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The Story of Extinction written by Ian Atkins was the second story in the 2016 The Companion Chronicles audio box set The Second Doctor: Volume One. It featured Jamie and Victoria.

Publisher's summary[]

Civilisations rise and fall — and few planets have seen this happen more often than Amyryndaa. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join a survey team to find out why on the planet where everything is suited to creating life, nothing lives for long...

Plot[]

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Part two[]

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Cast[]

Characters[]

Crew[]

Worldbuilding[]

Education[]

People[]

  • Victoria is visited by a Scottish man wearing a linen suit and a Panama hat.
  • Jamie mentions the desert worlds they've visited lately.
  • The Doctor, Victoria and Jamie are placed in Professor Tine's exhibition team.
  • Base camp leaders include Turovsky and Gorin.

Culture[]

Technology[]

  • Faces are individuals that wear masks displaying the number of people who've looked at them.
  • Parchment was a type of virtual paper.
  • Jamie tries making a paper boat out of the parchment, just as Ben had shown him.
  • The Doctor tells Jamie and Victoria to use the food machine if they get hungry.

Locations[]

  • Korvin Base is one of the archaeological base camps. They report findings of hunter-gatherer peoples.
  • Gerrick Base doesn't report in one night.
  • Victoria describes her father's house as the home she thinks of whenever she's in danger.

Notes[]

  • This was the final performance for Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield before her death on 21 July 2017.
  • This story is told from both Victoria and Jamie's perspective, with a framing device at Victoria's house in the modern day.
  • According to the official script, the story is intended to be set in 2016.

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