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'''''Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury''''' was the eleventh ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' anthology published by [[Big Finish Productions]].


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
Celebrate a Doctor Who Christmas with this luxury treasury of stories, poems, games and recipes for all the family.
Celebrate a ''Doctor Who'' Christmas with this luxury treasury of stories, poems, games and recipes for all the family.


Join the Doctor as he visits a Christmas truce in the trenches, gets caught up in an alien plot concerning the recording of Do They Know It's Christmas? and even manages last-minute shopping in Oxford Street!
Join the Doctor as he visits a Christmas truce in the trenches, gets caught up in an alien plot concerning the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and even manages last-minute shopping in Oxford Street!


From heartwarming to heartbreaking, witty pastiches to chilling ghost stories, these tales are the perfect seasonal journey into time and space.
From heartwarming to heartbreaking, witty pastiches to chilling ghost stories, these tales are the perfect seasonal journey into time and space.
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kris-mas n. : 1: the annual festival of Christ's birth, usu. celebrated on 25 Dec. 2: the season in which this occurs.
kris-mas n. : 1: the annual festival of Christ's birth, usu. celebrated on 25 Dec. 2: the season in which this occurs.


'And, incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!' - Doctor Who: The Feast of Steven by Terry Nation
"And, incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!" - ''Doctor Who: The Feast of Steven'' by Terry Nation


Christmas and Doctor Who are inextricably linked. From the moment the Daleks first appeared at yule-tide to the regular Annual under the tree, the spooky cosiness of the season has always chimed with the series's own brand of comfortable thrill.
Christmas and ''Doctor Who'' are inextricably linked. From the moment the Daleks first appeared at yule-tide to the regular Annual under the tree, the spooky cosiness of the season has always chimed with the series's own brand of comfortable thrill.


This collection covers every aspect of Doctor Who at Christmas, from the Fourth Doctor and Romana wisecracking their way through opening their presents to the Seventh Doctor encountering a dangerous something from Christmas past; from the Sixth Doctor running into another Christmas TV institution to the Eighth Doctor's lonely vigil in a frozen landscape. The Fifth Doctor visits an old companion, the First Doctor lands in a house where Christmas doesn't go as planned, while the Second Doctor finds he has to have a serious chat with Santa Claus. And Bernice Summerfield experiences Christmas on the Braxiatel Collection. Unfortunately.
This collection covers every aspect of ''Doctor Who'' at Christmas, from the Fourth Doctor and Romana wisecracking their way through opening their presents to the Seventh Doctor encountering a dangerous something from Christmas past; from the Sixth Doctor running into another Christmas TV institution to the Eighth Doctor's lonely vigil in a frozen landscape. The Fifth Doctor visits an old companion, the First Doctor lands in a house where Christmas doesn't go as planned, while the Second Doctor finds he has to have a serious chat with Santa Claus. And Bernice Summerfield experiences Christmas on the Braxiatel Collection. Unfortunately.


There are hidden links between many of the stories, which are themselves arranged like a symmetrical snowflake. This being Christmas, alongside the tales, there are instructions for building your own Who adventure game, a monster party game (careful how you play it!), poems both nostalgic and jolly -- including one by accomplished poet Jo Fletcher -- and four delicious Christmas recipes with a Doctor Who makeover, making this a real stocking-filler of a compendium, the ideal gift for followers of the show, young and old.
There are hidden links between many of the stories, which are themselves arranged like a symmetrical snowflake. This being Christmas, alongside the tales, there are instructions for building your own Who adventure game, a monster party game (careful how you play it!), poems both nostalgic and jolly — including one by accomplished poet Jo Fletcher — and four delicious Christmas recipes with a ''Doctor Who'' makeover, making this a real stocking-filler of a compendium, the ideal gift for followers of the show, young and old.


