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Series is Doctor Who - Past Doctors
Doctor Who - Past Doctors:

A series of novels by BBC Worldwide featuring stories of the past Doctors for the television show Doctor Who.
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1 1997 1997 (1) The Devil Goblins from Neptune
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Martin Day  
Keith Topping  
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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.
2 1997 1997 (2) The Murder Game
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Steve Lyons  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The faded glamour of a hotel in space, spinning in an all-but-forgotten orbit around the Earth, it is host to some unusual visitors this weekend - including a party that claim to travel in a battered blue police box…

It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapidated Hotel Galaxian, the TARDIS crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But it seems someone from his motley group of guests is taking things a little too seriously.

While the Doctor, Ben and Polly find themselves joining in the shadowplay, it becomes clear that a real-life murder is stalking the dark, disused corridors of the Galaxian. But worse than this: there's a sinister force waiting silently in space for events to unfold. A terrible secret is hidden on board the Galaxian, and if it is discovered nothing - least of all murder - will ever be the same again. If this is a game, the stakes just got higher.

Featuring the second Doctor, Ben and Polly, this adventure takes place between the TV stories THE POWER OF THE DALEKS and THE HIGHLANDERS.
3 1997 1997 (3) The Ultimate Treasure
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The seers of Gelsandor foretell the coming of many visitors to their planet, all in search of the lost treasure of the fabulously wealthy Rovan Cartovall, who vanished 5000 years ago…

An innocent shopping jaunt for the Doctor and Peri ends in violence and incarceration as they become caught up in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan's hoard - the ultimate treasure.

The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains skeptical.  What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?

The resourcefulness of the travellers is tested to the limits as they race to be the first to the treasure.  And among a seemingly endless array of tricks, tests and traps lurk some deadly surprises.
4 1997 1998 (4) Business Unusual
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A security force with no official identity... a managing director with no name...  a sinister creature on guard patrol resembling some kind of hellhound...  SenèNet is no ordinary multinational company.

The Doctor arrives in Brighton, 1989, travelling alone.  He soon discovers his old friend, the Brigadier, has gone missing investigating SenèNet, whose new interactive games console is soon to be released at an absurdly reasonable price.  He was last seen at their headquarters - based in the picturesque Ashdown Forest...

Investigating further, the Doctor becomes more and more entangled  in a deadly web of intrigue.  Together with Mel, a plucky programmer from Pease Pottage, the Doctor must overcome the conspiracy of silence, rescue the Brigadier and save the world once again - something that would be a lot easier if her just knew where to start...
5 1997 1997 (5) Illegal Alien
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Robert Perry  
Mike Tucker  
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Britain is at war.  Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London.  A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets.  But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere…

Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open - and glimpses something emerging from within.  But the military dismiss his account of events - the sphere is simply a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way.  What else could it be?

Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace are the only people to believe McBride.  The sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology - and whatever was inside it is now loose upon London.

Before long the Doctor and his friends have embarked on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi operatives - and some very old enemies...
6 1997 1997 (6) The Roundheads
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"I tell you - we will cut off the King's head.  Aye, with the crown on it!"

It is December 1648.  Although victorious over the Cavaliers in the Civil Wars, the Roundheads are struggling to retain power.  Plans are afoot to spirit King Charles from his prison, and the Doctor and his companions become embroiled in the intrigue...

Ben finds himself press-ganged and on board a mysterious ship to Amsterdam.  Polly is an unwitting accomplice in a plot to rescue the King, and the Doctor and Jamie find themselves arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London under suspicion of conspiracy.

Can the Doctor and Jamie escape, manage to find Ben and Polly and still ensure that history remains on its proper course?
7 1998 1998 (7) The Face of the Enemy
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The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma…

Robbery and murder are on an increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets.  The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key.

Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a place missing in strange circumstance is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth.

