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* Time and the Rani (Mel)
With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue
her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...
* Unregenerate! (Mel) (107' 54")
In a run-down asylum, screams echo in the halls as mysterious creatures roam, terrorizing the staff.
Patients complain of betrayal rather than illness, and no-one is quite what they seem.
Mel knows that the Doctor is the best person to find the answers - but she is stranded on Earth, and the TARDIS has
returned without him... Why does a medical facility need to be under armed guard? What procedures are the staff carrying out,
and to what purpose? What is the price that must be paid for making an agreement with those who run the asylum? As the answers begin to be uncovered, the Doctor finds that the past may yet come back to haunt him...
* Red (Mel) (??' ??")
Subject 2660 Celia Fortunatè, designated citizen of the needle. Subject experiencing traumatic,
violent delusions during waking moments. Subject remains passified and under control of Whitenoise. Medication has been prescribed. Subject 0357 - Vi Yulquen, designated Matriarch of the needle. Subject is under constant
surveillance due to her wish to experience harm. This is in direct contravention of Whitenoise's programming. Also supplier
of the drug classified as Slow. Editing is required. Subject 0841 Chief
Blue. Technician in symbiotic relationship with this Whitenoise system. Knowledgeable in human psychological evaluation. Subject
has been diagnosed a voyeur, and has a dangerous obsession with the Red Tape. Machine augmentation is favoured to curb this
defect. Subject [error] Melanie Bush, designated companion of subject 3999.
Subject [error] is not chipped and is a threat. Her ability to harm has not been checked, compromising the continued security
programming of this Whitenoise system. She must be inhibited. Subject 3999
the Doctor. Subject has committed homicide. This subject now in constant redline. His propensity for violence remains unchecked.
Analysis suggests synchronisation with the killer. The Doctor will attempt to kill again. He must be stopped.
* Paradise Towers (Mel)
In search of a top-quality swimming pool the Doctor and Mel arrive at the famous Paradise Towers
to find a society on the point of collapse.
* Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (Mel) (142' 55")
Dark Space 8 - an advanced monitoring station floating serenely among the stars. Its crew - a dedicated
and highly-skilled group of professionals, calmy going about their vital work. Its mission - to boldy host the Intergalactic
Song Contest. With representatives from myriad worlds competing, the eyes of
the universe are on the station. But dark deeds are afoot aboard Dark Space 8... and people are starting to die. The haughty Queen Angvia, the gaseous gestalt Gholos, disposable pop idol Nicky Neumann, erratic Professor
Fassbinder and the icily-efficient Dr Helena Harcourt all are suspects. Could old political rivalries be manifesting
themselves among the contestants? Is this the work of a breakaway terrorist faction? Or has someone just got it in for singer-songwriters? With peace in the galaxy hanging by a thread, it's vital that the mystery is solved
and fast! Can Dark Space 8's unconventional new commander, with the help of his personal pilot, Mel, find the murderer
in time to prevent a major intergalactic war? Or will it be nul points for the
entire universe...?
* Flip-Flop (Mel) (125' 51")
Christmas Eve in the year 3060, and the planet Puxatornee is home to a prosperous human colony. A space craft has arrived in orbit carrying the Slithergees, a race of obsequious
alien slugs. Their home world has been destroyed and they are humbly requesting permission to settle on the first moon. And if they don't get permission, then they are humbly threatening to declare all-out
war. The future hangs in the balance. The decision rests with Bailey, the colony'
s president - but she has other things on her mind. Christmas Eve in the year
3090, and the planet Puxatornee has changed beyond all recognition. The Doctor
and Mel arrive, on a completely unrelated mission to defeat a race of terrible monsters, and soon discover that something
rather confusing has been happening to history.
* Delta and the Bannermen (Mel)
A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the
arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the
Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...
* The Fires of Vulcan (Mel) (102' 55")
Two thousand years ago, a volcanic eruption wiped the Roman city of Pompeii from the face of the
Earth. It also buried the Doctor's TARDIS... Arriving in Pompeii one day before
the disaster, the Doctor and Mel find themselves separated from their ship and entangled in local politics. As time runs out,
they fight to escape from the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. But how can they succeed when history itself is working against them?
