'Earth and Beyond'

THREE GRIPPING DOCTOR WHO ADVENTURES READ BY THE EIGHT DOCTOR HIMSELF!

BOUNTY by Peter Anghelides
Seventeen-year-old Sam Jones's first trip in the TARDIS is to the Seychelles in the present day - and involves a deadly encounter with alien bounty hunters. Can the Doctor stop them making Earth their battleground?

DEAD TIME by Andrew Miller
The TARDIS crash-lands in a freezing world of utter darkness. Who are the whispering creatures that want the Doctor dead? And what terrible consequences will their actions have for the entire universe?

THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE by Paul Leonard
Arriving at Stonehenge during its construction, the time-travellers soon discover that its mystical origins are stepped in human suffering. But in her attempts to make things better for the slave workers toiling to complete the stone circle, will Sam start a war?

*Duration: 36 minutes 08 seconds

'Bounty' by Peter Anghelides

On Silhouette Island in the Seychelles, the Doctor is attempting to decide whether to return Sam to London, or let her continue travelling with him. The two of them meet Lirpa, a fugitive shape changing Rhiptogan, who is combing the beach for missing parts from his damaged spaceship. But Ruduse, a Rhiptogan bounty hunter drowns Lirpa in a tidal pool, and the seawater melts his body. When Sam locates Lirpa's ship, she is captured by another fugitive, Ladeeth, and poisoned by alien plants growing around the ship's entrance. Ladeeth is attacked and injured by the bounty hunter, but the Doctor then arrives with a bucket of seawater and threatens to kill her unless she lets Sam go. Ruduse realises from Sam's reaction that the Doctor is bluffing, and decides to capture him as well for the bounty. Sam throws the seawater onto the shuttle's damaged controls, while Ladeeth uses the last of his strength to hold back Ruduse to enable the time travellers to escape before the ship explodes. The Doctor cures Sam in the TARDIS, agreeing to let her accompany him on his travels.

Notes:
*Featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam

*This is Sam's first trip in the TARDIS, and so occurs immediately after 'The Eight Doctors'

*Duration: 37 minutes 52 seconds

'Dead Time' by Andrew Millar

The TARDIS is forced to land in a strange, lifeless environment filled with twisted, distorted statues of people in agony. When the Doctor realises that they are in an ancient, dying TARDIS, Sam is trapped in a temporal stasis field and the Doctor is assaulted by insane telepathic voices. He receives a telepathic message from himself from a few hours in the future, warning him that his attackers are insane Time Lords who converted themselves into electrochemical impulses in an experiment to follow the temporal psychic pathways of Time Lords. These Time Lords learned how to manipulate the past of their subject, but were unable to leave his body, as a loose thread caused his entire timeline to unravel, trapping them in this spectral form, and forced to move from host to host. Trapped in this dying TARDIS when its owner suffered a brain seizure, they have gone mad over the millennia, but now that they have the Doctor, they will possess him, and travel along his timeline to return to Gallifrey. Unfortunately, leaving his body will kill him in his past, unravelling the causal nexus. The Doctor allows them into his body, monitoring them as they travel back along his timeline; he manages to trap them in his mind at the moment of his first regeneration, explaining to Sam that it is as though they are beneath a cut that has healed over.

Notes:
*Featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam

*The 'Jones-Richter Scale of Trouble' was first introduced in 'Genocide'

*Originally published in 'More Short Trips

*Duration: 89 minutes 38 seconds

'The People's Temple' by Paul Leonard

The Doctor takes Sam to see Stonehenge, but the TARDIS arrives too early, at a time when the monument is still under construction. Coyn, the king of the Bear Men, has conquered several tribes, and is using their slave labour to build the biggest temple in existence, to make him a god in the afterlife. His advisor Shalin is frightened of his king's obsession and cruelty. Sam rescues Dorlan, a young leader of a conquered tribe, from execution at Coyn's wrath, and takes him back to the TARDIS. She gives him aerosol paint cans, telling him to use them to spray his tribe's markings on the stones and convince Coyn's tribe that their gods have turned against them. As the Doctor shows Coyn the error of his ways, Sam is appalled when Dorlan instead sprays the paint directly into his enemies' eyes, and then starts a slave rebellion. Several slaves and Bear Men are killed before the Doctor takes Coyn into the TARDIS and lands it into the middle of the fighting, surprising everybody enough to make them stop. Coyn officially releases the slaves.

Notes:
*Featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam

*Originally published in 'Short Trips


*Read by Paul McGann, with added music and effects

*Duration: 89 minutes 38 seconds

*Released October 1998