As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest enemy...
8 1998 1998 (8) Eye of Heaven
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Easter Island, 1842.  Horace Stockwood, eminent archaeologist, has stolen a stone tablet sacred to the islanders.  He escapes into the open sea, but massive, sinister stone figures are lining the cliff tops, watching him go…

Thirty years later, Stockwood is desperate to return.  He has devoted his life to studying the sacred stone, and needs to know if his theories are correct.  Visiting Earth with Leela, the Doctor's interest is piqued, and he offers to fund Stockwoods expedition.  But their journey proves more hazardous than anyone would have expected.

What is the terrible secret that pushes Stockwood on - and what is his real agenda?  Who is trying to stop their mission before it has even begun?  As the Doctor begins to piece the answers together, it seems he may become an unwitting accomplice to the terrible tragedy that threatens to befall the island.  Ancient powers are invoked, and dangerous secrets may soon be secret no longer...
9 1998 1998 (9) The Witch Hunters
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The Reverend Samuel Parris, Minister of Salem, follows three strangers in the forest beyond the village - a forest which is traditionally believed to be the source of much evil.  He hears movement through the trees, steps forward and makes a terrible discovery.  It is one which will change life in Salem forever.

The TARDIS arrives in Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692.  The Doctor wishes to effect repairs to his ship in peace and privacy, and so his companions - Ian, Barbara and Susan - decide to 'live history' for a week or so.  But the friendships they make are abruptly broken when the Doctor ushers them away, wary of being overtaken by the tragic events he knows will occur.

Upon learning the terrible truth of the Salem witch trials, Susan is desperate to return - at any price.  Her actions lead the TARDIS crew into terrible jeopardy, and her latent telepathy threatens to help the tragedy escalate way out of control...
10 1998 1998 (10) The Hollow Men
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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?
11 1998 1998 (11) Catastrophea
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'Look at the way they just call themselves the People,' said Jo.  'They're too humble to give themselves a name!'  'Or too arrogant to think they need one,' said the Doctor.

The planet's real name is Kastopheia, but generally it's been rechristened Catastrophea - it's a catastrophe waiting to happen.  Supposedly civilised races are exploiting the world, squabbling over its wealth and resources, while the indigenous population - golden-skinned giants - seem not to care what their own fate may be.  The Doctor and Jo soon become embroiled in a plan to keep peace between different parties vying for control over the planet.

But what is the strange glowing crystal lying hidden in impenetrable jungle?  How will the arrival of the proud, warlike Draconians affect the fragile peace?  In his quest to find the truth behind the secret history of the People, the Doctor risks unleashing a force more terrible than the galaxy has known for aeons...
12 1998 1998 (12) Mission: Impractical
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When daring criminal Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilisations.

Pursued by bounty hunters, the Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber - notorious rogues who have become involved in something big: a covert government agency on Vandor Prime is forcing the pair to turn their criminal talents to its own ends.

The Doctor and Frobisher are soon drawn into the mysterious scheme themselves - but what game is truly being played by the authorities?  How is the group of Ogron raiders involved?  And who is desperate to see the Doctor dead?

Caught in a web of deceit and pursued by ruthless killers, the Doctor's mission - should he decide to accept it - is to join Glitz's gang and pull off the crime of the century.  And failure will result in an interstellar war costing the lives of millions...
13 1998 1998 (13) Zeta Major
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'You've decided to concentrate on deriving energy from the kinetic force of planetary movement...'

A glib remark from the Doctor to a desperate scientist has had far-reaching effects on the empire of Morestra.  Eminent Morestran scientist Sorenson, attempting to find a new power source for his planet, risked a universal catastrophe by attempting to steal anti-matter crystals from the distant planet Zeta Minor.  The Doctor averted disaster, but has in effect sent all Morestra up a technological cul-de-sac.

Now in his fifth regeneration, the Doctor becomes involved once again in Morestra's future.  The empire has become a theocracy, and the all-powerful Church, finally discovering that Sorenson's world-spanning energy tower will never work, is attempting to save face by covertly returning to Zeta Minor to steal the powerful minerals they need.  This time, they believe they are prepared for all eventualities...

