The Company of Friends (audio anthology)

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The Company of Friends — 2009

Doctor:

Eighth Doctor

Companions:

Bernice, Fitz, Izzy, Mary

Key crew

Series details

Released:

July 2009

Publisher:

Big Finish Productions

Production codes:

Official audio trailer

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The Company of Friends was the one hundred and twenty-third release in Big Finish's monthly range. The four stories were written by Lance Parkin, Stephen Cole, Alan Barnes and Jonathan Morris respectively and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.

It featured four companions who had never appeared alongside him in audio Doctor Who. Most of these companions were derived from Eighth Doctor stories in print media. Thus, Company contained the first performances of Izzy and Fitz. It also contained the first audio team-up of the Eighth Doctor and Bernice Summerfield (she had previously met him in the novel The Dying Days). Finally, it depicted a meeting Big Finish had long teased in their eighth Doctor audio adventures: that of the Eighth Doctor with Mary Shelley. Notably, it was the first Eighth Doctor audio drama to be released in the Main Range not to feature Charlotte Pollard.

Publisher's summary

Four one-part stories:

1. BENNY'S STORY by Lance Parkin

Deep in the mines of Epsilon Minima, Professor Bernice Summerfield is up to her neck in it - as usual. The Countess Venhella has hired her to recover a lost Time Lord artefact: A TARDIS key, it turns out. Guess whose?

2. FITZ'S STORY by Stephen Cole

On the planet Entusso, the Doctor and Fitz Kreiner investigate Alien Defence Incorporated - your one-stop shop for protection against extraterrestrial invasion! But which is the greatest menace: the hideous Vermin Queens or ADI itself?

3. IZZY'S STORY by Alan Barnes

TARDIS travel opens one's eyes to a universe of possibilities, reckons the Doctor. For geek girl Izzy, it's also a fantastic way to track down ultra-rare back copies of 'Aggrotron!', the most dangerous comic in history...

4. MARY'S STORY by Jonathan Morris

Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron's house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.

Stories

#	Title	Author	Director	Featuring	Released	Pr. code
123.1	Benny's Story	Lance Parkin	Nicholas Briggs, Lisa Bowerman	Benny	July 2009	8Z
123.2	Fitz's Story	Stephen Cole		Fitz
123.3	Izzy's Story	Alan Barnes		Izzy
123.4	Mary's Story	Jonathan Morris		Mary

Notes

Company of Friends — The Doctor's companions Izzy, Fitz, Benny and Mary

This audio drama was recorded on 30 and 31 October 2008.
This is Big Finish's fourth anthology release.
In 2011, Big Finish launched a trilogy of audio dramas featuring the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley. To coincide with this, Mary's Story was made available as a standalone download.^[1]

External links

Official The Company of Friends page at bigfinish.com
The Company of Friends at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
DisContinuity for The Company of Friends at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide

Footnotes

↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/but-mary-s-story-for-a-limited-period-for-just-99p

Big Finish Main Range

Fifth Doctor

	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan	The Star Men • The Contingency Club • Zaltys • Kingdom of Lies • Ghost Walk • Serpent in the Silver Mask

	Nyssa	The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time (Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter) • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories • (The Demons of Red Lodge • The Entropy Composition • Doing Time • Special Features) • 1001 Nights (1001 Nights, My Brother's Keeper, The Interplanetarian, Smuggling Tales) • 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men • Alien Heart • Dalek Soul

	Nyssa, Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster • The Boy That Time Forgot • Time Reef • A Perfect World

	Nyssa, Hannah	Moonflesh • Tomb Ship • Masquerade

	Nyssa, Tegan	The Waters of Amsterdam • Aquitaine • The Peterloo Massacre

	Nyssa, Tegan, Marc	Tartarus • Interstitial • Feast of Fear • Warzone • Conversion • Madquake

	Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough	Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat Trap • The Emerald Tiger • The Jupiter Conjunction • The Butcher of Brisbane • Eldrad Must Die! • The Lady of Mercia • Prisoners of Fate • Mistfall • Equilibrium • The Entropy Plague

	Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion	Devil in the Mist • Black Thursday • Power Game • The Kamelion Empire

	Tegan, Leela	Time in Office

	Turlough	Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • Singularity • The Memory Bank and Other Stories (The Memory Bank • The Last Fairy Tale • Repeat Offender • The Becoming) • The Blazing Hour • The End of the Beginning

