Short Trips: A Day in the Life

Short Trips: A Day in the Life
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Editor:	Ian Farrington
Release details
Release number:	13
Release date:	7 July 2005
Format:	Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-147-5
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Short Trips: A Day in the Life is the thirteenth Short Trips anthology.

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.

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...

Individual Stories

Title	Author	Featuring
Round Trip: After Midnight	Andy Russell	Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, C'rizz
Sold Out	Danny Oz	Sixth Doctor, Mel
Undercurrents	Gary Merchant	Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
The Five O'Clock Shadow	Nev Fountain	Dr. Who
The Sooner the Better	Ian Farrington	Fourth Doctor, Leela
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast	Dan Abnett	Seventh Doctor, Ace, Hex
The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac	Ian Mond	Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Seventh Doctor, Ace, Hex
Waiting for Jeremy	Richard Salter	First Doctor, Steven Taylor
A Life in the Day	Xanna Eve Chown	Fifth Doctor, Peri
Morphology	Phil Pascoe	Third Doctor, Jo Grant
Making History	Trevor Baxendale	First Doctor, Steven Taylor
One Wednesday Afternoon	Alison Jacobs	Fifth Doctor, Turlough
How You Get There	Simon Guerrier	Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield
The Last Broadcast	Matthew Griffiths	Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan
The Terror of the Darkness	Joseph Lidster	Sixth Doctor
Visiting Hours	Eddie Robson	Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon,Zoe Heriot
Before Midnight	Rebecca Levene	Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, C'rizz

External links

• Short Trips: A Day in the Life at the Doctor Who Reference Guide