With his companions embroiled in ever-shifting loyalties and intrigues of the Morestran court, only the Doctor accepts that the forces of the anti-matter universe can never interact with our own.  Can he stop something he started two thousand years ago?
14 1998 1998 (14) Dreams of Empire
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The history books were clear: the once proud Haddron Empire, fatally weakened by civil war, was finally brought to its knees by a catastrophic explosion.  But, then again, history books can lie…

Landing in what seems to be a medieval castle, the Doctor and his friends discover that the final act of a drama that has torn apart a stellar empire is being played out around them.

Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games linked to life and death in his fortress prison?  What is the secret of the suits of armour which line the banqueting hall?  Who is on the battle cruiser that is getting closer all the time, and what will they want when they finally arrive?

The pieces are all in place, and the TARDIS crew soon find themselves under siege.  With both deadly robot troops and human traitors to defeat, it seems the future of the entire empire hangs in the balance...
15 1998 1998 (15) Last Man Running
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Eager for solitude away from the TARDIS and the endlessly inquisitive Leela, the Doctor steps out on to a benign-looking planet.  But the apparent tranquility hides a terrifying secret...

The TARDIS has arrived on a world of violence, where hideous creatures hunt and kill endlessly, vying for supremacy at the top of the food chain.  But is evolution on the planet natural or engineered by some higher power?  And why has an aggressively suspicious alien police force sent a secret mission here?

With no one safe from the planet's tireless predators, Leela's warrior instincts are tensed to the full.  The Doctor, meanwhile, begins to suspect that there is a scientific purpose to the planet - one married to a sinister intelligence.

Whatever the data being collated from the planet, the Doctor soon realises its usage may have far-reaching consequences for all humanity...
16 1998 1998 (16) Matrix
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'I won't fight you.'  'Oh, but you will.' The voice twisted and cracked.  Fury and madness tore through it.  'You will fight me, Doctor!'

The Doctor is on the run from a faceless enemy that knows his every thought and move.  He flees to his past, planning to leave Ace in safe hands in order to fight on alone.  But his enemy has other plans, and the Doctor's history no longer exists.

The TARDIS is finally drawn to London in the winter of 1888, where the Doctor and Ace discover a dark secret from Gallifrey's past, and the name of their unseen opponent.

It is Jack the Ripper.
17 1998 1998 (17) The Infinity Doctors
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"Sing about the past again, and sing that same old song.  Tell me what you know, so that I can tell you that you're wrong."

Gallifrey.  The Doctor's home planet.  For twenty thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos.  They have circumnavigated infinity and eternity, harnessed science and conquered death.  They are the Lords of Time, and have used their powers carefully.

But now a new force has been unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything.  It is enough to give even the Time Lords nightmares.  More that that: It is enough to destroy them.

It is one of their own.
Waiting for them at the end of the universe.

Featuring the Doctor, this adventure celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who.
18 1999 1999 (18) Salvation
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The gods have returned, and they're here to save our world.

New York, 1965.  A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land.  In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods.

And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call.  Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshipers.

Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more skeptical.  What are the strangers' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events?  As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor's principles are tested to their limits.  Which side should he choose to help?  And what part will a London schoolgirl named Dorothea Chaplet play in the ensuing chaos?

What price is humankind willing to pay for salvation?
19 1999 1999 (19) The Wages of Sin
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The Doctor has always been wary of meddling with established history.  But what happens when the history books lie?

With the secrets of time travel restored to him after his long exile on Earth, the Doctor has made a test flight into the past.  Accompanying him are his assistant Jo, and an old friend, scientist Liz Shaw.  The travellers realise they are visiting one of the most significant times in Earth's history - and one of the most dangerous...

It is Russia, 1916, and Europe is in the grip of the Great War.  With the TARDIS missing, its crew find themselves trapped in a country on the brink of revolution.

The Doctor and Liz are soon caught up in the deadly machinations of Tsar Nicholas's court, while Jo appears to fall under the sinister spell of the infamous Mad Monk, Rasputin…
20 1999 1999 (20) Deep Blue
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When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate.  The last thing he expects to find there is an old friend - with a new face...

The Doctor and his companions arrive on a pleasure beach in the 1970's, hoping for time off after their recent adventures.  But they do not get to relax for long.  Violent incidents are at an all time high in the area and people are going missing - or else changing into something more than human...

