Quinnis is a Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...

 audiobook based on the long-running British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

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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

The First Doctor

First Doctor

The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...

 and his granddaughter Susan arrive on the planet Quinnis, in the Fourth Universe. Quinnis is struggling through a terrible drought and the Doctor offers to bring back the rain.

Continuity

• In the 1964 story The Edge of Destruction
  The Edge of Destruction
  The Edge of Destruction is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on February 8 and February 15, 1964. The serial is distinguished as a rare "bottle episode", in that the entire story is shot on a single set, with just...
  
  , Susan mentioned that they briefly lost the TARDIS on the planet Quinnis "four or five journeys ago".
• This is the first Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama to take place before the first television story in 1963, An Unearthly Child
  An Unearthly Child
  The serial that became An Unearthly Child was originally commissioned from writer Anthony Coburn in June 1963, when it was intended to run as the second Doctor Who serial. At this stage, it was planned that the series would open with a serial entitled The Giants, to be written by BBC staff...
  
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• This also means the TARDIS' Chameleon Circuit still works and has yet to take the form of a police box
  Police box
  A police box is a British telephone kiosk or callbox located in a public place for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police...
  
  . In this case, it is disguised as a kiosk made of wood with awnings striped red and white.
• The fish the Doctor gives Susan becomes a problem for her several decades later when she returns to the TARDIS in Relative Dimensions
  Relative Dimensions
  Relative Dimensions is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.-Plot:...
  
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• Susan's narration takes place after the events of the audio play An Earthly Child
  An Earthly Child
  An Earthly Child is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is free to those whose subscription includes Plague of the Daleks.-Plot:...
  
  , but before Relative Dimensions.

External links

• Quinnis