'Life is cheap in Byzantium. 
Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are.'

Byzantium.  The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea.  Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.

Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees ... all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.

In this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilization of the Roman empire.  But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval.  In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.

From the outer reaches of the Solar System, alien eyes are surveying the Earth. Eyes as cold and cruel as the methane ice that shrouds their distant world…

The Doctor is perturbed when a spate of deaths follow the break-up of an alien mass in the atmosphere. But this is merely the latest incident in a sinister conspiracy that threatens the entire planet, and the Doctor himself is embroiled in the plans of all the players.

The Brigadier's concern is heightened by the possibility of traitors at the very heart of UNIT. Leaving for Geneva to discover the truth, he little realises the deadly motives of an enemy agent on his own doorstep. The Doctor and Liz, meanwhile, discover that London doesn't have a monopoly on alien invasions.

What are the gargoyle-like creatures that kill without mercy? What do they want from our planet - and how do they figure in top-secret governmental plans?

As the lines between allies and enemies begin to blur, the Doctor finds himself fighting to save the Earth once again. But who will he be saving it for?

Featuring the third Doctor, Liz Shaw and UNIT, this adventure takes place between the TV stories INFERNO and TERROR OF THE AUTONS.

'Resistance is futile!'

Fluffs, goofs, double entendres, fashion victims, technobabble, dialogue disasters: these are just some of the headings under which every story in the Doctor's twenty-seven-year career is analysed.

Despite its humorous tone The Discontinuity Guide has a serious purpose.  Apart from drawing attention to the errors and absurdities that are amoung the most lovable features of Doctor Who, this reference book provides a complete analysis of the story-by-story creation of the Doctor Who universe.

One sample story, Pyramids of Mars, yields the following gems:

Technobabble: a cytronic particle accelerator, a relative continuum stabiliser, and triobiphysics.

Dialogue Triumphs: 'I'm a Time Lord…  You don't understand the implications.  I'm not a human being.  I walk in eternity.'

Continuity: the Doctor is about 750 years old at this point, and has apparently aged 300 years since Tomb of the Cybermen.  He ages about another 300 years between this story and the seventh Doctor's Time and the Rani.

An absolute must for every Doctor Who fan.  Wear your anorak with pride, and keep The Discontinuity Guide in its pocket!

Perhaps sensing the Doctor's deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary on its way from Southampton to New York in the year 1963.

But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672?

And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?

The village was cursed centuries ago, but only now is the alien evil beginning to revive…

The children of Hexen Bridge are gifted and clever, but insanity and murder follow in their wake.  The Doctor has a special interest in the village, but on his return to England in the early twenty-first century events seem to be escalating out of control.

Kidnapped and taken to Liverpool, the Doctor realises that developments in Hexen Bridge have horrifying repercussions for the rest of the country.  Ace is left in the village, where small-minded prejudices and unsettled scores are flaring into violence.

As scarecrows fashioned from the bodies of the recent and ancient dead stalk the country lanes around Hexen Bridge, a sinister dark storm is spreading over the surrounding fields.  And as the fierce evil grows ever stronger, can the Doctor and Ace prevent it from engulfing the entire world?

All this useless beauty.  All these great leaps forward.  And for what?  So that the first alien with an advanced degree in interplanetary warfare can take it all from you?'

As the millennium draws to a close, the future of humankind hinges on the activities of one multimedia company, InterCom.  Suspecting that old mistakes are being repeated, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and his companions to investigate the company's Los Angeles headquarters.  But their infiltration is disrupted by the murderous games of terrorists seeking the fulfilment of age-old prophecies.

While the Doctor and UNIT encounter aliens in the boardroom, Tegan meets a pop star, Turlough finds himself victim of his own desires and Los Angeles becomes a war zone in which humanity is merely a helpless bystander.