The Doctor soon realises a sinister presence lurks in the cold seas off Tayborough Sands - a presence with sinister designs on humanity.
21 1999 1999 (21) Players
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Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place…

The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things - a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career...

Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop. And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players - mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them - before it's too late?
22 1999 1999 (22) Millennium Shock
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It's 1999 and the Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world's computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them.

As the government realises the full implications of Year 2000, one company seems to promise all the technological answers... but what exactly are the methods and motives behind the operation?

What is the connection between the Millennium Bug, a raid on a Russian nuclear base, a break-in at a British defense contractor, and a pen that Sarah-Jane Smith kept as a memento of a past adventure? The Doctor and Commander Harry Sullivan of MI5 must discover the truth before the world is plunged into a digital winter.

No longer just an expensive miscalculation, the Millennium Bug could also be the key to an alien take-over of Earth...
23 1999 1999 (23) Storm Harvest
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'The Krill are pure rage.  Pure aggression.  There is nothing for me to reason with, nothing that I can appeal to.  By now there must be millions of them out there, and I don't know how to stop them.'

The water world of Coralee is the showpiece planet of the colonies - two suns, unspoilt beaches and a thriving tourist culture.  The Doctor and Ace arrive intending to have a proper holiday, but when the Doctor joins an archeological expedition conducting a dig at a sunken temple, he soon realises that, beneath the surface, something is very wrong.  An ancient and terrible weapon has been revived and every living creature on the planet is at risk.

Who are the aliens that wait in the asteroid field?  What is the mysterious creature that stalks in the shadows of the colonies?  Who has unleashed the devastating power of the Krill?

Out in the deep ocean there is a storm brewing, and the Doctor is not sure if anyone will survive.
24 1999 1999 (24) The Final Sanction
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The year is 2204.  The final confrontation between humankind and the monstrous Selachians is about to reach its tragic conclusion.

Once again the Doctor has become entangled in human history.  Caught up in a brutal and bloody conflict, he knows he must do nothing to influence the outcome.  But, when the TARDIS disappears and Zoe falls into Selachian hands, he is forced to intervene…

In the struggle that ensues, Jamie fights alongside the human forces and discovers for himself the true horror of war.  Zoe plans her escape from an alien proson camp, only to find herself, quite literally, out of her depth.  Meanwhile, the Doctor comes face to face with a man who will become one of the most vilified figures in history.

As the death toll mounts and events come to a head, the Doctor must make a painful choice: which is more important, the sanctity of the time stream or the lives of his companions?
25 1999 1999 (25) City at World's End
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The Doctor and his companions land in the city of Arkhaven, the last bastion of civilisation in a doomed world.

The inhabitants of the city are pinning all their hopes on a final desperate gamble for survival.  Behind the scenes there are jealous factions at work, secretly contesting for the chance to shape the destiny of a new world.  Beneath its ordered surface, Arkhaven is a city of secrets and mysteries where outward appearances can be deceptive.

Is the thing they call the 'Creeper' really at large in Arkhaven's eerie outer zone - and is it beast or machine?  What is the hidden force at work that has acted so strangely upon Susan?

With Barbara lost and the countdown to doomsday drawing to a climax, the Doctor must discover the true nature of the final enemy - or is that enemy simply fear itself?
26 1999 1999 (26) Divided Loyalties
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There are some evils in the universe that need to be fought.  And others that need redeeming…

Many years ago the Doctor, a student at the Academy on Gallifrey, lost a friend to the mysterious and malevolent force known as the Celestial Toymaker.  Now, in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor receives a telepathic call from his long-lost classmate, begging for help.

As he sets out to rescue his friend and exact revenge, the Doctor's companions become increasingly involved.  Adric, determined to justify his place aboard the TARDIS, opts to face the Toymaker's game challenges while Nyssa, angered by the Doctor's actions, finds herself excluded by the people she thought were her friends.  And what is the connection between the Toymaker and the planet Dymok, whose comatose inhabitants find a new savior in the shape of Tegan Jovanka?
27 1999 1999 (27) Corpse Marker
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Long ago and far away, the Doctor and Leela faced the Robots of Death…

To a society dependant on robots, the news that these benign, tireless, obedient labourers could be turned into killers would cause panic.  So it was kept a secret.  In Kaldor City, only three survivors of the Sandminer massacre know the truth.  But now, several years later, they are beginning to show signs of mental breakdown.  And once again, the robots are being programmed to kill.  Can the dead genius Taren Capel possibly be involved in this new outrage?

