Rise and Fall ( audio story ) Rise and Fall was a 2010 Big Finish audio short story read by William Russell . It featured the First Doctor and Ian Chesterton . It was the only story on " " by an author who was not making a Big Finish debut , as George Mann had previously written " The Pyralis Effect " in 2009 . It was also by far the longest story on the anthology , being essentially the length of a televised episode from the First Doctor era . Summary . Looking for a respite after their involvement in the French Revolution , the TARDIS materialises on a planet to which the Doctor has never been before . While the girls enjoy themselves in the TARDIS wardrobe , Ian and the Doctor step out onto a verdant , but scarcely populated world . There , they encounter an equine humanoid species . In moments they watch the civilisation rise , flourish and fall . The perspective of the planet ' s inhabitants is entirely different . Decades after the Doctor , Ian and the TARDIS had first appeared on the planet in the accelerated time stream , the aliens are at a stage of development similar to the primitive humans who lived during Earth ' s prehistory . One of the primitives who is reaching the end of his life reflects that the Doctor and Ian have been there for as long as he can remember . While he does not have the intellectual capacity to comprehend his approaching death , he can sense it on an instinctual level . During the hunter - gatherer phase of the aliens ' history , the Doctor came to be regarded as religious icons . They were known as the Unmoving Ones to the primitive tribe which lived near the hill on which they were standing . Tradition stated that they were spirits who had stood in the same spot for generations . When children come of age , they have to bring an offering of food to the Doctor and Ian . The females collect the food trough hunting while the males would prepare it . Idols in the shape of the TARDIS were made of bone and carried for luck . The tribe learned to create their clothes by studying those worn by the Doctor and Ian while their houses were modelled on the TARDIS . Ultimately , the aliens ' entire civilisation comes to be based around the Doctor and Ian . In the normal time stream , Ian sees buildings such as these as well as considerably more advanced ones rise and fall in a matter of seconds . After the aliens ' civilisation has become industrialised , a scientist named Pol determines that the Doctor and Ian , who are still called the Unmoving Ones , are alive and as they are not immobile but are in fact moving infinitesimally slowly , making their ancient name a misnomer . Pol rejects the notion that they are remnants of a long extinct civilisation which existed prior to the rise of his own . Archaeological research suggests that the so - called Unmoving Ones have been present since his people were little more than animals . Pol is seemingly the first person in his planet ' s history to determine that the Doctor and Ian exist in a different time stream but does not reveal this to his fellow scientists as he believes that doing so will make him a laughing stock in academic and scientific circles . Centuries later from the aliens ' perspective , a long feared war has begun between the planet and the separatist colonies on its moon , who are seeking independence from the planetary government by means of a revolution . A young boy named Call Box , who is too young to fully understand the reasons for the war , cowers in his bedroom as the bombs begin to fall on his home , clutching toys of the Doctor and Ian to his breast . In the normal time stream , the time travellers witness the aftermath of the destruction of all life on the planet by the lunar separatists . Hundreds of years later in the aliens ' time stream , the city built near where the TARDIS had materialise d is in ruins . From the Doctor and Ian ' s perspective , less than a minute passes from the beginning to the end of their civilisation . External links . Big Finish News Story Big Finish podcast link