The Gathering (audio story)

Publisher's summary
On the morning of 22 September 2006, Tegan woke up. She was expecting to spend the day relaxing at home and, that evening, tolerate a party thrown to celebrate her 46th birthday.

But things don't always go as expected ­ it's been over twenty years since she chose to leave the Doctor. She's got a job, mates... a life.

Meanwhile her friend, Katherine Chambers, makes a decision that could change all their lives, and Tegan discovers that you can never really escape the past.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Tegan - Janet Fielding
 * Katherine Chambers - Jane Perry
 * James Clarke - Richard Grieve
 * Michael Tanaka - Dait Abuchi
 * Eve Morris - Janie Booth
 * Jodi Boyd - Zehra Naqvi
 * Waiter - Jef Higgins
 * Alan Fitzgerald - Nicholas Briggs
 * Rosemary Stark - Belinda Hoare

Continuity

 * Tegan has had no contact with the Doctor since her departure in Resurrection of the Daleks.
 * The 'Sister' computer system appears in BFA: The Harvest.
 * The Doctor mentions dropping his companions in Monte Carlo, which ties in with the events of BFA: The Veiled Leopard.
 * Tegan mentions the Mara (DW:Kinda and Snakedance) and nearly being killed by Cybermen (Earthshock and The Five Doctors).



Timeline
The Gathering had a complicated timeline. Different characters experienced it in different ways.
 * For Tegan, it occurred 22 years after DW: Resurrection of the Daleks. For Katherine Chambers, it occurred a similar amount of time after The Reaping.
 * For the Fifth Doctor it occurred before The Reaping. He had his memories suppressed in this story, in part so as not to recognize the younger Kathy Chambers in 1984.
 * In the Fifth Doctor's Timeline, this story can be placed after The Kingmaker and before Cuddlesome.
 * It occurred contemporaneously with The Veiled Leopard, relatively speaking, which neatly prevented Peri from meeting an older version of her childhood best friend, Kathy Chambers.
 * For most humans on Earth, it occurred 15 years prior to The Harvest but 22 years after The Reaping. It therefore occurred well after other Cybermen stories such as The Tenth Planet, The Invasion, Attack of the Cybermen and Silver Nemesis.