The Mother Road (short story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|range                  = Short Trips (series)

|series in range        = Short Trips: Farewells

|number in series      = 1

|doctor                 = First Doctor

|companions             = [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]

|enemy                  =

|setting                = [[Route 66]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[2006]]

|writer                 = Gareth Wigmore

|release date          = 29 April 2006

|series                = [[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]]

|prev                  = The Long Midwinter (short story)

|next                  = Father Figure (short story)

'''''The Mother Road''''' was the first short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Farewells]]''. It was written by [[Gareth Wigmore]]. It featured the [[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]].

== Summary ==

The [[First Doctor|Doctor]] and his friends are stuck in [[Chicago]] in [[2006]]. The Doctor has lost [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in a bet with a businessman named [[Buchanan (The Mother Road)|Buchanan]], and the four must journey to [[California]] to retrieve it. They take a road trip across [[America]]. On the way, they stop to enjoy themselves in several American cities.

 

In [[Texas]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]] and [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] wonder if the Doctor is up to something. They also discuss getting home eventually and how much they enjoy travelling with the Doctor.

When they reach California, the Doctor participates in an online [[auction]], finally winning his TARDIS back. It turns out that it must be picked up in Chicago, and Ian wonders how long the Doctor has known that the TARDIS was in Chicago all along. The Doctor admits he thought they could all do with a vacation, then he proceeds to get plane reservations for the trip back to Chicago.

== Characters ==

== Worldbuilding ==

== Notes ==

== Continuity ==

* Ian notes that this is the second time the Doctor has lost the TARDIS in a bet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'')

* The Doctor tells Ian that he never asked very much about what Susan learned at [[Coal Hill School]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')

* Susan tells the Doctor that she misses home, and that she hopes the TARDIS will one day take them back there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')

* Susan asks Barbara if she would really rather be back at Coal Hill "teaching Cortez and the [[Mexico|Mexicans]] to spotty tearaways who couldn't care less". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'')

[[Category:First Doctor short stories]]

[[Category:Stories set in New Mexico]]