV: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon)
 * The Doctor and Peri would return to the Moon when they visited the Gogglebox in the far future. (AUDIO: The Reaping)
 * The Doctor refers to the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste in 1872. The Doctor refers to the Daleks' involvement in the incident. The First Doctor and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister were indirectly involved in the crew's disappearance. (TV: The Chase) By his fifth incarnation, the Doctor was aware of his involvement as he told Alan Fitzgerald, a student summer intern at the Gogglebox, that he was "sort of" responsible for the disappearance of its crew. (AUDIO: The Gathering)
 * Major Thessiger's father fought in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Both the Second Doctor and an older version of the Sixth Doctor were present at the battle. (PROSE: World Game, AUDIO: The Curse of Davros) Furthermore, Thessiger claims that he himself fought in the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November 1854 during the Crimean War. Mollie Dawson's uncle was killed in the battle. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor and Peri previously encountered the Sontarans in Seville, Spain in 1985. (TV: The Two Doctors)
 * The Doctor refers to the Sontarans' sworn arch-enemies the Rutan Host. The two species have been at war for millennia. (TV: The Time Warrior, TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
 * The Doctor tells Roath and Fleet Marshal Jaka that he is aware that the Sontarans possess rudimentary time travel technology as he once witnessed it in operation. (TV: The Time Warrior)
 * The Doctor is able to preserve Leandra's life using the Zero Room. (TV: Castrovalva)