	Peri	Red Dawn • Exotron • Urban Myths • Mission of the Viyrans

	Peri, Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye • The Bride of Peladon

	Amy	The Judgement of Isskar • The Destroyer of Delights • The Chaos Pool

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Omega • The Gathering • The Four Doctors • The Burning Prince • The Secret History • And You Will Obey Me • The Helliax Rift • Time Apart (Ghost Station • The Bridge Master • What Lurks Down Under • The Dancing Plague) • Thin Time • Shadow of the Daleks 1 (Aimed at the Body • Lightspeed • The Bookshop at the End of the World • Interlude) • Shadow of the Daleks 2 (Echo Chamber • Towards Zero • Castle Hydra • Effect and Cause)

Sixth Doctor

	Peri	Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • Recorded Time and Other Stories (Recorded Time • A Most Excellent Match • Question Marks • Paradoxicide) • 1963: The Space Race • Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories (Breaking Bubbles • Of Chaos Time The • An Eye For Murder • The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time) • The Widow's Assassin • Masters of Earth • The Rani Elite • Memories of a Tyrant • Emissary of the Daleks • Harry Houdini's War • Plight of the Pimpernel

	Evelyn	The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 (100 BC • My Own Private Wolfgang • Bedtime Story • The 100 Days of the Doctor) • Assassin in the Limelight

	Evelyn, Brewster	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial Evolution

	Frobisher	The Holy Terror • The Maltese Penguin

	Charley	The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten Planet

	"Jamie"	City of Spires • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen

	Flip	The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn Isle • Antidote to Oblivion • The Brood of Erys • Scavenger • Vortex Ice • Cortex Fire

	Constance	Criss-Cross • Planet of the Rani • Shield of the Jötunn • Order of the Daleks • Absolute Power • Colony of Fear • The End of the Beginning

	Constance, Flip	Quicksilver • The Behemoth • The Middle • Static • Cry of the Vultriss • Scorched Earth • The Lovecraft Invasion

	Mel	The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker Than Water • The Wishing Beast • The Vanity Box • The Wrong Doctors • Spaceport Fear • The Seeds of War

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Davros • The Wormery • Her Final Flight • I.D. • Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • The Acheron Pulse • Trial of the Valeyard • Last of the Cybermen • Vampire of the Mind • The Lure of the Nomad • Iron Bright • Hour of the Cybermen • The Hunting Ground

Seventh Doctor

	Mel	The Fires of Vulcan • Bang-Bang-a-Boom! • Flip-Flop • Unregenerate! • Red • We Are The Daleks • The Warehouse • Terror of the Sontarans

	Ace	The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture • 1963: The Assassination Games • You Are the Doctor and Other Stories (You Are the Doctor • Come Die With Me • The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel • Dead to the World) • The Grey Man of the Mountain

	Ace, Hex	The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-Five (False Gods • Order of Simplicity • Casualties of War • The Word Lord) • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project: Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge • Protect and Survive • Revenge of the Swarm • Mask of Tragedy • Shadow Planet • World Apart • Muse of Fire • The Flying Dutchman • Displaced

	Ace, Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge • The Dark Flame

	Sally	House of Blue Fire

	Ace, Hex, Lysandra, Sally	Black and White • Gods and Monsters

	Ace, Hex, Sally	Afterlife • Signs and Wonders

	Ace, Mel	A Life of Crime • Fiesta of the Damned • Maker of Demons • The High Price of Parking • The Blood Furnace • The Silurian Candidate • Red Planets • The Dispossessed • The Quantum Possibility Engine

	Mags	The Monsters of Gokroth • The Moons of Vulpana • An Alien Werewolf in London

	Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings • Klein's Story • Survival of the Fittest • The Architects of History • Warlock's Cross

	Klein, Will	Persuasion • Starlight Robbery • Daleks Among Us

	Jo	The Defectors

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • Death Collectors • Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver • Keepsake • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • The Shadow Heart • The Two Masters • Dark Universe • The Psychic Circus • Subterfuge • The End of the Beginning

Eighth Doctor

	Mary Shelley	Mary's Story • The Silver Turk • The Witch from the Well • Army of Death

	Charley	Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell • Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland • Zagreus • Scherzo • The Girl Who Never Was• The End of the Beginning

	Charley, C'rizz	The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom • Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life • Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane • Absolution

	Solo & other travels	The Company of Friends (Benny's Story • Fitz's Story • Izzy's Story) • An Earthly Child • The Four Doctors

All stories from Big Finish Productions' main monthly range from 1999 to 2021 are included in this navigation box, including the "subscriber exclusive" stories which were part of the subscription service for this range.

