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|series       = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' anthologies
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|number       = 13
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|editor       = [[Ian Farrington]]
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|publisher   = Big Finish Productions
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|release date = 7 July 2005
isbn= ISBN 1-84435-147-5 |
|format       = Hardcover, 192 pages
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|isbn         = ISBN 1-84435-147-5
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}}'''''Short Trips: A Day in the Life''''' was the thirteenth ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' anthology published by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It contained seventeen short stories.


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
When you're time travellers, the concept of a day -- from midnight to midnight -- can get lost: the Doctor and his companions arrive on different planets in different eras at different times of the day. They can show up during someone's lunch break or when they're asleep, at the breaking of dawn or the coming of night.
When you're time travellers, the concept of a day — from midnight to midnight — can get lost: the Doctor and his companions arrive on different planets in different eras at different times of the day. They can show up during someone's lunch break or when they're asleep, at the breaking of dawn or the coming of night.


Throughout his adventures, the Doctor meets many people -- security guards on a night shift, mysterious space travellers riding the vortex, mobs of blobby Kobolds, a family sitting down to watch TV -- but all too often their interaction is brief, a fleeting connection in the web of history.
Throughout his adventures, the Doctor meets many people — security guards on a night shift, mysterious space travellers riding the vortex, mobs of blobby Kobolds, a family sitting down to watch TV — but all too often their interaction is brief, a fleeting connection in the web of history.


Time, it seems, is very much of the essence...
Time, it seems, is very much of the essence...
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day n. : 1: a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, esp. from midnight to midnight. 2: a point of time.
day n. : 1: a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, esp. from midnight to midnight. 2: a point of time.


'I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today.' - Doctor Who by Matthew Jacobs
"I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today." - ''Doctor Who'' by Matthew Jacobs


In the early hours of the morning, a rock star gives a one-off comeback performance within a virtual-reality dreamscape... Over breakfast, a woman waits for the love of her life to walk through the doors of a café... The afternoon sees vital peace talks between two warring factors... A new UNIT recruit faces a terror at dusk on his first day on the job...
In the early hours of the morning, a rock star gives a one-off comeback performance within a virtual-reality dreamscape... Over breakfast, a woman waits for the love of her life to walk through the doors of a café... The afternoon sees vital peace talks between two warring factors... A new UNIT recruit faces a terror at dusk on his first day on the job...


A Day in the Life features seventeen stories whose total 'running time' adds up to a single twenty-four-hour period: a fictional 'day in the life of the universe' made up of fragments from throughout time and space.
''A Day in the Life'' features seventeen stories whose total "running time" adds up to a single twenty-four-hour period: a fictional "day in the life of the universe" made up of fragments from throughout time and space.


As we leave one story and join the next, we switch location and era - but not the hands on the clock...
As we leave one story and join the next, we switch location and era — but not the hands on the clock...


