#Ace and Tegan

[gallifreywhere]

River meets Ace and Tegan!

13 December 2024

A dream team of Alex Kingston, Janet Fielding and Sophie Aldred assemble for The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan, a brand-new audio drama box set, due March 2025.

In the 2022 Doctor Who TV special The Power of the Doctor, the Time Lord reunited with two past companions, Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Ace (Sophie Aldred). It was clear these two were already firm friends, but how did this friendship begin? The answer involves a certain 51st-century archaeologist… 

Ace and Tegan have been plucked from their twenty-first century lives and stranded in 1860. But who is responsible, and why is River Song mixing in nineteenth century society too? 

Somebody is out to eliminate the three of them, as Ace and Tegan realise that this may not be their first meeting with River. Their lives are entangled, and to escape, somebody must pay the ultimate price... 

The second volume in River Song’s brand-new audio series, The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan comprises four episodes of full-cast audio drama, which chart the course of the three characters’ interactions across their lifetimes. There are hauntings, monsters, and an arch-villain playing games with time but, through it all, strong friendships will be forged. 

The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan is now available for pre-order exclusively here, as a limited edition four-CD box set (plus digital download) for £29.99, or as a digital download only for £22.99.   

The four adventures for this trio of iconic characters are: 

Castaways by James Moran  Driftwood by Roland Moore Dead Rising by Roland Moore The End is the Beginning is the End by James Moran 

Producer David Richardson said: “Ace and Tegan – the pairing that, until The Power of the Doctor came along, we didn’t even know we were crying out for! Sophie and Janet made such a huge impact when they returned for Jodie Whittaker’s last story, and in this latest River Song box set, we get to explore the lead-up to that. 

“How did Ace and Tegan first meet? And how did they encounter River Song? It’s a story told over decades and not necessarily in sequence. River has encountered many formidable things, but is she ready for the explosive properties of both Nitro-9 and Tegan Jovanka?” 

Further details about The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan, including guest cast and story details, will be announced nearer the release date. 

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[headcanonsandmore]

Doctor Who companions summarised in ten words or less (classic edition)

Susan Foreman: Gallifreyan teenager abandoned on post-apocolyptic earth because love.

Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright: Married schoolteachers educate grumpy alien about morality.

Vicki Pallister: New granddaughter acquired!

Steven Taylor: Future Blue Peter presenter enjoys double act with adoptive sisters.

Katarina: She's lovely- oh, wait, now she's dead.

Sara Kingdom: She's cool- oh, wait, now she's dead.

Dodo Chaplet: Northerner loses accent due to BBC classism, more at ten.

Ben Jackson and Polly Wright: Opposites attract couple near-immediately overshadowed by new companion.

Jamie McCrimmon: Himbo highlander as gay as sixties television will allow.

Victoria Waterfield: Nineteenth century teenager has worst week of her life.

Zoe Heriot: Master martial artist knows one (1) throw.

Liz Shaw: Scientist is too competent for this nonsense.

Jo Grant: Cinnimon roll has no self-preservation instinct.

Sarah-Jane Smith: Feminist journalist surrounded by idiotic military men.

Harry Sullivan: Otherwise-sensible medical professional becomes world's biggest imbecile.

Leela of the Sevateem: Knife lady kicks ass, takes names.

K9: Robotic dog malfunctions for ninety minutes.

Romana: Sheltered Gallifreyan has surprisingly good fashion.

Adric: Math kid go boom!

Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa Of Traken: Hypercompetent space girlfriends have unintentional homoerotic subtext.

Vislor Turlough: Universes most incompetent assassin accidentally becomes friends with intended target.

Kamelion: BBC producer gets tricked into buying cursed prop.

Peri Brown: Dubiously-accented botanist struggles with sexism and BBC wardrobe department.

Mel Bush: Health nut weaponises volume of scream.

Ace McShane: Awesome butch bisexual pyromaniac hits things with baseball bat.

[giddyaunt425]

I lied. I made more.

And I won't stop with the Adric ones.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random textpost memes

[idkaguyorsomething]

A Doctor and their companion(s) are inserted into the plot of an episode which they did not experience in place of their counterparts who canonically experienced it. ¿Which of these would you like to see the most?

¡Please reblog and explain your answer in the tags!

