The Sixth Doctor

* BBC Novel: Grave Matter (Peri)

Dorsill: a group of islands shrouded in fog, the community facing economic ruin - struggling to survive. When prodigal local 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 an amount of money - or where he got it. Even when the first few people die, there's an assumption that it's down to natural causes: allergic 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 arouse 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…

* Into the Unknown: Moon Grafitti (Peri) (60' 37")

Seeking a pocket sub-dimension with which to recalibrate the damaged TARDIS, the Doctor takes Peri to Earth in the far future after an invasion by Pararachnoids. The swarm has now departed Earth, leaving behind only the weak and crippled of its race -- although even they are still capable of tearing a human limb from limb. The Doctor and Peri encounter a young man in the ruins and are attacked by Pararachnoids, and the Doctor gives himself up to give Peri time to get to safety. She takes with her the glowing disc the young man was carrying, which turns out to be a tiny ship populated by a species of explorers called the Wibbly-Wee. Unfortunately, she is then captured by the monitor robots sent to return the young man to his place on the Line -- a conveyer belt of humans in suspended animation, who retreated underground to escape the Pararachnoid invasion. Due to a fault in the system the Monitors have concluded that the best way to protect their charges from the Pararachnoids is to keep them here, where they will never encounter a Pararachnoid. The Wibbly-Wee woke young Chimoani from his slumber hoping he could carry them to the materials they needed to repair their damaged ship. The Doctor and Chimoani manage to escape from the Pararachnoids, but they are followed back to the Line, which to the Pararachnoids seems like a giant buffet; and Peri has now been installed in Chimoani's place. The Doctor and Chimoani take the Wibbly-Wee ship to the control room, where the Line's organic operator died of a heart attack some time ago. Chimoani takes his place, and is able to reprogram the Monitors to drive off the attacking Pararachnoids. He then awakens the remnants of the human race. The Wibbly-Wee help the Doctor to repair the TARDIS before going, and he leaves the human race to begin rebuilding.

* BBC Novel: Synthespians(tm) (Peri)

In the 101st century, nostalgia is everything. Television from the 20th century is the new obsession, and Reef Station One is receiving broadcasts from a distant Earth of the past, transmitting them to a waiting audience. Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars and Professor X are ratings winners - and the inhabitants of the New Earth Republic can't get enough. But there are other forces in the galaxy; other forces that need Reef Station One. An ancient but dying race sees this human outpost as a last desperate hope for survival... and billionaire Walter J Matheson III sees them as a marvellous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive on Reef Station One, they find a fractured society, totally dependent on film and television. They also discover that the Republic's greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor's oldest enemies. As the Nestene Consciousness spreads its tentacles throughout the Republic, the Doctor and Peri must unravel the link between Walter J Matheson's business empire and the Nestenes. Because, if they don't, they'll end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time.

* The Missing Adventures: Burning Heart (Peri)

In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. Twenty million humans and aliens are at each other's throats, the lid barely held on by the Church of Adjudication, who through their OBERON system wield absolute power. And we all know what absolute power does. Other things have been corrupted too. People, human and alien alike, are changing - mutating into something that, if left unchecked, could consume their entire enclosed world. Arriving in this disintegrating cosmopolitan society, Peri falls in with the charismatic leader of Human First, a movement dedicated to bringing order out of chaos. Meanwhile, the Doctor is powerless, imprisoned and put to the Inquisition by a church that really thinks its God is coming back. If somebody doesn't do something, and do it soon, nobody's getting out alive.

* BBC Novel: Blue Box (Peri)

WHAT LURKS IN THE ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH?
'A timely look at a vital issue of today... you will never look at a computer the same way.' - Phreakphest
A DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF HI-TECH CRIME
The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn 'Internet' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents. A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as 'The Doctor' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw. Respected computer journalist Charles 'Chick' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation's vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. BLUE BOX is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.

* Davros (151' 56")

AI stock has shot up by over fifteen percent on news that galaxy-famous scientist Davros, controversial creator of the Daleks, has been hired to work on unspecified technological projects.' Davros has been given the chance to redeem himself. Humanity stands on the verge of a new era, but it needs the help of the galaxy's greatest ever scientist. But Davros is dead... isn't he? From the bunkers and shelters of ancient Skaro to the gleaming Domes of the Future Earth Empire, Davros has always been a man of destiny. Now he's working for mankind's benefit. But how much do we really know about Davros? Has Davros really turned over a new leaf? The Doctor certainly doesn't think so. But is the Doctor always right?

