The Time Museum

The Time Museum is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In it, William Russell reprises his role as Ian Chesterton from the television series.

The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot

Ian Chesterton wakes to find himself at The Chesterton Exhibition at The Time Museum, an exhibit dedicated to his adventures with the First Doctor.

Cast

• Ian Chesterton - William Russell
• Pendolin - Philip Pope

Continuity

• Many of Ian's television adventures are chronicled in this story, most notably, the first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child. He recalls his days as a school teacher and his early meetings with a student named Susan Foreman. He tells of how he and fellow teacher Barbara Wright secretly followed her to I.M. Foreman's scrap yard where they discover the TARDIS and meet Susan's grandfather, The Doctor. Ian details their first adventure together, twelve thousand years into the past, where he's trapped in the Cave of Skulls, gives fire to primitive man and changes the Doctor's life with a simple rock.
• Ian remembers his journeys to alien worlds, his first being Skaro in The Daleks, but he also mentions Sense-Sphere in The Sensorites, Vortis in The Web Planet and The Space Museum.
• He also recalls Earth adventures with Kublai Khan in Marco Polo, Robespierre in The Reign of Terror and Nero in The Romans. Also mentioned, the temple of The Aztecs, fending off ants in Planet of Giants and joining The Crusades.
• Some Big Finish audio productions are also referenced, such as the planet Jobis from The Rocket Men and his time spent with Alexander the Great in the Lost Story, Farewell, Great Macedon. The Time Museum was released one month before The Masters of Luxor, another Lost Story that is mentioned.
• Everlasting Matches were used by the First Doctor in some of his novels and novelizations. They were also used by the Eighth Doctor in several novels and audios.
• Other Doctor Who aliens, not necessarily encountered by Ian, are also mentioned, including the Sontarans, the Rutans and the Eternals from Enlightenment. The Nekkistani are also spoken of, a species heard in several of the Gallifrey audio stories.
• Unlike most Companion Chronicles, this story does not feature any narration. It is full cast story with only two speaking characters.
• The Timescoop was first seen in the Fifth Doctor television story The Five Doctors. Ian was also timescooped in the Fifth Doctor audio story The Five Companions, which also featured the Sontarans.

References

External links

• Big Finish Productions - The Time Museum