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+'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the one hundred and twenty-third release in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. The four stories were written by [[Lance Parkin]], [[Stephen Cole]], [[Alan Barnes]] and [[Jonathan Morris]] respectively and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]].
+It featured four companions who had never appeared alongside him in audio ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Most of these companions were derived from Eighth Doctor stories in print media. Thus, ''Company'' contained the first performances of [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] and [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]]. It also contained the first audio team-up of the Eighth Doctor and [[Bernice Summerfield]] (she had previously met him in the novel ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''). Finally, it depicted a meeting [[Big Finish]] had long teased in their eighth Doctor audio adventures: that of the Eighth Doctor with [[Mary Shelley]]. Notably, it was the first Eighth Doctor audio drama to be released in the ''Main Range'' not to feature [[Charlotte Pollard]].
-==Publisher's Summary==
-===Benny's Story===
-'''by [[Lance Parkin]]'''<br />
+== Publisher's summary ==
-Deep in the mines of Epsilon Minima, Professor Bernice Summerfield is up to her neck in it - as usual. The Countess Venhella has hired her to recover a lost Time Lord artefact: A TARDIS key, it turns out. Guess whose?
+Four one-part stories:
+. ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|BENNY'S STORY]]'' by [[Lance Parkin]]
-===Fitz's Story===
-'''by [[Stephen Cole]]'''<br />
+Deep in the mines of [[Epsilon Minima]], Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]] is up to her neck in it - as usual. The [[Countess]] [[Venhella]] has hired her to recover a lost [[Time Lord]] artefact: A [[TARDIS key]], it turns out. Guess whose?
-On the planet Entusso, the Doctor and Fitz Kreiner investigate [[Alien Defence Incorporated]] - your one-stop shop for protection against extraterrestrial invasion! But which is the greatest menace: the hideous [[Vermin Queens]] or ADI itself?
+. ''[[Fitz's Story (audio story)|FITZ'S STORY]]'' by [[Stephen Cole]]
-===Izzy's Story===
-'''by [[Alan Barnes]]'''<br />
+On the planet [[Entusso]], [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Fitz Kreiner]] investigate [[Alien Defence Incorporated]] - your one-stop shop for protection against extraterrestrial invasion! But which is the greatest menace: the hideous [[Vermin Queen]]s or ADI itself?
-TARDIS travel opens one's eyes to a universe of possibilities, reckons the Doctor. For geek girl Izzy, it's also a fantastic way to track down ultra-rare back copies of 'Aggrotron!', the most dangerous comic in history...
+. ''[[Izzy's Story (audio story)|IZZY'S STORY]]'' by [[Alan Barnes]]
-===Mary's Story===
-'''by [[Jonathan Morris]]'''<br />
+[[TARDIS]] travel opens one's eyes to a universe of possibilities, reckons the Doctor. For geek girl [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]], it's also a fantastic way to track down ultra-rare back copies of '[[Aggrotron!]]', the most dangerous comic in history...
-Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord [[Byron]]'s house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.
+. ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|MARY'S STORY]]'' by [[Jonathan Morris]]
-==Cast==
-'''Benny's Story'''
-* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
-* [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
-* [[Klarner]] - [[Richard Earl]]
-* [[Venhella]] - [[Su Douglas]]
+[[Switzerland]], [[1816]]: at the [[Villa Diodati]], Lord Byron's house guests tell each other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a monster on the loose outside, young [[Mary Shelley]] isn't short of inspiration.
-'''Fitz's Story'''
-* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
-* [[Fitz Kreiner]] - [[Matt di Angelo]]
-* Commander [[Hellan Femor]] - [[Fenella Woolgar]]
-* [[Michael Rond]] - [[Paul Thornley]]
