Short Trips: Past Tense

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Short Trips: Past Tense
Series Big Finish Short Trips
Release number 6
Writer Ian Farrington
Publisher Big Finish Productions
ISBN ISBN 1-84435-046-0
Number of pages 242
Release date April 2004
Preceded by Short Trips: Steel Skies
Followed by Short Trips: Life Science

Short Trips: Past Tense is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection's theme is history with each story being set before the year 2000. Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

Contents

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Title Author Doctor Featuring
The Immortals Simon Guerrier 5th Adric, Nyssa and Tegan
Far From Home Alison Lawson 8th None
All Done with Mirrors Christopher Bav 4th Sarah
CHAOS Eric Saward 6th Peri
Ante Bellum Stephen Hatcher 7th Ace
The Thief of Sherwood Jonathan Morris 1st Ian, Barbara and Susan
Come Friendly Bombs... Dave Owen 3rd Jo
Graham Dilley Saves The World Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett 5th Peri and Erimem
Bide-a-Wee Anthony Keetch 1st Susan
Mortlake Mark Wright 6th Evelyn
White Man's Burden John Binns 5th Turlough, Ian and Barbara
Of the Mermaid and Jupiter Ian Mond and Danny Heap 7th Benny
The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up Nev Fountain 6th Mel
One Small Step... Nicholas Briggs 2nd Jamie and Zoe
To Kill a Nandi Bear Paul Williams 4th Sarah and Harry
Fixing a Hole Samantha Baker 6th Tegan
That Time I Nearly Destroyed The World Whilst Looking For a Dress Joseph Lidster None Polly

[edit] Notes

The story CHAOS is former script editor Eric Saward's first Doctor Who-related work since he left the series in 1986.

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