[the-force-awakens]

DOCTOR WHO (2005 - ) — 13.09 "The Power of the Doctor"

[demigodofhoolemere]

“The female companions in the classic series never did anything but scream and twist their ankles”

[whiloww]

[truebluewhocanoe]

Tales of the TARDIS Masterpost

A COMPLETE collection of the new scenes from Tales of the TARDIS. Other ones previously posted to YouTube were incomplete or awkwardly cut, so here's all the new content in a convenient format.

[evviejo]

thirteen's era appreciation: 503/?

[doctorhomo]

i know it’s dumb as hell to pit the dw showrunners/writers against each other, but having the doctor have a queer, heartfelt romance in that ep felt like a proper fuck you to chibnall. “see, IM not afraid to have the doctor kiss someone of the same gender on screen, what are you so fucking scared of?”

honestly i think it’s fucked up to reintroduce two of THE MOST queer coded female companions from classic who in jodie’s final ep, then do everything you can to ignore any queerness in their characters (to the point where tegan doesnt even mention her BEST FRIEND that she shared a room with) and also do almost nothing with the 13/yaz story. i know kissing isnt the be all end all of romantic relationships ( much as it’d’ve been nice to see), but they didnt even hug. they barely got to indicate any interest in that final episode, the episode where they lose each other forever, and they dont even hug each other. they love each other. there is immense pain in their relationship, because they know nothing is certain. so shouldnt they take their final opportunity to show their feelings? shouldnt their final interaction boil down to more than ice cream?

it just speaks volumes to me that a gay showrunner is the one brave enough to tell these stories and properly show a romance. a straight man couldnt bring himself to have his wlw relationship show an overt indication of their feelings, but a gay man (not the writer of this ep obv, but the showrunner, the one making the decisions and taking the most criticism) is the one with the fucking balls to do it.

[pizzacade]

Part 2 of TARDIS companion nicknames.

[headcanonsandmore]

Some perfectly normal Doctor Who factoids

The Master is canonically Rasputin.

Time Lords can all levitate and fly. The Doctor seems to forget this.

The Doctor is canonically Merlin.

There are two different explanations for the Loch Ness Monsters.

The Doctor once had a talking penguin as a companion.

Vampires are a canon species.

Tegan and Nyssa have such a strong queer subtext to their friendship that there is a wiki page online dedicated to it.

Speaking of Nyssa, she once got turned into a vampire and became obsessed with eating Tegan.

Ace McShane once fell in love with a cat-girl.

The Doctor is both a semi-mythical figure in the founding of time lord society, as well as also being the reason for the time lords having regenerative abilities. They are also just a run-of-the-mill time lord who ran away from Gallifrey. All of these are equally canon.

The Doctor once broke the fourth wall to wish the viewers a Merry Christmas.

The Third Doctor knows various martial arts.

It's implied that Time Lords cannot get drunk on alcohol unless they drink ginger beer beforehand.

The Eighth Doctor was once sentenced to death and promptly demanded to die in the nude.

The Doctor effectively kidnapped their first companions.

Time Lords reproduce via a technology known as looms.

[tonsillessscum]

Doctor Who Companions Pride Icons :P

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 69

One time while escaping from a cell, Romana commented that it would be child's play to unlock the door with her sonic screwdriver. She then said it was literally child's play as doing so had been a game back on Gallifrey. (Audio: Subterranea)

One of Jamie's distant relations became a spy during World War II and used the name "the Doctor." (Audio: Operation Werewolf)

On his report, Borusa gave Theta Sigma a 7 in the subject of "Physical Inactivity." He commented that his pupil seems to think he is a mountain goat. (Short story: Report on Term's Work)

Memory lanterns are Time Lord devices that resemble paper lanterns but record an individual's thoughts and memories. During the Time War, many Gallifreyans released these lanterns as a desperate ploy to not be forgotten, as they thought they would all die. (Novel: Engines of War)

Ben, Polly, and Jamie played with a ouija board on the TARDIS. This caused a dark cloud from the time vortex to slip inside Jamie's mind, affecting his behavior. The Second Doctor banished the cloud by reading a recipe for Bajaxx stew written in Ancient Gallifreyan. (Short story: Something at the Door)

Jarra To killed the previous overseer of the Axis. Eventually, a Time Lord came to investigate, but they killed them. By the time the Fifth Doctor and his companions landed there, they described the corpse as "rank" with oozing flesh and insect larvae. (Audio: The Axis of Insanity)