* Into the Unknown: Vigil (Peri) (39' 54")

The Doctor and Peri arrive in Hastings, where Peri is reunited with her college friend Martin and his domineering fiancee Meryl. The Doctor sets off to visit his own friend, pathologist Val Menard, only to find him mourning the loss of his 12-year-old daughter Lizzie, who has been in a coma since a recent car accident. Lizzie's caregiver, Martin and Meryl's friend Claire, was recently found battered to death in her car, but when Val performed an autopsy he found her blood had been powdered. The Doctor decides to investigate, and Peri spends the night at Martin and Meryl's, where she tells them about Claire's murder -- omitting the details of the powdered blood -- and learns that Martin now hates Meryl and can't imagine spending the rest of his life with her. Meanwhile, two more people die in exactly the same manner as Claire, and Val falls into a pocket Universe, populated by images of Lizzie. The Doctor realizes that the last time he visited the Menards he infected them with temporal microbes, tiny creatures from the Vortex with a taste for human life. When Lizzie fell into her coma the creatures responded to Val's grief by trying to bring her back -- by using their link to the TARDIS to telepathically project Lizzie's entire lifespan onto others in the near vicinity, killing them with the impact of all of Lizzie's childhood injuries inflicted at once. The Doctor is forced to leave Val in the microbes' pocket Universe, where the memories of Lizzie will keep him happy. He returns to find that Peri has just finished speaking to the police; Martin snapped during the night, beat Meryl to death, and tried to make it appear that she'd been killed by the same madman who beat Claire -- but failed since Peri hadn't told him about Claire's powdered blood.

* The Nightmare Fair (Peri) (Unmade Story)

Drawn into 'the nexus of the primeval cauldron of Space-Time itself,' the Doctor and Peri are somewhat surprised to find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Is it really just chance that has brought them to the funfair? Or is their arrival somehow connected with the sinister presence of a rather familiar Chinese Mandarin?

* The Ultimate Evil (Peri) (Unmade Story)

With the TARDIS working perfectly the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end. A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution. Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer - the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...

* Mission to Magnus (Peri) (Unmade Story)

The TARDIS has been pulled off course and sent hurtling through space and time. When it finally stops, Peri is amazed to witness the Doctor's transformation into a cringing coward. The takeover of the TARDIS by the school bully from the class of the fourth millennium on Gallifrey is only the first of the Doctor's problems. On the surface of the planet Magnus more of his old enemies are conspiring to trick the planet's all-female rulers; the Doctor and Peri have to foil a plot to freeze the entire world and wipe out most of the population.

* Slipback (Peri) (62' 58")

Odd events are taking place as the TARDIS materialises on board a space-craft: a mysterious killer stalks the ship's ducting; two dubious policemen are investigating the theft of art treasures; and the computer has taken on its own distinctive personality. Soon the Doctor stumbles on a shocking secret, a secret upon which depends the fate of the entire universe...

* BBC Novel: Palace of the Red Sun (Peri)

Glavis Judd: Protector of the galaxy or interstellar tyrant? Unscrupulous reporter Dexel Dynes doesn't care. He's only after a sensational story - the more violent the better. Meanwhile, the TARDIS has landed Peri and the Doctor on a strangely isolated little world, whose immaculate gardens basking under a timeless sun seem the very model of tranquillity. Of course, it's too good to be true. With the threat of invasion looming, the Doctor and Peri confront the lofty Lords of Esselven. The Doctor must pass safely through the vast gardens of the royal estate while evading the clutches of their fanatical gardeners. Peri has escaped from all that, only to face the dangers of the dark and mysterious wild woods, which hold their own ancient secrets. It is a race to save the people of Esselven from the clutches of Glavis Judd. But who amongst the garden world's strange inhabitants can they trust, when nobody is quite what they seem? As time runs out, will Peri and the Doctor discover who really rules inside the Palace of the Red Sun?