-* [[Gem Weston]] - [[Su Douglas]]
+== Stories ==
-'''Izzy's Story'''
+{| {{prettytable}}
-* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
+! # || Title || Author || Director || Featuring || Released || Pr. code
-* [[Izzy Sinclair]] - [[Jemima Rooper]]
+|-
-* [[Courtmaster Cruel]] - [[Anthony Glennon]]
+|123.1
-* [[Foreman (Izzy's Story)|Foreman]] - [[Robert Forknall]]
+|''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]''
-* [[Juror]] - [[Katrina Cooke]]
+|[[Lance Parkin]]
-* [[Captain Cannibal]] - [[Ian Hallard]]
+|rowspan=4|[[Nicholas Briggs]], [[Lisa Bowerman]]
-* [[Grakk]] - [[Teddy Kempner]]
+|[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
-* [[Clerkie]] - [[Teddy Kempner]]
+|rowspan=4|[[July (releases)|July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
-* The [[Camp Robot]] - [[Teddy Kempner]]
+|rowspan=4|8Z
-* [[Grubb]] - [[Steve Hansell]]
+|-
-* [[The Man]] - [[Steve Hansell]]
+|123.2
-* [[Suits]] - [[Robert Forknall]] and [[Ian Hallard]]
+|''[[Fitz's Story (audio story)|Fitz's Story]]''
+|[[Stephen Cole]]
+|[[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]]
+|-
+|123.3
+|''[[Izzy's Story (audio story)|Izzy's Story]]''
+|[[Alan Barnes]]
+|[[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]]
+|-
+|123.4
+|''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]''
+|[[Jonathan Morris]]
+|[[Mary Shelley|Mary]]
+|}
+== Notes ==
-'''Mary's Story'''
+[[File:Company of Friends.jpg|thumb|The Doctor's companions [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]], [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Benny Summerfield|Benny]] and [[Mary Shelley|Mary]]]]
-* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
+* This audio drama was recorded on [[30 October (production)|30]] and [[31 October (production)|31 October]] [[2008 (production)|2008]].
-* [[Mary Shelley]] - [[Julie Cox]]
+* This is Big Finish's fourth anthology release.
-* [[Percy Shelley]] - [[Anthony Glennon]]
+* In 2011, Big Finish launched a trilogy of audio dramas featuring the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley. To coincide with this, ''Mary's Story'' was made available as a standalone download.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/but-mary-s-story-for-a-limited-period-for-just-99p</ref>
-* Lord [[Byron]] - [[Robert Forknall]]
-* [[John Polidori]] - [[Ian Hallard]]
-* [[Claire Clairmont]] - [[Katrina Cooke]]
+== External links ==
-==References==
+{{bigfinish|releases/v/the-company-of-friends-289}}
-''to be added''
+{{dwrefguide|who_bf123.htm|The Company of Friends}}
+* {{tetrap|8/companyoffriends.html|The Company of Friends}}
-==Notes==
+== Footnotes ==
+{{reflist}}
-''to be added''
+{{BFA monthly}}
+{{TitleSort}}
+[[Category:Main Range audio anthologies]]
-==Continuity ==
+[[Category:2009 audio anthologies]]
-*During Mary's story a future version of the Eighth Doctor names some of his previous companions all from different ranges of stories such as [[Compassion]] (books), [[Lucie Miller|Lucie]] (audios) and [[Destrii]] (comics), in one of the rare occasions in which the different continuities are acknowledged together.
-==Timeline==
-* Benny's Story occurs after: [[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]''
-* Benny's Story occurs before: [[ST]]: ''[[Thinking Warrior]]''
-* Fitz's Story occurs after: [[EDA]]: ''[[The City of the Dead]]''
-* Fitz's Story occurs before: [[EDA]]: ''[[Grimm Reality]]''
-* Izzy's Story occurs after: [[DWM]]:''[[The Autonomy Bug]]''
-* Izzy's Story occurs before: [[DWM]]: ''[[Ophidius]]''
-* Mary's Story occurs after: [[EDA]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' (present Doctor) [[ST]]: ''[[The End]]'' (future Doctor)
-* Mary's Story occurs before: [[BFA]]: ''[[Terror Firma]]'' ''flashback'' (present Doctor) [[ST]]: ''[[Museum Peace]]'' (future Doctor)
-==External Links==
-* [http://www.bigfinish.com/123-Doctor-Who-The-Company-of-Friends Big Finish - '''The Company of Friends page''']
-[[Category:Eighth Doctor audio plays|Company of Friends]]
-[[Category:Big Finish Audio Dramas|Company of Friends]]
-[[Category:2009 audio plays|Company of Friends]]

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