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{{Infobox Short Story|
|range                  = Short Trips (series)
name=White on White|
|series in range        = Short Trips: Christmas Around the World
series=[[Doctor Who]] - [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]|
|series number in range = 27
doctor=[[First Doctor]]|
|number in series      = 20
companions=[[Steven Taylor]]|
|team = [[Sari Martínez]]
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|featuring=[[First Doctor]]
writer=[[Kate Orman]]|
|enemy  = [[Gelidon]]s
publication=[[Short Trips: Christmas Around the World]]|
|setting = [[Antarctica]], [[22 December|22]]-[[24 December]] [[2008]]
prev=Illumination (short story)|
|writer = Kate Orman
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|anthology = Short Trips: Christmas Around the World
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|release date = 15 December 2008
|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]]
|prev = Illumination (short story)
|next=Phoenix (short story)
}}'''''White on White''''' was the twentieth and final short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Christmas Around the World]]''. It was written by [[Kate Orman]]. It featured the [[First Doctor]].


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
''to be added''
[[Sari Martínez]] is making a solo trek across [[Antarctica]], having left from [[Belgrano]] Station, when she hits a large blue box. After she recovers consciousness, she is relieved that she is unhurt and continues her journey
 
Suddenly, she is no longer able to make radio contact with Belgrano. At one point, she sees two planes, one chasing the other. Some time later, the sky goes black, even though the sun is still up. She also sees some strange pink wreckage.
 
As she gets close to Belgrano, she radios in and receives a message from Snowcap from someone called the Doctor. He explains that there was an attempted alien invasion by the [[Gelidon]]s, but he and his friend Steven stopped it. Everyone from the base has been evacuated. However, the Gelidons are now coming after him. Sari decides to rescue the Doctor instead of finishing her journey and heads back to Snowcap.
 
After she finds him, they race across Antarctica, heading for the blue box. On the way, they are attacked by Gelidons but they make it to the TARDIS safely.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Sari Martínez]]
* [[First Doctor]]
* [[First Doctor]]
* [[Steven Taylor]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* "[[White on White]]" is a painting by [[Malevich]].
* The Doctor and Steven stopped the [[Gelidon]] invasion at [[Snowcap]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* Steven is mentioned by the Doctor but doesn't appear.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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* Towards the end of his first incarnation, the Doctor would return to Antarctica in [[December]] [[1986]] in the company of [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright]]. On that occasion, he encountered the [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]] during [[1986 Cyberman invasion of Earth|their own invasion]] of [[Earth]]. While the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] were defeated, the strain of the conflict led to [[First Doctor's renewal|his]] [[regeneration]] into the [[Second Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
 
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== Timeline ==
* Occurs after: [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/ST ST]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Waiting_for_Jeremy Waiting for Jeremy]''
* Occurs before: [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/ST ST]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Do_You_Smell_Carrots%3F Do You Smell Carrots?]''
 
 
 
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White on White was the twentieth and final short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Christmas Around the World. It was written by Kate Orman. It featured the First Doctor.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Sari Martínez is making a solo trek across Antarctica, having left from Belgrano Station, when she hits a large blue box. After she recovers consciousness, she is relieved that she is unhurt and continues her journey

Suddenly, she is no longer able to make radio contact with Belgrano. At one point, she sees two planes, one chasing the other. Some time later, the sky goes black, even though the sun is still up. She also sees some strange pink wreckage.

As she gets close to Belgrano, she radios in and receives a message from Snowcap from someone called the Doctor. He explains that there was an attempted alien invasion by the Gelidons, but he and his friend Steven stopped it. Everyone from the base has been evacuated. However, the Gelidons are now coming after him. Sari decides to rescue the Doctor instead of finishing her journey and heads back to Snowcap.

After she finds him, they race across Antarctica, heading for the blue box. On the way, they are attacked by Gelidons but they make it to the TARDIS safely.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Steven is mentioned by the Doctor but doesn't appear.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]