* Dragonfire (Mel & Ace)
The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure,
supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty
Mr Kane?
* Remembrance of the Daleks (Ace) (98' 19")
DVD Commentary: Sylvester McCoy & Sophie Aldred
The Doctor and new companion Ace play a tricky game of bluff and deceit involving two rival Dalek
factions, local soldiers, and the awesomely powerful Gallifreyan artefact the Hand of Omega...
* The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (Ace)
The Doctor and Ace visit the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they find the standard of judging
at the talent contest distressingly astringent.
* Silver
Nemesis (Ace)
The Doctor and
Ace battle the time traveller Lady Peinforte and the Cybermen for possession of the incredibly powerful Nemesis statue, which
is on its way back to the planet Earth to rendevous with a destiny set in stone by the Doctor himself.
* The Happiness Patrol (Ace)
With the aid of her sweet-natured executioner, Helen A, ruler of the planet, has ensured the population is happy
- on pain of death! The Doctor and Ace decide to fight for the right to be miserable.
* Battlefield (Brigadier, Ace)
The Doctor and Ace arrive in the English village of Carbury, where a nuclear missile convoy overseen
by UNIT has run into difficulties. Lying on the bed of the nearby Lake Vortigern is a spaceship from another dimension containing
the body of King Arthur and his sword Excalibur.
* BBC Novel: Relative Dementias (Ace)
Collecting his post in the London of 2012, the Doctor and Ace are called through time to south-east
Scotland to help out an old friend - an old friend who's vanished. They find themselves at Graystairs, an Alzheimer's treatment
clinic and a place of healing, where the patients seem to be gaining a new lease of life.
But whose life is it? Why is the Doctor so reluctant to talk about what
happened in the TARDIS? What is alien technology doing in a tumbled-down cottage? 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
who 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.
* Ghost Light (Ace) (73' 03")
DVD Commentary: Sophie Aldred, Andrew Cartmel, Marc Platt & Mark Ayres
The Doctor brings Ace to a house called Gabriel Chase in her home town of Perivale. The year is
1883 and the Gothic mansion is presided over by one Josiah Samuel Smith--an evolved alien brought to Earth in a stone spaceship
that is now in the basement beneath the house, and which still holds an ancient evil capable of wiping out the world.
* The Curse of Fenric (Ace) (97' 13") (103' 45" Special Edition)
DVD Commentary: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred & Nicolas Parsons
The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers
battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!
* BBC Novel: The Algebra of Ice (Ace)
A genius maths nerd, a weird webzine publisher, and the Doctor's old ally, the Brigadier find themselves
helping the Doctor and Ace solve what should be a simple puzzle: the appearance of a crop circle in the Kentish countryside. Hardly uncommon. But there are some peculiar features. It's not a circle but a series
of square-sided shapes. It's filled with ice. And it draws the Doctor and Ace into a confrontation with a reality right next
to zero.
* BBC Novel: The Hollow Men (Ace)
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 stain 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?
* Survival (Ace) (72' 59")
DVD Commentary: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred & Andrew Cartmel
People are vanishing into thin air under the baleful stare of a very strange cat. The Doctor and
Ace learn that, in the battle for survival, success can carry a terrible price...
* Telos Novellas: Citadel of Dreams (Ace)
In the city-state of Hokesh, time plays tricks; the present is unreliable, the future impossible
to intimate. A derelict street child, Joey Quine, finds himself subject to horrifying visions and fugues. His only friend
in this, the only one to whom he can turn for help, is a mysterious stranger who calls herself Ace. And in an unknowable future
the Doctor is busily inciting a state of bloody unrest, on the basis that one must be cruel to be kind - simultaneously, for
preference. The Glorious Ruler of the city, Magnus Solaris, is worried: his memory
is failing him; his influence deserting him; his city is falling apart. What is happening to him truly? Only the Doctor knows
- and he's not telling. There is worse to come. As both world and time crumble,
Magnus Solaris and Joey Quine will unearth secrets the like of which nobody in Hokesh could have ever possibly suspected.
* BBC Novel: Illegal Alien (Ace)
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 in 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...
* BBC Novel: Matrix (Ace, Valeyard)
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.