After leaving Nyssa, Tegan, and Marc behind, the Fifth Doctor had several adventures on his own. Eventually, he encountered his Eleventh self, and he decided to return to his companions because he didn't want to be like him - companionless and disparaged in 1892. (Audio: Thin Time)

Time Vortex leeches live in the time vortex, and the Doctor had thought they were a myth from Ancient Gallifreyan songs until one of them clung to his Eleventh self's TARDIS exterior. (Comic: Space in Dimension Relative and Time)

One time, a man called Gaylord Lefevre played a game of cards against the Toymaker. He cheated and used a needle to mark cards, but the Toymaker was aware of this and altered his cards to be a hand full of jokers when Gaylord wasn't looking. The Toymaker claimed he wasn't cheating but instead following a new rule that Gaylord had introduced - that cheating was acceptable. (Comic: The Greatest Gamble)

Gallifrey has a transtube, which is basically an underground train. It has a central station under the Capitol. (Novel: The Ancestor Cell)

One time after the Seventh Doctor was knocked out, he drowsily told Ace that he had had a terrible dream. A man with ringlets had been reaching out to him, saying, "Come in, Number Seven, your time is up." He was talking about the Eighth Doctor. (Audio: The Silurian Candidate)

Maria Mazzini once commented on how powerful the Fifth Doctor's thighs were - after slapping them. (Audio: Serpent in the Silver Mask)

One time, the Fourth Doctor decided to take Sarah Jane to Geshtinanna. The journey in the TARDIS took nine weeks, during which both became bored and tired. While traveling in the time vortex, the clocks in the TARDIS all stopped, and the Doctor then detected the remains of another TARDIS in the vortex, trapped their because the pilot had made the mistake of locking their course. They were worried that they too had fallen to the same fate and were unable to change course, but when the day of materialization finally came, they successfully materialized. The Doctor realized that the TARDIS had stopped all the clocks out of respect for her fallen fellow TARDIS. Even after nine weeks of travel, they materialized nowhere close to Geshtinanna. (Short story: Eternity)

The Seventh Doctor has shifted his genetic makeup enough to disguise himself before and mimic someone else. He admitted that he learned this trick from the Master, who frequently used regeneration as a disguise. (Novel: Original Sin)

On Gallifrey, there are two hundred and eight tenses in their languages. They don't translate well. (Novel: The Crystal Bucephalus)

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[aquilacalvitium]

The classic companions joining the TARDIS

I skipped a couple because either they weren't present for more than a story arc or the episode was missing and I didn't get to see them join

Ian and Barabara: What the fuck is this who the fuck are you I want to go home YESTERDAY

Vicki: I think my entire family is dead, please take me with you :(

Steven Taylor: PEOPLE??? HUMAN PEOPLE????

Dodo Chaplet: Fuck it we ball

Ben and Polly: Hey you forgot your key wait where did London go

Jamie McCrimmon: Is anyone going to adopt this small Scottish puppy? (Doesn't wait for an answer)

Victoria Waterfield: ᵒʰ ᵐʸ ᵍᵒᵈ ʷʰᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ ⁱˢ ᵍᵒⁱⁿᵍ ᵒⁿ...

Zoe Herriot: I'm coming with you, you can't change my mind

Elizabeth Shaw: Hi I'm your replacement

Jo Grant: Your honour that is my government assigned emotional support human

Sarah-Jane Smith: No idea what's going on but I'll be damned if I let these idiots get the better of me

Harry Sullivan: I appear to be in A Situation.

Leela: They're trying to elect me as leader get me out of here

K9: Puppy.

Romana: Your honour that is my government assigned travelling companion against my will

Adric: This idiot child is going to get himself killed unless I keep an eye on him

Nyssa: I also have a vendetta against the Master

Tegan Jovanka: I just. Wanted to go. To the airport. 😨

Vislor Turlough: I'll do ANYTHING to get off this shitty planet. What? Yeah sure even kill a man. Wait no shit I mean-

Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown: This has got to be, without a doubt, the most terrifying two days of my entire life (seriously why did she decide to stay her first two serials alone put her through absolute hell)

Melanie Bush:

Ace McShane: Fuck the rules, fuck authority figures, also you're my dad now.

Bonus Movie Round

Grace Holloway: I finally meet the right guy and he's from another planet 🙄

Chang Lee: This idiot child is going to did get himself killed