Worst of all, this time the deadly robots are not confined to a Sandminer.  This time they are loose in Kaldor City.  And this time, unless the Doctor and Leela can stop them, they really will destroy the world…
28 2000 2000 (28) Last of the Gaderene
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'My name is Bliss,' said the newcomer, 'and I bring great news for you all!'

The new owners of a Second World War aerodrome promise a golden dawn of prosperity for the East Anglian village of Culverton.  The population rejoices - with one or two exceptions.  Former Spitfire pilot Alec Whistler knows the aerodrome of old, having found a strange, jade-coloured crystal there years before…

When black-shirted troops appear on the streets, Whistler takes his suspicions to his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.  The Doctor and Jo are sent to investigate and soon discover that all is not well in the seemingly idyllic village.

What are the black coffin-like objects being unloaded at the aerodrome?  What horror lies behind Legion International's impeccable façade?  And what is the monstrous creature growing and mutating in the marsh?

As Culverton gears up for its summer fête, the Doctor finds himself involved in a race against time to prevent a massive colonisation of Earth.  For the last of the Gaderene are on their way…
29 2000 2000 (29) Tomb of Valdemar
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Millenia ago, the great god Valdemar held sway over the universe.  Somehow the Old Ones defeated this dark presence and entombed him beneath the acid skies of Ashkellia, before disappearing themselves forever.

Ove the centuries, the myths of Valdemar grow, crossing solar systems and races.  A novelist, Miranda Pelham, pieces together the Dark God's story.  Unfortunately for her, revolution and the rise of a New Protectorate force her to strike an agreement with the decadent necromancer Paul Neville to find the loast Ashkellia.

The Doctor and Romana, despite their best efforts, become emroiled in the complex conspiracies and attempts to re-discover Valdemar.  High in the boiling sulphuric acid clouds, in the Palace of the Old Ones, a place where reality and dreams collide, the way is being prepared for the resurrection of the Dark One.

The Doctor faces an agonising choice: should he continue with his quest to gather the segments of the Key to Time, or prevent the rebirth of a being so powerful that its release will alter the entire fabric of the universe?
30 2000 2000 (30) Verdigris
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Jo Grant had no inkling of the ship that revolved in orbit like a discreet, preposterous thought in the mind of someone serene but bonkers.

High above London and its crust of smog, stretched tall above the soapy atmosphere of the Earth, is a ship the size and exact shape of St Pancras railway station.

On board, the Doctor and that mysterious lady adventurer, Iris Wyldthyme, are bargaining for their lives with creatures determined to infiltrate the 1970's in the guise of characters from nineteenth-century novels.

Without the help of UNIT, the Doctor and his friends face the daunting task of defeating aliens, marauding robot sheep, the mysterious Children of Destiny and… the being who calls himself Verdigris.
31 2000 2000 (31) Grave Matter
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Dorsill: a group of islands shrouded in fog, the community facing economic ruin and struggling to survive.

When Christopher Sheldon buys the islands outright, the locals owe him a debt of thanks.  They don't ask too many questions about what Sheldon and his friends are up to; they don't care that he seldom ventures into the one small village; they don't ask why he saw fit to spend such a large amount of money - or where he got it from…

Even when the first few people die, there's an assumption that it's down to natural causes: alergic reactions, an especially virulent strain of flu, a tragic fishing accident…  And if the sheep and chickens are behaving oddly, that's hardly a worry.

No, if there's anything to arrouse suspicion, it's the arrival of retired civil servant Sir Edward Baddesley.  But generally life goes on, with its little triumphs and upsetting tragedies.

Until the two strangers arrive…
32 2000 2000 (32) Heart of TARDIS
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In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is afoot.  Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible.  The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and Victoria.

