Audio Adventures in Time & Space
Audio Adventures in Time & Space, originally just Adventures in Time and Space, was a record label and umbrella title for several subseries of audios with varying levels of legal and narrative ties to the Doctor Who universe.
History
1980s
- Main article: Audio Visuals
The name Adventures in Time and Space was originally used for the Audio Visuals fan audios in the mid-1980s. It first appeared on AV covers in the second season in 1986, although later re-issues of the first season also used the label.
1990s and 2000s
When the producer of the Audio Visuals, Bill Baggs, began releasing audio plays from BBV Productions in 1998, he reused the title, calling them Audio Adventures in Time & Space to distinguish them from BBV's video productions. Over the following years, BBV released four "seasons" of Audio Adventures.
Whereas the Audio Visuals Adventures in Time and Space had all featured the Doctor in an unlicensed, non-commercial fashion, as a commercial entity BBV had to sell legal products. As a result, rather than featuring a single ongoing story like the Audio Visuals Adventures, BBV's Audio Adventures comprised a number of separate ongoing series.
Initially, they created approximations of characters from televised Doctor Who and hired the same actors to play them. For instance, The Stranger featured Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as "the Stranger" and "Miss Brown", similar to their Doctor Who roles of the Sixth Doctor and his companion Peri Brown. Similarly, Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred played the Professor and Ace in The Time Travellers, and Lalla Ward played the Mistress in Adventures in a Pocket Universe.
Some of these otherwise-unlicensed stories retained legal links to licensed non-television Doctor Who stories, such as the mysterious time traveller in the 1991 Doctor Who Magazine comic story Party Animals who later appeared in BBV's The Wanderer, and the alternate timeline seen in the 1997 BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel The Roundheads and visited in the debut Time Travellers audio, Republica. Guests for the Night also featured mentions of Posedor and Truman Crouch, elements of the fan Audio Visuals which had since gotten properly commercial debuts in the DWU in the Virgin New Adventures novel Deadfall.
Eventually, BBV began seeking legal links to television Doctor Who stories as well. Through individual agreements with television writers, they obtained permission to use the species or characters that those writers had created and still owned. Most of these stories could then be marketed as taking place within the DWU. For instance, the cover to The Choice, which was created with permission from Dave Martin and Bob Baker, advertised the "return of K9". By the third and fourth series from 2000 to 2004, the Audio Adventures line focused more and more on these licensed characters, including K9, Zygons, Krynoids, and Sontarans, as well as licensed concepts from Faction Paradox.
Although only some stories had the legal link to "prove" their connection to Doctor Who, the entire Audio Adventures series was intended to be set within the Doctor Who universe, with all audios advertised as "from the Worlds of Doctor Who". By the fourth season, which focused mainly on The Faction Paradox Protocols, the cover template was radically re-designed and the "Audio Adventures in Time & Space" label was removed.
2020s
Although the overwhelming majority of BBV audio titles were released under this label, some were excluded on their initial release. These were the Tom Baker novel The Boy Who Kicked Pigs and the Richard Franklin story The Killing Stone. However, in the series' 2021 online relaunch, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs was rebranded as one of the Audio Adventures.
On 8 May, BBV announced the start of a fifth series of Audio Adventures in Time & Space, launching with a reading of The Door We Forgot by Bill Baggs, distinct from the previously-released Arcbeatle Press audiobook of the story.[1]
A Audio Adventures in Time & Space Collection collection was promoted in 2022, collecting audios and DVDs together to be purchased.