==Individual Stories==
== Stories ==
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
|'''Title''' || '''Author''' || '''Featuring'''
! # || Title || Author || Doctor || Featuring
|-
|-
|''[[Round Trip: After Midnight]]''||[[Andy Russell]]||<ul><li>[[Eighth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Charley Pollard]]</li><li>[[C'rizz]]</li></ul>
|1
|''[[After Midnight (short story)|After Midnight]]''
|[[Andy Russell]]
|[[Eighth Doctor|8th]]
|[[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[C'rizz]]
|-
|-
|''[[Sold Out]]''||[[Danny Oz]]||<ul><li>[[Sixth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Mel]]</li></ul>
|2
|''[[Sold Out (short story)|Sold Out]]''
|[[Danny Oz]]
|[[Sixth Doctor|6th]]
|[[Melanie Bush|Mel]]
|-
|-
|''[[Undercurrents]]''||[[Gary Merchant]]||<ul><li>[[Second Doctor]]</li><li>[[Jamie McCrimmon]]</li><li>[[Zoe Heriot]]</li></ul>
|3
|''[[Undercurrents (short story)|Undercurrents]]''
|[[Gary Merchant]]
|[[Second Doctor|2nd]]
|[[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Five O'Clock Shadow]]''||[[Nev Fountain]]||<ul><li>Unspecified Doctor</li></ul>
|4
|''[[The Five O'Clock Shadow (poem)|The Five O'Clock Shadow]]''
|[[Nev Fountain]]
|[[The Doctor]]
|
|-
|-
|''[[The 57th]]''||[[John Binns]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Nyssa]]</li></ul>
|5
|''[[The Sooner the Better (short story)|The Sooner the Better]]''
|[[Ian Farrington]]
|[[Fourth Doctor|4th]]
|[[Leela]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Sooner the Better]]''||[[Ian Farrington]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Leela]]</li></ul>
|6
|''[[Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (short story)|Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast]]''
|[[Dan Abnett]]
|[[Seventh Doctor|7th]]
|[[Ace]], [[Hex]]
|-
|-
|''[[Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast]]''||[[Dan Abnett]]||<ul><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li><li>[[Ace]]</li><li>[[Hex]]</li></ul>
|7
|''[[The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac (short story)|The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac]]''
|[[Ian Mond (writer)|Ian Mond]]
|8th
|Charley, [[Seventh Doctor]], Ace, Hex
|-
|-
|''[[The Heroine, The Hero and the Meglomaniac]]''||[[Ian Mond]]||<ul><li>[[Eighth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Charley Pollard]]</li><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li><li>[[Ace]]</li><li>[[Hex]]</li></ul>
|8
|''[[Waiting for Jeremy (short story)|Waiting for Jeremy]]''
|[[Richard Salter]]
|[[First Doctor|1st]]
|[[Steven Taylor|Steven]]
|-
|-
|''[[Waiting for Jeremy]]''||[[Richard Salter]]||<ul><li>[[First Doctor]]</li><li>[[Steven Taylor]]</li></ul>
|9
|''[[A Life in the Day (short story)|A Life in the Day]]''
|[[Xanna Eve Chown]]
|[[Fifth Doctor|5th]]
|[[Peri Brown|Peri]]
|-
|-
|''[[A Life in the Day]]''||[[Xanna Eve Chown]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Peri]]</li></ul>
|10
|''[[Morphology (short story)|Morphology]]''
|[[Phil Pascoe]]
|[[Third Doctor|3rd]]
|[[Jo Grant|Jo]], [[Tom Osgood|Osgood]]
|-
|-
|''[[Morphology]]''||[[Phil Pascoe]]||<ul><li>[[Third Doctor]]</li><li>[[Jo Grant]]</li></ul>
|11
|''[[Making History (short story)|Making History]]''
|[[Trevor Baxendale]]
|1st
|Steven
|-
|-
|''[[Making History]]''||[[Trevor Baxendale]]||<ul><li>[[First Doctor]]</li><li>[[Steven Taylor]]</li></ul>
|12
|''[[One Wednesday Afternoon (short story)|One Wednesday Afternoon]]''
|[[Alison Jacobs]]
|5th
|[[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]]
|-
|-
|''[[One Wednesday Afternoon]]''||[[Alison Jacobs]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Turlough]]</li></ul>
|13
|''[[How You Get There (short story)|How You Get There]]''
|[[Simon Guerrier]]
|7th
|[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|-
|-
|''[[How You Get There]]''||[[Simon Guerrier]]||<ul><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li><li>[[Bernice Summerfield]]</li></ul>
|14
|''[[The Last Broadcast (short story)|The Last Broadcast]]''
|[[Matthew Griffiths]]
|4th
|[[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]], [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Last Broadcast]]''||[[Matthew Griffiths]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Sarah Jane Smith]]</li><li>[[Harry Sullivan]]</li></ul>
|15
|''[[The Terror of the Darkness (short story)|The Terror of the Darkness]]''
|[[Joseph Lidster]]
|6th
|[[Emily Chaudhry]], [[Will Hoffman]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Terror of the Darkness]]''||[[Joseph Lidster]]||<ul><li>[[Sixth Doctor]]</li></ul>
|16
|''[[Visiting Hours (ST short story)|Visiting Hours]]''
|[[Eddie Robson]]
|2nd
|Jamie
|-
|-
|''[[Visiting Hours]]''||[[Eddie Robson]]||<ul><li>[[Second Doctor]]</li><li>[[Jamie McCrimmon]]</li><li>[[Zoe Heriot]]</li></ul>
|17
|-
|''[[Before Midnight (short story)|Before Midnight]]''
|''[[The Sooner the Better]]''||[[Ian Farrington]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Leela]]</li></ul>
|[[Rebecca Levene]]
|-
|8th
|''[[Before Midnight]]''||[[Rebecca Levene]]||<ul><li>[[Eighth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Charley Pollard]]</li><li>[[C'rizz]]</li></ul>
|Charley, C'rizz
|}
|}


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Short Trips: A Day in the Life was the thirteenth Short Trips anthology published by Big Finish Productions. It contained seventeen short stories.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

When you're time travellers, the concept of a day — from midnight to midnight — can get lost: the Doctor and his companions arrive on different planets in different eras at different times of the day. They can show up during someone's lunch break or when they're asleep, at the breaking of dawn or the coming of night.

Throughout his adventures, the Doctor meets many people — security guards on a night shift, mysterious space travellers riding the vortex, mobs of blobby Kobolds, a family sitting down to watch TV — but all too often their interaction is brief, a fleeting connection in the web of history.

Time, it seems, is very much of the essence...

day n. : 1: a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, esp. from midnight to midnight. 2: a point of time.

"I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today." - Doctor Who by Matthew Jacobs

In the early hours of the morning, a rock star gives a one-off comeback performance within a virtual-reality dreamscape... Over breakfast, a woman waits for the love of her life to walk through the doors of a café... The afternoon sees vital peace talks between two warring factors... A new UNIT recruit faces a terror at dusk on his first day on the job...

A Day in the Life features seventeen stories whose total "running time" adds up to a single twenty-four-hour period: a fictional "day in the life of the universe" made up of fragments from throughout time and space.

As we leave one story and join the next, we switch location and era — but not the hands on the clock...

Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Doctor Featuring
1 After Midnight Andy Russell 8th Charley, C'rizz
2 Sold Out Danny Oz 6th Mel
3 Undercurrents Gary Merchant 2nd Jamie, Zoe
4 The Five O'Clock Shadow Nev Fountain The Doctor
5 The Sooner the Better Ian Farrington 4th Leela
6 Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Dan Abnett 7th Ace, Hex
7 The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac Ian Mond 8th Charley, Seventh Doctor, Ace, Hex
8 Waiting for Jeremy Richard Salter 1st Steven
9 A Life in the Day Xanna Eve Chown 5th Peri
10 Morphology Phil Pascoe 3rd Jo, Osgood
11 Making History Trevor Baxendale 1st Steven
12 One Wednesday Afternoon Alison Jacobs 5th Turlough
13 How You Get There Simon Guerrier 7th Benny
14 The Last Broadcast Matthew Griffiths 4th Sarah, Harry
15 The Terror of the Darkness Joseph Lidster 6th Emily Chaudhry, Will Hoffman
16 Visiting Hours Eddie Robson 2nd Jamie
17 Before Midnight Rebecca Levene 8th Charley, C'rizz

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