* The Missing Adventures: State of Change (Peri)

Ancient Egypt, 41 BC. The Doctor and Peri watch as Cleopatra's pleasure barge glides up the Nile in preparation for her fateful meeting with Mark Antony. And an alien presence observes the TARDIS, waits for it to dematerialise, then pounces. When the time ship lands, the Doctor and Peri find themselves in ancient Rome, in the tomb of Cleopatra. But something is very wrong. The tomb walls depict steam-driven galleys and other disturbing anachronisms. The Roman Empire is preparing for a devastating war - using weapons from the future capable of destroying the entire world.

* Whispers of Terror (Peri) (93' 21")

The Doctor and Peri find themselves in the Museum of Aural Antiquities, where every sound is stored for posterity -- from the speeches of Visteen Krane to security service wire taps and interrogation tapes. But they also find an intruder, mysterious changed recordings, and a dead body. Before long, the Doctor realises that there is more going on than a simple break-in or murder. How can he defeat a creature that is made of pure sound?

* ...ish (Peri) (114' 07")

A conference of lexicographers: bromides in tweed. But the leading expert in the field is found dead by her own hand - and by her hologlyphic assistant. Is he responsible? Does the death fit any conventional definitions? Can the Doctor realise who wrote the suicide note and why, exactly, it was riddled with spelling errors? Peri should help out, but there's a guy. Someone who loves language even more than the Doctor. Maybe, she realises, enough to kill for. Or perhaps just enough to ask her out to dinner. Unless, of course, he's already spoken for. Is it madness? Seeking transcendence in the complete lexicon? Having the right words on teh tip of your tongue but never quite knowing when to use them? If so, how? ...ish

The Doctor is 'taken out of time' by the Time Lords and made to face an enquiry into his meddling in the affairs of others, overseen by the Inquisitor. The prosecutor, the Valeyard, soon has the proceedings upgraded to a trial for the Doctor's life. Evidence takes the form of recordings of the Doctor's recent adventures, beginning with his visit to the mysterious world of Ravalox and an encounter with Andromedan space pirates. The Valeyard's next piece of evidence for the prosecution concerns the Doctor's recent trip to Thoros Beta. Though originally investigating arms dealing, the Doctor and Peri become embroiled in their old enemy Sil's alarming neurological experiments. With the prosecution case concluded, the Doctor begins his defence, an adventure from his own future. Aboard the starliner Hyperion 3 in the year 2986, trouble is brewing. A murderer is aboard - and something very nasty's stirring in the hydroponics bay. With the Doctor now reluctantly admitting to genocide, things look bad. But the Doctor's nemesis, the Master, intervenes, and the real truth behind the trial comes to light - and with it, the shocking secret of the Valeyard's true identity.

* The Missing Adventures: Time of Your Life (Grant)

The Network broadcasts entertainment to the planets of the Meson system: Death-hunt 3000, Prisoner: The Next Generation, Bloodsoak Bunny... Sixteen channels, and not one of them worth watching. But for the citizens of poverty-stricken Torrok, television offers the only escape from a reality too horrible to face. Angela, a young inhabitant of Torrok, leaps at the chance to travel to the Network with a hermit who calls himself the Doctor. However, all is not well on the giant, chaotic space station. A soap star has murdered his wife's lover; the robotic regulars of Timeriders are performing random kidnappings; and a lethal new game show is about to go on the air. Can the Doctor uncover the cause of the apparently random disturbances - or will his appearance as a competitor on Death-hunt 3000 be the last of his life?

* The Missing Adventures: Killing Ground (Grant)

The Doctor takes his new companion, Grant, back home to Agora - only to find a world in the thrall of some of his oldest and deadliest foes. The Cybermen have taken control and set up a breeding colony to propagate their own race. While the Doctor languishes in a cell at the mercy of the sadistic Overseers, Grant teams up with a group of rebels and works on a desperate rescue bid. With time running out, the rebels move into action. But will their solution prove more deadly than the problem itself?

* The Wormery (134' 00")

There's one place in creation where the truth really can be found in the bottom of a glass: Bianca's, a very special and very exclusive little club. The Doctor, careworn and seeking quiet distraction, gains admission. But his rest and relaxation is soon shattered by the wobbly arrival of louche trans-temporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme. She claims she's on a secret mission of vital importance, the success of which hinges on her getting paralytic. When she's drunk, she can hear the whispering voices in her head! The Doctor soon learns that Bianca's airs and graces cover not just one malevolent power lurking in the shadows, but several. And a wriggling, writhing presence has designs on the clientele just as Bianca herself has designs on the Doctor. At last, after so many centuries, the weary Time Lord is dragged by the heels into that darkest of undiscovered countries - love.