The Fourth Doctor and Romana, meanwhile, have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council.  A force has been unleashed into the space/time contiuum… a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.

Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend, who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances.  And quite right, too.  The fate of a universe plunging into fetid and unending chaos can look out for itself for a change…
33 2000 2000 (33) Prime Time
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'Coming up after the break, the start of a new series of programmes featuring the mysterious traveller in Time and Space known only as - The Doctor.'

Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar.  They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programmes of the dangerously powerful Channel 400.  As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.

Why is the Director-General of Channel 400 so interested in the Doctor?  Who are the mysterious aliens who watch from the shadows of the Brago nebula?  And why is a pack of Zzinbriizi Jackals stalking the streets of Blinni Gaar?

As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.
34 2000 2000 (34) Imperial Moon
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The year is 1878.  Three ships of the British Imperial Spacefleet have just set a course for the Moon.

The discovery of a mysterious diary, recalling a seemingly impossible journey, takes the Doctor and his companions back to a crucial moment in history - and into certain danger.  For the Moon of 1878 is far from deserted.

Trapped in a crater teeming with hostile animal and plant life, the Doctor and Turlough must join the British explorers on a hazardous journey to battle for their freedom before the long lunar night descends.  For, lurking in the shadows, are the Vrall - cunning and utterly ruthless killers.

With the loss of one of their ships - and their captain - the British team become embroiled in a struggle to survive the tests duty and honour to their limits.  Meanwhile, Turlough finds himself with Time in his hands and the Doctor must make a choice that will determine the future of an Empire - and Earth itself.
35 2000 2000 (35) Festival of Death
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The Beautiful Death.  The ultimate theme-park ride.  For twenty galactic credits, you can find out what it's like to be dead.

But something has gone wrong.  Visitors expecting a sightseeing tour of the afterlife have been transformed into mindless zombies, set on a killing rampage.

The TARDIS arrives in the aftermath of the disaster and, to the Doctor's baffled delight, he is immediately congratulated for saving the population from certain and terrible destruction.

The only problem is, he hasn't actually done it yet.

Aided and abetted by a drug-addled hippie lizard, a hard-hitting investigative reporter and a suicidal ship's computer, the Doctor has no choice but to travel back in time and discover exactly how he became a hero.

And then he finds out.  He did it by sacrificing his life.
36 2000 2000 (36) Independence Day
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Peter Darvill-Evans  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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'Danger is my middle name,' Ace said, 'or it would be if I had more than one.  I can look after myself these days, you know.'

Freedom.  LIberty.  Free will.  Independence.  Choice.  Everyone wants to be free.  But at what point does freedom become irresponsibility?  What happens when one person's choice causes another's oppression?

The Doctor's on a simple mission to return a communications device he borrowed years previously.  Being a Time Lord, he can return it before anyone misses it.

But events in the Mendeb system have moved more quickly than the Doctor estimated, and he lands in the ruins of a civilisation devestated by mysterious invaders.
37 2000 2000 (37) The King of Terror
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Keith Topping  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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.
38 2001 2001 (38) The Quantum Archangel
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'Hear me, Lord of Time.  We are a vengeful people.  Our reach is infinite and our patience eternal.  For your actions, we aill have vengeance.  And the vengeance of the Chronovores is terror beyond imagining.'

Five thousand years ago, the Priest Kings of Atlantis attempted to enslave Kronos, greatest of the Chronovores.  They failed, with catastrophic results.  Thirty years ago, the Master sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, the Doctor and Mel have gone their seperate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more.  While the Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of the Master.

As the Master desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, the Doctor and Mel must overcome thier differences.  If they don't, the Quantum Archangel will be triumphant.  And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.
39 2001 2001 (39) Bunker Soldiers
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There are many beasts and monsters in the universe, it is true.  But the worst of them in Man.

A terrifying alien army is sweeping across the landscape, decimating towns and subjugating everyone and everything in its path.  With their astute military tactics and advanced weaponry, the invaders seem unstoppable.

But this is no distant star, no alternate timeline.  Trapped in a frightened city, the Doctor and his companions discover that this is Earth history, and they are powerless to intervene.  The impending slaughter of thousands is a matter of grim historical fact.