==Individual Stories==
== Stories ==
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
|'''Title''' || '''Author''' || '''Featuring'''
! # || Title || Author || Doctor || Featuring
|-
|-
|''[[Last Christmas]]''||[[Simon Guerrier]]||<ul><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li></ul>
|1
|''[[Last Christmas (ST short story)|Last Christmas]]''
|[[Simon Guerrier]]
|[[Seventh Doctor|7th]]
|
|-
|-
|''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas]]''||[[Nick Wallace]]||<ul><li>[[Third Doctor]]</li><li>[[Liz Shaw]]</li></ul>
|2
|''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas]]''
|[[Nick Wallace]]
|[[Third Doctor|3rd]]
|[[Liz Shaw|Liz]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brig]], [[James Munro|Munro]], [[Mike Yates|Yates]], [[John Benton|Benton]], [[Carol Bell|Bell]]
|-
|-
|''[[In the TARDIS: Christmas Day]]''||[[Val Douglas]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Adric]]</li><li>[[Nyssa]]</li><li>[[Tegan]]</li></ul>
|3
|''[[In the TARDIS: Christmas Day (short story)|In the TARDIS: Christmas Day]]''
|[[Val Douglas]]
|[[Fifth Doctor|5th]]
|[[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]]
|-
|-
|''[[Water's Edge]]''||[[Peter Adamson]]||<ul><li>[[Sixth Doctor]]</li></ul>
|4
|''[[Water's Edge (short story)|Water's Edge]]''
|[[Peter Adamson]]
|[[Sixth Doctor|6th]]
|
|-
|-
|''[[A Yuletide Tail]]''||[[Dave Stone]]||<ul><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li><li>[[Ace]]</li></ul>
|5
|''[[A Yuletide Tail (short story)|A Yuletide Tail]]''
|[[Dave Stone]]
|rowspan=2|7th
|[[Ace]]
|-
|-
|''[[Spookasem]]''||[[Peter Anghelides]]||<ul><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li></ul>
|6
|''[[Spookasem (short story)|Spookasem]]''
|[[Peter Anghelides]]
|rowspan=4|
|-
|-
|''[[Christmas Special]]''||[[Marc Platt]]||<ul><li>[[Sixth Doctor]]</li></ul>
|7
|''[[Christmas Special (ST short story)|Christmas Special]]''
|[[Marc Platt]]
|6th
|-
|-
|''[[Never Seen Cairo]]''||[[Darren Sellars]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li></ul>
|8
|''[[Never Seen Cairo (short story)|Never Seen Cairo]]''
|[[Darren Sellars]]
|5th
|-
|-
|''[[The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas]]''||[[Mark Michalowski]]||<ul><li>[[Second Doctor]]</li></ul>
|9
|''[[The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas (short story)|The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas]]''
|[[Mark Michalowski]]
|[[Second Doctor|2nd]]
|-
|-
|''[[Last Minute Shopping]]''||[[Neil Perryman]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Tegan]]</li><li>[[Turlough]]</li></ul>
|10
|''[[Last Minute Shopping (short story)|Last Minute Shopping]]''
|[[Neil Perryman]]
|5th
|Tegan, [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]]
|-
|-
|''[[Every Day]]''||[[Stephen Fewell]]||<ul><li>[[First Doctor]]</li><li>[[Ian Chesterton]]</li><li>[[Barbara Wright]]</li><li>[[Vicki]]</li></ul>
|11
|''[[Every Day (short story)|Every Day]]''
|[[Stephen Fewell]]
|[[First Doctor|1st]]
|[[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], [[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Little Things]]''||[[Paul Beardsley]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Romana II|Romana]]</li><li>[[K9]]</li></ul>
|12
|''[[The Eight Doctors of Christmas (short story)|The Eight Doctors of Christmas]]''
|[[Matthew Griffiths]]
|
|First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, [[Fourth Doctor]], Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, [[Eighth Doctor]]
|-
|-
|''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]''||[[Terrance Dicks]]||<ul><li>[[Third Doctor]]</li><li>[[the Brigadier]]</li><li>[[Benton]]</li><li>[[Mike Yates]]</li><li>[[Jo Grant]]</li></ul>
|13
|''[[The Little Things (short story)|The Little Things]]''
|[[Paul Beardsley]]
|4th
|[[Romana II]], [[K9 Mark II]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Clanging Chimes of Doom]]''||[[Jonathan Morris]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Romana II|Romana]]</li><li>[[K9]]</li></ul>
|14
|''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]''
|[[Terrance Dicks]]
|3rd
|[[Jo Grant|Jo]], The Brig, Yates, Benton, {{Delgado|c}}
|-
|-
|''[[Perfect Present]]''||[[Andy Campbell]]||<ul><li>[[Seventh Doctor]]</li></ul>
|15
|''[[The Clanging Chimes of Doom (short story)|The Clanging Chimes of Doom]]''
|[[Jonathan Morris]]
|4th
|Romana II, K9 Mark II
|-
|-
|''[[Present Tense]]''||[[Ian Potter]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Romana II|Romana]]</li><li>[[K9]]</li></ul>
|16
|''[[Perfect Present (short story)|Perfect Present]]''
|[[Andy Campbell]]
|7th
|
|-
|-
|''[[Goodwill Toward Men]]''||[[Shaun Lyon]]||<ul><li>[[Second Doctor]]</li><li>[[Jamie McCrimmon]]</li><li>[[Zoe Heriot]]</li></ul>
|17
|''[[Present Tense (short story)|Present Tense]]''
|[[Ian Potter]]
|4th
|Romana II, K9 Mark II
|-
|-
|''[[It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow]]''||[[Martin Day]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Leela]]</li></ul>
|18
|''[[Goodwill Toward Men (short story)|Goodwill Toward Men]]''
|[[Shaun Lyon]]
|2nd
|[[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]
|-
|-
|''[[All Our Christmases]]''||[[Steve Lyons]]||<ul><li>Unspecified Doctor</li></ul>
|19
|''[[It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (short story)|It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow]]''
|[[Martin Day]]
|4th
|[[Leela]]
|-
|-
|''[[Lily]]''||[[Jackie Marshall]]||<ul><li>[[Fifth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Sarah Jane Smith]]</li></ul>
|20
|''[[All Our Christmases (short story)|All Our Christmases]]''
|[[Steve Lyons]]
|1st
|
|-
|-
|''[[...Be Forgot]]''||[[Cavan Scott]] and [[Mark Wright]]||<ul><li>[[Bernice Summerfield]]</li></ul>
|21
|''[[Lily (short story)|Lily]]''
|[[Jackie Marshall]]
|5th
|[[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]]
|-
|-
|''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass]]''||[[Karen Dunn]]||<ul><li>[[Fourth Doctor]]</li><li>[[Sarah Jane Smith]]</li><li>[[Harry Sullivan]]</li></ul>
|22
|''[[...Be Forgot (short story)|...Be Forgot]]''
|[[Cavan Scott]] & [[Mark Wright]]
|8th
|[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|-
|-
|''[[Evergreen]]''||[[Stephen Cole]]||<ul><li>[[Eighth Doctor]]</li></ul>
|23
|''[[The Feast of Seven... Eight and Nine (short story)|The Feast of Seven... Eight (and Nine)]]''
|[[Vanessa Bishop]]
|1st
|Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor
|-
|24
|''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass]]''
|[[Karen Dunn]]
|4th
|Sarah, [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]], The Brig, Benton
|-
|25
|''[[Evergreen (short story)|Evergreen]]''
|[[Stephen Cole]]
|8th
|
|}
|}