Releases
Season 1
| Title | Author | Series | Licensed elements | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republica | Mark Gatiss | The Time Travellers | Alternate timeline (PROSE: The Roundheads) | May 1998 |
| Island of Lost Souls | The Professor, Alice | |||
| Prosperity Island | Tim Saward | |||
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Mark Duncan | July 1998 | ||
| The Other Side | September 1998 | |||
| Guests for the Night | Nigel Fairs | The Professor, Alice, Truman Crouch, Posedor | November 1998 | |
| Cyber-Hunt | Nicholas Briggs[2] | The Wanderer / Cyberon | Fred, Cyberons | December 1998 |
Season 2
| Title | Author | Series | Licensed elements | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Mission | Nicholas Briggs | The Stranger Chronicles | N/A | January 1999 |
| Eye of the Storm | Arthur Wallis | February 1999 | ||
| Ghosts | Nigel Fairs | The Time Travellers | The Professor, Alice | March 1999 |
| Vital Signs | Tim Saward | The Wanderer | Fred | April 1999 |
| Only Human | Mark J Thompson | The Time Travellers | The Professor, Alice | May 1999 |
| The Choice | Nigel Fairs | Adventures in a Pocket Universe | K-9 | June 1999 |
| Blood Sports | The Time Travellers | The Professor, Alice | ||
| Homeland | Paul Dearing | Zygon | Zygons, Skarasen | August 1999 |
| The Search | Mark Duncan | Adventures in a Pocket Universe | K-9 | September 1999 |
| Absolution | Paul Ebbs | Zygon | Zygons | October 1999 |
| The Root of All Evil | Lance Parkin | Krynoid | Krynoids | |
| Silent Warrior | Peter Grehan | Sontarans | Sontarans | December 1999 |
Season 3
| Title | Author | Series | Licensed elements | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cybergeddon | Paul Ebbs | Cyberon | Cyberons | February 2000 |
| Punchline | Rob Shearman[3] | The Dominie | The Professor, Alice | |
| Old Soldiers | Simon Gerard, Colin Hill | Sontarans | Sontarans | |
| Infidel's Comet | Colin Hill, Simon Gerard | |||
| The Pattern | Mark Duncan | N/A | ||
| I Scream | Lance Parkin | The I | The "I" | August 2000 |
| Conduct Unbecoming | Gareth Preston | Sontarans | Sontarans | September 2000 |
| The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind | Pip and Jane Baker | The Rani | The Rani | November 2000 |
| Race Memory | Paul Ebbs | Wirrn | Wirrn, Nerva Beacon | February 2001 |
Season 4
| Title | Author | Series | Licensed elements | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Barnacled Baby | Anthony Keetch | Zygon | Zygons | July 2001 |
| The Eleven Day Empire | Lawrence Miles | The Faction Paradox Protocols | Faction Paradox, Sontarans | October 2001 |
| The Shadow Play | ||||
| The Green Man | Zoltán Déry | Krynoid | Krynoids | March 2002 |
| In 2 Minds | Iain Hepburn | Rutans | Rutans | September 2002 |
| The Quality of Mercy | David A. McIntee | Guy de Carnac | ||
| Sabbath Dei | Lawrence Miles | The Faction Paradox Protocols | Compassion, Peking Homunculi, Sabbath | February 2003 |
| In the Year of the Cat | April 2003 | |||
| Movers | Faction Paradox, the prison planet | December 2003 | ||
| A Labyrinth of Histories | February 2004 | |||
| The Boy Who Kicked Pigs[4] | Tom Baker | N/A |
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
| Title | Author | Series | Licensed elements | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lilium Saga - ACTS I-III | Trevor Spencer | Hellscape | 7 July 2023 | |
| The Lilium Saga - ACTS IV-VI | 1 January 2024 | |||
| The Frontierman's End | Chris McAuley | 22 February 2024 |
Behind the scenes
- Those wishing to understand more about this wiki's policies towards BBV's Audio Adventures in Time & Space should consult this discussion.
- Due to our valid sources policy, this article concentrates on the usage of "Audio Adventures in Time & Space" by BBV Productions. Those wishing a fuller explanation of this title's long history with Audio Visuals should consult the AV website.
Footnotes
- ↑ BBV Productions on Twitter
- ↑ Credited under the name "Martin Peterson".
- ↑ Credited under the name "Jeremy Leadbetter".
- ↑ Originally released without the Audio Adventures in Time & Space label, but added in 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Audiobook reading of a preexisting P.R.O.B.E. short story.
- ↑ Owned and originally produced by Radio Static; added to Audio Adventures line-up in May 2021 through agreement with BBV.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Audiobook readings of preexisting Cyberon prose stories, also featuring P.R.O.B.E.
- ↑ Audiobook reading of a preexisting Faction Paradox short story.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Audio adaptation of the Erimem novel of the same name.
- ↑ Withdrawn shortly after release; no longer listed or available on the BBV website, as acknowledged by BBV staff.https://twitter.com/WozFiles/status/1470394749307826181?s=20&t=dQXvUni3wT24lLMLLGQg6g
- ↑ https://twitter.com/TheDimmeh/status/1453788811977236483?s=20&t=SnGL4Vs1XRlx6YADk_PuUQ
- ↑ Actually includes three short stories, but presented as a single product and thus a single entry in the Audio Adventures in Time & Space listing on the BBV website.
- ↑ Previously released as bonus content on the DVD edition of The Stranger: More than a Messiah
- ↑ Although an official entry in the Audio Adventures in Time & Space and The Brigadier Adventures ranges as far as BBV was concerned, this release is not covered on this Wiki due to having been unlawfully released after BBV's license to the character had expired, as reported by Andy Frankham-Allen.
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