The Three Little Sontarans (short story)

The Three Little Sontarans

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Writer:

Justin Richards

Read by:

Dan Starkey

Release details

Part of:

Time Lord Fairy Tales

Release date:

1 October 2015

Reprinted in:

Time Lord Fairy Tales: Slipcase Edition

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You may be looking for the bedtime story the Doctor enjoyed in his childhood.

The Three Little Sontarans was the fifth short story in Time Lord Fairy Tales.

Publisher's summary

In an epic battle against a lone Rutan three Sontarans take up very different strategies to defeat their interminable nemesis-once and for all.

Plot

During a battle between the Sontarans and the Rutans in the Klovian Cluster, the Rutans, despite suffering many heavy casualties, are gaining the upper hand over their enemies, forcing them to retreat.

On one of the planets in the Klovian Cluster, Sontaran Marshal Vrike orders his comrades to establish defensive positions so they can have the strategic advantage if they force the Rutans to the offensive. Major Kyre decides to have the Sontarans split up into seperate fighting units, an idea that Commander Starn agrees with, having fought in the more battles than Vrike and Kyre and received a scar off the rim of Landseer.

The three Sontarans survey the landscape in an attempt to locate the ideal route through the woodland to take them to the surviving Rutan. Vrike decides to lay ambushes in the woodland. Both he and Kyre will hide until the Rutan appears while Starn watches from the valley as they kill the Rutan. Starn salutes and says that he looks forward to Vrike's plan.

Characters

References

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Notes

The name of this story was first mentioned by the Eleventh Doctor in TV: Night Terrors as a story read to him as a child.

Continuity

Starn appears. (AUDIO: Silent Warrior)

BBC New Series Adventures anthologies

Tenth Doctor era (2009)

The Doctor
Who Stories

The Hero Factor • Stamp of Approval • No Fun at the Fair • The Final Darkness • Taking Mickey • A Dog's Life • Mission to Galacton • Going Off the Rails • Needle Point • Best Friends • Birth of a Legend • The Secret of the Stones • Blind Terror • Disappearing Act • Speech Day

Eleventh Doctor era (2013-2014)

Summer Falls and Other Stories	About the Authors • Summer Falls: Introduction • Summer Falls • The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery • Devil in the Smoke

11 Doctors, 11 Stories	A Big Hand for the Doctor • The Nameless City • The Spear of Destiny • The Roots of Evil • Tip of the Tongue • Something Borrowed • The Ripple Effect • Spore • The Beast of Babylon • The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage • Nothing O'Clock

Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand	Tales of Trenzalore • Let it Snow • An Apple a Day... • Strangers in the Outland • The Dreaming

The Shakespeare Notebooks	Notes on a Play • Exits and Entrances • The True Tragedie of Macbeth • Cymbeline • Diary Extract • The Dream • A Prologue • The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest – A Work in Progress • Exit, by Another Means • The Winter's Tale • Antony and Cleopatra • Troilus and Cressida • Pericles • Coriolanus • Master Faustus • The Sonnets • As You Like It • Double Falsehood • Hamlet • Timon of Athens • Hamlet's Soliloquy • Academic Notes • Ye Unearthly Childe • Appendix - The Last Will

Twelfth Doctor era (2014-2018)

12 Doctors, 12 Stories	Lights Out

Time Trips	The Death Pit • Into the Nowhere • Keeping up with the Joneses • Salt of the Earth • A Handful of Stardust • The Bog Warrior • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller • The Anti-Hero • A Long Way Down

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who	Sunset Over Venus • The Lost Generation • The Room with All the Doors • The Hungry Night • All the Empty Towers • Rewriting History • Silver Mosquitoes • In Search of Lost Time • Natural Regression • Potential Energy • The Arboreals • The Piper • The Girl Who Stole the Stars • The Mercy Seats • The Constant Doctor