* Into the Unknown: Wish You Were Here (33' 54")

The Doctor visits a leisure complex on the planet Nestra, where people have been checking in for holidays but for some reason haven't been checking out again. The complex is run by the Thetrans, a species whose economy is based entirely on service industries; after five centuries of serving other species the Thetrans have realized that there's nothing they hate more, and thus they automated the planet, putting it under the control of an AI service drone called Lakksis. The Doctor meets Janis Carma, a Thetran security agent sent to investigate the disappearances, and she and the Doctor are pegged as potential troublemakers and arrested by Lakksis' security drones. The Doctor soon realizes what's happening; Lakksis has been programmed with extremely linear thought patterns, and when somebody asks for something which would cause them pain -- insulin injections, for example, or the opportunity to depart this pleasure centre -- Lakksis has concluded that they're suffering from psychosis and has been forced to restrain or kill them for their own good. The Doctor manages to logically argue that Lakksis is in error, but before Lakksis can correct his mistake Janis escapes and blows him up. She then arranges for a replacement droid to be rebuilt with more advanced thought patterns, while the victims of Lakksis-1 return home - those who are still alive. The Doctor leaves, unaware that as he does so Janis complains of a mild headache - and Lakksis-2, putting into practice the Doctor's arguments, prepares to cut Janis' head open to ease the pain. For her own good.

* The Ratings War (38' 10")

Beep the Meep is back - and he's found a new channel for his aggression! A brand new series is about to make television history, but can the Doctor prevent his furry foe from turning a docu-drama into a crisis, or will the fluffy-wuffy animals get it in the neck? The first shots in the ratings war have been fired and the next one is aimed at your head ...

* BBC Novel: Mission: Impractical (Frobisher)

Pursued by bounty hunters, The Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber - notorious rogues ho 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 are a group of Ogron raiders involved? And who is so 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...

* The Maltese Penguin (Frobisher) (68' 14")

'My friends call me Frobisher. My enemies call me Mr. Frobisher. And the junk mail department of the Galactic Readers' Digest call me Mrs. F. R. Rubbisher - but that's neither here nor there.' It was just another quiet day on the mean streets for Frobisher, private eye. But then a dame walks into his office and into his life. A dame who is drop dead gorgeous and drop dead deadly, offering him a case he just can't refuse. Well, he could refuse it. If he really wanted to. But he has to pay the rent. When their paths cross, Frobisher finds himself involved in a web of mayhem and intrigue. A web of gangland killings, corrupt cops, sentient bloodstains, and very rude hotel receptionists. A web of murder and deceit, treachery and fisticuffs. That sort of web. You know. The sticky kind.

* The Holy Terror (Frobisher) (136' 07")

The TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval. The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered. Obviously it isn't the sort of thing which would happen there every day - just every few years or so. And when the Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers from heaven, they quickly become vital to opposing factions in their struggle for power. But will they be merely the acolytes of the new order - or will they be made gods themselves? An evil destructive force is growing deep within the crypt. And the pair soon find out that they will be lucky to escape their new immortality with their lives.

* Excelis Rising (67' 30")

A thousand years after his first visit to the planet Artaris, the Sixth Doctor returns. As the city of Excelis spreads her Empire throughout the globe, death follows a mysterious Relic through the halls of the Imperial Museum. As the Doctor helps the Curator and the local authorities with this mystery, he finds himself crossing paths with a familiar face from Excelis' history - but no-one lives for a thousand years, do they?

* Her Final Flight (Peri) (73' 47")

When the Doctor lands on Refiloe, he's not impressed. In fact, he doesn't intend to stay for more than just a few minutes. But someone has decided that the TARDIS has made her final flight. Someone whose future depends on the Doctor¹s death.

* I.D. (??' ??")

In the 32nd Century, the Doctor finds himself on a planet piled high with discarded computer technology. Picking over these remains are an army of Scandroids, a collection of unsavoury, illegal Data Pirates and a team of researchers from the mysterious Lonway Clinic. This is a world of organic-digital transfer and 'personality surgery' which the Doctor finds disturbing enough, until something far more deadly starts to emerge.

* Urgent Calls (??' ??")

Earth, 1974. An innocent phone call. Okay, it was a wrong number, but there can't be any harm in that. Can there?