The Wanderer (audio story)

The Wanderer was the tenth release in the sixth series of The Companion Chronicles.

Publisher's Summary
Siberia at the end of the 19th Century, and the TARDIS arrives just as a shooting star hurtles to the ground.

With it comes an illness that affects the Doctor and Susan, and knowledge that must not fall into the wrong hands.

With his friends either dying or lost, Ian Chesterton must save the future and win the ultimate prize – a way home to 1963…

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Ian Chesterton - William Russell
 * Grigory / The Dahensa - Tim Chipping

Continuity

 * Ian recalls that the Doctor asked he and Barbara if they knew what it was like to be "wanderers in the fourth dimension" when they first met. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
 * Ian remembers that the Doctor once observed that the travellers' "destiny is in the stars". (TV: The Reign of Terror)
 * The Doctor's condition reminds Ian of the symptoms of radiation poisoning which he displayed on Skaro. (TV: The Daleks)
 * Ian warns Grigory that, as the Doctor told Barbara in Mexico, history cannot be changed. (TV: The Aztecs)
 * Grigory mentions that he has seen Ian and Barbara's first encounter with the Doctor in a junkyard in Totter's Lane in November 1963 (TV: An Unearthly Child) as well as the three of them and Susan fighting "strange beings" who have invaded Earth in the future, which has not happened yet in Ian's personal timeline (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth). He also knows how Ian's travels in the TARDIS will end. (TV: The Chase)
 * Grigori has seen beings which live beneath the surface of the Earth (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians), people made of plastic (TV: Spearhead from Space), metal (TV: The Tenth Planet), calcium (TV: Aliens of London / World War Three) and silicon (TV: The Hand of Fear), Egyptian gods (TV: Pyramids of Mars, PROSE: The Sands of Time, AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon), werewolves (PROSE: Wolfsbane, AUDIO: Loups-Garoux, TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, TV: Tooth and Claw), ghosts (TV: Image of the Fendahl), vampires (TV: State of Decay, PROSE: Goth Opera, PROSE: Blood Harvest, PROSE: Vampire Science), a tenth planet (TV: The Tenth Planet), men on Mars (TV: The Ice Warriors) and a lunar space station (TV: The Moonbase).
 * The First Doctor would later return to Russia during the French invasion in 1812 in the company of Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet. On that occasion, he met Napoléon Bonaparte for the first time. (AUDIO: Mother Russia)
 * The Third Doctor, Liz Shaw and Jo Grant would later become involved in the events surrounding Rasputin's murder at the hands of Prince Felix Yusupov and his co-conspirators Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and Vladimir Purishkevich in the Moika Palace in St Petersburg in December 1916. (PROSE: The Wages of Sin)