Not everyone within the city is prepared to accept their fate.  Desperate people embark upon desperate courses of action.  They may even succeed.

For, deep beneath the city, something truly alien is stirring…
40 2001 2001 (40) Rags
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'Join the Unwashed...  Join the Unforgiving.  Join the Ragged, for we are the way.'

A convoy of disenchanted ragamuffins is winding its way through the south-west of England.  At it head, a filthy cattletruck containing for punk mummers... and something else.  The band plays sudden, violent and hate-filled gigs along the way: Dartmoor, Glastonbury Tor, and old cemetery in Bristol.  And every time they play, people die in unspeakable ways.  Aristocrats, high-flying stockbrokers, police officers, all find themselves victims of a Class War that is threatening to shatter society.

Within the dark cattletruck, a malevelont force is leading this ragged army on a Magical Mayhem Tour towards its final, secret destination.  With Jo powerless to resist its seductive influence and the Doctor lost in a nightmarish void, can the band from hell be prevented from staging its final society-cracking performance, and thus spelling the end of the road for... everything?
41 2001 2001 (41) The Shadow in the Glass
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May 17th 1944: A squadron of Hurricanes shoots down an unidentified aircraft over the Dorset village of Turelhampton.  A routine operation.  So why is the village immediatley evacuated?

2001: Toops still occupy Turelhampton, guarding the village's dark secret.  When a television documentary crew break through the cordon looking for a story, they find they've recorded more than they'd bargained for.

Meanwhile, in Cornwall, a journalist is witness to a terrifying ceremony: agent of the worst evil in history plan to unleash a new, unthinkable horror on the world.

Caught up in both a deadly conspiracy and historical mystery, retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart calls upon his old friend the Doctor.  Half-glimpsed demons watch from the shadows as the Doctor and the Brigadier discover the last, and deadliest, secret of the Second World War.
42 2001 2001 (42) Asylum
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'My view' the Doctor said 'is that you can run - in fact it's often by far the best option - but you can't hide.  I'll see myself out.'

Nyssa felt a pang of disappointment.  He had gone.  She would probably never see him again.

The town of Oxford in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquility.  Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks.  Alfric, the proctor of the Franciscan friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there's a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets.

When the missing friar is found dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered.  There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with the Doctor to track him down.

Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: Roger Bacon, famed throughout Christendom as a scholar - and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by technographer Nyssa of Traken.
43 2001 2001 (43) Superior Beings
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Peri hasn't been time-travelling for long and is just getting used to the Doctor and the TARDIS.  The Doctor's such a sweet, friendly guy and the TARDIS keeps leaving her little presents, which is neat.  When the TARDIS takes them to a party of super-advanced humans on a pleasure-planetoid in the far future (even neater!), Peri falls for the charms of the local hunk and finds herself flying headlong into a quite different form of time-travel...

The Velethske are hunters.  They prefer human flesh to any other.  They've been sleeping for ceturies and now they're hungry.  The Doctor, teaming up with shamed xenologist Aline Vehlmann, finds himself caught up in the machinations of the vulpine hunters, and discovers that fresh meat isn't all they're after…

For deep beneath the surface of a strange and beautiful garden-planet, something is waiting.  Something that Aline believes is her destiny.  Something for which the Valethske have been searching for centuries.  And as events escalate into a desperate fight for survival, who will prove themselves the superior beings?
44 2001 2001 (44) Byzantium!
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Keith Topping  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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'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.
45 2001 2001 (45) Bullet Time
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David A McIntee  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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'You're not the Doctor I knew.'
'Perhaps you never knew the Doctor.'


Hong Kong 1997: the handover to Chinese rule is imminent, and investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith is on the trail of corruption in the Far East.

Street gangsters lurk around every corner.  And when one decides to confide in Sarah, she is thrown headlong into danger.  What are UNIT doing in Hong Kong, and why are they following missing backpackers?  What is causing a spate of strange and unnatural deaths?  And how is Sarah's old and trusted friend the Doctor involved?  More importantly, whose side is he on?

