Here There Be Monsters (audio story)

Here There Be Monsters was the ninth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the first story of season 3 and was written by Andy Lane and featured Susan Foreman.

Publisher's summary
A new adventure with the First Doctor as told by his grand-daughter, Susan.

“It was a terrible sound, like someone had just stabbed the universe and it was crying out in pain”

The distant future. The TARDIS, with the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara aboard, is drawn out of the Vortex and lands aboard the Earth Benchmarking Vessel Nevermore, where Captain Rostrum is navigating by punching holes in the very fabric of space. The Doctor is appalled by this act of vandalism, and fearful that it could unleash monsters from the dark dimensions.

As the benchmarking holes begin to fray, the fate of the universe is at stake. And while the Doctor contemplates a terrible sacrifice, Susan befriends the Nevermore’s First Mate — someone she will remember for the rest of her life…

The Hole in Space (1)
to be added

Messages from the Other Side (2)
to be added

Cast

 * Susan Foreman/Rostrum - Carole Ann Ford
 * The First Mate - Stephen Hancock

Continuity

 * Here There Be Monsters clean.jpg refers to her departure from Gallifrey with her grandfather, claiming that she was "an accidental passenger." (PROSE: Lungbarrow; COMIC: Time & Time Again; TV: The Name of the Doctor)
 * Susan has never told her husband David Campbell that she is not human. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
 * Susan wonders if Ian and Barbara ever became a couple. (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy; TV: Death of the Doctor)
 * Susan recalls the petrified forest on Skaro and her first encounter with the Daleks. (TV: The Daleks)
 * Susan is beginning to realise she will need to leave the Doctor soon and make her own life. The Doctor is also intending to leave her somewhere safe, as he believes the Time Lords will be after him for changing history. (PROSE: The Time Travellers)
 * The spaceship upon which the TARDIS lands has a jungle in it. Ian suggests that it provides oxygen, similar to the Byzantium's Treeborgs. (TV: Flesh and Stone)
 * Rostrum refers to a "Human Empire," which could be either the Earth Empire or the "Great and Bountiful" Empires.
 * Rostrum's appearance is reminiscent of the Animus. (TV: The Web Planet)
 * This is the Doctor's first meeting with live, intelligent vegetation. He would later encounter the Weed creature, (TV: Fury from the Deep) Krynoids, (TV: The Seeds of Doom) the Vervoids, (TV: Terror of the Vervoids) and the Forest of Cheem. (TV: The End of the World)
 * Susan refers to her time at Coal Hill School. (TV: An Unearthly Child)