Companion Chronicles - Season 5

5.12 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Cold Equations

RELEASED JUNE 2011. In the remnant of a shattered satellite, far above the ruined planet Earth, Steven Taylor and Oliver Harper are dying. As time runs out, they face their pasts… and a secret long kept is revealed. Starring Peter Purves with Tom Allen.

5.11 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Ferril's Folly

RELEASED MAY 2011. The search for the fourth segment of the Key to Time brings the Doctor and Romana back to Earth in the present day. In a small village in Norfolk, former astronaut Lady Millicent Ferril has established an observatory, tracking a meteorite from the Cronquist System. It is a meteorite that almost killed her years before – and perhaps left her not entirely human. As Ferril’s power grows, so does her influence. She can control metal. And anything metal – from a suit of armour to a bicycle – is now lethal… Starring Mary Tamm and Madeleine Potter.

5.10 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Sentinels of the New Dawn

RELEASED APRIL 2011. Some time after leaving UNIT, Liz Shaw calls the Doctor to Cambridge University, where scientists are experimenting with time dilation. The device hurls them to the year 2014, and a meeting with Richard Beauregard, heir to the Beauregard estate. But there’s something rotten at the core of this family… Starring Caroline John with Duncan Wisbey.

5.09 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Forbidden Time

RELEASED MARCH 2011. Time Walkers have descended upon the Earth. This alien race, known as The Vist, has claimed an area of time for itself – any species entering into the immediate future will pay the most terrible forfeit. The human race is in a state of panic, but one woman knows the truth. Her name is Polly Wright, and she visited that future many years ago. Starring Anneke Wills with Frazer Hines.

5.08 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Perpetual Bond

RELEASED FEBRUARY 2011. When the TARDIS materializes in a familiar junkyard in the 1960s, the Doctor and Steven are soon embroiled in a mystery in the City of London. Who are the mysterious bowler-hatted businessmen with their deadly umbrellas? And what secret is young Oliver Harper desperately trying to conceal? Starring Peter Purves with Tom Allen.

5.07 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Peri and the Piscon Paradox

RELEASED JANUARY 2011. The Doctor and Peri journey to Los Angeles 2009 to do battle with a Piscon. His name is Zarl, and he's a fish of utmost evil. Fortunately, to stop him there’s help from an unexpected source: a future version of Peri... Starring Nicola Bryant with Colin Baker.

5.06 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Quinnis

RELEASED DECEMBER 2010. Before Totter’s Yard, before Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, before the Chameleon Circuit was broken… the Doctor and Susan travelled alone. The planet Quinnis in the Fourth Universe appears, at first glance, to be an agreeable, exotic refuge for the two travellers. But the world is experiencing a terrible drought, and the Doctor becomes its unwilling rainmaker. Meanwhile, Susan makes an ally in a young girl called Meedla. But friends are not always what they appear, and the long-awaited rain isn’t necessarily good news… Starring Carole Ann Ford with Tara-Louise Kaye.

5.05 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - A Town Called Fortune

RELEASED NOVEMBER 2010. Problems beset the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe as they travel by train to the Wild West town of Fortune. A young woman is investigating the murder of her father nine years earlier, and a wanted poster indicates that the Doctor is the killer! Starring Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe with Richard Cordery as Sam.

5.04 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Invasion of E-Space

RELEASED OCTOBER 2010. Trapped within E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and Adric are searching for a Charged Vacuum Emboitment – the gateway back to our universe. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack... Then, by pure chance, a brand new CVE rips into being. Its makers are The Farrian, a warlike race who possess the technology to break into E-Space. But they have come to invade and plunder this new territory, and the riches of the planet Ballustra are their first target… Starring Lalla Ward as Romana.

5.03 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Find and Replace

RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2010. Christmas 2010, and Jo Grant finds herself stuck in a department store elevator with an alien creature called Huxley. Huxley is a narrator from Verbatim Six, and he is here to let Jo revisit the best time of her life – when she was the plucky companion to that eccentric Space/Time traveller known only as... Iris Wildthyme. Confronted with memories she knew nothing about, Jo agrees to a meeting with Iris inside her transdimensional bus, and together the three of them take a trip back in time. Back to the 1970s, to UNIT HQ, and a meeting with the only person who knows the whole truth... Starring Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme with Alex Lowe as Huxley.

5.02 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Echoes of Grey

RELEASED AUGUST 2010. Zoe Heriot has a photographic memory. Totall recall. But when it comes to the years she spent travelling in time and space, all she can remember is that she has forgotten. Years after she was returned to the Wheel in Space by the Time Lords, Zoe meets Ali, a young woman who claims to have met Zoe before, when she was with the Doctor and Jamie. Suddenly, part of the hidden past is exposed, as memories return of a visit to the Whitaker Institute in Central Australia. Secrets are uncovered. And the mystery of the Achromatics is about to be unleashed… Starring Wendy Padbury as Zoe with Emily Pithon as Ali.

5.01 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Guardian of the Solar System

RELEASED JULY 2010. Space Security Agent Sara Kingdom is dead, her ashes strewn on the planet Kembel. But, in an old house in Ely, Sara Kingdom lives on… Now joined in the house by her confidante Robert, Sara recalls her travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor – and a particular adventure when the ship appeared to land inside a giant clock, where old men are caught in its workings… And behind this nightmare is an old enemy: Mavic Chen, Guardian of the Solar System. Starring Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom with Niall MacGregor.