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|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]]
|name=The Tramp's Story
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|ST short stories]]
|companions=[[Tramp (The Tramp's Story)|The Tramp]]
|doctor=Seventh Doctor
|enemy=[[Death (mythology)|Death]]
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|writer = Joseph Lidster
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|anthology=Short Trips: Repercussions
|writer=[[Joseph Lidster]]
|release date = 26 August 2004
|anthology=''[[Short Trips: Repercussions]]''
|prev = The Steward's Story (short story)
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'''''The Tramp's Story''''' was the sixteenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Repercussions]]''. It was written by [[Joseph Lidster]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]].
'''''The Tramp's Story''''' was the sixteenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Repercussions]]''. It was written by [[Joseph Lidster]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]].
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
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One [[Christmas]] a [[Tramp (The Tramp's Story)|tramp]] saves up enough money to buy himself a bottle of [[champagne]]. A passerby knocks it out of his hand before he can drink it. He wishes to [[suicide|end his life]] and stands in the middle of the road to be hit by a [[bus]]. He is saved by the [[Seventh Doctor]], who claims to be trying to get one over on his enemy, [[Death (mythology)|Death]].
 
The tramp joins the Doctor in several adventures. During one, he helps the Doctor stop {{Champion}} from taking [[Antonio Salieri]] back in time to kill the infant [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]].
 
The tramp later encountered the [[Auctor]], who told him if the bus had hit the tramp, then [[Rita (The Tramp's Story)|Rita]], the bus driver, would have blamed herself for his death and committed suicide. The Auctor informed the tramp that his life being saved disrupted the [[Web of Time]].
 
The Doctor removes the tramp from history to protect the Web of Time and places him in an [[airship]] that endlessly loops through the heart of the [[time vortex]].


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[The Tramp]]  
* [[Tramp (The Tramp's Story)|The Tramp]]
* [[Death]]  
* [[Death (mythology)|Death]]
* [[Rita]]  
* [[Rita (The Tramp's Story)|Rita]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor and the Tramp once stopped [[the Monk]] from taking [[Antonio Salieri]] back in time to kill the infant [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]].
* The [[Seventh Doctor|Doctor]] and the [[Tramp (The Tramp's Story)|Tramp]] once stopped [[Antonio Salieri]], taken back in time by {{Champion}} from killing the infant [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] in [[Salzburg]]. Since Salieri planned to kill Mozart before he started speaking and since Mozart was born in [[1756]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'') this happened in the second half of the [[1750s]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* Each story in ''[[Short Trips: Repercussions]]'' includes a character or characters being taken out of their time by the Doctor to avoid harm to the [[Web of Time]]. In this story, it is the tramp.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* The Doctor thinks back to how he recently failed to save [[Tarvin (Excelis Decays)|a boy]] and [[Erco Sallis|his]] [[Jancis|parents]] on [[Artaris|a burning world]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Decays (audio story)|Excelis Decays]]'') a young soldier who pushed him to safety as [[Forge HQ|a building]] exploded ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'') and [[The Master|his "oldest friend"]], trapped in "a thousand lifetimes of darkness". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
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The Tramp's Story was the sixteenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Repercussions. It was written by Joseph Lidster. It featured the Seventh Doctor.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

One Christmas a tramp saves up enough money to buy himself a bottle of champagne. A passerby knocks it out of his hand before he can drink it. He wishes to end his life and stands in the middle of the road to be hit by a bus. He is saved by the Seventh Doctor, who claims to be trying to get one over on his enemy, Death.

The tramp joins the Doctor in several adventures. During one, he helps the Doctor stop Mortimus from taking Antonio Salieri back in time to kill the infant Mozart.

The tramp later encountered the Auctor, who told him if the bus had hit the tramp, then Rita, the bus driver, would have blamed herself for his death and committed suicide. The Auctor informed the tramp that his life being saved disrupted the Web of Time.

The Doctor removes the tramp from history to protect the Web of Time and places him in an airship that endlessly loops through the heart of the time vortex.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Each story in Short Trips: Repercussions includes a character or characters being taken out of their time by the Doctor to avoid harm to the Web of Time. In this story, it is the tramp.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]