Big Finish Release Details of New Companion Chronicles Range

Big Finish have released details of their forthcoming Companion Chronicles ranges. Due for release later this month the four new, single-CD adventures feature adventures each of the first four Doctors.

The four Companion Chronicles are narrated by one of the Doctor’s companions - Vicki, Zoe, Liz and Romana and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects. Check out the covers and details below.

Frostfire

Writer: Marc Platt
Director: Mark J Thompson
Read by: Maureen O’Brian as Vicki, with Keith Drinkel as The Cinder.
Release Date: January 2007
Recorded: TBC
Sound Design and Music: Lawrence Oakley
ISBN: 978-1-84435-263-0

A series of talking-books featuring new adventures for the first four Doctors as related by one of their companions.

Vicki has a tale to tell.
But where does it start and when does it end?

Ancient Carthage. 1164 BC.
Lady Cressida has a secret. She keeps it deep in the cisterns below the Temple of Astarte with only one flame for warmth. And it must never get out.

Regency London, 1814 AD.
The first Doctor, Steven and Vicki go to the fair and meet the fiery Dragon, the novelist Miss Austen and the deadliest weather you ever did see.

But which comes first?
The Future or the Past?
The Phoenix or the Egg?
The Fire or the Frost?
Or will Time freeze over forever?

The story Vicki narrates is set after the TV story ‘The Time Meddler’

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Fear of the Daleks

Writer: Patrick Chapman
Director: Mark J Thompson
Read by: Wendy Padbury as Zoe, with Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks
Release Date: January 2007
Recorded: TBC
Sound Design and Music: Lawrence Oakley
ISBN: 978-1-84435-264-7

A series of talking-books featuring new adventures for the first four Doctors as related by one of their companions.

Why has Zoe Heriot been having nightmares about the Daleks? Who is the Doctor, a mysterious man from her past? When an evil scientist hijacks her mind to control a galaxy-conquering weapon, Zoe must stop him. First, she and the Doctor will face an enemy they had thought destroyed forever.

The memory Zoe recounts is set after the TV story ‘The Wheel In Space’

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The Blue Tooth

Writer: Nigel Fairs
Director: Mark J Thompson
Read by: Caroline John as Liz, with Nicholas Briggs as the Cybermen
Release Date: January 2007
Recorded: TBC
Sound Design and Music: Lawrence Oakley
ISBN: 978-1-84435-265-4

A series of talking-books featuring new adventures for the first four Doctors as related by one of their companions.

“I suppose that was one of the Doctor’s most endearing qualities: the ability to make the bizarre and the terrifying seem utterly normal.”

When Liz Shaw’s friend Jean goes missing, the Doctor and U.N.I.T. are drawn to the scene to investigate. Soon Liz discovers a potential alien invasion that will have far-reaching affects on her life… and the Doctor is unexpectedly re-united with an old enemy…

The story Liz tells is set after the TV story ‘Inferno’

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The Beautiful People

Writer: Jonathan Morris
Director: Mark J Thompson
Read by: Lalla Ward as Romana, with Marcia Ashton as Karna
Release Date: January 2007
Recorded: TBC
Sound Design and Music: Lawrence Oakley
ISBN: 978-1-84435-266-1

A series of talking-books featuring new adventures for the first four Doctors as related by one of their companions.

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This adventure is set after the TV story ‘Nightmare of Eden’

The Companion Chronicles are available to preorder now from BigFinish.com.