Heroes and Monsters Collection	The Stranger • The Hero Factor • Mission to Galacton • Stamp of Approval • The Final Darkness • No Fun at the Fair • Taking Mickey • Needlepoint • A Dog's Life • The Secret of the Stones • The Planet That Wept • Disappearing Act • Once Upon a Time • Best Friends • Most Beautiful Music • Secret of Arkatron • Blind Terror • Amy's Escapade • Rory's Adventure • The Fifty-year Delay • Birth of a Legend • Lorna's Escape • Going Off the Rails • Normality • When the Wolves Came • Buyer's Remorse

Time Lord Fairy Tales	The Garden of Statues • Frozen Beauty • Cinderella and the Magic Box • The Twins in the Wood • The Three Little Sontarans • Jak and the Wormhole • Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday • Little Rose Riding Hood • The Gingerbread Trap • The Scruffy Piper • Helana and the Beast • Andiba and the Four Slitheen • The Grief Collector • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sirgwain and the Green Knight • The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes

The Legends of Ashildr	The Arabian Knightmare • The Fortunate Isles • The Triple Knife • The Ghosts of Branscombe Wood

The Legends of River Song	Picnic at Asgard • Suspicious Minds • A Gamble with Time • Death in New Venice • River of Time

The American Adventures	All That Glitters • Off the Trail • Ghosts of New York • Taking the Plunge • Spectator Sport • Base of Operations

Twelve Doctors of Christmas	All I Want for Christmas • A Comedy of Terrors • The Christmas Inversion • Three Wise Men • Sontar's Little Helpers • Fairy Tale of New New York • The Grotto • Ghost of Christmas Past • The Red Bicycle • Loose Wire • The Gift • The Persistence of Memory

Myths & Legends	The Mondas Touch • The Terrible Manussa • The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy • Jorus and the Voganauts • The Vardon Horse • Defiance of the New Bloods • The Kingdom of the Blind • The Labyrinthine Web • The Angels of Vengeance • The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity • The Multi-Faceted War • The Enigma of Sisterhood • Pandoric's Box

Tales of Terror	Murder in the Dark • Something at the Door • The Monster in the Woods • Toil and Trouble • Mark of the Medusa • Trick or Treat • The Living Image • Organism 96 • The Patchwork Pierrot • Blood Will Out • The Mist of Sorrow • Baby Sleepy Face

The Missy Chronicles	Dismemberment • Lords and Masters • Teddy Sparkles Must Die! • The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone • Girl Power! • Alit in Underland

The Day She Saved the Doctor	Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes • Rose and the Snow Window • Clara and the Maze of Cui Palta • Bill and the Three Jackets

The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories	The Triple Knife • Picnic at Asgard • Into the Nowhere • All The Empty Towers • A Long Way Down

Thirteenth Doctor era (2018-2022)

Twelve Angels Weeping	Halfway Into the Dark • Grey Matter • Red Planet • Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir • Ghost in the Machine • Student Bodies • A Soldier's Education • The Red-Eyed League • The Heist • The King in Glass • The Third Wise Man • The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street • Anything You Can Do

Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories	Time Lapse

The Target Storybook	Gatecrashers • Journey Out of Terror • Save Yourself • The Clean Air Act • Punting • The Dark River • Interstitial Insecurity • The Slyther of Shoreditch • We Can't Stop What's Coming • Decoy • Grounded • The Turning of the Tide • Citation Needed • Pain Management • Letters from the Front

Star Tales	Chasing the Dawn • That's All Right, Mama • Einstein and the Doctor • Who-Dini? • The Pythagoras Problem • Mission of the KaaDok

The Wintertime Paradox	He's Behind You • Father of the Daleks • Inflicting Christmas • For the Girl Who Has Everything • Visiting Hours • We Will Feed You to the Trees • Christmas with the Plasmavores • A Girl Called Doubt • A Perfect Christmas • Missing Habitas Frond • A Day to Yourselves • The Paradox Moon • Canaries

I Am The Master	Anger Management • The Dead Travel Fast • Missy's Magical Mystery Mission • A Master of Disguise • The Night Harvest • The Master and Margarita