The truth can now be told, and the outcome of Sarah's investigations revealed.  But will her world ever be the same again?
46 2001 2001 (46) Psi-ence Fiction
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It's Reading Week at the University of East Wessex, but not everything comes to a stop.

The wood is still haunted.  Experiments in telepathy, remote viewing, precognition and other paranormal phenomena continue in the Parapsychology Department.  The department deads still think the Kellerfield Research Fellow is out for publicity rather than psychic results.  A grizzly murder remains unsolved by local police.  The students are still holding seances in the graveyard.

When the TARDIS arrives in Norswood, the Doctor and Leela are caught up in events that are spiralling out of control.  Leela is chased by a phantom, and the Doctor takes the waters.  But soon it isn't just the Parapsychology Department's funding that's in question - it's the whole of existence.
47 2001 2001 (47) Dying in the Sun
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It was the city of angels, and the angels were screaming...

Los Angeles, 1947: multi-millionaire movie producer Harold Reitman has been murdered and the LAPD are convinced that drug dealer Robert Chate is the killer.  Detective William Fletcher isn't so sure - he believes that the man who calls himself the Doctor has a stronger connection to the crime than he's letting on.

While the Doctor assists the police with their enquiries, Star Light Pictures are preparing to release their most eagerly anticipated movie yet, Dying in the Sun, a film that rumours say will change the motion-picture industry for ever.

Suspecting that the film holds secrets more terrifying that anyone could ever have imagined, the Doctor decides to do everything in his power to stop it from being released.  In Hollywood, however, it is the movie studios that hold all the power...
48 2001 2001 (48) Instruments of Darkness
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Gary Russell  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The leaders on planet Earth think that the Magnate is a mysterious 'shadow Government' that controls the world.  It isn't.  The leaders believe the Network to be a ramshackle, paranoid outfit of European anarchists who will eventually blow themselves up.  They won't.  The leaders believe that if there are humans who can control things with their minds - ESPnets - they're few and far between, and not worth worrying about.  They're wrong.  The leaders believe that one minute after midnight on 31 December 1993, a new year, full of promise, will begin.  They're wrong.

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Earth just days before New Year.  An old friend has been kidnapped and taken to France.  And two murderious enemies are setting up a new life in the Peak DIstrict.  Which of these threats should the Doctor deal with first?  And why is his old travelling companion Evelyn Smythe using her knownledge of the future to make a fortune from chocolate cake resipes?!
49 2002 2002 (49) Relative Dementias
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'Do Time Lords get Alzheimer's disease?' asked Ace.  'Oh, we get far worse things than that Ace.  The dementias that plague ua are much, much darker.'

Collecting his mail in the London of 2012, the Doctor and Ace a called through time to south-seat Scotland to help out an old friend - an old friend who's vanished.  They find themselves at Graystairs, an Alzheimer's clinic and a place of healing, where the patients seem to be gaining a new lease on life.  But whose life is it?

Why is the Doctor so reluctant to reveal what happened in the TARDIS before their arrival?  Why are cats and dogs - not to mention people - disappearing?  Who is the shadowy figure stalking the Doctor and Ace?  And what is the secret of the mysterious Miss Chambers, whom no-one remembers meeting?

Soon the Doctor and Ace find out  the hard way that actions have consequences - and that there's more than one kind of dementia.
50 2002 2002 (50) Drift
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Simon A Forward  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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White: the perfect camouflage for ghosts.

White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, and troops move in on a survivalist cult following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards.  The Special Forces group, White Shadow, is searching for the missing fragment of a US Air Force jet, crashed while engaged in top-secret test flights over the region.

The Doctor and Leela have arrived at quire literally the wrong time.  Thanksgiving is approaching - traditionally a holiday all about home a family.  But this year, all that is lost.

Lost: like the local community, in the grip of something far more sinister than a harsh winter.  Like young Amber Mailloux, victim of a broken home that won't even settle in one place.  Even White Shadow is lost, out of its depth and up against an enemy not even the Doctor can find in this world of white.

An enemy that promises the bleakest of midwinters for the people of New Hampshire, and before springtime, the end of life on Earth...






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