Not in My Back Yard (short story)

Not in My Back Yard
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Ayfai
Featuring:	Seventh Doctor
Main setting:	Cheldon Bonniface, 2017
Key crew
Writer:	Eddie Robson
Release details
Part of:	Short Trips: The History of Christmas
Short Trips short stories
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Not in My Back Yard was the twenty-first short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: The History of Christmas. It was written by Eddie Robson. It featured the Eighth Doctor.

Summary

The Doctor takes his new companion Ayfai to Cheldon Bonniface for Christmas. The Doctor invites many of his friends for Christmas dinner, but is interrupted when the Chelbil attempt to invade Earth. The Doctor prevents the invasion only to find that he was part of his past self's greater plan to get rid of the Chelbil. The Doctor's past self erases his memory so his plan will work out the same way when he is older, while the current Doctor enjoys Christmas with his friends.

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Ayfai
• Goilin B
• Jerry
• Giles Owen
• Maria Owen
• Richard Grayson
• Philip Galt
• Kelly Moore
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Doris Lethbridge-Stewart
• Seventh Doctor

References

• The Eighth Doctor mentions that his hair has gone a little grey.
• "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade is played in the pub.
• The Doctor planned to invite Jason Kane, Bernice Summerfield, Ace and Grace Holloway to Christmas dinner.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions that Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane were married in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010. (PROSE: Happy Endings)