* BBC Novel: Storm Harvest (Ace)
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 the shadows
of the colonies? Who has unleased 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.
* BBC Novel: The Colony of Lies (Ace)
see 2nd Doctor section
* The Fearmonger (Ace) (100' 20")
One would-be assassin is in a mental ward. Another's on the run. Their intended victim is stirring
up the mobs. Terrorists are planning a strike of their own. A talk-radio host is loving every minute of it. A Whitehall insider
whispers about a mysterious UN operative, with a hidden agenda. Everyone's got
someone they want you to be afraid of. It'll only take a little push for the situation to erupt -- and something is doing
the pushing. But you can trust the Doctor to put things right. Can't you?
* Dalek Empire: The Genocide Machine (Ace) (115' 27")
The library on Kar-Charrat is one of the wonders of the Universe. It is also hidden from all but
a few select species. The Doctor and Ace discover that the librarians have found
a new way of storing data - a wetworks facility - but the machine has attracted unwanted attention, and the Doctor soon finds
himself pitted against his oldest and deadliest enemies - the Daleks!
* Dust Breeding (Ace) (103' 59")
On nineteenth Century Earth artist Edvard Munch hears an infinite scream pass through nature. Centuries
later his painting of that Scream hangs in a gallery on the barren dust world Duchamp 331.
Why is there a colony of artists on a planet that is little more than a glorified garage? What is the event that the
passengers of the huge, opulent pleasure cruiser 'Gallery' are hoping to see? And what is hidden in the crates that litter
the cargo hold? The Doctor's diary indicates that the painting is about to be
destroyed in 'mysterious circumstances', and when he and Ace arrive on Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway.
* Colditz (Ace) (106' 18")
October 1944: As World War II draws towards its conclusion, a Nazi defeat begins to seem almost
inevitable. But that might be about to change... Two intruders are captured in
the grounds of Colditz Castle, the most secure POW camp in Germany. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British
spies. But the strangers arrived in an advanced travelling machine, the like of which they've never seen before. With this TARDIS in their hands, the Third Reich might triumph after all.
* The Rapture (Ace) (107' 22")
Ibiza, 1997, and thousands of young people are acting like mindless zombies. Which is to be expected. Ibiza, the island of dance music, sex, drugs and alcohol, is the ultimate hedonistic
paradise. God has sent help from on high to save the sinners of Ibiza. He has
sent His angels to save their souls. Which would be simple enough if these souls
didn't include an alien time-traveller working in a bar, a woman who disappeared in 1987, a young man carrying a photograph of a girl
he's never met and an Irish girl who doesn't even know who she is anymore.
* The Companion Chronicles: The Prisoner's Dilemma (Ace)
Two prisoners meet in a prison cell. Zara is searching
for the segments of the Key to Time; she was only born yesterday but already she’s killed hundreds of people. Ace is
more ambitious: she was going to kill everyone on the planet. What have they got against the people of Erratoon? They
go peaceably about their simple assignments, beneath their artificial sky. They share their meals and leisure time and they
never ask questions. Are they even real? Ace and Zara will only survive if they can trust each other. Or perhaps if
they sell each other out... If not their awful punishment is to become just like everyone else.
* The Harvest (Ace & Hex) (116' 53")
On the morning of October 12th, 2021 Hex woke up. He was expecting to go to work at St Gart's in
London as normal and, that evening, have a great time in the bar of the White Rabbit, celebrating his 23rd birthday. But after his ex-flatmate is wheeled into A&E following a bike accident, and the
strange young woman from Human Resources tries to chat him up and an eight-foot tall guy in a Merc tries to run him down,
Hex realises things are not going quite as he expected. Then in a Shoreditch
car park he meets the enigmatic Doctor who explains that he's an extra-terrestrial investigator and something very strange
is going on up on the thirty-first floor of St Garts. Therefore, aided and abetted
by the Doctor and his other new friend 'Just McShane', Hex decides to investigate. Trouble is, everything that goes on at
the hospital is being observed and noted by the occupants of the thirty-first floor. Occupants who are none too pleased that
people are poking their noses into business that doesn't concern them. Occupants who will go extraordinary lengths to ensure
that no one discovers the truth.
