The Three Companions (audio story)

The Three Companions is a 12 part mini-series which featured on the main Doctor Who range as a bonus between April 2009 and February 2010. Each episode lasts 10 minutes long making a 2 hour play in total.

Synopsis
Episode 1 - Polly's Story The present day. Polly Wright, former companion of the Second Doctor, tracks down Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart via the Internet. As they chat online, they realise that they have a shared experience - and one that began on a world far away. (Included on The Magic Mousetrap)

Episode 2 - In Memoriam The Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie are trapped on a doomed world that is scheduled for cremation. But what are the coffin-loaders and why does Lethbridge-Stewart remember them too? (Included on Enemy of the Daleks)

Episode 3 - The Gathernaut On a planet scheduled for cremation in 35 minutes, the Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie meet an unlikely ally. (Included on The Angel of Scutari)

Episode 4 - Cremation Point As the end of a world approaches, Polly, Ben and Jamie attempt to escape the Gathernaut. (Included on The Company of Friends)

Episode 5 - The Brigadier's Story Polly's tale is over, but now Lethbridge-Stewart shares his story of a rare excursion in the TARDIS, when the Third Doctor answered a distress call from a distant galaxy. But what is the secret of Waterloo Station? (Included on Patient Zero)

Episode 6 - Coffin-Loaders

In a place that looks like a jumbled-up Earth, the Third Doctor and the Brigadier have met a women who looks just like Polly Wright. But she isn't. Meanwhile, in the real world, the real Polly has a new acquaintance – a young man called Thomas Brewster. (Included on Paper Cuts)

Episode 7 - The Hunting Ground

The Brigadier and the Third Doctor are fighting for survival on a model world that looks like Earth. But why are there facsimiles of Polly Wright here? And who is the mysterious Garry Lendler? No one is more intrigued to find out than Thomas Brewster…(Included on Blue Forgotten Planet)

Episode 8 - The Battle of World's End Junction

Cornered by the coffin loaders, the Doctor and the Brigadier make their last stand at World's End Junction. Meanwhile, the mysterious Thomas Brewster finally prepares to step out from the shadows… (Included on Castle of Fear)

Episode 9 - Many Meetings

In a café, three strangers meet: Polly, the Brigadier and Thomas Brewster. They share one thing in common – they have all travelled in time and space with the Doctor. But now the Doctor isn't here, and the world is in terrible danger… (Included on The Eternal Summer)

Episode 10 - Brewster's Story

As Polly and the Brigadier become acquainted with Thomas Brewster, chaos erupts. UNIT troops are on the streets of London and the Hunter is on the prowl…(Included on Plague of the Daleks)

Episode 11 - The Hunter

With the coffin loader on the rampage in London, Polly, the Brigadier and Brewster meet an old acquaintance. But can he cure the planet's accelerated global warming? (Included on A Thousand Tiny Wings)

Episode 12 - The Sacrifice

to be added (Included on Survival of the Fittest)

Omnibus edition
Big Finish has announced that The Three Companions will be reissued in a re-edited new edition in The Companion Chronicles: The Specials, a box set scheduled for release in June 2011.

Cast

 * Polly Wright - Anneke Wills
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
 * Announcer - Russell Floyd

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * Polly's Story occurs after: CC: Resistance
 * Polly's Story occurs before: DW: The Faceless Ones
 * The Brigadier's Story occurs after: The Green Death
 * The Brigadier's Story occurs before: The Time Warrior
 * Brewster's Story occurs after: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * Brewster's Story occurs before: The Boy that Time Forgot