Adventures in Lockdown	A Message from the Doctor • Things She Thought While Falling • The Terror of the Umpty Ums • Doctor Who and the Time War • Revenge of the Nestene • Rory's Story • One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes • The Simple Things • The Tourist • Press Play • The Shadow Passes • Shadow of a Doubt • The Shadow in the Mirror • Fellow Traveller • Listen • The Secret of Novice Hame

Origin Stories	Chemistry • My Daddy Fights Monsters • The Myriapod Mutiny • The Last of the Dals • Murmuration • The Big Sleep • Doctor Jones • The Girl Who Tore Through the Universe • Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest • Velvet Hugs • Tempered

Fourteenth Doctor era (2023)

Origin Stories	Déjà Donna

Ten Days of Christmas	Under Control • Saviour • Not a Creature Was Stirring • Life in Oils • The Christmas Blessing • The Eternal Present • Gifts from Afar • The Big Store • Dark Waters • Into Control

Fifteenth Doctor era (2024-present)

Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories	Fleeting Faces • The Dalmatian Terrain

The Adventures Before	The Boy and the Dalek • The Roots of Evil • Little Did She Know • The Four Faces of Immortality • Becky's Impossible Day • Smiley's Mirror Exhibit • The Fall of Apalapucia • The Morning of the Day of the Doctor

Sontaran stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Sontaran story" is one in which one living, authentic Sontaran plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as The Halloween Apocalypse and Survivors of the Flux are not counted due to the Sontarans' appearance being defined by their importance to following stories. Stories like The End of Time and The Time of the Doctor are also not included due to the Sontarans' appearance being no consequence to the plot of the story. Stories featuring Strax of the Paternoster Gang are only included on the Paternoster Gang story template.

Television

Broadcast	The Time Warrior • The Sontaran Experiment • The Invasion of Time • The Two Doctors • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Last Sontaran • The Pandorica Opens • The Time of the Doctor • Flux: War of the Sontarans / The Vanquishers

Home video	Untitled 3 • Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans • Mindgame • Battlefield • A Fix with Sontarans

Audio

Silent Warrior • Old Soldiers • Conduct Unbecoming • The Eleven Day Empire • The Shadow Play • Heroes of Sontar • The Five Companions • The First Sontarans • Starlight Robbery • The King of Sontar • Master of the Daleks • Terror of the Sontarans • The Sontaran Ordeal • The Eternity Cage • The Sontarans • The Eternal Battle • The Sontaran Project • Portrait of a Lady • Peepshow • The Moonrakers • The Great Sontaran War • Rearguard • Salvation Nine • The Last Day • The Battle of Giant's Causeway • Born to Die • In Name Only

Prose

Shakedown • Lords of the Storm • The Infinity Doctors • The Sontaran Games • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • Blind Terror • The Dream • The Three Little Sontarans • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sontar's Little Helpers • Dr. Tenth • A Soldier's Education • For the Girl Who Has Everything

Comics

The Final Quest • The Outsider • Dragon's Claw • The Gods Walk Among Us • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • Pureblood • Conflict of Interests • Unnatural Born Killers • The Betrothal of Sontar • When Worlds Collide • In Their Nature • The Instruments of War • The Judas Goatee • The Honourable Burger • Supremacy of the Cybermen

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • Dalek Supremacy • The Keys of Time • The Gunpowder Plot • The Doctor and the Dalek

Complete list of appearances

Rutan stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Rutan story" is one in which one living, authentic Rutan plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.

Television

Broadcast	Horror of Fang Rock

Home video	Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans • Battlefield

Audio

In 2 Minds • The Bellotron Incident • Castle of Fear • The First Sontarans • The Battle of Giant's Causeway • The Children of the Future

Prose

Shakedown • Lords of the Storm • Blind Terror • The Sontaran Games • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • The Dream • The Three Little Sontarans • Beast of Fang Rock • Fear of the Web

Comics

Pureblood • In Their Nature • The Instruments of War

Video games

The Gunpowder Plot

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