* Dreamtime (Ace & Hex) (106' 07")
The Dreamtime is living Time. The Dreaming is living myth.
A city travels the stars, inhabited by stone ghosts. At its heart, an ancient remembrance of Earth. Mythical creatures
stalk the streets and alien visitors have come in search of trade. But there is nothing to trade. There is only fear. And
death. And the stone ghosts. For Hex's first trip in the TARDIS, it's about the
strangest place he could have imagined. Weird and very far from wonderful. Adjustment to his new life could prove tough. But
he will have to adjust and do more, just to stay alive, and Ace will have to be his guide through this lost city of shadows
and predatory dreams. And the Doctor is the first to go missing. The Doctor has
crossed into the Dreamtime.
* Live 34 (Ace & Hex) (106' 26")
"LIVE 34 news on the hour every hour LIVE 34 broadcasting to Colony 34 all day
every day LIVE 34 constantly updated every minute of every hour LIVE 34 sport, weather, business,
local news, inter-planetary affairs LIVE 34 live, independent, accurate, comprehensive LIVE 34 all
news, all day, every day LIVE 34."
"Reports are coming in of an explosion."
"On the line now is the leader of the FDP."
"The President is about to begin his address."
"We can see bodies in the wreckage."
* Night Thoughts (Ace & Hex) (115' 59")
'I warn you, things could get very nasty here
before they get better.'
A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly
they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. Hex, already troubled by a vivid nightmare, is further disturbed
by the nighttime appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition. Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets.
She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed, preferring
to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit. And then the killing
begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and his friends to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and
as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to
life.
*The
Veiled Leopard (Ace, Hex) (56' 38")
Monte Carlo, 1966: Four time travellers.
Two missions. One costumed ball. The Doctor has sent Peri and Erimem to prevent the fabulous Veiled Leopard diamond from being
stolen. Which is odd, seeing as the Doctor has sent Ace and Hext to steal the diamond. how will the two teams cope with this
contradictory task? Will Peri's asp slip? Why does Ace have to pretend to be a French maid? How will Erimem cope with Pharaoh
Rammalamadingdong? And can Hex really "do posh"?
* The Settling (Ace & Hex) (103' 33")
Note to Sir Arthur Aston, governor of the town of Drogheda, 10 September 1649.
"Sir, Having brought the army belonging to the Parliament of England before this place, to reduce
it to obedience, to the end effusion of blood may be prevented, I thought fit to summon you to deliver the same into my hands
to their use.
If this be refused, you will have no cause to blame me.
I expect your answer and rest your servant.
O. Cromwell."
* No Mans Land (Ace & Hex) (132' 02")
It is 1917 and the Doctor, Hex and Ace find themselves
in a military hospital in northern France. But the terrifying, relentless brutality of the Great War that wages only a few
miles away is the least of their concerns. The travellers become metaphysical detectives when
the Doctor receives orders to investigate a murder. A murder that has yet to be committed... Who
will be the victim? Who will be the murderer? What is the real purpose of the Hate Room? Can the Doctor solve the mystery
before the simmering hate and anger at Charnage hospital erupts in to a frenzy of violence?
* Nocturne (Ace & Hex) (??' ??")
On the human colony planet Nocturne, there is suffering and blight, tragic symptoms of an ages-old war.
Never the less, Nocturne is also one of the Doctor's favourite places in all of time and space, because it is here that a
late, great flowering of human art - the High Renaissance - is taking place. He has been back here, many times. It is
a place of music and art which he finds inspirational and uplifting. It is a place he wants to share with
Ace and Hex. It's always been a safe haven for him, a world of friends and laughter. But with strict Martial Law
imposed on the front-line city, and the brutal scourge of interstellar warfare vicing the system, how safe can anyone
really be? There is a note of death in the wild, midnight wind...
* The
Dark Husband (Ace & Hex) (??' ??")
"This whole wedding is like making a nuclear bomb with half the instructions missing!" A week-long respite from a prolonged and bloody war, the Festival of the Twin Moons of Tuin makes
Glastonbury look like a church fête... or so the brochure says. The Doctor and Ace are looking for rest and recreation. Hex is looking
for the beer tent. But eternal enemies the ginger-haired Ri and the coot-bald Ir are plotting to turn their Festival
truce to their own advantage. Only the Dark Husband might stop the celebrations turning to horror... but who is the Dark Husband?