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== External links ==
[[Category:Big Finish Short Trips]]
{{dwrefguide|whotrip14.htm|Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury}}
* {{whoniverse|st11|Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury}}
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Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury was the eleventh Short Trips anthology published by Big Finish Productions.

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

Celebrate a Doctor Who Christmas with this luxury treasury of stories, poems, games and recipes for all the family.

Join the Doctor as he visits a Christmas truce in the trenches, gets caught up in an alien plot concerning the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and even manages last-minute shopping in Oxford Street!

From heartwarming to heartbreaking, witty pastiches to chilling ghost stories, these tales are the perfect seasonal journey into time and space.

kris-mas n. : 1: the annual festival of Christ's birth, usu. celebrated on 25 Dec. 2: the season in which this occurs.

"And, incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!" - Doctor Who: The Feast of Steven by Terry Nation

Christmas and Doctor Who are inextricably linked. From the moment the Daleks first appeared at yule-tide to the regular Annual under the tree, the spooky cosiness of the season has always chimed with the series's own brand of comfortable thrill.

This collection covers every aspect of Doctor Who at Christmas, from the Fourth Doctor and Romana wisecracking their way through opening their presents to the Seventh Doctor encountering a dangerous something from Christmas past; from the Sixth Doctor running into another Christmas TV institution to the Eighth Doctor's lonely vigil in a frozen landscape. The Fifth Doctor visits an old companion, the First Doctor lands in a house where Christmas doesn't go as planned, while the Second Doctor finds he has to have a serious chat with Santa Claus. And Bernice Summerfield experiences Christmas on the Braxiatel Collection. Unfortunately.

There are hidden links between many of the stories, which are themselves arranged like a symmetrical snowflake. This being Christmas, alongside the tales, there are instructions for building your own Who adventure game, a monster party game (careful how you play it!), poems both nostalgic and jolly — including one by accomplished poet Jo Fletcher — and four delicious Christmas recipes with a Doctor Who makeover, making this a real stocking-filler of a compendium, the ideal gift for followers of the show, young and old.

Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

# Title Author Doctor Featuring
1 Last Christmas Simon Guerrier 7th
2 UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas Nick Wallace 3rd Liz, The Brig, Munro, Yates, Benton, Bell
3 In the TARDIS: Christmas Day Val Douglas 5th Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
4 Water's Edge Peter Adamson 6th
5 A Yuletide Tail Dave Stone 7th Ace
6 Spookasem Peter Anghelides
7 Christmas Special Marc Platt 6th
8 Never Seen Cairo Darren Sellars 5th
9 The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas Mark Michalowski 2nd
10 Last Minute Shopping Neil Perryman 5th Tegan, Turlough
11 Every Day Stephen Fewell 1st Ian, Barbara, Vicki
12 The Eight Doctors of Christmas Matthew Griffiths First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor
13 The Little Things Paul Beardsley 4th Romana II, K9 Mark II
14 UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce Terrance Dicks 3rd Jo, The Brig, Yates, Benton, The Master
15 The Clanging Chimes of Doom Jonathan Morris 4th Romana II, K9 Mark II
16 Perfect Present Andy Campbell 7th
17 Present Tense Ian Potter 4th Romana II, K9 Mark II
18 Goodwill Toward Men Shaun Lyon 2nd Jamie, Zoe
19 It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow Martin Day 4th Leela
20 All Our Christmases Steve Lyons 1st
21 Lily Jackie Marshall 5th Sarah
22 ...Be Forgot Cavan Scott & Mark Wright 8th Benny
23 The Feast of Seven... Eight (and Nine) Vanessa Bishop 1st Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor
24 UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass Karen Dunn 4th Sarah, Harry, The Brig, Benton
25 Evergreen Stephen Cole 8th

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