And what terror awaits him on his wedding night? If anyone knows any just cause or impediment...
speak now. The lives of billions depend on it.
Forty
Five (Ace & Hex) (??' ??")
1.
False Gods
In the blistering heat of the Egyptian desert Howard Carter and his team search for the lost tomb of Userhat, a servant
of the god Amun. What they discover sheds new light on the history of the world as we know it.
2. Order of Simplicity
Dr. Verryman has devoted his life to the advancement of knowledge. When his experiments on a remote planet threaten
the entire human race only the Doctor can help - if he puts his mind to it.
3. Casualties of War
Opportunity knocks in postwar London. But when a tea leaf steals from the wrong woman it becomes a race against time
to discover the truth. Only some truths are best left untold.
4. The Word Lord
In a top secret military
bunker deep beneath the Antarctic ice a mysterious death threatens peace negotiations and could spell disaster for the inhabitants
of Earth. Can the Doctor cross the t's and dot the i's? Or will his efforts get lost in translation?
* The
Magic Mousetrap (Ace & Hex) (??' ??")
The Doctor lands at a Swiss sanatorium in the year 1926,
where director Ludovic ‘Ludo’ Comfort uses parlour games to keep his rich and famous patients busy. The Doctor
soon suspects, however, that someone’s playing a more sinister game. Someone with a score to settle…
* Enemy of the Daleks (Ace & Hex) (??' ??")
The TARDIS travellers fall in with starship troopers struggling to defend a remote research facility from an
all-out Dalek attack. But this time, could it be the Daleks need saving…?
* To
Be Announced (Ace & Hex) (??' ??")
TBC
* Dimensions in Time (Ace & K9)
The Rani
is collecting a vast intergalactic menagerie in order to harness the power of a time tunnel and control galactic evolution.
She has also interfered with the Doctor's timestream and trapped his various incarnations in a time loop. Two of his former
selves are already prisoners in the time tunnel. It is up to the remaining five
Doctors and their companions to stop the Rani and the numerous foes she has gathered to combat him.
* Search Out Space (Ace & K9) (??' ??"
The Doctor is hosting a gameshow. The contestant are the viewer, Ace, K-9 and Cedric from the planet
Glurk. They have to answer various questions from a range of suggestions given along the way.
* BBC Novel: Prime Time (Ace)
While on their travels, The Doctor and Ace detect a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex
and decide to investigate. They soon find themselves on the agricultural planet Blinni-Gaar, where they discover that the
population has become dangerously dependent on the programmes of the powerful TV station, Channel 400. 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? Why is a pack of Zzinbriizi Jackals stalking the streets of Blinni-Gaar? As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a complex web of intrigue and deceit
he discovers that he has an unexpected ally - of the most dangerous kind.
* BBC Novel: Heritage (Ace)
Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it's nothing but a failed mining colony
too stupid to realise that it's actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor's got his hearts set
on a flying visit, just while they're in the neighbourhood. That's when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as
much as visitors want them. So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals,
the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he's not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and
a nice cup of tea. Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when
the Doctor's around. Whether he wants them to or not.
* BBC Novel: Loving the Alien (Ace)
Ace is dead. Or at least she will be - soon... In a secret room deep inside the TARDIS the Doctor has
been examining the body of Ace's future self. He now knows how she was killed, where she was killed and when she was killed.
What he doesn't know is why. To find the truth the Doctor makes a dangerous decision
and takes the unsuspecting Ace to the very time and place of her death, hoping to cheat Time and find her killer before he
can strike - but Time has other ideas. With Ace missing and the clock ticking the Doctor turns to old friends for help and
finds there is unfinished business for him to deal with. What is the secret experiment
being conducted by the British Rocket Group? Why are there giant ants appearing in the suburbs of 1950's London? Who is the
mysterious figure that is watching the Doctor's every move? As events spiral
out of control the Doctor realises that someone is manipulating time with careless disregard for the consequences to Ace -
or the rest of the universe...
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